Ghost Sweeper Mikami/Characters

Reiko Mikami

 * Action Girl
 * Even the Girls Want Her
 * Hot Amazon
 * Bad Boss
 * Berserk Button: Losing money, cockroaches (tries to nuke her own office when she sees one)
 * Combat Pragmatist: Saijou's a rank amateur compared to her.
 * Fiery Redhead
 * Jerk With a Heart of Gold: Very greedy and self centered and is certain to overprice her services a lot while paying her employees peanuts. That said, she does care for her companions' life and goes berserk or nearly has a Heroic BSOD when  and genuinely cares for Kinu's well-being. There was also one instance where she chose to not do her job and get the money.
 * Hiromi Tsuru
 * Greed: She could easily take that spot in the pantheon of this site.
 * Meaningful Name: Shiina came up with her name as an oblique reference not just to the goddess Aphrodite, but also the financial headaches Japan was going through when the manga was first published. Guess which character obviously avoided getting hit with problems...
 * Onee-Sama: Meiko sees her as this. Or more.
 * Rapunzel Hair
 * Screw the Rules, I Have Money
 * Stripperiffic
 * Time Travel: Her family from her mother's side has this as an ability that's triggered by lightning.
 * Tsundere: Type A. She lets down her guard against Saijo, Kinu and her family. She is also arguably a type B since she's her harshest around Yokoshima
 * Tsundere: Type A. She lets down her guard against Saijo, Kinu and her family. She is also arguably a type B since she's her harshest around Yokoshima

Tadao Yokoshima

 * Chivalrous Pervert: He'll do whatever it takes to help the girls who care for him. Not too many of them around, unfortunately, thanks to the 'pervert' part.
 * Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Acts like a perverted idiot most of the time, but plenty of people have noted how tenacious he is at getting a glimpse of some booty (though he fails most of the time) and people like Shouryuuki and Mikami's mother have noted his incredible growth potential which, according to the latter, surpasses even Mikami and Saijo. Heck, he managed to almost beat Mikami during his special training (he had aready beaten twice the number of monsters Mikami did on that same training her first time around), only losing due to hesitation.
 * Idiot Hero: Between TNA and his life, its always TNA.
 * The Chew Toy: Barely a file goes by without him falling prey to Amusing Injuries or some other aggravation, whether because of Mikami's neglect, his own overactive libido, or whatever else the cosmos thinks it'd be fun to visit on him. Even after he saves the day.
 * Iron Butt Monkey: The only thing that seems to work on him is cutting and stabbing attacks...
 * Weirdness Magnet: Lampshaded by Mikami how he attracts all kinds of female supernatural beings.
 * Future Me Scares Me: Was incredulous at how competent his future self was.
 * Lovable Sex Maniac: Like you wouldn't believe.
 * Meaningful Name: Although Ironic Name would work better--Tadao means "loyal husband". Considering how he'll try to convince just about every other attractive female around his age to help him lose his virginity...
 * Ryo Horikawa
 * Took a Level In Badass: Eventually learns to fight on his own with his spiritual lightsaber and small spiritual balls that can create any effect as long as they're one kanji long.
 * Took a Level In Badass: Eventually learns to fight on his own with his spiritual lightsaber and small spiritual balls that can create any effect as long as they're one kanji long.

Okinu/

 * [spoiler : Astral Projection: After she is revived, she gains this ability. Unlike most examples, she can still move objects.]]
 * [spoiler: Back From the Dead: After Shizumo-hime is slain.]]
 * Cute Ghost Girl:
 * Mariko Kouda
 * Miko
 * Moe
 * Rapunzel Hair
 * Put On a Bus
 * Tsundere: Type B. Only Yokoshima can bring that out in her.

Emi Ogasawara

 * Action Girl
 * Ambiguously Brown
 * Biker Babe: Emi's frequently seen with her motorcycle, and seems to be the only one in the cast who owns one.
 * Clingy Jealous Girl: Poor Pietro...
 * Deal With the Devil: When she first began (unofficial) ghost sweeping at the age of 15, she did so with the aid of a bound demon named Belial. Shiina never explains in the sidestory what happened to Belial between then and the main series, when we see him locked up.
 * Hidden Depths: Her backstory is surprisingly serious and tragic.
 * Hitwoman with a Heart: Eventually leading her to quit, apparently.
 * Parental Abandonment: They died when she was ten.
 * Michie Tomizawa
 * The Rival: To Mikami.

