Sengoku Rance/Characters

Here's the list of characters of Sengoku Rance. Houses are roughly listed by importance to plot. Contributions are always welcome.

Rance
Our "protagonist" in the whole Rance series. In the 7th continuity of the Rance series, he comes to JAPAN to escape marriage from Zeth and to take a vacation at the hot springs. His main goal is to have sex with all of the women in the world.

See here for tropes associated with Rance.

Sill Plain
Rance's "slave", read as Rance's most cherished person. She travels alongside Rance wherever he goes and is pretty much with him after being bought as a slave. She still wears her slave collar even though that collar has no more effect on her due to Rance.

See here for tropes associated with Sill Plain.

Oda Nobunaga
Think he's a merciless guy in this game? Think again. This Oda Nobunaga is probably the kindest out of every single Oda Nobunaga named character. That said, he is the most skilled swordsman of the Oda house though he's currently sick and because of this, he passes leadership to Rance. He's got a pet monkey named Touikichiro who steers the entire plot.

Tropes associated with Nobunaga:
 * Affectionate Gesture to the Head: *pat pat*
 * Big Brother Instinct: Dotes on her younger sister all the time.
 * Everything's Better with Monkeys: One of the few inverted tropes that happen in media. The presence of his monkey made the plot go from good to bad (in the eyes of the Oda faction.)
 * Played more straight in the Kill the Monkey route, however, where his originial pet monkey gets killed by Rance and Suzume and gets replaced with a similar-looking one..
 * Grand Theft Me: It Was His Sled
 * Master Swordsman: The best swordsman of the Oda house. Even Rance got beaten by him. THRICE. And this wasn't when he was serious yet.
 * My Greatest Failure: Having his wife Kichou getting killed while she protected him from an assassination.
 * Nice Guy.
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: Blue to Rance's red.
 * Stupid Sexy Flanders: Well, if the is to be believed...
 * Supreme Chef: Dango maker extraordinaire. In the Kill The Monkey route, he cooks dango in the teahouse whenever he feels healthy.

Kouhime
The little sister of Nobunaga, she is twelve years old. She always takes care of her brother because of his sickness.

Tropes associated with Kouhime:
 * : Her in the
 * Break the Cutie: Sheesh.
 * Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!: Gives an Armor-Piercing Slap to Rance when his judgment is clouded thanks to
 * Like Brother and Sister: How she views Rance. He would prefer it if she didn't think of him that way.
 * Morality Pet: To Rance.
 * Precocious Crush: Maybe.
 * Supreme Chef with many kinds of cuisine, but...
 * Lethal Chef of dango. She can make dango lethal even when guided to make one. In Kikkawa Kiku's words, "You should be a ninja! You can learn Assassination 3, a skill stronger than Assassination 2!"
 * For those wondering, in the Rance world Skill 1 is considered Normal, 2 is Genius and 3 is nothing short of Godly.
 * In Rance Quest, her dango can be used as a weapon. It's incredibly good at poisoning.
 * Wife Husbandry: Rance plans to come back in a few years to sleep with her.
 * Lethal Chef of dango. She can make dango lethal even when guided to make one. In Kikkawa Kiku's words, "You should be a ninja! You can learn Assassination 3, a skill stronger than Assassination 2!"
 * For those wondering, in the Rance world Skill 1 is considered Normal, 2 is Genius and 3 is nothing short of Godly.
 * In Rance Quest, her dango can be used as a weapon. It's incredibly good at poisoning.
 * Wife Husbandry: Rance plans to come back in a few years to sleep with her.
 * Wife Husbandry: Rance plans to come back in a few years to sleep with her.

3G
A Youkai who has three heads in the service of the Oda house. He handles the everyday tasks of the Oda empire. Has an informant named Edge.

Tropes associated with 3G:
 * Catch Phrase: "Kaaaaaah!"
 * Crazy Awesome: In-universe at least. Sakamoto Ryouma sure was impressed with 3G that's for sure.
 * Chew Toy: Always to Rance.
 * Hypercompetent Sidekick: Rance may be the guy leading Oda's armies, but actually running the administrative side of government is all on 3G's shoulders due to Rance not giving a crap. Thankfully, 3G is very, very good at this.
 * The Smart Guy
 * Stealth Pun: Ever wondered why he had a youkai phone, or why he had a keypad-patterned kimono, or why his underling named Eiji/Edge?

Ranmaru
You think she'd have any relationship with Nobunaga right? Wrong! She is described as Oda's Fearsome Warrior, Ranmaru was taken in by Oda how many years ago. She now serves the Oda house out of loyalty to her lord.

Tropes associated with Ranmaru:


 * Badass
 * Battle Couple: Later on in the game, Ranmaru gets paired up with Katsuie which means that she can only go up to Trust on Rance.
 * Submissive Badass
 * Batman Gambit: How do you win your lover? Simple: you give him his favorite aka a loli kid. She pretty much uses her adopted daughter to win Katsuie. Even Rance was impressed by her devotion.
 * Crutch Character: Your most powerful unit at the start of your game, unfortunately you get many stronger units the farther you go, and her usefulness gets limited (unless you are using her as an independent force with the Operation Permits).
 * Cry Cute: Unfortunately, we never actually see it.
 * Deadpan Snarker: Towards Rance all the time.
 * Perpetual Frowner: Always. Even gets lampshaded by Katsuie.
 * The Stoic
 * Stripperific: Wears a bikini with shoulder pad armor in battle.

Katsuie Shibata
Described as the best foot soldier of the Oda House, he is also the number one Lolicon in the entire game.

Tropes associated with Katsuie:


 * Badass
 * Battle Couple: With Ranmaru.
 * Took a Level In Badass: If Ranmaru is cleared, his abilities get a considerable boost.
 * Big Brother Instinct: What he thinks he has. Rance says otherwise.
 * Blade on a Stick
 * Crutch Character: Somehow, Katsuie is more of a subversion than anything. He is indispensable in the beginning, but stays fairly useful throughout the game depending on play style (sure, All Guard and regeneration-type spearmen is nifty but by that time Katsuie is likely to have the sheer numbers on his side). This makes an interesting parallel if compared to Ranmaru, both story-wise and gameplay-wise.
 * Lolicon: Is definitely one. He'll also try to convince Rance and depending on your actions, it can lead to a Nonstandard Game Over.
 * Nonstandard Game Over: Be veeeeeeeery careful in trying to clear this guy. He could make a comment about teaching Rance the ways of lolis and if you clearly fall for it, said event gives out a Nonstandard Game Over.
 * Noodle Incident: Apparently, something happened between him and Shinobu that made him become a lolicon.
 * Power of Love: Clear Ranmaru and she & Katsuie get a noticeable boost in attack and defense if both are deployed together in a battle.
 * Stone Wall: As expected from his status as a foot soldier commander. One of the best in the game, in fact.

Uesugi Kenshin
The current head of Uesugi House, also a devout worshipper of Bishamonten. She participates in battles around her territory as helpers on the defensive side.


