Kekkaishi/Characters

Characters of the anime/manga Kekkaishi.

Yoshimori Sumimura

 * Barrier Warrior: Shield and club really
 * Bunny Ears Lawyer: He gets worked up often over minor things, and is a little too preoccupied with cake, but he's good at asploding ayakashi.
 * Determinator: Boundless energy andn drive is his greatest strength. Its pointed out by his Madarou.
 * Hiroyuki Yoshino
 * Hair-Trigger Temper
 * I Am Not Left Handed: Inverted "A lion boils even a rabbit with all its strength!" he goes all out even on punny ayakashi.
 * Idiot Hero: Somewhat. In most series he'd probably be considered a fairly smart fighter; he just stands out here because everyone else fights very intelligently and he tends to fight through instinct and pure power too often. His older brother and Tokine are the major foils.
 * The Messiah: Veers this way sometimes.
 * Must Have Caffeine: or coffee flavored milk.
 * Sitting On the Roof: He has a favorite spot to nap and everything.
 * Sweet Tooth: All those cakes....
 * Trademark Favorite Food: Coffee milk.
 * Triple Shifter
 * Unskilled but Strong: He has ridiculous amounts of power, but bad aim and form.
 * Vic Mignogna
 * What the Hell, Hero?:

Tokine Yukimura

 * Action Girl
 * Barrier Warrior
 * Combat Pragmatist: Observe the enemy, find any weaknesses, and then bring them down at the first opportunity.
 * Cry Cute:
 * Disappeared Dad: Her dad dies pre-series.
 * Laura Bailey, again playing a girl with the last name of Yukimura.
 * Scars Are Forever: Has one on her hand after protecting Yoshimori from a demon
 * Skirt Over Slacks
 * Tall, Dark and Bishoujo
 * Tsundere: Mild version. Alternates between fanship fodder moments with Yoshimori, treating him as a coworker/classmate treating him like a kid brother, treating him like an annoying kid brother, beating him up for annoying her, and beating him up while crying her eyes out for worrying him, then playing the trope as straight as possible by beating him up while trying to apologize to him.
 * Weak but Skilled: She isn't as strong as Yoshimori, but she's more accurate than he is.
 * to the point that her signature style switches from giant kekkai that she implodes around ayakashi to small, thin kekkai that she uses to stab them and hold them in place.
 * Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: She's terrified of cockroaches. Probably not helped by the bug ayakashi that scarred her hand as a child, but fear of cockroaches also runs in the family.
 * Yamato Nadeshiko: The rest of the school thinks she is. The main characters and her best friend know better.However, she does perform tea ceremonies with her grandmother in traditional clothing.

Shigemori Sumimura

 * Badass Grandpa
 * Barrier Warrior
 * Cool Old Guy
 * Sitcom Arch Nemesis: Tokiko

Tokiko Yukimura

 * Barrier Warrior
 * Cool Old Lady
 * I Was Quite a Looker
 * Mayumi Tanaka
 * Sitcom Arch Nemesis: Shigemori

Toshimori Sumimura

 * Cute Shotaro Boy
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Dissonant Serenity: Due to his older brother's frequent quarrels with their grandfather, living in the Yoshimori house is somewhat hectic, but he and his father rarely take notice.
 * Wise Beyond Their Years: He takes after his dad.

Masamori Sumimura

 * Aloof Big Brother
 * Anti-Hero
 * Good Is Not Nice
 * Badass
 * Legendary Carp: His partner, Kurohime, is a giant black koi that swims through the air.
 * Manipulative Bastard: Sometimes.
 * Patrick Seitz

Gen Shishio

 * Anti-Hero
 * Badass
 * Big Badass Wolf: His ayakashi form is that of a humanoid wolf.
 * Dark and Troubled Past: Was bullied and abused by his brothers, and nearly killed most of his family.
 * Defrosting Ice King
 * Grant George
 * Half-Human Hybrid: half Ayakashi
 * Healing Factor
 * Heroic Sociopath
 * Killed Off for Real
 * Loners Are Freaks
 * Power Limiter: His tattoo, which burns him if he starts trying to overuse his Ayakashi powers.
 * Stoic Woobie
 * Sugar and Ice Personality
 * Super-Powered Evil Side
 * Tall, Dark and Snarky
 * Tear Jerker: He never found out his sister still loved him.
 * Too Cool to Live

