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== Ban Mido ==

One half of the titular duo, Ban [[Insufferable Genius|acts like a jerk]] to just about everyone except Ginji. A "fighting genius," incredibly intelligent, and very well-read on a number of subjects. Was once a thief with Himiko and her brother, but seemed pretty burned out on life until he met Ginji. Fights using his [[Calling Your Attacks|"Snake Bite"]] arm and his Jagan eye's illusions.

 

 

He was raised by Maria Noches, his grandmother's apprentice, though he ran away from her at a young age. From there he spent some time with Himiko and her brother Yamato, and after he had to kill Yamato he left for the Infinite Fortress where he met Ginji.

* [[Ace Lightning Syndrome]] (Ban's inability to control his strength when he loses his temper is a recurring cause of their debt.)

* [[All Just a Dream]] (How Ban almost always uses the Evil Eye. Things seem bleak, sometimes the bad guy wins, only for everything to turn around at the last minute, revealing that he's been under the control of Ban's Evil Eye the whole time. More often than not, this trick is pulled with the audience as much as the character who's suffering its effects. He sometimes uses it for more beneficial and heartwarming effects, though.)

* [[Animal Motifs]] (He's characterized and likened to a snake... which probably makes sense, given that the name of one of his trademark techniques is "Snake Bite." His slitty eyes certainly contribute to it, as well. He's even called "Snake Bastard" by Shido.)

* [[Battle Aura]]: He gets a rather unique one where when he gets serious, Ban's aura manifests as the winding coils of a massive serpent.

** {{spoiler|[[Big Brother Instinct]]}} ({{spoiler|Kagami found this out the hard way after ''doing things'' to Himiko}})

* [[Bishonen]]: Most noticeably in the anime , which obviously aims to attract an audience that goes beyond the typical shounen fans.

* [[Captain Ersatz]]: [[Cool Shades]], spiky [[Anime Hair]] as well as the voice of [[Nobutoshi Canna]]? Some people compare Ban to [[Macross 7|Basara Nekki]]

* [[Catch Phrase]] ("Exactly one minute." And "Have any good/bad dreams?")

* [[Cool Shades]]

* [[Cursed with Awesome]]: For the longest time, Ban's "Curse" seemed to be to utter a totally badass mantra before completely kicking ass with his amped up snakebite. Some thirty-two volumes in the series we finally start learning ''[[Body Horror|why]]'' it's a curse.

* [[Evil Eye]]

* [[First-Name Basis]] (Switches from "lightning brat" to "Ginji" after they retrieve Natsumi's dog. Maybe half of the recurring characters call him by his last name; Himiko, Maria and Paul are three of the very few who use his given name with no honorific whatsoever, while Ginji uses the cutesy and affectionate "Ban-chan.")

* [[Green Lantern Ring]]: His Jagan has shades of this as its abilities are not rigidly defined aside from its basic limitations (can't use on person more than once a day, can't be used more than three times, lasts 60 seconds). However, he often demonstrates a variety of applications for it that make it difficult discern what the Jagan is capable of.

** He can distort the subject's perception of time to increase the duration of the illusion (sort of like [[Naruto|Itachi's Tsukuyomi]]).

** And plenty of others...

* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]]}}: Manga only.

{{quote|'''Ginji:''' ...That's when Ban-chan started using my name, and you know how bad he is at remembering names!

'''Paul:''' You know that's not true -- he actually remembers everyone's names. He's just not willing to use 'em. }}

* [[Insufferable Genius]] (It's even stated outright in the manga omake. He's hated at first by pretty much everyone he meets, as he's ''very'' condescending and arrogant. Though in all fairness, he ''is'' justifiably so - he really ''is'' a genius.)

* [[In the Blood]]: In the arcs where his hair is 'down', he looks very much like Der Kaiser; both men have similar abilities and somewhat similar personalities as well.

* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]

* [[Master of Illusion]] AND [[Mind Rape]] (The effect of his Jagan. One of the very rare cases where a ''hero'' has powers like that)

* [[Naomi Shindo]] (his seiyuu as a child)

 

== Ginji Amano ==

The other half of the titular duo, normally bubbly and affectionate, but definitely not someone you want to cross. In the past, he was the leader of the VOLTS street gang, but ended up leaving for various angsty reasons. He's very dependent on Ban, likely because he's not used to having someone he can depend on; instead being the person everyone else looks to. Everyone loves Ginji, and he loves everyone, so it worked for a little while, but eventually threatened to destroy everyone around him. Fights with electricity.

