Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok/Characters

The characters of the manga and animes series Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok:

Beware of unmarked SPOILERS!

Loki
"I wonder... what sort of case this'll be."

The trickster god of Norse Mythology, Loki was for unknown reasons banished to the human world in the body of a ten year old boy by Odin. Loki runs the Enjaku Detective Agency to deal with the strange and supernatural, but his real desire is to return to Asgard and find out why he was exiled in the first place.


 * Always Save the Girl
 * Anti-Anti-Christ: Doesn't want to cause Ragnarok.
 * Bishonen: As an adult.
 * Calling Your Attacks: 'magic spell name' variety
 * Celibate Hero: Other than his in the anime, Loki doesn't seem interested in a relationship. Though, that's probably because he already has a wife.
 * Chick Magnet: Whether as his Bishonen form or his Cute Shotaro Boy form.
 * Everyone Chasing You
 * Foe Yay: With Heimdall most prominently, and with Freya and Skuld in the anime.
 * Green Eyes
 * Hair Antennae
 * Heterosexual Life Partners: With Yamino and Narugami.
 * Kidanova: Quite so.
 * Kill It with Water: Being a fire god and all....
 * The Nicknamer: Calls Narugami, "Narukami".
 * Noble Fugitive
 * Really Seven Hundred Years Old
 * Ship Tease: With Mayura, Spica, Skuld, Reira, and Freya.
 * Takahiro Sakurai: As adult Loki.
 * Takahiro Sakurai: As adult Loki.

Mayura Daidouji
"Maybe I'm just worried you're about to leave... and go far away. That's why!"

Mayura Daidouji is an ordinary high school student who is drawn into Loki's detective agency, as well as the mysterious world of Loki and the Norse gods and goddesses. She joins the agency as Loki's self-proclaimed assistant, but she is unaware that everyone she meets is a god, goddess, or someone Norse-related, though in the manga Mayura has a sharper sense than in the anime. She seems to have feelings for Loki.


 * Agent Mulder and Agent Scully
 * Catch Phrase: "Fushigi Mystery."
 * Cloudcuckoolander
 * Damsel in Distress: Captive by every villain at one point or another.
 * Hair Decorations: The ribbon(s) that Mayura wears in her hair in the manga.
 * Forceful Kiss: Twice, including a manga-only one. Once by Heimdall, and then again by . For the former, Mayura shrugged the incident off, much to Loki's annoyance. For the latter, Mayura slapped in surprise.
 * Genki Girl: This girl runs on "Fushigi Mystery" at full steam.
 * Joshikousei: The author has a self-admitted fetish for uniforms.
 * Magic Skirt
 * Miko
 * Missing Mom
 * Muggle
 * Oblivious to Love: Oblivious to Freyr's feelings for her.
 * Ordinary High School Student: Averted, she really is ordinary.
 * Pimped-Out Dress: When she got possessed by in Episode 15.
 * Plucky Girl
 * The Pollyanna: Nothing gets her down. Of course this may be because she doesn't have a clue of what's going on.
 * Red Eyes, Take Warning: Averted.
 * Rose-Haired Girl
 * Ship Tease: With Loki, Yamino, Freyr, Heimdall, and a bit with Narugami.
 * Unfazed Everyman: Played with. In any other situation she would be this except she often doesn't know all of the strange things happening.
 * Yamato Nadeshiko: According to Freyr, that is.
 * She is closer to this in the manga.
 * Yui Horie

Yamino Ryusuke
"All we want is to remain by your side. Wherever that may be, as long as you're happy, so are we, Master Loki."

Loki's butler and assistant, Yamino has a fondness for cooking and mail-order items. He is revealed to be


 * Ahoge
 * Battle Butler: Not in the traditional sense but the
 * Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
 * Curtains Match the Window
 * Heterosexual Life Partners: With Loki.
 * Keet
 * Megane
 * Nice Guy
 * Son Wolf: Don't threaten Loki. Just don't.
 * Really Seven Hundred Years Old
 * Sharp-Dressed Man
 * Shinichiro Miki
 * Slipknot Ponytail
 * Supreme Chef: Won a duel to prove it.

Narugami/Thor
"I know you well, Loki, yet despite that fact, I have no reason to kill you."

Disguised as a transfer student in Mayura's class, Narugami is really the Norse god of thunder and sent to kill Loki, but decides not to only because he hasn't found a reason to kill Loki yet. He is often called "Narukami" by Loki. A running gag is that Narugami ends up having a multiple of different part-time jobs.


 * Big Eater: What he seems to spend all his money on.
 * Calling Your Attacks: "ROAR Mjöllnir!" and the more comicall 'Galatic Onion Cut!'
 * Curtains Match the Window
 * Hair Antennae
 * Heterosexual Life Partners: With Loki and Yamino.
 * Keet
 * New Transfer Student
 * Really Seven Hundred Years Old
 * Showtaro Morikubo
 * Wooden Katanas Are Even Better: Justified: its freakin' Mjöllnir in disguise!
 * Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs??