Zen Kagemiya

 * Bishonen: The girls at school love him.
 * Dude Looks Like a Lady: The bane of his existence. Also makes some of the male bonding scenes between him and Yoshimori even more confusing.
 * Femme Fatalons: male example
 * Half-Human Hybrid
 * Handsome Lech
 * The Smart Guy: From time to time, Yoshimori decides that his best plan is just to tell Zen what his goals are, then do whatever Zen says.
 * Telepathy: Limited by several things. Kekkaishi and possibly some other ability users block it and even detect or interfere with it. It also provokes a red right hand in the form of his eyes flashing demonic when he uses it. This is worse than it sounds as he needs to be close for it to work. Lastly, Zen is afraid that he will be ostracized even by the other Yagyou if they find out he is able to read their minds, so he does his best to conceal his ability, even when he has information that he desperately would like to share.

Atora Hanashimi

 * Captain Ersatz: Atora is apparently a Pokémon trainer who got lost and ended up in the Yagyou.
 * Everything's Worse With Bears: Her partner, Raizou, is a giant electric bear Ayakashi.
 * Marshmallow Hell: to Gen.
 * Sexy Mentor
 * Trickster Mentor
 * Urara Takano

Mudou

 * Bishonen Line: Starts out as a middle-aged old man, changes to a distinctly more attractive twentyish year old (with cool boots), then finally to a Cute Shotaro Boy.
 * Complete Monster
 * Cold-Blooded Torture: He loves his torture. Especially when its on Masamori.
 * Cruel and Unusual Death: How can a ball kill someone? Mudou knows every single way!

Saigo Enjougi

 * Ax Crazy
 * Bandage Babe
 * Christmas Cake: A particularly crazed example, Saigo thinks any woman younger than her should be killed.
 * Sinister Scythe

The Sousui / Oumi Nichinaga
How to best describe this sadistic little Really Seven Hundred Years Old Big Bad? Well, for starters


 * Abel and Cain: You might think Yumeji / Tsukihisa is the Abel to his Cain at first.
 * Complete Monster: At first, when nobody knew why he was doing anything. Turned out,
 * Even Evil Has Loved Ones:
 * Evil vs. Evil
 * Heel Realization: [[spoiler: when his big brother possesses his favorite minion and sets wheels of plots in motion to make him essentially lose everything again, he remembers, its reveal bombed what happened, Nichinaga repents with death.
 * Hellish Pupils: with two irises in fact, that make him seriously unnerving.
 * Redemption Equals Death:
 * Redemption Equals Death:
 * Redemption Equals Death:

Aihi

 * Affably Evil: She doesn't really exhibit much animosity—nowhere near as much as the other Kokubourou, that's for sure.
 * A Form You Are Comfortable With: She once maintained her appearance as a human.
 * Badass Labcoat
 * Berserk Button: A minor one, since Aihi is largely stoical, but it's unwise to discuss just what.
 * Dissonant Serenity: Enters into this when.
 * : As she states during her bout with, she can.
 * Hey It's That Voice: Major, what happened to your machine guns?
 * Hot Scientist
 * Interspecies Romance:.
 * : Averted, actually; according to Kaguro, Aihi hasn't.
 * Monster Sob Story
 * Mind Screw: one of the closest descriptions of whatever the hell her ability is in Ayakashi form. Seriously, what was happening there?
 * : Implied to have this, like the rest of the Kokubourou.
 * The Stoic
 * What Is This Thing You Call Love?: She researches humans to understand them better, as well as
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair
 * The Stoic
 * What Is This Thing You Call Love?: She researches humans to understand them better, as well as
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Byaku

 * Badass
 * Badass Long Hair
 * Bishonen
 * Extreme Doormat
 * Lack of Empathy: Oh my God. One of the creepiest examples ever. He routinely treats Hime, the only being for whom he probably ever felt anything, so coldly, that you would be forgiven for thinking he has some sinister plan for her, and will discard her the instant she's not needed for it anymore (as he treats his minions). Actually, Byaku sincerely wishes to heal Hime, it's just that he so out of touch with others' emotions, that not only his reaction to  he also simply fails to see why anyone might object to it.
 * Meaningful Name: "White," appropriate for his hair color.
 * : Though he looks like a man in his early thirties,.
 * Roger Craig Smith
 * The Stoic
 * Transhuman Treachery
 * Two Faced
 * White-Haired Pretty Boy