 

 

He grew up in the Infinite Fortress, and used to have black hair before his electricity turned it blond.

* [[Badass Adorable]] : Becomes this after teaming up with Ban.

* [[Bishonen]]: Most noticeably in the anime , which obviously aims to attract an audience that goes beyond the typical shounen fans.

* [[Love Freak]] / [[The Messiah]]

* [[Magnetic Hero]]: Very much so. Heck, not even Ban is immune.

* [[Perpetual Poverty]]

* [[Psycho Electro]] (If he uses his powers for a long time, his [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] arises)

* [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] (Raitei)

* [[Tareme]]

* [[Unstoppable Rage]] (In this aspect, he completely outdoes his good pal above. {{spoiler|Raitei is later revealed as being the embodiment of all the Mugenjou residents' anger, hatred, despair and pain.}} So you can't really blame the guy for having no self-control, can you?)

* [[Would Hit a Girl]] (Only when he [[Unstoppable Rage|goes berserk]] and becomes the Lightning Lord. He's shown to be willing to electrocute and torture Sakura when she gets in his way, and even ''[[Ax Crazy|Akabane]]'' seems surprised that Ginji would do something so ungentlemanly as beat the living shit out of a woman.)

 

== Himiko Kudo ==

 

She is a Voodoo Child, otherwise known as an aborted fetus of a witch who was brought back to life by the Shamans. Naturally, this comes with a curse: once she becomes a certain age, a mirrored clone will appear. If one dies, so does the other.

 

Related to Ban by consanguinity - though it's never directly stated just how they're related. {{spoiler|Not sure if that is true. In volume 38, Ban did state outright that she was his sister.}}

* [[Arc Words]] ("Voodoo Child.")

* [[Clothing Damage]]

* [[Master Poisoner]]

* [[Natsuko Kuwatani]]

* [[Tsundere]] (Even as she gets over the idea that Ban killed her brother, she still doesn't mind beating him up if she can. {{spoiler|In the last manga chapter, even after knowing that he's her REAL brother, she still doesn't mind the thought of having a bout with him due to their opposing professions.}})

 

== Kuroudo Akabane ==

Another transporter who likes to kill things. Very much. Has a [[Foe Yay|weird fascination with Ban and Ginji]], which they do not appreciate. Fights with various scalpels and blood-made weapons. Nicknamed "Doctor Jackal." ''Knows things'' that no one else does.

 

A former resident of Babylon City, he used to, in fact, be a doctor in an unspecified war. Until, of course, he fails to save the son of his friend (who later tries to get his revenge) and decides he's better off killing people instead.

* [[Affably Evil]]

* [[Anti-Hero]]: Type V

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Has never killed women or children. When MakubeX uses [[Mind Control]] on a bunch of kids against him, he merely puts them to sleep (Himiko was pleasantly surprised). He also puts himself in harm's way to protect Hevn. When you really think about it, his victims are almost exclusively those who don't know what they're getting themselves into by taking him on.

* [[Giggling Villain]]: Though he's not really a "villain", per se.

* {{spoiler|[[Karma Houdini]]}}: Manga only

* [[Knife Nut]]

* [[Psycho for Hire]]

* [[Slasher Smile]]: In the anime. In the manga he tends to smile "normally"...and freak people out all the same.

* {{spoiler|[[Your Mind Makes It Real]]}}: Manga only. {{spoiler|Part of his power is being able to negate enemy powers by simply stating that he can't imagine those powers being true. In addition, he has seemingly come back from the dead simply because he can't imagine himself being dead.}}

 

== Kazuki Fuuchoin ==

Well-read, formerly one of the Four Kings of the VOLTS and really, really girly-looking--qualifies for [[She's a Man In Japan]], [[Viewer Gender Confusion]], [[Dude Looks Like a Lady]] ''and'' [[Dropped a Bridget On Him]]. Oddly charismatic and naive when it comes to his personal relationships. Fights with koto strings. Nicknamed "Kazuki of the Strings" and "The Terrifying Prince." Has a tragic past.

* [[Bishonen]]

* [[Dropped a Bridget On Him]] (Kazuki being the Bridget)

** Played with in the canon, since his childhood friend Juubei thought he was a girl when they first met.

* [[Dude Looks Like a Lady]] (The reason why)

* [[Four Is Death]]

* {{spoiler|[[Super-Powered Evil Side]]}}: Manga only

* [[Evil Costume Switch]], [[Mind Control Eyes]], [[Slasher Smile]] (While in his Orpheus persona.)

