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A special operations team employed by [[The Syndicate]].

 

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Has an ''incredibly'' [[Dark and Troubled Past]] featuring [[Shell-Shocked Veteran|war]], betrayal, and [[Dead Little Sister|the disappearance of his younger sister]], and bringing it up is generally [[Berserk Button|a really bad idea]] and one of the few ways to [[Not So Stoic|get a reaction]] [[The Stoic|out of him]].

* [[Adorkable]]: Li. Very, very much.

* [[Anti-Hero]]: [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes|Type IV.]].

* [[The Worf Effect]]: The [[interquel]]s and second season feature quite a few instances of this, though it makes some sense when you consider that he had the element of surprise in almost every fight he got into in the original series.

 

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In the second season, she {{spoiler|develops a [[Super-Powered Evil Side]], Izanami, that causes Contractors to turn their powers on themselves and is [[Mind Screw|apparently]] trying to cause [[The End of the World as We Know It]]. She manages to suppress it, but winds up comatose-- and when someone wakes her up, Izanami wakes up with her.}}

* [[Anti-Hero]] / [[Anti-Villain]]

* {{spoiler|[[Apocalypse Maiden]]}}: Second season.

* [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]]

 

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Hei's "handler," a Syndicate employee who relays his instructions and acts as backup when necessary.

* [[Anti-Hero]] / [[Anti-Villain]]

* [[Badass Normal]]

* [[The Team Normal]]

 

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A body-swapping contractor trapped in a cat's body who helps Hei's group.

* [[Anti-Hero]] / [[Anti-Villain]]

* [[Body Surf]]: He has the ability to do this, but only between animals.

* [[Voices Are Mental]]: His voice sounds exactly the same (and disproportionately deep) as a cat, a bird, or {{spoiler|a flying squirrel}}, and one character who knew him as a human recognizes him by it.

 

The second main protagonist, besides Hei, of Season 2, a half-Japanese half-Russian schoolgirl. Her father is a scientist studying ME and her brother is a Contractor; her mother is a photographer who moved to Japan eight years ago. She gets pulled into the plot because of attempts to capture her twin and winds up hanging around Hei. {{spoiler|In the third episode, she develops the Contractor ability to summon an [[BFG|anti-tank rifle]] and [[Small Girl, Big Gun|wield it easily despite its size]].}}

* [[Action Girl]]

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Harm {{spoiler|July}} and Suo will show no mercy.

* [[Small Girl, Big Gun]]

* {{spoiler|[[Super-Powered Evil Side]]: When being driven to the brink, her necklace becomes a [[BFG]] and she becomes a merciless Contractor, albeit one who wants to kill other Contractors for their evil actions. After this first time though, she retains her morality when using her powers.}}

* [[Tomato in the Mirror]]: {{spoiler|When she finally meets her mother, she learns that the real [[Dead All Along|Suou died years ago]]. She's a clone with [[Fake Memories]]. Then she meets her ''father'', who says she's an [[Opposite Gender Clone]] of Shion.}} The timing makes these stories mutually contradictory. [[Mind Screw|Much confusion was had]].

* [[Training from Hell]]: Hei is a sucky teacher, at least when [[Took a Level in Jerkass|depressed, drunk, and angry at the world]].

== Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Public Security Bureau ==

 

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The head of the TMPD's PSB Foreign Affair Division, Section 4, which covertly deals with contractor-related crimes and terrorism; she takes a special interest in the cases related to BK-201 that starts to grow into an obsession with time.

* [[Action Girl]]: On a good day.

* [[Badass]]: Her performances in ''[[Comic Book Adaptation|Shikkoku no Hana.]]'' One involved a [[Car Fu|car.]]

* [[You Need to Get Laid]]: Has been informed of this quite a few times in the second season because of her obsession with finding Hei.

 

Kirihara's second-in-command.

* [[Badass Normal]]: Very occasionally. For instance, in the [[Interquel]], he manages to hurt [[Nigh Invulnerable|Harvest]] in a close-range fight.

* [[The Big Guy]]

* [[Those Two Guys]]

 

One of Kirihara's underlings.

