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The major characters from the first series/season.

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Magic Knights

Hikaru Shidou

Voiced by: Hekiru Shiina (Japanese), Julie Maddalena (English, TV series), Tara Jayne (English, OVA)

The pint-sized but hard-willed Red Headed Heroine. Hikaru is cheery and excitable, but surprisingly shows a lot of wisdom and is probably the most mature of the team. She gets chosen as the Magic Knight of Fire and her Rune God is Rayearth. Of the three girls, she is the one who embraces the mantle of Magic Knight the most eagerly and is usually the first person to wade into their battles with the creatures of Cephiro and Zagato's servants.

She is the one who is most crushed when she killed Emeraude, leaving a lot of guilt that forms up into a being called Nova in the anime. She later gets picked as the new Pillar of Cephiro, thereby granting her godlike power, but relinquishes it immediately so the power of the land can belong to the people living there.

Fire symbolizes energy, passion and will. Hikaru has all of these in spades.

She doesn't think much about love, but managed to garner the interest of both Lantis and Eagle. When asked why (in the manga), she just states she loves both of them equally and will marry both. How far this goes is under debate by the fandom.

Tropes associated with Hikaru:

• A God Am I: Immediately relinquished when she gets the power and gives it to everyone in Cephiro, so the Pillar system disappears.
• Badass Adorable: While Umi and Fuu may qualify as well, Hikaru takes the cake.
• Big Brother Instinct: Not her. But she has three big brothers, two of them have this.
• Bokukko: She's said to be cute... in a boyish way. Fuu asks her why she speaks like a boy during one of the manga omakes.
• Determinator: Defies the physical laws set by the Creator to rescue Eagle after he is not chosen as Pillar.
• Elemental Hair
• Elemental Shapeshifter: Her body and hair looked as though they had turned into fire when she was chosen as the Pillar.
• Even the Girls Want Her: Very popular in her all-girls school, although the Dark Horse re-release translates it as her classmates making fun of her rather than actually having affection. And then there's Nova...
  • In the Spanish language dub, Eagle is female. Les Yay, anyone?
• Genki Girl
• Heir to the Dojo: Sort of. Her family runs a Kendo dojo.
• Hollywood Tone Deaf: Her seiyuu Hekiru Shiina has a singing career. Singing, however, is Hikaru's worst subject.
• Honor Before Reason: Her insistance that she fight Lafarga without magic because he's a swordsman, even though he's dominating the fight.
• Hot-Blooded
• Jumped At the Call: The only one of the three who doesn't worry about her other obligations when Clef tells them that they're Magic Knights.
• Love You and Everybody: What she says to Lantis and Eagle at the end of the manga.
• Martyr Without a Cause: Umi complains that she can never trust Hikaru when she says "I'm okay."
• The Messiah: Particularly in the second half, when she frequently remarks on Eagle's "sad eyes."
• No Indoor Voice: Hilariously played in one of the crowning moments of funny the anime.
• Playing with Fire
• Plucky Girl: Boy, is she ever.
• Rapunzel Hair: Her hair reaches her thighs when she lets it out of her braid.
• Red Oni: As if the hair didn't tip you off,she's the Red Oni to Fuu's Blue and to a lesser extent (ironically) Umi's.
• Redheaded Heroine
• Shock and Awe: She has one lighting spell...
• Wise Beyond Their Years: Despite her youthfulness, she's the closest thing the Magic Knights have to a leader. And she figures out a way to reinvent the Pillar System without destroying Cephiro.

Umi Ryuuzaki

Voiced by: Konami Yoshida (Japanese), Wendee Lee (English, TV Series), Amy Birnbaum (English, OVA)

The tallest of the girls, coming from a rich family and attends a private school for rich girls. Umi at first is the least willing to do her job, and comes off very snobbish and uncaring about Cephiro's problems. However, amongst the girls, she can be seen as the most developed out of them, as the situation completely demands her to really mature up, and she really did, becoming a much more admirable character. She's also pretty handy with a rapier, being in the fencing team of the school. She is the Magic Knight of Water and her Rune God is Seles. Seems a bit obsessed on eating Mokona, who annoys her greatly.