Hime

 * Badass: Creating your own dimension where you can live and having powerful minions on your side, qualifies you for this trope,
 * Badass Decay: As the years passed, her power waned to the point that her organization tried to find ways to prolong the collapse of her dimension.
 * Big Bad: Of Kokubourou,.
 * Spoiled Brat: acts like a spoiled little princess, despite age.
 * Stephanie Sheh

Kaguro

 * Ax Crazy: his true form shows that's out of his mind...All the time.
 * Badass
 * Blood Knight
 * Captain Ersatz: Very obviously based on Shishio Makoto.
 * Epileptic Tree: Doubles as Fridge Brilliance, Shishio after his death tells his loyal henchmen Hoji, that he'll conquer hell,
 * Complete Monster: It's obvious from the first point that he wanted to fight Yoshimori, but the extents he does through to make this possible,
 * Even Evil Has Standards: Believe it or not. He kills off two of his surviving subordinates when they take Tokine hostage, Scolding them for their "lack of aesthetic".
 * Expy: His bandaged form looks remarkably similar to Makoto Shisio from Rurouni Kenshin.
 * Hannibal Lecture: Delivers an extremely harsh one to Shishio. Also has the inability of having a conversion that doesn't involve messing the other's head.
 * Hiroaki Hirata: You know this psychopath, he's Sanji, hard to believe a ladies' man would be so good as a wack job.
 * Moral Event Horizon: From the moment you saw him, you knew he's bad news,.
 * Slasher Smile: All. The damn. Time.
 * Troy Baker: His english VA.
 * Worthy Opponent: Thinks Yoshimori is the one

Shion

 * Bare Your Midriff
 * Brilliant but Lazy: She actually a very powerful ayakashi but she hates exerting herself.
 * Does Not Like Shoes
 * Foot Focus: A lot of shots of her bare feet
 * People Puppets: She can use her spiders and webs to control people. Fully enveloping them with the web can turn them into spider goons.
 * Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Once Kokuboro started crumbling she beat a hasty exit. Only sticking around to see the fight between Yoshimori and Kaguro.
 * Spider People: We never see her true form but considering she controls them...

Shichiro Ougi

 * The Ace
 * Blow You Away
 * Draco in Leather Pants
 * Interspecies Romance: with Mayuka
 * Razor Wind
 * The White Prince

Madarao

 * Big Badass Wolf: When his Power Limiter is removed.
 * Camp Gay: Floating pink hearts while he gushes over Master Tokimori.
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Do Not Call Me Ginro
 * Ensemble Darkhorse
 * Ho Yay: A good amount of it with his former pal Koya, and Madarao is confirmed as being gay.
 * Impaled With Extreme Prejudice: During the fight with Koya. Madarao is hit first, but he manages to return the favor seconds after.
 * Non-Human Sidekick
 * The Nose Knows: The whole reason Yoshimori and the previous Sumimura kekkaishi have used him as a partner. He's very good at sniffing out ayakashi before they can be seen.
 * Power Limiter: his collar acts as one.
 * This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself: His face-off with Koya. Justified; he was the only person around who had any real chance against him.
 * Troy Baker
 * Viewer Gender Confusion: He uses Japanese feminine pronouns in the original manga. In translations and the anime it's clear he's a guy.
 * The mangaka originally intended for Madarao to be female, but she never specifically said so and the anime used a male seiyuu. So she went with it and Madarao is now officially male.
 * Actually, an omake the author revealed that he intended from the beginning to be gay

Hakubi

 * Gratuitous English: His frequent referral to Tokine as "honey." When he was Tokiko's partner, he called her "bunny."
 * The Nose Knows
 * Power Limiter: Going by what happens with Madarao's collar is removed, Hakubi's is likely to have this function, as well.
 * Wally Wingert
 * Verbal Tic: See Gratuitous English, honey.