Ecchan
"Punyaan~."

A Shikigami spirit conjured up by Loki.


 * Invisible to Normals
 * Onmyodo
 * Team Pet
 * Reluctant Monster: Originally intended to be a frightening spirit; Loki got a floating child-like wad of cotton candy instead. Nevertheless welcomed as part of the family.

Heimdall
"I'll kill Loki no matter how great the sin. It's only a matter of time. By my own right eye, I swear it. Just you wait... Loki."

The watchman of Norse Mythology, Heimdall is sent by Odin to kill Loki, but it's more of a personal vendetta -- Heimdall seeks revenge against Loki for stealing his right eye, and he will not rest until vengence is his.


 * Cute Shotaro Boy
 * Evil Eye: His right eye has many magic powers.
 * Foe Yay: With Loki.
 * Forceful Kiss: Heimdall did this on Mayura early into the story. Not because he had feelings for her, but only to screw with Loki's head. Which worked-- to the point that Loki seems quite a bit jealous when Mayura shrugs it off in the manga.
 * Heterosexual Life Partners: With Freyr.
 * Peek-a-Bangs
 * Really Seven Hundred Years Old
 * Red Eyes, Take Warning: Very much so.
 * The Rival
 * : Episode 21.
 * Romi Park
 * You Gotta Have Purple Hair

Freyr
"Why, Heimdall. Don't get so worked up. The battle between gods is a glorious thing. You should really learn to savor it."

Freyr is a mystery thief who falls in love with Mayura at first sight. He works with Heimdall and has a robotic pig named Gullinbursti. Freyr came to the human world in search of his sister Freya, who was banished to the human world like Loki.


 * Big Brother Instinct: He doesn't want Freya anywhere near Loki.
 * Blue Eyes
 * Chaotic Neutral
 * Heterosexual Life Partners: With Heimdall.
 * Hopeless Suitor: For Mayura.
 * Large Ham
 * Love At First Sight: Gets smitten with Mayura upon bumping into her.
 * My Sister Is Off-Limits: see above
 * New Transfer Student: Only in Episode 11, where Freyr joined Mayura's school in order to join the Mystery Society so it wouldn't get abolished. Hilarity Ensues when Freyr attempts to help her out, but he ends up getting more than he bargains for -- including mistaking Narugami and Koutarou as love rivals for Mayura's affection.
 * The Nicknamer: Calls Mayura, "Yamato Nadeshiko."
 * Really Seven Hundred Years Old
 * Takehito Koyasu

Reiya Ohshima
"Yes, and I owe it all to you. You protected me, you alone, stood by me like a prince stands by his princess."

Reiya is a child who comes to the detective agency to solve an unusual mystery surrounding her. In the manga, Reiya hires Loki on the mystery her nightmires of her deceased sister, while in the anime, she hires Loki on the mystery of her mansion. She develops a crush on Loki. Reiya is revealed to be Freya put into a child form. Unlike Loki, Reiya does not have any memories of being Freya. Reiya becomes Freya when wearing the necklace Brisingamen, as well as when she becomes frightened or jealous of the female attention Loki recieves.


 * Damsel in Distress
 * Girlish Pigtails
 * Hopeless Suitor: For Loki.
 * Last of Her Kind: In the anime, Reiya is the Sole Survivor of the Ohshima family.
 * Moe
 * Purple Eyes

Freya
"I loved you from the very bottom of my heart, and I knew all along that you didn't. To love someone who never notices you. To give someone the gift of love, only to have them be completely oblivious to it. Do you think it's easy to be the goddess of love? I was lonely, but I should have saved myself the trouble and never have fallen in love with you. At least then, I would never have encoured Odin's wrath in the first place. I wouldn't have suffered for you as I had did. I'll never forgive you, you hear me? Never!"

Freyr's sister and the goddess of beauty, fertility, and love. After begging Odin for Loki's return, Freya was punished by being exiled to the human form in the body of a child and without her memories -- that child being Reiya. As a result, Freya is vengeful against Loki for this, but in spite of this, her feelings for Loki are just as strong as ever.


 * Damsel in Distress
 * Hair of Gold
 * Hopeless Suitor: For Loki.
 * Older Alter Ego: Of Reiya.
 * Purple Eyes
 * Rapunzel Hair
 * Really Seven Hundred Years Old
 * Tall Blond And Bishoujo
 * Tsundere: Freya is tsun-tsun towards everyone else, and dere-dere only for Loki.
 * Yandere: Only for Loki.

Urd
"The fated hour has come."

One of the three Norn Sisters. In the manga, they appear to have a second agenda differing from that of Odin's. In the anime, they are sent to kill Loki. Urd is seemingly the leader of the three sisters and enchantments are her forte.