Yakuchin

 * Dirty Old Man: Gets along well with Yokoshima...as long as he's not using him as a lab-rat...
 * Honest John's Dealership: Rule #1 when shopping: Do not let him foist untested prototypes on you.
 * Takeshi Aono

Dr. Chaos

 * Mad Scientist: Hooo boy...
 * My Skull Runneth Over: Because his brain has become completely full with information, learning something new means that one of the earliest things still remembered gets overwritten. It really says something that he can understand how the Tenshi Luopan works at first sight, but at the same time forgets what 2+2 results in...
 * Also, he can't remember how to build Maria.
 * Perpetual Poverty: He's practically the poster child.
 * Shigeru Chiba
 * Shigeru Chiba

Maria

 * Action Girl: Well, Action Robot Girl...
 * Rose-Haired Girl
 * Ridiculously-Human Robots: Although it makes sense here, since she was designed in part as a memorial to an old acquaintance of Dr. Chaos's. Played with when a love potion makes her fall in love with Yokoshima and tries to kiss him...with a metal head and enough force to destroy concrete walls...
 * Wakana Yamazaki

Meiko Rokudou

 * The Beast Master: She has a retinue of twelve shikigami under her control, but no thanks to her complete lack of self-confidence, it's very easy for her to lose control over them. When that happens, Anything standing around her turn into ruins.
 * Berserker Tears: She cries and her Shikigami goes ballistic...which happens a lot.
 * Cloudcuckoolander: She could function somewhat normally in society, but when Nightmare invades her mind, he has no idea what goes on in her head...so much so he had to abandon his attempt.
 * Eastern Zodiac
 * Kumiko Nishihara
 * The Ojou: Her family is incredibly rich.
 * Older Than They Look: Meiko's mother was pregnant with her before Mikami's parents even met. Yet you could be forgiven for thinking she's a little younger than Mikami.
 * Person of Mass Destruction
 * Shrinking Violet: Self-confidence is a severe rarity in her bloodline.

Father Kazuhiro Karasu

 * Badass Preacher: In his youth. Also note that this is Mikami's teacher.
 * Covert Pervert: Possibly in the film, when he sees Emi fawning over Peter, he cries a bit out of jealousy, lamenting his oaths.
 * Kazuyuki Sogabe
 * Proto-Otaku: In the GS Mikami '78 arc, he is seen playing the original Space Invaders and takes offense at Mikami's mother branding fans of Space Battleship Yamato and Star Wars, as well as cosplayers, as weirdos.
 * Smoking Is Cool: In 1978, that is. Suffering more than usual trying to climb the Sunshine building got him to swear off of it, though.

Pete/Pietro de Bloodeau

 * Bishonen: Officially the best-looking guy in Yokoshima's Nakama.
 * Calling the Old Man Out
 * Hot Blood
 * I Hate You, Vampire Dad: No, not for the vampirism. The whole island country Pete belongs to is populated entirely by dhampirs. Pete's more upset about his father's megalomania and insanity, stupidity, and senility than anything else.
 * Shout-Out: "Vampire Sho Ryuu Ken", anyone?
 * Stupid Good: Veers into this territory sometimes thanks to his Hot Blood.
 * Toshiyuki Morikawa

Piper

 * Fountain of Youth: That needle of his lets him turn people into little children...whose fear he can then incite...
 * Monster Clown
 * Weaksauce Weakness: His little helpers are very susceptible to baby jokes. He himself fears cats.
 * Weaksauce Weakness: His little helpers are very susceptible to baby jokes. He himself fears cats.

Shouryuuki

 * Action Girl
 * Cute Monster Girl
 * Our Dragons Are Different
 * Wakana Yamazaki

Medusa

 * Evil Counterpart: To Shouryuuki
 * Lady of War

Aiko

 * Animate Inanimate Object
 * Fantastic Racism
 * Clingy MacGuffin: She's stuck to her desk.
 * Ordinary High School Student: She wants to be one, except, you know...see above.

Michie Mikami

 * Action Mom
 * Badass: She's stronger than Mikami in most of her appearances.
 * Knight Templar
 * Time Travel

Tiger Torakichi

 * Does Not Like Women: He doesn't really hate them, he's just really shy and afraid of losing control of his libido when around them.
 * The Big Guy: Among Yokoshima's Nakama and just big, period.
 * Large Ham
 * Master of Illusion

Date Yukinojou

 * Battle Couple: Him and Yumi.
 * Dangerous Forbidden Technique: Unlike Innen and Kankuro, Yukinojou is very careful with the Masoujutsu from the beginning. Under no circumstances will he let it persist to the point that he risks getting corrupted into a demon. Later on, he decides that he needs more power than that, so decides to find an alternative form of spiritual armor that doesn't have the corruption risk--in other words, not derived from demonic energy.
 * Heel Face Turn: He gets so thoroughly disgusted with the lengths Medusa will go to achieve her goals that he renounces her, and ultimately even upgrades his infernal-energy armor into a less dangerous version with Hanuman's help.
 * Momma's Boy: Yukinojou flat-out idolizes his mother and her zealous care for him, to the point that Kankuro, Yokoshima and Mikami think it crosses into incestuous. Later on, it turns out his mother died when he was young, giving the reader something to potentially temper that problematic image with.
 * The Rival: Considers Yokoshima as this.