Water symbolizes emotion, and Umi is the most temperamental of the Magic Knights. It also symbolizes cleansing and rebirth, and Umi's role in Ascot's heel-face turn hints at this.

She doesn't have much romance going on either, but she is quite fond of Clef. Ascot also shows feelings towards her, but it's not known whether she returns his feelings.

Tropes associated with Umi:

• Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: They're Sickeningly Sweethearts.
• An Ice Person: Her strongest spell is ice-based.
• Armor-Piercing Slap: Gives one to Ascot.
• Blue Eyes
• Curtains Match the Window
• Defrosting Ice Queen: She starts out as a Spoiled Brat who just wants to go home, and chews Clef out when he makes his first appearance. Her later reaction to him...
  • She also plays a big part in getting Ascot to perform a Heel Face Turn. This works so well that by the second manga, he aged up because he developed a staggeringly-obvious crush on her.)
• Does This Make Me Look Fat?: In the anime, Umi openly says this when the Chizeta princesses capture her and doll her up in a Stripperiffic odalisque outfit that bares her midriff.
• Elemental Hair
• Hey, It's That Voice!: For the Japanese, Konami Yoshida. For the English, Wendee Lee. Yes. THAT WENDEE LEE.
• Hime Cut
• Hyperspace Arsenal: In humor times, she can whip out a hammer in attempt to smack Mokona around.
• Kirk Summation: She gives one to Ascot when he grieves over his summoned monsters, pointing out that he's the one who sent them into battle in the first place and chastising him for siding with Zagato instead of trying harder to protect them. It works.
• Lady of War
• Making a Splash: The majority of her spells involve liquid water.
• Name's the Same: No, Umi. You don't have a long lost brother who rides a Mo Cap Mecha.
  • Nor is she Madame Butterfly.
• The Ojou: Type II.
• Proper Tights with a Skirt
• Rapunzel Hair
• Rich Bitch: At first. Completely drops it later.
• Royal Rapier: The form her sword takes, owing to her being captain of the fencing team at school.
• Tall, Dark and Bishoujo: The tallest of the girls, long hair, but not so dark hair. The OVA darkens her hair.
• Tsurime Eyes
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair
• Zettai Ryouiki: With Thigh-High Boots rather than socks or stockings.

Fuu Hououji

Voiced by: Hiroko Kasahara (Japanese), Bridget Hoffman (English, TV Series), Lisa Ortiz (English, OVA)

The resident bookworm of the trio. She attends a school for intellectually gifted girls. Fuu is polite to a fault, adding suffixes to EVERYONE she meets. Despite that, her analytical skills are formidable. She also likes RPGs. She's always seen with her glasses, and only unequips it when she is riding her Rune God. She is a member of archery club and for the earlier part, uses a bow and arrow before switching to a BFS. She is selected as the Magic Knight of Wind, and her Rune God is Windam.

Air symbolizes intellect and communication. Fuu is the most intellectual of the Magic Knights, and she always speaks with precision.

She's also the only character involved in a real romance, with Ferio.

• Adaptation Dye Job: She's blonde in the manga but has light brown hair in the anime and OVA.
• The Archer: Initially. Later drops it for the sword, although she gets to show off her archery skills again in the second season of the anime.
  • The Sega game retains her archery, with an Escudo bow rather than a sword.
• Ascended Fangirl (See Otaku)
• BFS: While the other Escudo swords develop more ornate hilts as they evolve, Fuu's just gets bigger and bigger--by the time they're ready to face Zagato, it's a good foot taller than she is long.
• Blow You Away: Her magic.
• Captain Obvious: Sometimes on purpose.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Very, very mild example. Every so often she will come to extremely bizarre conclusions. Or try to reassure her friends that they shouldn't worry about falling from the stratosphere because they will black out before they hit the ground.
• Elemental Hair
• Genre Savvy: Hoo boy, is she ever. Lampshaded in the games, and BLATANTLY admitted in the anime.
  • Wrong Genre Savvy: About Emeraude's true situation.
• Meganekko
• The Medic: Her green winds can also heal injuries.
• Official Couple: Her and Ferio, pretty much the most canon and obvious in the show. The games try to dial this down slightly, but it's still very obvious.
• Otaku: In the first volume, she is constantly pointing out the ways their adventure is similar to a fantasy RPG. (Or dismayed when they clearly have not leveled up enough to take on Alcyone, who appears right after they meet Clef.)
• The Smart Girl: She's very good at devising new spells for the situation and thinks her way out of Caldina's enchantment, with a hint from Windam.
  • The Strategist
• Teen Genius: She attends a school for gifted students and studies computer programming.
• Unwanted Rescue: When Ferio breaks her out of the Dreamchild in the anime, Fuu objects to the risk he took. And it's true that she probably didn't need it--like Hikaru and Umi, she could have broken out with Windam's help.
• Zettai Ryouiki