 * Badass: And how. In fact, not only will she (early in the game) randomly show up to either kick the player's ass (or, conversely, help them), she's regarded as one in universe who can go toe to toe with the Takeda House and has successfully fought them to a draw several times.
 * Four-Star Badass: Again, and how. In fact
 * Lady of War: While a swordsman and a general, she is still notably more ladylike than many female generals.
 * Battle Armored Kimono: To emphasize her Lady of War status.
 * Big Damn Heroes: During the early stages of the game, she'll come to the aid of anyone being attacked. Including you.
 * Big Eater: Well, she considers a five layered boxed lunch a snack...
 * Blood Knight: Loves fighting with style. Even Ai and Rance lampshade this when Kenshin and Motonari fight in the Emperor Race.
 * Caught in the Rain: With Rance when he was stupid enough to chase a panda in a cold mountain. After warming Rance up, they do it off-screen.
 * Horrible Judge of Character: She thinks her uncle is/was fundamentally a good person. Her opinion of Rance with this trope is a little complicated, but it actually works out for her.
 * I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Will do anything so that Rance becomes happy.
 * Image Song: Translated here. It's a vocal version of her Leitmotif.
 * Leitmotif: Mars. One of the best music themes in this game. Expect her to do something awesome whenever this comes up for you or for your enemies.
 * Love At First Sight: You will NOT see this one coming when you first attack Uesugi house with just Rance's unit only.
 * Master Swordsman: Holds the title of the best swordswoman in JAPAN.
 * Nice Hat: Which she used in charging to the enemy.
 * Power Glows: Win the Emperor Race in Kenshin's route and
 * Red Baron: Goddess of War
 * Restart At Level One: For some strange reason Kenshin goes from level 60+ all the way back to level one early in the Emperor Race.
 * Sleeps with Everyone but You: Her forward confession to Rance made him so confused, he just couldn't have sex with her, at least at first. She thinks it means he doesn't like her.

Naoe Ai
Kenshin's main strategist, although her stratagems are usually discarded in favor of Kenshin's more direct approach. She is also a great cook; it helps when her superior eats a five-tier boxed meal as a snack...


 * Deadpan Snarker: Always to Rance.
 * Love Epiphany: After sleeping with Rance a few times, she's horrified to realize that she isn't just doing it because Rance is forcing her to, with strong implications of having fallen in love. Not that she lets it show.
 * The Strategist: Although Kenshin, as her leader, obviously favors a more direct approach.
 * Take Me Instead!: Offers her body in exchange for Kenshin's when Kensei started his revolt.

Uesugi Kensei
Kenshin's dissatisfied uncle. In a fit of jealousy, he staged a coup against his own niece in the middle of the conflict with Oda House, severely weakening their own forces in the process.


 * He-Man Woman Hater, in a way. He thinks women should just stay in the kitchen and clean the house.
 * Smug Snake: He is undeniably the most selfish character barring Xavier in the entire game.
 * Too Dumb to Live: From the player's viewpoint, at least. Starting a rebellion that takes out competent commanders from your own roster and weakens your own army in the middle of a war with another country? Granted, Kensei was expecting to sway Rance by offering Kenshin to him... but when that plan doesn't work, he refuses to re-employ the competent commanders.
 * What an Idiot!: Again, from the player's perspective, but also from an in-universe perspective, it is a stunning act of military incompetence to remove competent troops and able commanders from the field in a war your side stands an excellent chance of losing.

Hojo Souun
Head of Hojo house and Onmyouji extraordinaire. He works hard for JAPAN's safety from the ogres, often neglecting his health and personal life in the process.


 * Childhood Friend Romance: The outcome of which depends on whether or not you clear Ran.
 * Heroic BSOD: After Ran dies in non-Ran routes.
 * Oblivious to Love: Well, Komatsu's at any rate, a fact she seems a little slow to pick up on.
 * I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Poster boy of this trope in this series. When he hears that Ran is safe with Rance, he gets happy about it and wants Ran to stay that way, thus making him an Unlucky Childhood Friend. Ran would have none of that until the part where you clear Ran.
 * Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Swears to Gigai that he'll kill him. He does if Rance lets him.
 * You Need to Get Laid: Always invoked by Rance to Souun.

Nanjou Ran
Souun's fiancee and a rather weak Onmyouji. She strives hard to prove herself useful to Souun.


 * Love Epiphany: Character clear her and she'll fall for Rance instead of Souun.
 * Older Than They Look: She's older than Kenshin at 19 years old.
 * Rape Is Love: Rance seems to genuinely believe that she's fallen for him after they sleep together.
 * Sealed Evil in a Can: Her body seals one of Xavier's Acolytes, Gigai.
 * And if she's fighting against you while she can still summon Gigai...
 * Tsundere: In the ending, she exhibits signs of her dere side towards Rance.
 * Zettai Ryouiki

Daidouji Komatsu
A popular commander of the Hojo forces. Her fans absolutely adore her, and flock to her in the thousands. There's even doujinshi about her!


 * Bound and Gagged: In all of her H-scenes.
 * Genki Girl: At least until Ran got captured and Souun went missing.
 * Teen Idol: Though she is an idol commander instead of singer, but her character design is intended to invoke the image of one.
 * What Could Have Been: The cut content in the latest version includes a scene where Nanjo Ran has a little "accident" and it is implied that Komatsu was responsible or at least wasn't shedding a tear, taking a much more sinister look at her personality.
 * Yandere (disambiguation): Hinted shades of this, which the above trope explains in more detail.

Ashikaga Choushin/Ashikaga Supergod
Self-proclaimed emperor of JAPAN. His tastes of beauty and aesthetics are... unique, to say the least.


 * Animal Motifs: Unintentional on his part, but he looks like a giant tuna in a human skin suit and gets associated with fish imagery in descriptions.
 * Catch Phrase: "Pupiiiiii!"
 * Gonk: Not only him, but most of his family is this, save for Akihime, who he ironically thinks is the ugly one.
 * Lethal Joke Character: Only useful if you want the Emperor's Ring or to clear Akihime. Beyond that, he's pretty much just a Joke Character.
 * My Name Is Not Durwood: Clear him and Rance will change his name to Ashikaga Shit.

Ikkyu
Ashikaga House's main strategist.


 * Cloudcuckoolander: Talks to a straw doll he refers to as his mother which he holds up to his ear like a telephone, which Rance finds incredibly odd.
 * Disk One Nuke: His Reverse Fortune that can reverse the tide of war provided you have enough time, the gauge is really against you, and that you can guard him while casting it.
 * Expy: Of Ikkyu-San, an old anime.

Yamamoto Isoroku
The surviving scion of the Yamamoto House, who lost the war with the Ashikaga. A beautiful lady with great archery skill.


