Blade of the Phantom Master/Characters

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Characters from Blade of the Phantom Master include:

Main Characters

Munsu

Voiced by Keiji Fujiwara (Japanese), by Jason Douglas (English)

The primary "hero" of Shin Angyo Onshi and one of the few Angyo Onshi left after the destruction of Jushin. Accompanied with his trusted companions, Bang Ja and Sando, he strives to destroy evil and corruption, along with confronting his arch-nemesis, the one responsible for the destruction of Jushin, Aji Tae.

Tropes associated with Munsu:

"Everything that happens now is by chance. Don't ever hope that something like this will happen again."


Chun Hyang (Sando)

Voiced by Sanae Kobayashi (Japanese), by Nancy Novotny (English)

A beautiful woman with prodigious fighting skill. She acts as Munsu's "Sando", or bodyguard. When she was kidnapped by a corrupt lord who wanted to make her his personal bodyguard, her lover embarked on a futile quest to become an Angyo Onshi. He died in the process, but not before making Munsu aware of her plight. After Munsu frees her, she decides to become his bodyguard in memory of her dead lover, and takes the title "Sando" as her new name. Halfway through the story however, her purpose becomes corrupted by Aji Tae as she is made into his servant.

Tropes associated with Sando:

Bang Ja

An unnamed bang ja which had served two Angyo Onshi, Aria and Munsu. As their bang ja, he acts as their servant. His duties including preparing foods and also helping his masters in their efforts as Angyo Onshi.

Tropes associated with Bang Ja:

Won Sul

See Aji Tae's Forces.

Aji Tae's Forces

Aji Tae

The central antagonist of Shin Angyo Onshi. He is a black-winged demon who was responsible for Jushin's destruction, alongside many other mishaps throughout the series. Leading a band of supernatural fighters, heroes from the past, demons, and powerful black magic practitioners from the western country of Pretinica, he aims to conquer the known land and reshape it to his own bidding.

Tropes associated with Aji Tae:

  • Achilles' Heel: The biggest weakness that his omnipotence has is the fact that Munsu received some of it when Aji Tae transferred him Kye Wol Hyang's disease. In short, Munsu is the only person who can utterly beat the senseless fuck out of him without Aji Tae's powers affecting him.
  • Adorkable: Part of his cover when seducing people. Including glasses.
  • Affably Evil: His sheer charisma and aura is second to none.
  • A God I Am: For once, an actual villain whose powers are practically on the realm of gods. Others act haughty and on behalf of ambition, but Aji Tae can actually back up his Hannibal Lectures.
  • Arch Enemy: Oh hell yes, Munsu hates him to the core. Emphasis on hell...
  • Authority Equals Asskicking: And the inversion.
  • Badass
  • Big Bad: Though far from being the only villain, the climate of social chaos that falls upon Jushin is still his fault.
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Back in the days of Jushin, no one really expected the scrawny Aji Tae to be almost like a God.
  • Bishounen: Goes from Cute Shotaro Boy to this.
  • Body Horror: Some of his powers qualify as this.
  • Brought Down to Normal: This is what happens whenever he faces off against Munsu, as long as he still carries the disease with him.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: Starts off as this, what with his pet duck and all...
  • Complete Monster
  • Complexity Addiction: There was little to no point in bringing Sando to his side and training her to become stronger. Though it takes a lot of effort(and Munsu losing one of his arms), she escapes from his control and kills Aji Tae.
  • Curb Stomp Battle: Whenever Aji Tae gets into a fight, it isn't even this. It's more like a case of There Is No Kill Like Overkill taken Up to Eleven. With a mere thought he can make any creature, living or dead, explode into mush. That said, if he's not delivering the carnage, he's on the receiving end of it, thanks to his Achilles' Heel.
  • Cute Shotaro Boy: In the flashbacks to when he was just a doctor. This guy is some female fantasy.
  • Diabolical Mastermind
  • Didn't See That Coming: Definitively didn't see Kye Wol Hang's Suicide by Cop messing up the spell he put on Munsu in a way that allows Munsu not only to be immune to his powers but to also allow him to beat up Aji Tae like he was a normal human. His face after it happens in the first time seems like of someone who knows it's about to die. A serious case of Unknown Knowns.
  • Drunk with Power: When you're so powerful you can kill people with a thought, it's almost expected. This guy is in the middle on a power-induced euphoria overdose every time he engages on a killing rampage.
  • Evil Overlord
  • Evil Is Sexy: At least on the outside. When he starts going crazy....not so much...
  • Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: He is a very pretty boy...And literally and metaphorically a demon.
  • Fatal Flaw: Extreme overconfidence. Aji Tae don't stops trusting that things will always go his way because of his charisma and power. Things simply don't work that way.
  • Faux Affably Evil: Oh boy. He acts friendly even after he discards his cover, but is him a nasty individual.
  • Mr. Fanservice: One of the reasons why Sando becomes attracted to him. He's just damn good looking!
  • Foe Yay: Naturally, he's shipped with Munsu, given their history.
  • For the Evulz: He has no real explanation why he does the terrible things he does. Only that he's a demon who enjoys pain and suffering.
  • Four Eyes, Zero Soul: He used glasses in the past, and was just as evil.
  • God Is Evil
  • Good Hair, Evil Hair: Back when he was "one of the good guys", he sported short brown hair and round glasses. When he made his position known, his hair grew out much longer and wilder, and became white.
  • Hannibal Lecture: Loves to lecture Munsu.
  • Hoist by His Own Petard:
    • If he didn't enter Munsu's dream just to try to make him feel a little more pain, Munsu maybe would never have awakened.
    • He made Sando more stronger by making her train with Mujang. She kills him in the end.
  • Irony: His grand plan at first to get rid of Munsu was to transfer Kye Wol Hyang's disease to him, and have it slowly eat away at him. He never expected this to be Munsu's immunity to his powers... There's also the fact that it was Sando who killed him, someone whom he put so much effort and manipulation into.
  • Kill the Poor: When he impersonates the emperor, he decrees a law where everything that isn't "beautiful" must be destroyed. That includes poor people.
  • Ludicrous Gibs: Though we're not sure if it's an implosion or explosion thanks to the limitation of 2D art, he reduces his victims to this most of the time.
  • Manipulative Bastard
  • Master of Illusion: He can take on the form of anyone.
  • Moral Event Horizon: Pretty much everything he's ever done in the entire series crosses it.
  • Not So Invincible After All: He is killed by a blade that as far we know have nothing abnormal about it...It only took a few seconds of distraction for him to be hit by his undoing.
  • One-Winged Angel: A fairly literal example.
  • Person of Mass Destruction: He can explode people with his mind. And when he explodes himself, he creates a giant crater where the palace and good part of the capital of Jushin was.
  • Physical God: By Jushin's destruction, he's already become one.
  • Strolling Through the Chaos: It helps when he is the guy creating the chaos in first place, and when he isn't, he still a practically invulnerable demon.
  • Tall, Dark and Handsome
  • The Caligula: As the emperor of Jushin, he orders the destruction of everything that's not "beautiful". Cues mass massacre after mass massacre.
  • The Sociopath: Hell, he is one. He knows no feelings except hate, disgust and fear, the last one when he is finally put in a corner.
  • White-Haired Pretty Boy: In the present.
  • You Cannot Grasp the True Form: His power is so vast that no real mortal can even perceive it.
  • Villainous Breakdown: Has two of them: First one, when he realizes his powers don't work on Munsu and promptly gets beat the shit out of him. Second one is after he kills Munsu, but freaks out over the fact that his corpse is still standing and still giving him the Death Glare.
  • White-Haired Pretty Boy


Won Sul

A central character in the series, he first appeared as a primary antagonist early in the series, working directly under Aji Tae as a prison warden, but Won Sul's character is further expanded upon within flashbacks, as well as his role later in the series.

Tropes associated with Won Sul:

  • Ambiguously Gay: There are...serious implications he was in love with Munsu by the time they're traveling together.
  • Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Aji Tae transforms him in a giant monstrous abomination, apparently just to torture Munsu a little more by making him kill his former comrade.
  • Authority Equals Asskicking
  • Ax Crazy: The guy knows how to let loose...
  • Badass: Unbelievably so!
  • Bad Boss: He seemed to enjoy slaughtering his own guards for the hell of it...
  • Big Damn Heroes: Cemented his status as this in the Battle of Kaidaten.
  • Cool Sword: His sword, the Saruhyondo is actually nothing but a dragon-shaped hilt. His killing intent is what manifests an invisible, shape shifting sword. When he's revived as a zombie, he loses this ability, and instead has a normal blade fitted onto the Saruhyondo.
  • Curb Stomp Battle: Pretty much no one is capable of taking him on in a fair fight other than Sando. His fight against Insu and Joy is reduced to pretty much this.
  • Conflicting Loyalty: The biggest part of his character is where his loyalty lies: For Munsu out of admiration, or Aji Tae out of fear.
  • Mr. Fanservice
  • Face Heel Turn <---> Heel Face Turn
  • Failure Knight: Is practically torn inside-out over what happened between Munsu and Aji Tae, and somewhere deep down also blames himself for ultimately siding with Aji Tae.
  • Immortality: Type V. He can take a lot of punishment and still can stand up and fight. The scars and wounds remain though.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold
  • Lightning Bruiser: Moves fast and hits pretty hard.
  • Mercy Kill: At his end, he's nothing more of a watcher connected to a body who Aji Tae controls. Munsu has no option but order his destruction.
  • Perpetual Frowner: Nope, don't shows a lot of emotion through that face.
  • Sword Beam: Essentially what the Saruhyondo is.
  • Took a Level in Badass: In the war against Kaidaten, the moment he got the Saruhyondo, he decapitated Kaidaten and ended the whole war.
  • Tranquil Fury: In battle, he's either Ax Crazy, or this. If it's this, you are Deader Than Dead.
  • Our Zombies Are Different: When he's revived by Aji Tae, he's a poster boy of a zombie on the outside. However, he still retains his memories, reasoning, and intelligence.
  • Wave Motion Sword
  • The Woobie

Hwalbindang

A group of martial arts specialists who work as Robin Hood-like bandits, taking money from the rich so that they can provide for the poor. Most members of the group utilize a technique called Hap-ki, which allows them to focus their ki for offensive use. It's lead by a mysterious young woman who calls herself "Kye Wol Hyang", the name of Munsu's supposedly dead lover, who seeks to avenge her "death" by killing Munsu.

Kye Wol Hyang/Hong Gil Dong

  • A Mother To Her Men: Dorso even calls her "mama" when considering that she will forgive him when gets in a situation where he can't fulfill his mission. Not to mention that she takes the burden of her group's lives as her fault as well.
  • Angsty Surviving Twin: Well, not exactly twin, as Gildong and Wol Hyang are merely identical stepsisters.
  • Break the Haughty: Gets one, when Munsu tells her that her deeds, while apparently righteous, are still criminal.
  • Dead Person Impersonation: When she talks to Munsu, she takes over the identity of her dead sister Kye Wol Hyang. Munsu realizes it pretty much right away though.
  • Driven to Suicide
  • Determinator
  • Knight Templar Big Sister: For Kye Wol Hyang.
  • Redemption Equals Death
  • Heroic Bastard: Born of a illegitimate relationship between Kye Wol Hyang's father and her mother.
  • Revenge: The whole business between her and Munsu, the reason being the circumstances that surround her "death" actually her sister's, Kye Wol Hyang's death.
    • Revenge Before Reason:.. and boy does she go out of her ways to even the score with Munsu. It does not end well for her.
  • Stoic Woobie: She got mistreated due to being an illegitimate child while Kye Wol Hyang was pampered, but never held any resentment towards her sister or the world, and has a strong desire to help people.
  • The Heart: What she doesn't have in strength or even in intelligence, she makes it up in kindness and will.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist
  • Wide-Eyed Idealist: Starts off as this; she genuinely wants to help other people and her determination is why ki attacks don't have any effect on her. When Munsu points out how far off the deep end she's gone, she goes completely nuts.

Bae Ryong

Tae Yu


Supporting Characters

Hae Mo Su

The emperor of Jushin and Munsu's best friend. He gave Munsu the three-horse Amenosa medallion and appointed him as an Angyo Onshi. In the flashback, it's revealed that Aji Tae killed and impersonated him, causing the decline and eventual destruction of Jushin.

Kye Wol Hyang

Munsu's dead lover, who appears to be the source of his illness. She allegedly committed suicide with Munsu's sword. Her older twin sisterHong Gildong blames her death on Munsu.

She actually died as a result of Aji Tae's machination. Ironically, her death caused the spell Aji Tae was using on her and Munsu to screw up and give Munsu the power to resist Aji Tae.

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