* [[Casanova]]: According to the OVA

* [[Satellite Character]]: Pretty much never seen without Saitou nearby to [[Those Two Guys|play off of]].

* [[Todd Haberkorn]]: [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]

 

Another Division 4 employee.

* [[Badass Grandpa]]

* [[Cool Old Guy]]

* [[May–December Romance]]: In the OVA, he seems to have a crush on Mayu, at least [[Yaoi Fangirl|until he reads her fanfiction]].

 

A member of the task force and closet [[Big Name Fan]].

* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: Likes to read and write erotic fanfiction and can be kind of ditzy, but also shows some competence, figuring out BK-201's identity when the rest of the police force failed miserably.

* [[Covert Pervert]]

* [[Cosplay Otaku Girl]]

* [[Fan Girl]]

* [[Female Gaze]]: Spoofed. Hei's "sexy collarbone" has since become [[Memetic Mutation|a meme]].

* [[Loony Fan]]: Quite possibly even loonier than Kiko.

* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: She stalks Hei for a few days, leading the group to suspect that she's working for someone to try to interfere with their mission.

* [[Yaoi Fangirl]]

 

Also known as the Director. Kirihara's boss.

* [[Artificial Limbs]]: He has prosthetic hands; hence the black gloves.

* {{spoiler|[[Beard of Evil]]}}

== Secret Intelligence Service ==

 

 

MI6's top agent, assigned to Japan to investigate Gate-related activity. He has the power to freeze liquids and a rather [[James Bond]]-like attitude.

* [[Affably Evil]]

* [[Anti-Hero]]: Type IV Or V

* [[Troy Baker]]

 

A contractor on November 11's team who can create storms at will.

* [[Actor Allusion]] / [[Captain Ersatz]]: Her Japanese voice actress dubs many Halle Berry characters, including Storm of [[X-Men]], with whom she shares weather-control powers and appearance.

* [[Anti-Hero]] / [[Anti-Villain]]

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Weirdly, she is introduced with black hair in the second season, which makes you think that her hair might have been dyed. Nope- the black hair is a wig covering her apparently naturally blue hair.

 

The Doll assigned to November 11's team. In the second season, he {{spoiler|joins Hei, Suou, and Mao.}}

* [[Anti-Hero]] / [[Anti-Villain]]

* [[Emotionless Girl|Emotionless Guy]]: Being a Doll.

** It even manages to creep out Hei in full [[Jerkass]] mode.

 

A Contractor introduced in Season 2. He is part of the same team as April and July.

* [[Achilles' Heel]]: He can pretty much do anything as long as he is looking at you and you at him, but Hei {{spoiler|throws his longcoat over August's head and electrocutes him while he is powerless.}}

* [[Blessed with Suck]]: He's a former stage magician and received the power to do real magic, something which would make him the greatest magician ever. Unfortunately, his Remuneration is to give away how magic tricks work, something which hurts his pride as a former magician and takes away any professional benefit he could get from his powers.

* [[Expy]]: He has often been compared to Cornelius Alba of ''[[Kara no Kyoukai:|Kara no Kyoukai]]''.

* [[Hollywood Tactics]]: If you're effectively immune to ranged attacks and you're up against a ninja known for ingenuity, it would seem like a good idea ''not to let him get close''.

The [[Muggle Power|Contractor]] [[La Résistance]] with a distinctly [[Social Darwinist]] cast- think [[X-Men|Magneto]]

 

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She can manipulate time, and her remuneration is [[Merlin Sickness|getting younger]].

* [[Anti-Villain]]

* [[Badass Adorable]]

* [[Oracular Urchin]]: Since she's a lot older than she looks and has a limited ability to see the future.

* [[Laura Bailey]]

* [[Social Darwinist]]: Amber would get along very well with [[X-Men|Magneto]].

* [[Stepford Smiler]]

* [[Tomoko Kawakami]]

 

Amber's second-in-command. He has the very straightforward power of shooting waves of force.