 * Badass
 * Four-Star Badass: Way more competent than Ashikaga at bare minimum, and when/if she joins Rance she makes an excellent archery unit leader, complete with a very useful unique skill.
 * Lady of War: Despite her own comments of being unladylike, she is still more refined than most of your female commanders.
 * : And How!
 * Dead Little Brother: She works hard for the Ashikaga clan to someday restore her Yamamoto family... only to find her brother, who was supposed to be the family successor, dead by the hands of the very clan she was serving.
 * Historical Domain Character name: She takes her name, down to the kanji, from a famous Japanese WW 2 general... while not being his Expy.
 * I Am Not Pretty: Believes that she's undesirable because No Guy Wants an Amazon.
 * Law of Inverse Fertility:
 * One-Hit Kill: Whirlwind Shot. She actually works better as an assassin than the ninjas who have the Assassinate skill.
 * The Archer: She wields a bow, commands an archer unit, and has a skill which can rout an enemy squad with one shot.
 * Yamato Nadeshiko: Takes this idea a little too literally at first, believing she has to throw away her pride and be a subservient, proper wife to any man who can bear her a son. Rance (albeit for selfish reasons) convinces her she should do what makes her happy, and thanks be to saving her from some Attempted Rape, she winds up with Rance, who ''does' makes her more than willing to carry out this trope with soemwhat more open eyes.
 * The Archer: She wields a bow, commands an archer unit, and has a skill which can rout an enemy squad with one shot.
 * Yamato Nadeshiko: Takes this idea a little too literally at first, believing she has to throw away her pride and be a subservient, proper wife to any man who can bear her a son. Rance (albeit for selfish reasons) convinces her she should do what makes her happy, and thanks be to saving her from some Attempted Rape, she winds up with Rance, who ''does' makes her more than willing to carry out this trope with soemwhat more open eyes.

Mouri Motonari
The current leader of Mouri House. A giant of a man who loves to fight and generally act silly.


 * A Father to His Men: Literally and figuratively. He's the father to Teru, Kiku, and Chinu after all.
 * Ascended to A Higher Plane of Existence: Clear him and he becomes his big self again but as a ghost this time. In war battles, he's useless again but in dungeon battles, he's pretty good. Especially since he is now Immune to magic like Rizna.
 * Badass: In the True Route when Xavier starts killing other countries' commanders, most of them go down in seconds. If Xavier shows up in Mouri territory, the text states that the fight lasted eight hours.
 * Badass Family
 * Bigger Is Better: Invoked by him when above trope happened to him.
 * Blood Knight: Hell yeah!
 * When recruiting him from prison, you don't even need to wait a turn to use him!
 * Friendly Enemy: Notable for being the only lord in JAPAN who doesn't have a bad opinion of Oda's "secret" ruler, Rance and even made plans to marry him to his daughter Teru if he meets his expectations after he declares war against him.
 * Gameplay and Story Segregation: According to the plot, he's a powerful guy. In-game however, if you're fighting in a war battle when he's cursed, he's pretty weak. Conversely, if you uncurse him, he gets to be more powerful.
 * However, use him on Xavier and you'll be laughing... since cleared Motonari will do exactly 200 damage to any enemy, be it in army or single battle.
 * Large and In Charge: While cursed.
 * Large Ham
 * Mercy Kill: He kills a Mook when Teru was viciously torturing said mook.
 * Nonstandard Game Over: In Kenshin's route, just conquer the Mouri house while he's still cursed. I dare you.
 * Older Than They Look: He's 100 years old. He could have lived to 200 if he didn't get cursed.
 * Real Men Wear Pink: He has pink, hearts and a panda on his armor. He's also an enormous Blood Knight, and literally so in his cursed form.

Mouri Teru
The heir to Motonari's position, and one of the most violent generals in JAPAN. She excels in cleaning.


 * Berserk Button: Just insult her father in front of her. The last smile you'll see will be a Slasher Smile.
 * Daddy's Girl: While all the Mouri sisters love their father, Teru is the one who shows it the most.
 * Improbable Weapon User: Has a duster as a weapon. Said duster has blades by the way.
 * Naughty Tentacles: While she was in the influence of the Hallucinogen of Death, she hallucinates that she's being killed by a slime monster. It turned her on.
 * Neat Freak: Definitely wants every nook and cranny to be clean. It's because she's taking care of her father's health.
 * White-Haired Pretty Girl: Only in looks. And even then, it looks more like dirty white or something.

Kikkawa Kiku
Motonari's second daughter and also a ninja. Her cooking is top-notch.


 * Improbable Weapon User: Uses a farmers scythe and a frying pan with a chain connecting them.
 * Ninja Maid: Literally.
 * Supreme Chef: she cooks in large batches, too.
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair.

Kobayakawa Chinu
Motonari's youngest daughter, and the nicest of them all (if only on the surface). She heals and poisons with the same proficiency.


 * Cute and Psycho
 * Rescue Romance: She only falls in love with Rance in the Ran route which is the one where he indirectly saves her from being killed by an Apostle.
 * Sealed Evil in a Can: Her body seals one of Xavier's Acolytes, Madou.
 * Spot of Tea: With poison if she lets her enemies drink it.
 * You Gotta Have Green Hair
 * Your Head Asplode: What happens when Madou comes out of her.

Yamanaka Kojika
A vassal of the Amaku family, who are crushed by the Mouri. She is striving hard to revive her family, even though technically she cannot (the last heir died).


 * Butt Monkey Chew Toy: expect trouble for her when she appears. Until you recruit her, that is.
 * Legal Jailbait: She's 20. Really. Rance doesn't care and wants nothing to do with her.
 * Meganekko
 * Pettanko
 * Throw the Dog a Bone: Her character clear.

Takeda Shingen
Leader of the Takeda House. He fights using his big armor and his ax.


 * Badass Grandpa: As noted, he must be pushing seventy by this point.
 * Doesn't help that the armor has a Badass Mustache on its faceplate...
 * Large and In Charge: His armor makes him look like a big and imposing guy.
 * Tomato in the Mirror:

Baba Shouen
One of Takeda's best cavalry/tebasaki commander. A hothead who loves to charge headlong to battle.


 * Badass Mustache
 * Boisterous Bruiser
 * Expy: Of, interestingly enough, Sengoku Basara's Shingen Takeda. He rides two tebasaki, like the latter does with horses.
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: Red to Masakage's blue.

Yamagata Masakage
One of Takeda's best cavalry/tebasaki commander. He fares better with strategy if compared to his comrade.


 * Badass Mustache
 * Cool Old Guy
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: Blue to Shouen's red.

Kousaka Yoshikage
Takeda's main ninja commander, and one of the best ninja in the game due to his Fuu Rin Ka Zan skill.


 * Cool Old Guy
 * Highly-Visible Ninja: He wears a rather garish haori.

Sanada Tourin
The main tactician of the Takeda household, and one of the best tactical minds in JAPAN.


 * Badass Mustache
 * Porn Stache
 * Cool Old Guy
 * The Strategist: Often said as the best in JAPAN.

Tokugawa Ieyasu
Leader of the Tokugawa household. He's taken a passive stance at the whole war debacle as long as his house full of youkai is at peace.


 * A Father to His Men
 * Badass
 * Dual-Wielding
 * Large and In Charge
 * Mythology Gag: One of the random between-turn messages for his house is him staring at a cuckoo. The historical Tokugawa Ieyasu was described in a poem as "If the cuckoo does not sing, wait for it."
 * Trademark Favorite Food: Tempura. With said tempura, you can actually capture Tokugawa household without fighting Ieyasu himself. You miss out on Senhime, however.

Ii Naomasa
One of Tokugawa's two warrior generals. Quite useless when you get him.