 * Bob Haircut
 * Hair of Gold
 * Purple Eyes

Verdandi
"Yes, we must follow fate's path, wherever it leads."

One of the three Norn Sisters. In the manga, they appear to have a second agenda differing from that of Odin's. In the anime, they are sent to kill Loki. Verdandi is the second eldest of the sisters and works with dark alchemy.


 * Curtains Match the Window
 * Hime Cut
 * The Quiet One
 * Mamiko Noto

Skuld
''I don't understand... I just don't understand. Were we... Was I... involved with him?''

The youngest of the three Norn Sisters. In the manga, they appear to have a second agenda differing from that of Odin's. In the anime, they are sent to kill Loki. Skuld has a demon as a familiar. She has feelings for a rather oblivious Loki in the manga, while in the anime it's implied that the two


 * Foe Yay: With Loki in the anime.
 * Girlish Pigtails
 * Green Eyes
 * Hair of Gold
 * Hopeless Suitor: For Loki in the manga.
 * Lady in Red: Her shoes, anyway.
 * Mai Nakahara
 * Tsundere
 * The Woobie: You gotta feel for Skuld in Episode 20.

Fenrir
"Daddy~!"

A talking dog that is revealed to be In a Running Gag, Fenrir acts sweet towards Loki and bossy towards Yamino.


 * Big Badass Wolf
 * Black Eyes
 * Canine Companion
 * Canis Major: His real form.
 * Hirofumi Nojima
 * Talking Animal

Hel
"It's so cold, and it hurts so much. But compared to the world that I lived in, this is nothing. And when I was back home and when I felt alone, was it only my heart that was frozen?"

A mysterious pink haired girl who has a connection to Loki and seeks for his demise. She is revealed to be Her role in the manga and anime differ; in the manga, Hel, while in the anime, Hel's reason for her desire for Loki's death is


 * Bookworm
 * Emo Teen: With good reason.
 * : The end of Episode 25.
 * Green Eyes
 * Identical Stranger: She looks very much like Mayura.
 * Loners Are Freaks
 * Meganekko
 * Omi Minami
 * Rose-Haired Girl
 * The Quiet One
 * The Stoic
 * Tranquil Fury: In the anime, Hel's reason how her hatred for Loki is because
 * The Woobie: It was all a, but by the time she realized it...

Odin
"Loki, as he who reigns supreme over all gods, I hearby deliver onto you a new sentence. One of complete and utter anihilation. I shall destroy you and forever purge your existence from the flow of time. There will no longer be a place for you in the realm of the gods, Loki."

The King of the Gods who seeks Loki's demise.


 * Big Bad
 * Faceless Eye
 * Red Eyes, Take Warning

Misao Daidouji
"I don't give a damn what you do to me, do you hear me? Know that to protect his daughter's life, any father would sacrifice his own!"

Mayura's father. He is protective of her and dislikes her constant fascination with the occult, as well as her friendship with Loki. Unlike Mayura, her father has a sixth sense and is aware that there is something strange and supernatural about Loki.


 * Open-Minded Parent: Enough that he'll let Mayura work at a detective agency run by a seeming ten year old boy. (It did take some convincing on Loki's part, though.)
 * Overprotective Dad

Kotarou Kakinouchi
"Try not to fall in love with me."

A wealthy and snooty classmate of Mayura's. In the manga, Koutarou -- nicknamed Kou by Loki -- proves to be a valued asset and as great as a detective as Loki, who becomes friends with him. However, his role differs in the anime, where he hangs out with Loki and company and has several meetings with the enigmatic Hel.


 * Alliterative Name
 * Blond Guys Are Evil: He's not evil. Just very, very snooty.
 * Chick Magnet
 * Curtains Match the Window
 * Kidanova: Moreso in the anime than manga.

Spica
A significant character to the sequel manga series and a new character appearing in the end of the last episode of the anime. Spica is a good-natured but clumsy girl who becomes a maid at the detective agency. She is revealed to be


 * Ahoge
 * Big Eater
 * Cute Mute: While, but , Spica remains a pretty darn cute Quiet One.
 * Crash Into Hello: Loki's first meeting with Spicia in the manga.
 * Damsel in Distress: and  are sure giving her a hard time.
 * Dojikko
 * Hair Decorations
 * Foil: To every single one of Loki's other love interests: Mayura, Reiya, Freya, and Skuld.
 * Meido
 * Moe
 * Last-Episode New Character
 * The Quiet One
 * Really Seven Hundred Years Old
 * The Reveal: Spica is
 * Yamato Nadeshiko
 * You Gotta Have Purple Hair

Utgard-
A manga-only character. It appears he has a strange obsession over Spicia.


 * Evil Counterpart: Of
 * White-Haired Pretty Boy