Cephiro

Clef

Voiced by: Nozomu Sasaki (Japanese), Steve Cannon (English, TV Series), Immy Uncle (English, OVA)

Clef is Cephiro's Guru, the most powerful magician in the land. He is one of Emeraude's most trusted advisers and was sent by her to guide the Magic Knights upon their arrival in Cephiro. Even though he is quite venerable and powerful, he's rather tetchy towards the Magic Knights when they first arrive.

• The Atoner: In the second half. He blames himself for letting the situation with Emeraude get as bad as it did, as well as for the heartbreak the Magic Knights suffered.
• Berserk Button: Assuming that he's a child and otherwise making cracks about his height.
  • He even leans over another panel in a scene he's nowhere near when Umi calls him short.
• Cutesy Dwarf: But don't tell him that.
• Metaphorically True: Everything he says about the Magic Knight legend at the beginning. He's well aware of what they're really supposed to do, but he masks it by talking about Zagato instead.
  • In the Dark Horse retranslation, this becomes an outright lie; he tells them that defeating Zagato will "restore Emeraude's rule."
• Nozomu Sasaki
• The Obi-Wan
• Older Than They Look: Go on, tell me he DIDN'T look ten when you first saw him.
  • Really Seven Hundred Years Old: 745, actually.
• Oracular Urchin
• Spirit Advisor: In Part 1, he's separated from the girls early on and communicates through Mokona.
• Taken for Granite: In the anime, he's petrified by Alcyone. He's still able to communicate for some time before he's fully turned to stone, and gets better for the second half.
• White-Haired Pretty Boy

Presea

Voiced by: Emi Shinohara (Japanese), Jane Alan (English)

Presea is the Pharle, a title bestowed on the master blacksmith of Cephiro. She is the first person that the Magic Knights are sent to visit, as she possesses an impressive armory and can craft weapons especially for them. Although her smithing skills are unquestionable, she is... a little odd.

• Bunny Ears Lawyer: She might be skilled, but she is prone to overreactions to trespassing and seems to love daydreaming bizarre methods of punishment.
• Cool and Unusual Punishment: She has a lot of fun dreaming up ways to take revenge on Mokona and tresspassers, such as cooking them alive or seeing how far their ears will stretch.
• Cool Big Sis: To the Magic Knights.
• Emi Shinohara
• Mr. Fixit
• Sacrificial Lamb: In the anime only.
• Schrödinger's Cast
• The Blacksmith
  • Ultimate Blacksmith: This is what the Pharle of Cephiro is. She's the only one who's able to craft weapons from Escudo.
• Wrench Wench: The closest equivalent in a medieval land.

Mokona

Voiced by: Yuri Shiratori (All versions)

A small animal entrusted to the Magic Knights by Presea. He serves as a guide to them on their journey, as well as a supplier and a communication channel to Clef. It's unclear what he is, but Clef calls him a "sacred creature" of Cephiro.

In the manga, he eventually reveals himself to be the Creator of Cephiro, Earth, and the other nations trying to seize Cephiro. He created the Pillar System after his disappointment with the mess that became of Earth, but Hikaru convinces him that there's a middle path between chaos and putting it all on one person's shoulders.