 * Joke Character: He has the Dungeon Battle Expert skill... at a character level that is too low for the skill to actually be useful.
 * The Straight Man: He's as close to "ordinary" as Tokugawa youkai get.
 * Trademark Favorite Food: Tempura. He's not as crazy as Ieyasu, though.

Honda Tadakatsu
One of Tokugawa's two warrior generals, and the better one. Likes to try and massage people, with amusing outcomes.


 * Gentle Giant: He aspires to be a masseur outside battles. Too bad he's just too strong for the job... as Rance, 3G, and Ieyasu found out the hard way.
 * Heroic Mime: He talks in Visible Silence, accompanied with his supposed words in brackets. Since other characters can understand him just fine, it is possible that his voice is merely almost inaudible instead of him truly being a mute.
 * Large and In Charge: His battle sprite is the third largest among playable characters in the game, the first being Motonari while the second is Ieyasu.
 * Trademark Favorite Food: Tempura. He rarely talks about it, though.

Hattori Hanzou
A ninja commander of the Tokugawa forces, and the more useful one since he packs the Assassination skill.


 * Bottle Fairy: is more often drunk than not.
 * Highly Audible Ninja: Rance caught his squad trying to assassinate him because they used coded belly-drumming to communicate among themselves.
 * Oh Crap: His reaction when Yuzuhara goes googly eyed over his adorability.
 * Trademark Favorite Food: Tempura. He also eats humans who bullies tanuki.

Sakai Tadatsugu
A ninja commander of the Tokugawa forces, and the less useful one.


 * Tsundere: The rare male example, although his gender is merely assumed.
 * Trademark Favorite Food: Tempura. It's the favorite food of all tanuki, after all.

Sakakibara Yasumasa
Tokugawa House's main foot soldier general.


 * Eyes Always Shut: Not only his eyes are always shut, he is perpetually sleeping. Even in battles.
 * Lovable Traitor: He rats Ieyasu's fondness of tempura to Rance. Not that it's a bad thing, but still a traitor in a sense. He is quite lovable, to the point that Rance keeps him in his bedroom.
 * Trademark Favorite Food: Tempura. He can eat it while sleeping.

Senhime
Former daughter of the household before Ieyasu decided to take over and adopt the family name. She gets found by Rance when he conquered the Tokugawa household the old fashioned way. After which, she gets hired by Rance provided that she goes into battle because she hates peace time. If you don't let her fight every three turns, she leaves you.


 * Badass Princess: It's easy to forget that she's supposed to be the princess of Tokugawa with her Blood Knight personality.
 * Blade on a Stick
 * Blood Knight: Oh so very much. Until you character clear her, you have to have her fight at least every three turns.
 * Boobs of Steel: Judging by the Gaiden Game The Slash Thrust Burn Three, her breasts are even bigger than Suzume's.
 * Expy: Looks very similar to KOS-MOS.
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Shimazu Yoshihisa
The eldest Shimazu brother and Shimazu House leader. He is quite lecherous.


 * Chivalrous Pervert
 * Katanas Are Just Better: Uses a katana despite his unit normally using spearmen.
 * Love At First Sight: He finally fell in love, for real, with Mouri Teru. If Teru's feeling for Rance is less than Love, she will join Yoshihisa's unit.

Shimazu Kazuhisa
The second Shimazu brother and a masterful warrior. Equally lecherous.


 * Blade on a Stick: His weapon is a spear, although he commands warriors with katanas as their default weapon.
 * Chivalrous Pervert
 * Love At First Sight: He finally fell in love, for real, with Naoe Ai. If Ai's feeling for Rance is less than Love, she will join Kazuhisa's unit.

Shimazu Toshihisa
The third brother and a musketeer. More flamboyant from his older brothers, but equally lecherous.


 * Guns Are Worthless: Unless his men are massed in large numbers, safe from melee fighters, and not disrupted in any way (his largest weakness is the Kenshin-Uruza-Natori combo since it takes down his precious action points), he is this. Otherwise, he's quite solid as a musketeer.
 * Handsome Lech: Arguably the worst lecher in the family. Also, the one most involved with Agireda.
 * Love At First Sight: He finally fell in love, for real, with Daidouji Komatsu. If Komatsu's feeling for Rance is less than Love, she will join Toshihisa's unit.

Shimazu Iehisa
The youngest amongst the brother, and certainly following on his brothers' footsteps in the art of lechery.


 * Love At First Sight: He finally fell in love, for real, with either Ranmaru or Senhime. If either one's feeling for Rance is less than maximum (Trust for Ranmaru, Love for Senhime), she will join Iehisa's unit.
 * Token Mini-Moe: Subverted. Iehisa is actually a solid Tactician.

Kurohime
A longtime resident of the Shimazu household. She has been living there since the Shimazu brothers can remember.


 * Ambiguously Brown
 * Color Coded for Your Convenience: Her name is Kurohime (lit. Black Princess), and it shows.
 * Cool Big Sis: Unfortunately for the Shimazu brothers.
 * Healing Factor: In a bad way though we only hear about the really unpleasant things third hand.
 * Immortality: She's hundreds of years old, looks to be in her 20s and promises to look over the brothers as they eventually die of old age. She also has a large healing factor and a fairly resilient body.
 * Meaningful Name: Kurohime translates into Black Princess, and she's also Color Coded for Your Convenience. But that's not all, because
 * Kurohime is possibly also a Sue Donym that sticks after she used it for a long time. Her real name is.
 * Team Mom: She basically sees the Shimazu brothers as her little brothers or children since she raised them from diapers.
 * Kurohime is possibly also a Sue Donym that sticks after she used it for a long time. Her real name is.
 * Team Mom: She basically sees the Shimazu brothers as her little brothers or children since she raised them from diapers.

Agireda
A fierce tribeswoman commander of the Shimazu forces. She is one of the girls the Shimazu brothers seduced into their service.


 * The Chief's Daughter: Presumably.
 * Tsundere: Why else would she put up with those brothers?
 * Yandere (disambiguation): Then again, she's rather gleeful when you character clear her, which involves killing all four of them.

Asakura Yoshikage
Leader of the Asai-Asakura House who really just wants to unite JAPAN through diplomacy instead of force. That doesn't mean they won't wage war against people who insulted them, ESPECIALLY on behalf of his daughter Yukihime.


 * Badass Grandpa: He IS one by age and by looks, but Yukihime is his daughter. However, it is rather plausible that he already had grandchildren, considering that his older sons (Asakura Ichirou and so on) serve as his commanders. It's also worth noting that he already had at least 20 children by the time Rance came to JAPAN... and if you pay attention at the flavor texts displayed while Asai-Asakura's turn is being played by the computer, you will notice that his family is still expanding.
 * Berserk Button: Well, Rance did grab it... but seriously, Yoshikage only declared war on Oda after Yukihime got molested by Rance (which will happen sooner or later regardless of what you do at first).
 * Blade on a Stick: Even though his class is a Warrior Monk.
 * Cool Old Guy: So cool, that Rance actually acknowledges him as one of his best guys just because his speeches and his methods are easy enough for Rance to understand. This results in a massive boost on your Natonal Power (he gives you a point of National Power per conquered territory, which adds up to typically around seven to ten).
 * Manipulative Bastard: He bases his entire foreign policy around manipulating other nations for political gain.
 * Royals Who Actually Do Something: He stands out among JAPAN-ese royals due to actually being excellent at it.