Kankuro Kamada

 * Dangerous Forbidden Technique: Unlike Yukinojou, he gets completely corrupted. Thing is, it's pretty clear that that's what he wanted.
 * Depraved Homosexual: Really into Yukinojo, to the latter's horror.

Inukai/

 * Badass: The entire GS troop couldn't take him down the first time they fought him.
 * Everything's Better With Samurai
 * Lolicon: Is mistaken for this by Yokoshima.

Shiro Inuzuka

 * Petting Zoo People: An inukami, in this case meaning that Shiro has a dog's fangs and tail while in humanoid form.
 * Plot-Relevant Age-Up: Adsorbing some of Yokoshima and Mikami's energy to heal actually accelerates Shiro's maturation by a few years,
 * You Killed My Father: Shiro's motive for chasing down Inukai.
 * You Killed My Father: Shiro's motive for chasing down Inukai.

Teruhiko Saijou

 * Biseinen: Apparently was a Bishonen and, as implied by Marin, Really Gets Around...
 * The Ace: Was introduced as this and, as the series goes on, was shown to be a capable leader.
 * Combat Pragmatist: Odd when you consider his proclaimed devotion to justice, until you realize that he's more worried about just results than just means.
 * The Rival: With Yokoshima for Mikami's affection.

Hanato Kobato

 * Name's the Same: Really? This long without someone noticing she has the exact same name as the eponymus title character of one of CLAMP's recent works?
 * Perpetual Poverty: Her family was cursed with constant poverty through a binboukami. It didn't exactly help that, until they met Yokoshima, the binboukami's attempts to turn himself into a kami of fortune never got anywhere.
 * Yamato Nadeshiko: Would probably be this if she wasn't so damn poor.

Valkyrie

 * Good Looking Privates

Siegfried

 * Good Looking Privates
 * Split Personality: Becomes a Nice Guy when his hat comes off.

Hyakume

 * Cute Monster Girl
 * Eyes Do Not Belong There: See all those eyeball accessory looking things all around her body, on her arms, dangling from her ears? They're all real eyes. But she's cute, so we're not complaining.

Ashtaroth

 * A God Am I: He certainly acts like this towards his minions, and becoming the sole god of the universe is his ultimate goal.
 * Bad Boss Poor Dogura, even if it is a restorable automaton...
 * Big Bad: Though the series doesn't actually have one, he's probably the next best thing since a lot of the series' important events revolve around his actions.
 * Empty Quiver
 * Empty Quiver

Dogura Mogura

 * Golem

Hanuman

 * Expy: Despite his name, he more closely resembles Songoku/Sun Wu Kong.

Mari Ichimonji

 * Delinquent
 * Good Old Fisticuffs: Her spiritual ability is to punch out supernatural beings.
 * Tomboy and Girly Girl: Comparatively speaking, her and Yumi, once Okinu reconciles them.

Kaori Yumi

 * Alpha Bitch: Until Okinu gets her to see things from Ichimonji's perspective, that is.
 * Battle Couple: Her and Yukinojou.
 * Black Eyes of Evil: Sparkling Black Eyes, at that. Not really evil though. It's actually a dig at the Bishojo Genre of the era.
 * Ojou: Her family's pretty rich and quite well known in GS circles.
 * Tomboy and Girly Girl: Ichimonji and her...Well, Yumi could be girly if you squint.
 * Training From Hell: She can't stand the idea that the super-rigorous training Touryu exorcists go through is not the minimum of rigor required to be a good GS, sparking her acting like the Alpha Bitch at first, especially when Ichimonji gets Mikami's respect.

Marin Megumi

 * Hot Witch
 * Through His Stomach: Her exorcism methods include cleaning and cooking up super-delicious and nutritios food.

Papilio

 * And Call Him George: Although the threat to Yokoshima and Hyakume doesn't come directly from Papilio, but rather her other pets, who include the likes of Kerberos. Yes, she expects them to get along just fine.
 * Bratty Half-Pint
 * Heel Face Turn
 * Token Mini-Moe

Luciola

 * A Cup Angst: Brought up a few times.
 * Heel Face Turn
 * Hologram: Her basic fight tactic involves illusions of herself.
 * Wrench Wench
 * Wrench Wench
 * Wrench Wench
 * Wrench Wench

Tamamo

 * Bratty Half-Pint
 * Petting Zoo People: Her tails from her kyuube no kitsune form manifest as her hairstyle in her human form.
 * Trademark Favorite Food: Fried tofu, traditionally something that kyuube no kitsune are addicted to in Japanese lore.
 * Tsundere