In the anime, he reveals himself to be... nothing at all. He's just a big marshmallow.

• Author Avatar
• Bag of Holding: Kind of. He can conjure anything from his forehead jewel, from a well-furnished tent to a flying platform to food. Which makes a lot of sense in the manga when it's revealed that he created everything.
• But Now I Must Go: At the end of the manga.
• Cat Smile
• Eyes Always Shut
• God Was My Co-Pilot: In the manga, Mokona is revealed to be the Creator of Cephiro, Earth, and the Three Countries.
• King of All Cosmos: Again, manga version only.
• Non-Human Sidekick
• Power Gives You Wings: He sprouts angelic-looking wings when he reveals his true identity.
• Ridiculously Cute Critter
• Series Mascot
• Team Pet
• The Unintelligible: All he ever says is "Puu!" (Fortunately, Hikaru seems able to understand him.)

Ferio

Voiced by: Takumi Yamazaki (Japanese), Terry Roberts (English, TV Series), Jim Esnz (English, OVA)

A swordsman that the Magic Knights encounter in the Forest of Silence. He has a smart-aleck attitude, but he teams up with them temporarily to navigate the monster-ridden forest. He claims to be looking for the Spring of Eterna like they are so that he can become a Magic Knight Himself. He takes a particular shine to Fuu and makes a point of flirting with her.

He's actually Emeraude's younger brother, which makes him the Prince. After Emeraude's death, he steps back into this role to try and help his ailing country.

• Brainwashed and Crazy: Alcyone does this to him and orders him to kill Fuu in the Saturn game.
• Dude in Distress: In the anime, he's captured by Innouva and Fuu has to free him.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: Has a very prominent one on his nose bridge, and an x-shaped one on his left cheek.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold
  • Jerkass Facade: Puts on one of these temporarily, in the anime.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: He doesn't remember he is Emeraude's brother in the first season of the anime, since she deleted his memories of their time together. Subverted: he asked her to do so.
• Licked by the Dog: Mokona takes to him straight away. It's double-subverted--Umi and Fuu warn Hikaru that this alone isn't a good indicator of Ferio's character, but he does turn out to be a good guy. And it's really more of Licked By The God.
• Ferio I Am Your Sister: Ferio, Emeraude is your dead older sister.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: Sets off to find the Spring of Eterna to see if he can find some Escudo for himself.
• Takumi Yamazaki
• The White Prince: In the second half of the story, with a white outfit to boot.
• Troubled but Cute: He isn't happy about the situation his sister is in at all.

Lafarga

Lafarga is the Captain of Emeraude's personal guard, a position he took up after Lantis left Cephiro. He is Cephiro's most skilled swordsman. Even though he doesn't use any magic, he's still a deadly foe when Zagato hypnotizes him and sends him to stop the Magic Knights from acquiring the final Mashin.

After being burned by Hikaru's sword, he snaps out of his brainwashing. He returns in the second season as his normal self, still determined to protect Cephiro.

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• Badass Normal: Knows no magic, but can still kick lots of asses with just his sword.
• BFS
• Brainwashed and Crazy: First season. Although technically he is protecting Emeraude by trying to kill the Magic Knights.
  • Gentle Giant: Once he's de-brainwashed.
• Dark-Skinned Blond
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: With Caldina.
• Official Couple: With Caldina, in the anime. Jossed in the games, where he is totally aloof and solely concentrated on his knightly duty.
• The Undefeated: He defeats Hikaru in their fight. But when he tries to pick up her fallen sword to finish her off, it turns into fire and the pain jolts him back to his senses.
• Worthy Opponent: Hikaru considers him to be this.

Princess Emeraude

From the anime and OVA

Voiced by: Megumi Ogata (Japanese, Playing Against Type, and how), Wendee Lee (English TV series)

Emeraude is the Pillar of Cephiro. Her will and heart are the strongest in the land, and she is tasked with praying to keep the world peaceful and free of invaders. If she can't devote herself fully to her prayers, monsters and natural disasters spring up. This is exactly what happens when Zagato abducts her, and she summons the Magic Knights from another world to save Cephiro.