Yukihime
Daughter of Yoshikage and considered as the most beautiful woman in JAPAN. Her everyday life gets shattered by Rance however.


 * Break the Cutie
 * Before Asai-Asakura falls, she surrenders her body to Hakkin Dasan to gain his service in defending the country. Hakkin repels the Oda aggressors with his pandas, and then they have sex as arranged.
 * During the above event, she gets raped by Rance—right in front of her now dying father who promptly learns she gave her virginity to Hakkin earlier.
 * Next, she offers her body to an old villager as she needs shelter to avoid the pursuing Oda troops. The very next morning, the villager turns away an inquiring Oda soldier as promised. However, he promptly threatens to call back the soldier if she doesn't offer her body for a second time.
 * At this point, you may convince her to join your army. Where she has to put up with Rance, though a character clear has her come to terms with everything.
 * Otherwise, she'll promote herself into practically a High-Class Call Girl. To get revenge on Rance, she'll reluctantly sleep around with high-ranking vassal lords who'll convince a random country to declare war on you.
 * Finally, after you fend off the country she incited, she requests aid from a group of bandits (in return for sex once again).
 * Informed Attractiveness: Said to be the most beautiful in JAPAN.
 * "It's Not Rape If You Enjoyed It": Averted. She's one of the few people who actually seems to have a problem with being raped by Rance. To say the least.
 * Love Epiphany: Realizes that Rance would actually consider how a woman feels and isn't a complete menace.
 * Odd Name Out: From her family's Numerical Theme Naming tendency; if their Numerical Theme Naming is to be upheld, she would have been named Ichiko-hime or Ichi-hime. It's probably because of her status as Yoshikage's eldest daughter.
 * So Beautiful It's a Curse: The dark application of the trope. "Beauty actually is making this person's life miserable."
 * STD Immunity: Averted. She eventually gets impregnated . However, she's ridiculously impervious to pregnancy and diseases considering how many men she's slept with, and how none of them (except Rance) used contraceptives or pulled out.
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Hakkin Dasan
A hermit who was cursed by a youkai. He can control panda bears using his cursed eye.


 * The Beast Master: He lives in the mountains and fights with his panda bears.
 * Cursed with Awesome: He may look hideous with three green eyes on a brutish looking face, but with said eyes he can control pandas.
 * Everything's Worse with Bears: His unit primarily consists of pandas. Pandas that you can't beat.
 * Happily Married: To a woman Rance recommended.

Sakamoto Ryouma
The leader of Takuga House. She seemed normal enough, until it is revealed that


 * Berserk Button: Insult any of her friends and you won't live to see another day.
 * Gender Flip: Once you conquer Morocco and unlocked the Sex Change Temple, you can trigger events that will lead to deciding on whether you make her a he (you can clear Mine and get a Ryouma-Mine H-scene) or a she (you get to clear Gon, Yuzuru, plus a Rance-Ryouma H-scene).

Kawanoe Mine
She is in charge of general housekeeping in Takuga house. Only has one hand.


 * Cool Big Sis slash Team Mom: To the other Takuga clansmen.
 * Dissonant Serenity: Can say things that disturb even the other members of Takuga with a big smile on her face. She just looks nice.
 * Handicapped Badass: Only has one arm and primarily uses kicks to fight one-on-one.

Kawanoe Yuzuru
He is a warrior who is fast friends with Ryouma despite their constant bickering. Missing an eye.


 * Eyepatch of Power
 * Handicapped Badass: Only has one eye.
 * The Smart Guy: Of sorts. He thinks more than Ryouma.

Gon
A cursed man with spikes protruding from his arms and back. He cannot read and write, suggesting that he's a savant of some kind.


 * The Big Guy
 * Handicapped Badass: He does, at times, lapse into Hulk Speak, and cannot read kanji.

Dokuganryuu Masamune
An excellent swordsman who is also leader of the Youkai Kingdom in Oshuu. A literal single eyeball who has four wives.


 * The Ace: Took down the former youkai king (queen, really) then married her, has three other wives, everyone finds him cute, powerful warrior and genuinely nice guy. He's basically casually better than Rance at everything.
 * Achilles' Heel: Telling him of a secret word will make him stop using his eye drops that heal him.
 * Badass: Enough so to be considered a Bonus Boss.
 * Badass Driver: Koujuurou is a friggin small car people!
 * Four-Star Badass: And he earned that title by taking down his wife, who used to hold that title.
 * Chick Magnet: All of the women find him cute.
 * Coitus Uninterruptus
 * Expy: He is visually similar (well, give or take a suit of armor and a sword) to Kitaro's father from GeGeGe no Kitaro.
 * Not to mention that he is the obvious representative for Date Masamune, the One-Eyed Dragon, in the game, with the familiar helmet design and literally being a single eye.
 * The Napoleon: With the exception that he's kind to his subordinates, he pretty much fits due to the fact that he's smaller than his wives.
 * Tenchi Solution: Four wives, remember?

Omachi
The North Guardian of The Youkai Kingdom. Some people still refer her as Machijyoten, her name as the former Youkai Kingdom leader.


 * Badass
 * Four-Star Badass: Was this before Masamune defeated her.
 * Lady of Black Magic: She is the best mage in the game.
 * Submissive Badass: After being defeated by Masamune, she became this to him. Marriage just made it more official.
 * Boobs of Steel: She wasn't previous Youkai Leader for nothing.
 * Kitsune: The nine tail kind.
 * Names to Run Away From Really Fast: "Machijyoten" is regarded as this.
 * Romancing the Widow: Her character clear is only possible if Masamune is not in your army, which the game considers as being dead. This is also the only way Rance can have sex with her, though it happens offscreen.

Noir
The East Guardian of The Youkai Kingdom. A spider youkai swordsman.


 * Improbable Weapon User: We never see her use a sword in her attack sprites. She uses her string instead.
 * Romancing the Widow: Her character clear is only possible if Masamune is not in your army, which the game considers as being dead.
 * Tsundere: Most pronounced if you clear her.

Orime
The West Guardian of The Youkai Kingdom. A youkai ninja with certain... unique traits.


 * Big Eater: Of ohagi. A trait she shared with a generic bonus commander you can employ.
 * Fragile Speedster
 * Romancing the Widow: Her character clear is only possible if Masamune is not in your army, which the game considers as being dead.

Nogiku
The South Guardian of The Youkai Kingdom. A cyclopean youkai girl who wields a giant pen in place of a spear.


 * Hilarity Ensues: Her attempts to flee Rance end up like this one time.
 * Improbable Weapon User: With a solid skillset, great squad growth, and equally solid stats, she proves to us that the pen is indeed mightier than the sword.
 * Hot Librarian: She likes to learn and do volunteer work as a teacher in her free time, and fairly easy in the eyes too if you don't mind her single eye. As Rance puts it, "The only thing missing is the glasses."
 * Romancing the Widow: Her character clear is only possible if Masamune is not in your army, which the game considers as being dead.