* [[Anti-Villain]]

* {{spoiler|[[Back for the Dead]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Your Soul Is Mine]]: His fate at Yin's hands, along with the rest of the Contractor camp.}}

 

A contractor working for Amber. His power is to blow up anything he's touched, and he has an enormous crush on Amber.

* [[Bad Powers, Bad People]]

* [[Blond Guys Are Evil]]: Blond Contractor

* [[Troubling Unchildlike Behavior]]: Just about everything he does.

* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]: Or at least very light blond.

* [[Yuko Sanpei]]

 

A ridiculously sexy contractor working for Amber as a spy. She can teleport anyone she touches.

* [[Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance]]: Her power involves teleporting with the loss of her clothes, and her Remuneration is to kiss people.

** She usually teleports others by kissing them, thus combining the power use and remuneration in one.

 

== PANDORA ==

 

A high-ranking PANDORA official, he is a Japanese citizen who was born overseas. He plays a background role throughout much of the first series.

* [[The Chessmaster]]

* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Against Contractors.

* [[Four Eyes, Zero Soul]]

* [[Smug Snake]]

 

A scientist working at PANDORA's lab at Hell's Gate.

* [[Affably Evil]]

* [[For Science!]]: He's actually not upset at all when Hei {{spoiler|screws his anti-Gate system up}} since it gave him something new and interesting to observe.

* [[Techno Babble]]: Speaks almost entirely in it, except when he's making bad jokes.

 

A scientist working at the laboratory in the Gate who got her position by making a deal with [[The Syndicate]]. Acts as Hei's contact when he infiltrates the place.

* {{spoiler|[[Dropped a Bridge on Him]]: She gets killed in Shikkoku No Hana for helping Hei, Yin and Azusa. Her superior, Sergei [[Spell My Name with an "S"|Vectrof]] even [[Pet the Dog|complains about it.]]}}

* [[Fantastic Racism]]: An interesting case, as she mostly just has exaggerated misconceptions and she [[Chick Magnet|very quickly develops a crush on Hei]] despite them.

* {{spoiler|[[What a Senseless Waste of Human Life]]: Vectrof points out that Meena was younger, smarter and possibly [[Pet the Dog|more useful than he is and certainly should have at least been held hostage.]] His captors disagree.}}

 

A cheerful scientist Hei meets while undercover at an observatory.

* {{spoiler|[[Affably Evil]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Anti-Villain]]: Big time.}}

A group of Japanese agents introduced in Season 2.

 

Part of the team dedicated to hunting down Hei and Suou, a contractor with the ability to turn solid objects into heavy armor. Has a habit of [[Anything That Moves|hitting on everyone he encounters]].

* [[Bait the Dog]]: Genma initially comes across as an affable, jokey [[Lovable Sex Maniac]], and a pushover at that, since Suo "defeats" him by throwing a trash can over his head. Further appearances establish him as a pedophilic sociopath who finds wanton brutality incredibly amusing.

* [[The Brute]]

* [[Stupid Evil]]: He doesn't really think his [[Kick the Dog|acts of]] [[For the Evulz|pointless cruelty]] through very well.

 

A contractor with the ability to turn objects into [[Laser Blade|laser]] [[Katanas Are Just Better|katanas]]. Part of the team hunting Hei and Suou.

* [[Anti-Villain]]

* [[Badass]]: Had not one, not two but three fights with [[The Hero|Hei]]. In the final fight with him, she {{spoiler|nearly killed him and possibly would've...if Hei had actually been responsible for Yoko's death.}}

* [[The Stoic]]

 

The group's [[The Team Normal|token human]], a scientist who worked under Dr. Schrader.

* [[Affably Evil]]

* [[Bait the Dog]]: Initially appears very [[Moe]] as well as friendly and outgoing, but she follows in the footsteps of the similarly affable Dr. Shrader in having [[For Science!]] as a mantra, pursuing "experiments" without concern for human life.