Except that last sentence isn't quite true. What actually happened was that Emeraude fell in love with Zagato, dividing her heart and compromising her duty. She entered the Water Dungeon in an effort to forget about him, but when this failed she summoned the Magic Knights to kill her before she could harm Cephiro any further. Zagato joined her to try and dissuade her and to protect her from them.

• Barrier Maiden: As the Pillar. She prevents both internal strife and shields Cephiro from its neighbors.
• Betty and Veronica: She's the Betty to Alcyone's Veronica towards Zagato.
• Broken Bird
• Died Happily Ever After : At the end of season 1, she is finally with Zagato, happily forever and ever.
• Damsel in Distress: Subverted. She entered the dungeon she's "imprisoned" in by herself. Zagato is there because of his love for her; they spend most of their time trying to persuade the other to stop what they're doing.
• Everything's Better with Princesses: Emeraude's position is the protector of Cephiro, but she's called a princess anyway.
• Evil Me Scares Me: She's terrified of what she'll become if she gives in to her feelings for Zagato--for very good reason, as it turns out.
• Hair of Gold
• Go Out with a Smile
• I Cannot Self-Terminate What she truly wanted to ask the Knights for.
• Lady and Knight: with Zagato.
• Love Makes You Evil: Poor Emeraude loses it when Zagato dies despite all of her efforts, this giving birth to her Broken Bird-like Super-Powered Evil Side.
• Older Than They Look: Looks like a pre-teen girl despite being already an adult, and nearly as old as Clef to boot.
• One-Winged Angel: When Zagato is killed, she takes the form of an adult woman and creates a Mashin of her own.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: When Zagato dies, she loses it.
• True Final Boss
• Tender Tears: She's weeping in most of her appearances thanks to her screwed-up destiny.

Sierra

Sierra appears in the second season of the anime. She is Presea's twin sister, and in addition to appearance shares her skill in smithing. During the second season, she masquerades as her sister at Clef's request, making up a story that Presea was revived with Emeraude's last wish so that the girls aren't shattered any more than they already are. Although she is genuinely fond of them, the prolonged masquerade takes a toll on her.

• Becoming the Mask: She's not happy about this, especially when she realizes that she's in love with Clef just like Presea was.
• The Blacksmith: An excellent one, although not as good as her sister.
• Canon Foreigner: Since Presea was dead in the anime but alive in the manga, there was quite the case of Schrödinger's Cast.
• Angsty Surviving Twin and Backup Twin: She has to lie for the whole second season, not acknowledging her grief for her sister while pretending to be her with the Magic Knights.
• Broken Bird: Having to take her twin sister's place in every sense is not the best for her self-esteem.
• Cool Big Sis
• Hot Amazon
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: One on her right breast. The only difference between Presea and her.
• The Un-Reveal: The girls never find out who she really is.
• Wrench Wench: Presea creates weapons, Sierra mantains and repairs them.

Lantis

Voiced by: Jurota Kosugi (Japanese)

Lantis appears in the second half of the story, when the Magic Knights return to Cephiro. He is Cephiro's only Cail (a swordsman who excels at magic) and the former captain of Princess Emeraude's personal guard. He left the country before the events of the first half, and is under a cloud of suspicion for being Zagato's brother and living in Autozam before his return. He doesn't say much about the real reason he's back, either.

His intention is to end Cephiro's Pillar System, so that the tragedy of Zagato, Emeraude, and the Magic Knights is never repeated.