Suzume
The main informant and espionage operative in Rance's conquest of JAPAN. She defected from Iga because Oda House (under Rance's leadership) is less restrictive and more relaxed.


 * Acquired Poison Immunity: Part of her job is to poison people through her body, so she has this. On the flip side, it also makes her immune to medical drugs as well.
 * Animal Motifs: Even if her name means "sparrow", her main motif is still cats. It also contrasts with Inukai's dog motif.
 * Catch Phrase: She has the standard ninja Nin-nin~ and in the original Japanese, she also had a habit of ending her sentences with the archaic "de gozaru".
 * Crutch Character: Her stats and assassination skill make her useful early on, but she quickly becomes outclassed by other ninjas like Kikkawa Kiku.
 * Eyes of Gold
 * Fetish Fuel Station Attendant: Invoked. She is a kunoichi.
 * Highly-Visible Ninja: Well, she has to be visible to do what she does best... seducing males.
 * Impossibly Low Neckline: The only reason why that kimono hasn't fallen off already is probably because it's an H-game. Though considering her job, something like that is actually really convenient.
 * Plot Armor: You can't dismiss her unit because of this.
 * Sex Face Turn: With a little fun and a lot of luck.
 * Trying to Catch Me Fighting Dirty: Rance did catch her dirty tricks when they were "playing dirty" the first time around...
 * Your Days Are Numbered: She says in her character clear event that kunoichi often die from the amount of poison they take in their body, and she probably has a year or two at best to live. Once Rance gets angry at her for saying that so casually, she admits she was joking.
 * Zettai Ryouiki: Grade A, if that thing can be counted as a skirt.
 * Zettai Ryouiki: Grade A, if that thing can be counted as a skirt.

Inukai
The current leader of Iga ninja. He loves his dogs very much.


 * Animal Motifs: Dogs. They're known for being loyal, which is Foreshadowing when we see cat-themed Suzume, who is the opposite.
 * Calling Your Attacks: 101 Dogs!
 * Meaningful Name: Inukai literally means "taking care of dogs".
 * The Beast Master: With his ninja dogs, of course.

Gekko
The former leader of Iga, and the former Nobunaga's personal acquaintance. He went missing when he and Shinobu was struck by a mysterious explosion.


 * Cool and Unusual Punishment: If you are currently at war with Iga with Gekkou in your party, you can choose to execute Inukai this way.
 * Cool Old Guy: He worked with Nobunaga's father.
 * Handicapped Badass: Shinobu is his right hand. Literally.
 * Tagalong Kid: Shinobu.
 * Taking You with Me: If you send a character-sleared him alone in a war battle, he'll have a chat with Shinobu then explode killing all enemies and taking a territory. You lose him of course.

Tanegashima Shigehiko
The head of Tanegashima house, and the inventor of muskets in JAPAN. He is a skilled blacksmith who is rather... blocky.


 * The Blacksmith
 * Guns Are Worthless: Pretty much the named embodiment of this trope, since his stats are not good. He did get two action points though.
 * Perma-Stubble
 * Rule of Funny: He is really blocky. So blocky his corners hurt, if Yuzumi's account is to be believed.

Yuzuhara Yuzumi
A skilled musket marksman. His father forged her musket, one of the finest in existence. She loves all that is cute... including some of Oda's Ex-Tokugawa commanders.


 * Cold Sniper: only on the surface.
 * Expy: She's a strike witch.
 * Guns Are Worthless: she is a trope subversion, since she can rout a squad with one shot.
 * I Call It Vera: Her musket, Comet.
 * I'm Taking Her Home with Me: To things she consider cute. Which, unfortunately, includes Hattori Hanzou.

Seigan
The current head of Tenshi Religion. He is actually around 70 years old.


 * Older Than They Look: He can easily pass himself as a man in his late-twenties or thirties.
 * Sinister Scythe: Well, it's Geppei's, and

Genri
A Tenshi monk who has just came back from the mainland.


 * Informed Ability: A sex maniac like Rance, apparently.

Natori
Head of the Miko Institute. Said institute is designed to let men feel that they're satisfied... via sex. Rance tried his luck with this place only to fail repeatedly due to the fact that he doesn't know rape is wrong and therefore cannot be evil. Said evil desires are then used to


 * Miko: One of the best in the game, in Game Breaker setup or otherwise.
 * Out with a Bang: As an earlier miko states, she's a fukuman. Great people who sleep with her become stronger, as sex with Rance shows, but what happens to ordinary people who sleep with a fukuman is left unstated until after the Natori H scene. Turns out, they die.
 * Red Baron: Miko of Death.

Tamagushi Fuuka /
An amnesiac miko who lives in the vicinity of Tea House Nobu, and a frequent visitor. Recruitable early on.


 * Chekhov's Gun: That rock that she carries is a
 * Cool Big Sis: Sometimes to Kouhime.
 * Laser-Guided Amnesia: Only remembers that she is a Miko and all things pertaining to the profession. Everything else is vague, though.
 * Miko: Most likely your very first miko unit.
 * Power Tattoo: On her back. Doesn't actually glow, though, although her H-scene may suggest so.
 * Power Tattoo: On her back. Doesn't actually glow, though, although her H-scene may suggest so.

Akashi Kazemaru
The youngest heir of the Akashi family, and the only survivor of the Mouri Family's onslaught of Himeji.


 * Badass: Well, not at first.
 * Battle Couple: With Hibachi if you let him.
 * Took a Level In Badass: If paired with Hibachi, his stats go up quite a bit.
 * A Child Shall Lead Them: He was thrust into the seat of Akashi House leader after his father and older brothers died in Mouri's onslaught. Right after his coming-of-age ceremony.
 * But Not Too Foreign: His mother is apparently from the continent, though no specific country was stated.
 * Cool and Unusual Punishment: When faced with the option between capturing him and letting him commit suicide, the player also has the "Moustasche!" option in the menu. This basically means that Rance decides to super glue a moustasche stuck to his face and then letting him commit his suicide... In public. Rance comments that it must be extremely humiliating to commit suicide with that moustasche glued to his face.
 * If You Die, I Call Your Stuff: Rance once tells him this before a battle regarding Hibachi. To his credit, normally timid Kazemaru gives him a firm "No."
 * Lethal Joke Character: When you first recruit him, he may not look like much since a warrior with 3's and 4's as stats (out of 9) is pretty much joke tier in this game. Investing a few stats-enhancing items on him plus clearing his events (and subsequently pairing her with Hibachi) can make him into a near-perfect soldier (with straight 8s in stats if you invested enough). He also nets a good ability in dungeon battles, though his level is still less then desirable for it.
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: He's the red to Hibachi's blue even though he's got the blue hair.
 * Shrinking Violet: Male version. Become much less like this if he's paired with Hibachi.

Hibachi
One of the Nue, secret weapons of the Akashi house. She was set free by Kazemaru and eventually fell in love with him.


 * Bodyguard Crush: On Kazemaru.
 * Clingy Jealous Girl: Once she starts acquiring feelings for Kazemaru, this trope is in full effect.
 * Chained by Fashion
 * Chain Pain: Her attack animation has her using her still attached restraints as weapons.
 * Fetish Fuel Station Attendant
 * Heroes Want Redheads
 * One Head Taller: Obviously taller than Kazemaru.
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Kazemaru's red, even though she's got red hair.