* [[The Artifact]] (Yup, him, too. Again, the one chance the anime ''was'' given to go into Kazuki's past and motivations was omitted. For once, an effort was made to pluck an aspect of his past from the manga (Toshiki) and transplant it into the anime's final arc, but it was mostly a distraction to the actual story going on, and Kazuki's actual participation was minimal, at best.)

* [[I Have the High Ground]] (Kazuki likes this trope. He pulls it on Ban and Shido while they're on a ''rooftop''.)

* [[Razor Floss]]

* [[Rapunzel Hair]]

 

== Shido Fuyuki ==

Another of the VOLTS' Four Kings, Shido hates Ban and loves Madoka. Used to be a [[Loners Are Freaks|bloodthirsty loner]], but love and Ginji made him change, so now he works as a retriever. Being from an (fictional) aboriginal tribe, Shido gets to use all their cool abilities, such as talking to animals. Nicknamed "Beastmaster."

 

There is a ancient feud between his [[Speaks Fluent Animal|animal-whisperer tribe]] and the one that controls insects, the Kiryuudo - the insect ones managed to kill off a vast majority of Shido's tribe. After the slaughter, he goes to the Infinite Fortress.

* [[The Artifact]] (He becomes this in the anime's final arc, as there really isn't anything for him to ''do'', especially since he was probably the character most often used in filler episodes. Unlike Himiko, though, he was at least associated with the characters driving the arc.)

* [[Speaks Fluent Animal]], [[The Beast Master]] and [[Friend to All Living Things]] (Animals love this guy)

* [[Ineffectual Loner]] (His back story is basically this, with Amon, Emishi and Ginji all making breakthroughs to him, but Madoka really sealed the deal. It's weird, as he averts it at the same time: with his animals, he's never alone.)

* [[Not Good with People]]

* [[Pose of Supplication]] (When Madoka is kidnapped and he needs Ban's help to get her back)

* [[Relationship Upgrade]] (The very beginning of the Eternal Bond arc. Madoka finally says "I love you," and Shido reciprocates. Not that we didn't see it coming a mile off, of course.)

 

== Hevn ==

* [[The Chick]]

* [[Creepy Cool Crosses]] (Manga-only; she wears a single, dangling cross earring.)

* [[Cool Big Sis]]

* [[Cat Fight]] (Only verbally, with Himiko)

* [[Hot Scientist]] (Was one, in her backstory)

* [[The Load]] (Not her fault, and she ''does'' try to help if she can. But being a non-combatant ''still'' means that people in her group had to look after her whenever there are fights)

* [[Ms. Fanservice]]

* [[Rio Natsuki]]

 

== Makubex ==

The third and youngest of the Four Kings. Another incredibly intelligent and well-read character, Makubex ends up as the de facto ruler of Mugenjou and spends his free time trying to figure out what the hell is going on there. {{spoiler|Makubex may or may not exist, and that makes him a bit crazy early on.}}

* [[The Cracker]]

* [[Four Is Death]]

* [[Teen Genius]]

* [[Tomato in the Mirror]]: {{spoiler|A major point of the IL arc is him coming to terms with the fact that he's essentially a hologram who can never leave the Infinite Fortress.}}

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]

 

== Kyouji Kagami ==

* [[Affably Evil]]

* [[A God I Am]]: {{spoiler|Basically declares that he is the embodiment of Mugenjou in the final arc.}}

 

== The Miroku 7 ==

The childhood friend(s) of Ban. They're really seven siblings in one body; the first one seems to have been Natsuhiko. The others include Hikage, Ukyou, Tsubaki, Tokisada, Yukihiko, and lone female Kirara. When they switch, their appearance changes slightly. They were led to believe that Ban killed their sister Eris, which made them become out for his blood. {{spoiler|He did, but in self-defense; she was being controlled by the Black Strings at the time.}}

 

 

The image is of Natsuhiko Miroku.

* [[Ax Crazy]] (Ukyou)

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]] (Yukihiko is easily the most dangerous.)

* [[Dead Little Sister|Dead Older Sister]]

* [[Eyes Always Shut]] (Hikage, but mainly because he's blind)

* [[Split Personality]]

 

== Maria Noches ==

Witch who studied under Ban's grandmother and ended up partially raising him. 99 years old, but doesn't look it!