• Aloof Ally: He doesn't bother arguing against the suspicion around him and just does his thing.
• Badass
• Bullying a Dragon: He threatens to kill Mokona the Creator if it doesn't release Hikaru and Eagle.
• Cool Horse: A summoned one with a fiery mane.
  • Hellish Horse
• Dead Older Brother: Zagato.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Just because his older brother was a seen this way does not necessarily apply to him, and is even explicitly pointed out.
  • Pet the Dog: As a result, he openly admits he was sympathetic to said older brother, but didn't condone his actions regardless.
• Defector From Decadence: He left his cushy job as Cail to travel other worlds after Zagato starts to question the Pillar system.
• Irony: The Creator informs him that his heart is the strongest in all of Cephrio, making him a perfect candidate to be the Pillar himself. Hikaru and Eagle have stronger hearts, so he doesn't undergo the trial. But still.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: With either Hikaru or Primera.
• Magic Knight: Not one of the Magic Knights, obviously. His title of Cail is granted only to those who master both swordsmanship and magic.
• The Mole: Lafarga suspects him of being this for Autozam, as he spent some time there. But he isn't.
• Professional Slacker: When he was Cail, he spent a lot of the day napping in trees. However, he genuinely didn't have a lot to do because Emeraude's prayers kept dangers from arising.
• Tall, Dark and Snarky
• The Stoic: Doesn't talk much, probably as a result of recently losing his brother. Flashbacks show him as more friendly.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: He wants to destroy the Pillar System, regardless of the consequences for Cephiro.

Primera

Voiced by: Yuri Shiratori (Japanese)

• Butt Monkey
• Clingy Jealous Girl
• Fairy Companion: to Lantis
• Healing Hands: Can heal wounds with her wing magical powder.
• Huge Guy, Itsy-Bitsy-Teeny-Tiny Girl with Lantis.
• I Owe You My Life: She's devoted to Lantis because he saved her from being trapped in rubble.
• Odango
• Running Gag: Mokona almost always tries to eat her.
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Autozam

Eagle Vision

Voiced by: Megumi Ogata (Japanese)

The son of Autozam's president and commander of the battleship sent to Cephrio in Part II. He's also the pilot of the FTO. Eagle grew very close to Lantis when the latter settled in Autozam and is deeply regretful of their present emnity, but he doesn't turn back. He's also one of the most dangerous opponents for the Magic Knights and the other invaders. The reason he gives for invasion is that Autozam needs something like the Pillar System to cleanse the rampant pollution that is slowly killing his world.

In the manga, this is a lie. Eagle's true intentions are to succumb to his impending comatose state after he becomes the Pillar, relocate Cephiro's population, and put the land into an eternal slumber. All of this is to fulfill Lantis' wish to end the Pillar System.

• Ace Pilot: He comes out on top when his FTO fights solo against the three Magic Knights for the first time.
• Anti-Villain: He wants to bring the Pillar system to Autozam to solve their pollution crisis.
  • At least, this is the assumption. In reality, he wants to put Cephiro and himself into an eternal sleep so that the Pillar tragedy will not be repeated, for the sake of Lantis.
• Blood From the Mouth: He has Mysterious Anime Lung Disease in the anime.
• Death by Adaptation: In the anime, he's killed by Debonair.
• Friendly Enemy: He's polite to the Magic Knights, as well as the representatives of Fahren and Chizeta, and bears them no ill-will even while they're battling each other. It's even more apparent in the anime, when Hikaru spends some time in Autozam's ship.
• Ill Boy: Due to his overuse of Autozam's technology, which is powered by mental energy.
• Incurable Cough of Death
• She's a Man In Japan: Eagle Vision is depicted as female in the Latin American dub as a way to avoid Ho Yay with Lantis and Geo Metro. The result is a Romantic Two-Girl Friendship with Hikaru.
• Stepford Smiler: He almost always has a smile on his face, but Hikaru makes note of his sad eyes. Mainly because he's slowly dying on top of fighting his old friend Lantis.
• Warrior President's Kid: He is the Presiden't son, the commander of Autozam's battleship, and an excellent pilot who insists on leading from the front.
• White-Haired Pretty Boy

Geo Metro

Voiced by: Kiyoyuki Yanada (Japanese)

Tropes associated with Geo:

• Ace Pilot: Of the GTO, although he only gets to pilot it in the anime.
• Anger Born of Worry: Towards Eagle, all the damn time.
• Anti-Villain
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: Has an X-shaped scar on his face.
• Hachimaki
• Hot-Blooded
• The Lancer: To Eagle.