Hara Shouji
The head of Hara house, who is actually under his wife's thumb. Rather weak-willed, though if pressed can show good character too.


 * Expy: Milder, Played for Laughs xerox of Ahab. Interestingly enough, much like Ahab, as long as you keep him away from his wife, he's a halfway decent guy.
 * Heel Realization: When Rance refuses to give him his wife back, Shouji thinks that Rance has seen through his thoughts. Rance doesn't really want to give her back but went anyway for this explanation.
 * Love Makes You Dumb: Akihime's influence didn't exactly improve his common sense. He even admits to as much.
 * Self-Imposed Challenge: Clear his house in Free-For-All and you WILL gain the respect of EVERY single Sengoku Rance player out there because, not only is his house the weakest and the Warmup Boss of the original game, Akihime will be spending your money.

Akihime
The wife of Hara Shouji. A very vain women who likes to indulge in her lavish lifestyle at the cost of heavy taxation in her domain.


 * Bound and Gagged
 * Break the Haughty: Rance does this to her.
 * Evil Redhead: Called evil at one point, though vain and self serving are more applicable.
 * Expy: She's a milder, Played for Laughs xerox of Jezebel, only substitute being unrepentantly evil for being unbelievably greedy.
 * Gold Digger: And how.
 * Heroes Want Redheads
 * Rich Bitch: Lives like one.
 * Ugly Guy, Hot Sister: She's Ashikaga Choushin's sister. While she may not have the looks for it, she certainly has the personality.

"Hanny King" Imagawa Yoshimoto
The leader of the Hannys. He lead the Hannys and erected their own domain on Toukaidou.


 * The Man Behind the Curtain: The Yoshimoto Imagawa. He became the Hanny King when
 * Self-Imposed Challenge: His house is also a tough one to clear in FFA mode, due to meager power on the Hannies' side. Fortunately, We Have Reserves (you get a free Hanny commander every turn).
 * Supreme Chef: His Imagawayaki is delicious.
 * Joke Character: He never even fights.

Okita Nozomi
The best swordsman in the Shinsengumi, which isn't saying much. She is perpetually sick, even to the point of coughing blood at times.


 * Cosmic Plaything: She apparently has an aura that causes everyone to horribly abuse her. She ends up falling in love with Rance because he eventually becomes the first person to not torment her.
 * Ill Girl: If that didn't convince you, take a look closer and you'll notice that her Nice Hat is an ice pack.
 * Incurable Cough of Death: Though the disease is curable. A citizen informs Nozomi of this, but is quickly shot down by her Shinsengumi comrades because "incurable girls are moe".
 * This can be a Funny Aneurysm Moment of sorts when you realize that Okita Nozomi is based on the historical Okita Souji, who died of tuberculosis.
 * Heir to the Dojo: Before being taken in by the Hannys, which explains why she's such a good swordsman.
 * Meganekko: Because it's moe!
 * Moe: At least if you ask the hannys.
 * Take That, Audience!
 * Throw the Dog a Bone: If recruited by Rance, this happens.

Rizna Lanfebit
The first reinforcement you'll get if you requested reinforcements from Zeth. A slightly airheaded magician who is immune to magic.


 * Anti-Magic: As a result of the Hanny King's blessing.
 * Blade on a Stick: A naginata that she uses as a memento of a Hanny who nursed her back to health.
 * Blow You Away: Her Air Cutter attack. Unfortunately, it falls to Useless Useful Spell.
 * Informed Ability: Hailed by Rance as the magician with legendary abilities. While she's awesome by herself, she sucks at army battles unless you're fighting Hojo.
 * Older Than They Look: She's 50, people. She's so old she even knew Ragnarockark Super Gandhi as a kid.
 * Pillar of Light: She can learn White Destruction Beam if you're so inclined.
 * Really Gets Around: The result of her forced conditioning as a sex slave, which she can't fully suppress without special medication.

Uruza Planeis
The second reinforcement you'll get if you requested reinforcements from Zeth. A strategist with unique powers and a past comrade of Rance.


 * Ill Girl: In the previous game, she was wheelchair-bound from trauma. She got better.
 * The Strategist: Reflected by her ability and the unit she commands.
 * Tsurime/Tareme: An interesting case. In the previous game, she had Tareme as an Ill Girl, but once she recovered, she had Tsurime. Her current appearance is in between the two, leaning towards Tsurime.

Magic The Gandhi
The third reinforcement you'll get if you requested reinforcements from Zeth. A magician with traces of tsundere who is also Rance's fiancee whom he abandoned at the altar at the end of the previous game and came to JAPAN to escape. She arrived, hot on his trail, to ensure that he survives the Warring States Era so that he can return to Zeth and take his rightful place on the throne. Her father is the current ruler of Zeth, Ragnarockark Super Gandhi.


 * Butt Monkey: She just can't be taken seriously by anyone in the cast.
 * Meaningful Name: Her name is Magic. No points for guessing what weapons she uses in battle.
 * Pillar of Light: she can get White Destruction Beam if you desire so.
 * Tsundere
 * Younger Than They Look: According to the latest ages for the Rance characters, her age was just 1X. If her age is below 18... congratulations. You're now a criminal.
 * ...if you're in California.

Kentou Kanami
The first reinforcement you'll get if you requested reinforcements from Leazas. A JAPAN-ese ninja who got lost in the mainland while training.


 * Can't Catch Up: Thinks she's holding Oda house down.
 * Fragile Speedster: Definitely awesome in dungeon battles. Heck, she can switch out people who have no more action points and it's still her turn.
 * Goofy Print Underwear: Her frog panties.
 * Idiot Hair
 * Tsundere: Won't accept being one of Rance's "fated ones" so easily.

Maria Custard
The second reinforcement you'll get if you requested reinforcements from Leazas. A researcher who wields the strongest firearm in the game, the Tulip.


 * BFG: Oh yeah, especially compared to Tanegashima's muskets. The Tulips are practically bazookas.
 * Gadgeteer Genius
 * Heterosexual Life Partners: Best friends with Shizuka herself.
 * I Am Not Pretty: She's convinced that she's fat. Rance tells her he likes her better when she had a little more weight on her after she says she's been dieting.
 * Meganekko
 * Schizo-Tech: The Rance Series's major source of it.
 * By the time of Rance II, she had a bazooka (Tulip 1). Near the end, she invents artillery (Tulip 2).
 * In Rance III, she was using a tank (Tulip 3). It's destroyed by the end of the game though.
 * In Rance IV, she invents an aircraft (Tulip 4).
 * In Kichikuou Rance, she invents a rocket ship (Tulip 100).
 * In Rance Quest Magnum, she discovers nuclear fission.
 * Small Girl, Big Gun
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Leila Glainie
The third reinforcement you'll get if you requested reinforcements from Leazas. An excellent fencer who commands the Leazas Queen's personal guards.