* [[The Team Normal]]

 

{{spoiler|!'''Misaki Kirihara'''}}

* {{spoiler|See The Japanese Police.}}

== Others ==

 

A contractor serving the Chen Long Tang crime family. His power is to blow holes in anything he gets blood on. {{spoiler|Later joins Amber's group in order to fight Hei again.}}

* [[Arrogant Kung Fu Guy]]: He can't stand losing a fight.

* [[Badass]]: He's an evil psycho. But in a series where most people can't even come close to standing up to the main character, Wei nearly kills him two or three times.

* [[Worthy Opponent]]: Considers Hei to be this.

 

The heir to the Chen Long Tang family. She was friends with Kirihara as a teenager, and did not react well to her friend's career choice.

* [[Alice Allusion]]

* [[Anime Chinese Girl]]: Subverted.

* [[Mafia Princess]]

* [[The Triads and the Tongs]]

 

[[File:Defective Detectives 3230.png|frame|Kurosawa and Kiko]]

 

A rather useless private investigator who accidentally stumbles across the edges of Hei's assignments a couple of times.

* [[Affectionate Parody]]: Of [[Hardboiled Detective]] stereotypes.

* [[Awesome McCoolname]]: He renamed himself because he thought his real name wasn't cool enough. As with his attempts at [[Smoking Is Cool]], little success was had.

* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: Thinks he lives in a world created by Raymond Chandler.

 

Kurosawa's [[Genki Girl|cheery, excitable]] secretary, who only works for him because she can watch yaoi at work. She has an over-the-top [[Stalker with a Crush|stalker-crush]] on "Li."

* [[Cosplay Otaku Girl]]

* [[Expressive Hair]]: It even curled into little heart shapes when she first saw Hei.

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Pink, probably to mark her as a comic character

 

Quite possibly the most dangerous contractor in existence, she killed hundreds or even thousands in South America- and then something happened that removed her powers and some of her memories but restored her emotions to normal. Now she's wracked with guilt over what she did, leaving her as probably the only case of a [[Woobie]] who [[Eats Babies|ate babies]] in history.

* [[The Atoner]]

* [[The Butcher]]: Was the Contractor with the single largest body count.

* [[Shell-Shocked Veteran]]

 

Two Contractors working for FSB to capture Yin. Bertha's power allows her to force objects to resonate, usually breaking them, although it can also stop someone's heart; Itzhak can absorb observation ghosts and use them to manipulate and control the minds of dolls.

* [[Anti-Villain]]

* [[Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance]]: She's an overweight former opera singer who kills people with her voice.

* [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?]]: Itzhak has one of the most [[Crippling Overspecialization|specialized]] and useless-in-combat abilities we've seen, which is presumably why he was paired with someone who can kill quietly and almost instantaneously or cause massive structural damage.

 

The primary antagonist of the [[Interquel]] manga, ''Shikkoku no Hana''. His power is to dissolve matter, and this ability to manipulate the connections between atoms allows him to give normal humans Contractor abilities.

* [[The Corrupter]]

* [[Deadly Upgrade]]: Yeah, he'll give you superpowers. But {{spoiler|watch out for that flower...}}

* [[Touch of Death]]: The results are rather gross.

 

A young schoolgirl Hei encounters in ''Shikkoku no Hana''. After being seduced and betrayed by her [[Casanova|coach]], Daisuke Mioka, she desires to become a Contractor in order to exact revenge. And then she meets Harvest...

 

{{spoiler|After the death of her best friend, his power gives her supernatural leg strength, allowing her to [[Kick Chick|kick people hard enough that they explode]] or [[In a Single Bound|jump twenty feet in the air]]. But the more she uses it, the larger [[The Corruption|the black flower attached to her back]] grows...}}

* [[Be Careful What You Wish For]]

* {{spoiler|[[The Corruption]]}}

* [[Woman Scorned]]

 

A young coach for a girls' volleyball team in ''Shikkoku no Hana''. [[Casanova|Loves teh ladies]] but goes about it in the most dickish way possible.

* {{spoiler|[[Asshole Victim]]: The only reason anyone cares about his death at all is because it nearly kills Azusa.}}

* [[Casanova]]: His most defining trait. As far as he's concerned, if it has a vagina, it's fair game.