* [[Fan Service]]

* [[Mentors]]

 

== Juubei Kakei ==

* [[Bodyguard Crush]] ([[Fanon]]'s general opinion of his relationship with Kazuki. Considering their interactions... well, can't really blame the [[Estrogen Brigade]].)

* [[Estrogen Brigade Bait]] (Hair in his eyes, great physique, [[Ho Yay]]-tastic devotion to his best friend and a damn [[Takehito Koyasu|sexy voice]]...)

* [[Mask Power]]

 

== Haruki Emishi ==

* [[Boke and Tsukkomi Routine]] (Pulls a couple of these with Amon. It is awesome.)

* [[But Not Too Foreign]] (Is implied to be a descendant of Luolan, which was once a kingdom in West China.)

* [[Cool Shades]] (Both used and subverted. His pink sunglasses either increase his goofiness in lighthearted scenes or dehumanize him when he's justifying the nickname "Fresh Blood Joker.")

* [[High-Pressure Blood]] (high-pressure ''explosive'' blood.)

* [[The Idiot From Osaka]]

* [[Manly Tears]]

* [[Whip It Good]]

 

== Sakura Kakei ==

* [[Morality Pet]] (The only time Makubex loses his composure while acting as the arc's [[Big Bad]] is when she gets hurt.)

* [[Older Sidekick]] (She's 23 to Makubex's 14, and is just as loyal and devoted to him as her brother is to Kazuki.)

* [[Ship Tease]] (She surprise-hugs Makubex sometimes, and she's quite pleased when Emishi brings her flowers.)

 

== Paul Wan ==

Owner of the Honky Tonk where Ban and Ginji are running up the tab of a lifetime. After them, he suffers the most when they can't pay their bills. Another one of those characters who ''knows things''.

 

 

He unintentionally gave Ban's father the name for his child; as a baby Ban punched Paul in the face, who called him a barbarian (''yuban'' in Japanese). For some reason, his father thought this would make a good name.

* [[Blind Without'Em]]: Inverted. Paul's sunglasses actually cut off his sight entirely, enabling him to focus on honing his "sixth sense," as a way to compensate for his old age.

* [[Blow You Away]]: His nickname before he retired was the ''Gale Emperor''. In fact, he's so badass that he can create a vacuum that slices people to pieces just by walking past them at an insanely high speed.

* [[Opaque Lenses]]

 

== Clayman ==

* [[Gentleman Thief]] (Despite being a girl.)

* [[No Name Given]]

* [[Samus Is a Girl]]

* [[Willing Channeler]]: {{spoiler|Her mother was one, allowing for Van Gogh to take her body and finish his Sunflower painting series centuries after his suicide.}}

 

== Gouzou Maguruma ==

 

== Ryudou Hishiki ==

* [[Badass]] (In a more explicit way than Akabane. In his third appearance in the Manga, he chases after the Ban and Ginji at over a hundred miles an hour while tossing police cars out of the way like bowling pins, all while pedaling away on a lady's bicycle!)

* [[The Brute]]

 

== Takuma Fudou ==

A former thief, and of all the people who actively want to kill Ban, he's the most [[Stalker with a Crush|deranged and obsessed]]. Yes, that includes Akabane. Nicknamed "The Enlightened," for his ability to see several seconds into the future.

* [[Ax Crazy]]

* [[Disproportionate Retribution]] (His plans for revenge against Ban can definitely be seen as this - ripping the boy apart, "killing him over and over and over," slurping up his blood, violently murdering anyone that Ban pays attention to or likes, etc. Especially since he managed to get a perfectly fine replacement for his arm that works just as well as his old one.)

* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]] (''Anything'' he says to Ban. Screaming at Ban to "meet his throbbing desires," "give his body to him," "quench his thirst"... yeeaah.)

* [[Green-Eyed Monster]] (If his confession to Ginji during the ''Birth'' Arc is any indication, he's most definitely ''very'' jealous of anyone who Ban likes.)

* [[Murder the Hypotenuse]] (His obsession with Ban actually gets to the point where he decides to do this to Ginji. Because Ban's eyes were only on Ginji and not on him.)

* [[Oral Fixation Fixation]] (He has a habit of licking his lips when he gets excited. Which means every time he fights with Ban.)

* [[Perma-Stubble]]

* [[Psychic Powers]] (Brief clairvoyance that allows him to see seconds into the future.)

* [[Say My Name]] ('''MIDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUU!!!!!''')