Zazu Torque

Voiced by: Junichi Kanemaru (Japanese)

Tropes associated with Zazu:

• Anti-Villain
• The Alcoholic: Likes drinking, but Geo never lets him.
• Cute Shotaro Boy
• Kidanova: He likes pretty girls and flirts with Hikaru in the anime.
• The Mechanic: He's in charge of maintenance for the FTO and GTO.
• Nice Hat
• Shorter Means Smarter

Chizeta

Tarta and Tatra

• Tarta voiced by: Aya Hisakawa (Japanese)
• Tatra voiced by: Kikuko Inoue (Japanese)

Tarta and Tatra are the princesses of Chizeta, a tiny country that neighbors Cephiro. In the second half, they see the leaderless world as a perfect colony for their overpopulated homeland.

• Action Girl: Both of them.
• Anti-Villain: They want to turn Cephrio into a colony to relieve population pressure in their homeland.
• Belly Dancer: They dress like this and, in the anime, they doll up Umi as one.
• Dark-Skinned Redhead: Both of them.
• Genius Ditz: In the anime, Tatra is a big fan of tea and a Cloudcuckoolander. Who also happens to be quite the badass fencer with her Whip Sword.
  • Not to mention that in the manga, she lasted the longest against Eagle when he tried to stop Chizeta and Fahren from getting to Cephiro.
• Hot-Blooded: Tarta.
• Kansai Regional Accent: Both.
• Let's Get Dangerous: Tatra spends most of her time acting spacey and drinking tea, until Umi bests Tarta in a duel in the anime.
• Relationship Voice Actor: This ain't the first time that Aya Hisakawa and Kikuko Inoue play sisters...
• Stripperiffic: Tarta. Later Tatra, when she fights Umi.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: And how.
• Spot of Tea: Tatra constantly offers some to Tarta.
• Summon Magic: The Djinn.
• Unfortunate Names: The Dark Horse translation renders Tarta's name as "Tata," although this is probably more accurate--Tata is the name of an Indian car company.
• Whip Sword: Tatra's weapon.

Fahren

Princess Aska

Voiced by: Chinami Nishimura (Japanese)

The child princess of the nation of Fahren. Unlike Autozam and Chizeta, it's unclear if there's any justifiable reason for them to desire Cephiro... she seems to have ordered the invasion on a whim. Despite her immaturity, she is a powerful magician and a dangerous opponent.

In the anime, she captures Fuu and holds her prisoner on her ship, the Dreamchild. Fuu's polite and respectful demeanor (which is the polar opposite of Aska's) starts making Aska think more seriously about what she's doing and why.

• A Child Shall Lead Them: Technically, Chang Ang is her regent, but she still calls all the shots.
• Character Development: After meeting Fuu personally, Aska begins to question if what she's doing is a good idea.
• Improbable Age: She's less than ten years old and has the authority to command her country's battleship, on top of having incredible magic and willpower for her age.
• It's All About Me: Unlike Autozam and Chizeta, Fahren has no real justification to invade. They only do so because Aska wants it like a toy.
• Noblewoman's Laugh
• The Ojou
• Power Strain Blackout: Not necessarily an inherent risk of her powers--opening a Road and recklessly casting giant drawings does it, though.
• Royal Brat: She wants to become Pillar so she can turn Cephiro into a land of desserts and candy.
• Screw the Rules, I Make Them: In the anime, she says that she'll allow Fuu to leave if she wins an archery contest. When Fuu wins, Aska changes the conditions to fighting an army of ninja. When Fuu defeats them....
• Summon Magic: She's able to bring paper drawings to life.
• Tsundere: to San Yung.

San Yung

Voiced by: Satomi Koorogi (Japanese)

• Blush Sticker
• Cute Shotaro Boy
• Nice Hat
• Subordinate Excuse: He has a crush on Aska.