 * Bling of War
 * Can't Hold Her Liquor: She gets easily drunk. It's hilarious to see Rance quivering in a pile of heap whenever she's drunk.
 * Disk One Nuke: Technically available early if you play the right cards. She can decimate enemies as long as enemy units have a higher soldier count than her unit.
 * Lady of War: To the point where her rival is Kenshin.
 * Stripperific

Masou Shizuka
Shizuka will join you after Maria joins. Hates Rance with her guts, and Rance cannot win her heart.


 * Lost Forever: If you're going for Ran or Kill the Monkey route, you better be quick in capturing Kurohime or else the Shimazu brothers will seduce her quite easily due to her being stuck in Hate with Rance.
 * Pillar of Light: She joins with Oda packing one in her White Destruction Beam.

Ogawa Kentarou
A Japanese young man who were trapped in Rance's world. Miki's childhood friend. The owner of Holy Sword Nikkou, one of two weapons able to actually kill demons.

""Yay, I won. Victory pose.""
 * Born Lucky
 * Calling Your Attacks: Kentarou-kun Slash!
 * Childhood Friend Romance: Not going anywhere quickly since both are pretty thick about how the other feels. Right when Kentarou is thinking about making a move, Rance convinces him not to since he'd rather be able to sleep with Miki himself.
 * Cloudcuckoolander: Definitely a bit out there.
 * Empathic Weapon: Holy Sword Nikkou. Unlike Chaos, she's pretty much a decent woman.
 * Hero of Another Story: Rance actually gets mad at him for not realizing he isn't the main character at the midway point of the story. Though that also had to do with Kentarou being much less genre savvy about  Then again, thinking he's the hero isn't exactly unwarranted when you have a magical sword, the demon king for a girlfriend and get trapped in another world. To be fair, he was the protagonist of Alicesoft's first series, Little Princess.
 * Idiot Hero: Up to Eleven.
 * Keet: Though, in the English patch, his dialogue tends to read like something else entirely...
 * Keet: Though, in the English patch, his dialogue tends to read like something else entirely...


 * Master Swordsman: Kentarou's not up to par yet, but Nikkou was one back in the day.
 * One-Man Army: As long as your opponents are human AND he has, he can survive battles quite easily.
 * Superpower Lottery: He raided the entire warehouse!  You cannot get anymore lucky than that. Though of course, power attracts problems with it...

Kurusu Miki
A Japanese young woman who were trapped in Rance's world. Kentarou's childhood friend. She loves the man, but he's thicker than a fortress.


 * Childhood Friend Romance: Not going anywhere quickly since both are pretty thick about how the other feels. Right when Kentarou is thinking about making a move, Rance convinces him not to since he'd rather be able to sleep with Miki himself.
 * I Just Want to Be Normal: Doesn't stop the demons from chasing her.
 * Not Allowed to Grow Up
 * Older Than They Look: She's 19 years old, the same age as Kentarou.
 * Person of Mass Destruction

Demon Xavier
The demon who terrorized JAPAN in the past, and sealed by a monk named Geppei who later founded Tenshiism.


 * Big Bad
 * He is also pretty pissed at other demons for leaving him sealed away in JAPAN for all those years.
 * For the Evulz: The only reason why he wants to torment the nation of JAPAN. It used to be that he was ordered by a Demon King, but now...
 * Jerkass: Even before establishing/reestablishing his in-universe Complete Monster credentials, he was an epic asshole.
 * Kappa: It's All There in the Manual. A demonic fire kappa to be specific.
 * Never Found the Body: After the first confrontation.
 * Oh Crap: Does not take finding out that there are two heroes with demon-slaying magic swords running around at all well.
 * Playing with Fire
 * Red Eyes, Take Warning / Glowing Eyes of Doom
 * Smug Snake: The reason why he was always sealed for so long? Even the other demons found him insufferable.
 * Smug Snake: The reason why he was always sealed for so long? Even the other demons found him insufferable.

Apostle Shikibu
An apostle of Xavier, representing the element Water and the holy beast Seiryuu.


 * Blood Knight: Oh yeah, she's loving it.
 * Distracted by the Sexy: Deliberately invoked by Shikibu in her fight against Kentarou.
 * Which, in turn, explains her Stripperiffic costume.
 * Expy: Sando (Chun Hyang) from Shin Angyo Onshi is quite a close parallel, from the Stripperiffic costume down to the sword/large claw combination they are wielding.
 * Fetish Fuel Station Attendant
 * The Dark Chick

Apostle Rengoku
An apostle of Xavier, representing the element Wind and the holy beast Byakko.


 * Affably Evil: While calling him downright sociable would be a stretch, he's easily one of the more pleasant apostles, to the point most of his dialogue in the early portion of the game manages to get Rance to go away multiple times without pissing Rance off.
 * Bald of Evil: Pretty obvious when you see him.
 * BFG: That shotgun sure is big, especially compared to the much slimmer Tanegashima-style muskets.
 * The Dragon: Definitely stronger than Xavier when Xavier was awakened, although he curiously got permanently beaten fairly early.
 * Follow the Leader: He's the first one to be revived after Xavier appears.
 * Obviously Evil: As noted by Rance.

Apostle Madou
An apostle of Xavier, representing the element Earth and the holy beast Genbu.


 * Bald of Evil: Pretty obvious, too.
 * The Evil Genius: Comes up with plans to take care of the Oda house like bringing back the Soul Jar and Ishijiji. Can still be blinded with anger, though.
 * Mighty Glacier: His defense is definitely hard to break when you're fighting his true form.

Apostle Gigai
An apostle of Xavier, representing the element Fire and the holy beast Suzaku.


 * Blood Knight
 * Evilly Affable: Apart from having some respect for his host,, he doesn't really have any redeeming characteristics that we can see. Unlike all the other Apostles, though, most of his antics aren't full of squick and murder, so they're funny instead.
 * : In Rance Quest Magnum
 * HARD. GAY.: Fell in love after seeing Rance, making him the only guy Rance is truly afraid of.
 * Love At First Sight: To Rance, much to Rance's horror.
 * Mercy Kill: Delivered to Ran after she saved Souun. She did plead to Suzaku to save Souun after all. Souun delivers this as well to Gigai when they fight.
 * Noble Demon: He agrees to a fair fight (i.e. not turning into Suzaku) with Rance in exchange for a date. Even when Rance decides not to fight solo, he keeps his word and stays untransformed.
 * The Phoenix
 * Seme and Uke: He plays both ways.

Keikoku
A mysterious woman who is important to the plot in the IF routes, although she doesn't make an appearance in the main route. In most cases she manipulates events either for her love of luxury or to make things more interesting (read: unleash ogres all over JAPAN).


 * Color Coded for Your Convenience: She's very, very pink.
 * Deus Ex Machina: Arguably so, to tie the plot together in IF routes.
 * Immortality: Apart from being basically impossible to kill, she also mentions offhandedly that she was alive at least a hundred years ago.
 * She is based off of
 * For the Evulz: What her motivations basically boil down to.
 * Karma Houdini
 * Manipulative Bitch
 * Smug Snake
 * Unmoving Plaid: If you look closely, her pinkish-violet hair has a cherry blossom motif.
 * What Happened to the Mouse?: Her background is not even touched upon in the canon True Route.
 * Zettai Ryouiki