 

== Gen Radou ==

Old guy who raised Makubex (and Ren) and introduced him to computers, and the architect of Babylon Tower. Has mysterious connections to the Brain Trust, so he probably ''knows things.''

 

The last of the Four Kings, who spends most of his time sitting around and making cryptic remarks as he spies on people. Also ''knows things.'' Fights with light.

* [[Four Is Death]]

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

 

== Toshiki Uryuu ==

Formerly one of Kazuki's friends and followers, he left because he thought Kazuki was too good for Ginji. Fights with his qi/chi/ki/what-have-you. Nicknamed "The Hell Knight."

* [[Intimate Healing]] (Which makes him the only person in-series to kiss Ban.)

* [[Last-Name Basis]] (Kazuki is pretty much the only character who ever calls him by his given name, and in the manga, he seems to save it for particularly emotional moments.)

* [[More Than Mind Control]]

* [[Satellite Character]] (Would probably be pretty boring if not for his relationships with Kazuki and Juubei)

 

== Natsumi Mizuki ==

* [[A Day in the Limelight]] (Her manga only backstory arc aside, Natsumi gets an entire episode in the anime where she takes on a job in place of Ban and Ginji while they're on "vacation.")

* [[Genki Girl]]

* [[Neutral Female]]

* [[Parental Abandonment]] (In the anime, her mom is in the hospital and her dad isn't really mentioned. In the manga, both of her parents are dead and she lives with her dog, Lucky.)

 

== Madoka Otowa ==

* [[Disabled Love Interest]]

* [[Genius Cripple]] (Despite her blindness, she can play the violin ''beautifully'' and distinguish her Stradivarious from others just by hearing its sound)

* [[Groin Attack]] (on ''[[The Brute|Hishiki]]'', no less!)

* [[Friend to All Living Things]] (There's a scene in the Eternal Bond arc where Shido realizes that Madoka has picked up the ability to understand animals. One of the things he hates about humans is that they don't take the time to listen animals. ''[[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|Awwwww!]]'')

* [[Grand Theft Me]] (Kabuto wants Madoka's body. No, this is not supposed to invoke [[Naruto]].)

* [[Plucky Girl]]

* [[The Ojou]] (Has one scaringly HUGE [[Big Fancy House]])

* [[Yuki Matsuoka]]

 

== Rena Sendou ==

* [[Broken Bird]] at first, later portrayed as a [[Wide-Eyed Idealist]] for no real reason (except so Ban and Ginji would see how brokenhearted she was when her trust didn't pay off).

* [[Good Is Dumb]] (Remiel, the evil!Rena, could trap people's souls inside her dolls, and in fact did just that to the men who molested her. Good!Rena... believes shady street hustlers who say they are selling incredibly expensive mushrooms for half the price.)

* [[Neutral Female]]

* [[Rape as Backstory]]

 

== Ren Radou ==

Cute little tomboy who has a cute little crush on Kazuki.

* [[Bokukko]]

* [[Tomato in the Mirror]]

 

== Dr. Amano ==

A manga-only character, she's Ginji's 'mother'. It's complicated.

 

* [[A God Am I]] (An interesting take on the trope. {{spoiler|When the dimension containing Mugenjou began growing on its own, beyond the control of her team, she had plans to "format" the dimension like a hard drive. Thanks to Ginji, she put away those plans.}})

* [[Cloning Blues]] (Averted, due to her being [[Genre Savvy]]. {{spoiler|When her son died, although it is possible to create a clone to replace him, she knew that the clone would never be a true son to her. Hence, she created an [[Alternate Universe]] version of him, who we know as Ginji.}})

 

== The Specialist ==

 

Her real name is ('''massive''' spoiler) {{spoiler|Makube}}.

* [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]]

 

== The Voodoo King ==

Basically the final boss of the series, the Voodoo King is one of the Voodoo children who possesses not one, not two ''[[Serial Escalatio|but three !!!]] stigmas (yes he has three eyes). He controls one of the major factions on the Belt Line and is unquestionably one of the most powerful, if not ''the'' most powerful characters in the series.

* [[Big Bad]]: He and Kagami ultimately compete for this position in the final arc.

* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: Clearly cements his badass credentials by crushing the entirety of Fuuga and the Shiki clan (granted without their respective leaders) as well as Emishi and Takeru with one shot.

* [[Evil Counterpart]]: To the Raitei...yes that's right, the Raitei has an ''evil'' counterpart!