** And even if {{spoiler|she hadn't killed him for that, Hei certainly would have.}}

 

A contractor of one of PANDORA's many factions working to kill Harvest. Her power is teleportation through use of black portals. Her Doll is a modified cyborg named "Champ."

* [[Child Prodigy]]

* [[The Corps Is Mother]]: Has been a part of PANDORA since she was 5.

* [[Teleporters and Transporters]]

* [[Teleport Spam]]: Parcel has no compunctions about using her powers all the time, [[Mundane Utility|for just about everything]], possibly because her remuneration isn't very harsh.

* [[True Companions]]: Her, Champ, [[Team Mom|Meena]] and [[Team Dad|Sergei]].

* [[Unable to Cry]]: Not surprising seeing as she's a Contractor. {{spoiler|Unfortunately, it means she can't mourn the deaths of her friends as [[Tear Jerker|she'd wish to.]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[You Killed My Father|You Killed My Friends]]: Drops Reynard Maxfield into the ocean [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|from the STRATOSPHERE]] for causing [[True Companions|Champ, Meena and Sergei's deaths.]]}}

 

Suo's brother, who was transformed into a Contractor. His power is to {{spoiler|produce copies of things and people with one trait changed}}, and his remuneration paralyzes his legs, putting him in a wheelchair most of the time.

* [[But Not Too Foreign]]

* [[Creepy Child]]

* [[Half-Identical Twins|Half Identical Twin]]{{spoiler|: Or not.}}

* [[Hikikomori]]: On account of being imprisoned and his Remuneration, which left him temporarily crippled.

* [[Twin Switch]]: Has Suo take his clothing in the first episode, so she can escape. {{spoiler|However, given later events, it seems more likely to have been so ''he'' could escape...}}

 

Suo's father and the inventor of a device which can pull memories from people even after they are dead. {{spoiler|Later revealed as an early member of [[The Syndicate]].}}

* [[Mad Scientist]]

* [[Sacrificial Lamb]]: {{spoiler|Subverted. He appears to be killed in the first episode, but see [[Faking the Dead]].}}

 

A mysterious character with connections to the CIA {{spoiler|who is revealed to have been Hei's employer}}.

* [[The Chessmaster]]: Apparently she was betting on the fact that {{spoiler|Hei would head back to Tokyo}}.

* [[Foreign Fanservice]]

* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: So very, very much.

 

A mysterious CIA agent seen interacting with Madame Oreille.

* [[Character Tics]]: He quotes ''The Art of War'' incessantly.

* [[Cool Shades]]

* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]

 

 

* [[Bee-Bee Gun]]: Her power involves summoning a swarm of insects which she can control with her mind.

* [[Blondes Are Evil]]

** Possible [[Fridge Brilliance]] here, contractors seem to get better at using logic to work there way around to morals as they live longer.

 

A Russian Contractor featuring in the second series

* [[Ax Crazy]]: Played with: While most Contractors can kill without much thought, becoming a Contractor actually made him ''less'' kill-crazy. Also, theoretically, he now kills in the most painless way possible. But, yes, he's still crazy.

* [[Bishonen]]

* [[Yuji Ueda]]

 

A Contractor who features as a major antagonist in the [[Interquel]] OVAs.

* {{spoiler|[[The Bad Guy Wins]]}}: Despite {{spoiler|being shot and nearly bleeding out}}, he still manages to {{spoiler|slaughter many Contractors that wanted to live in peace and forces Yin into awakening Izanami, creating a worldwide threat that could kill many humans and Contractors and setting up the second season.}} He still {{spoiler|ends up dying due to Izanami, although it is less of a [[Karmic Death]] since he seemed to enjoy being killed by Izanami as he knew he had already won.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Attractive Bent Gender]]: His disguise as Amber actually isn't all that different from his true appearance.}}

* [[Superpower Lottery]]: He won. {{spoiler|He basically has [[Bleach|Aizen's Complete Hypnosis]] as well as a limited ability to control his victims' bodies, and his remuneration is extremely light.}}