Chang Ang

• Beleaguered Bureaucrat: Technically he's Aska's regent, but he's completely unable to control her.
• Big Ol' Eyebrows
• Old Retainer
• Team Dad: For both Aska and San Yung.
• Wizard Beard

Villains

Zagato

Voiced by: Jurota Kosugi (Japanese), Lex Lang (English)

The villain of part one. Zagato abducted Princess Emeraude, stopping her prayers for Cephiro and plunging the land into chaos. Although he keeps her locked in the Water Dungeon and sends out his servants to stop the Magic Knights, he doesn't seem to have any interest in actually ruling.

This is because he didn't kidnap Emeraude at all--he's deeply in love with her and is trying to stop her from committing Suicide by Cop by killing the Magic Knights before they get there. Ultimately, all of his efforts fail and he dies in battle against them.

• Anti-Villain: Though he still does not try to explain his true motivation.
  • He does start explaining when the Magic Knights reach his stronghold, but only in-between deadly magic spells.
• Evil Sorceror: His magical power rivals Clef; none of the warriors from Cephiro who have tried to stop him returned.
• Bodyguard Crush: On Emeraude, who loved him back
• Lady and Knight: With Princess Emeraude
• Lack of Empathy: He doesn't even look at Alcyone when she clings to him, dying of her wounds and professes not to care about the fate of Cephiro. He only cares about Emeraude and her happiness.
• Love Makes You Evil: in terms what he actually wanted, subverted heavily, though his actions to achieve sad goal easily qualify.
• Manipulative Bastard: He's aware of Alcyone's affections and uses them to his advantage, and gains Ascot's support by saying that he'll be able to live with his monsters in peace.
• Obviously Evil: A sorcerer in black robes, with Shoulders of Doom, who sends out minions to kill a trio of young girls and abandons them when they fail. It's very easy for the girls to assume that he's a garden-variety RPG villain.
• Only Sane Man: He was the only one who questioned the Pillar System enough to try and do something about it.
• Talking to Himself: Both in the original Japanese and the English dub. Jurota Kosugi and Lex Lang voiced both Zagato and Lantis.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Even before he turned into the Big Bad, Zagato still disagreed heavily with the whole Pillar system, therefore he wanted to tear it down to save his beloved Emeraude from pretty much commiting assisted suicide.
• Would Hurt a Child: He acknowledges that the Magic Knights are children, but doesn't hesitate to send his servants to kill them.

Alcyone

Voiced by: Yuri Amano (Japanese)

A sorceress who is in love with Zagato. She was taught by Clef himself, but she is utterly devoted to Zagato and willing to follow any order he gives. She is the first enemy that the Magic Knights face.

In the manga, she is mortally wounded after fighting them outside the Forest of Silence and dies begging Zagato to save her. In the anime he still rejects her for her failure, but she survives and is used as a puppet by Debonair in the second season.

• Absolute Cleavage
• An Ice Person: Her brand of magic.
• Betty and Veronica: The Veronica compared to Emeraude's Betty.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Season 2 of the anime.
• Broken Bird: In Season 2 of the anime, she's been shattered due to her battles, Zagato's rejection, and her possession by Debonair. She's pitied more than reviled by the other characters.
• Deceptive Disciple: To Clef.
• Faux Affably Evil: She addresses Clef as "dear teacher" and the Magic Knights with mock affection.
• Femme Fatale
  • Femme Fatalons
• Killed Off for Real: In the manga, she is mortally wounded after her second encounter with the Magic Knights and dissolves into the air.
• Love Makes You Evil: It also apparently magnifies Love Makes You Crazy, even wanting to Murder the Hypotenuse in the anime.
• Pointy Ears
• Showgirl Skirt
• Spared by the Adaptation: Zagato rejects her in the anime, but she still survives, and she reappears for season 2.
• Starter Villain: Subverted. She's the first person the Magic Knights face, but she's way too powerful for them to handle because (according to Fuu) they don't have enough "experience points."
• Stripperiffic
• Yandere: Over Zagato.
• You Have Failed Me...: Zagato lets her die in the manga, ignoring her pleas for help as she succumbs to her wounds.
• Zettai Ryouiki

Ascot

Voiced by: Minami Takayama (Japanese)

One of Zagato's servants. Ascot is a young boy, and a Palu--a monster summoner. He's arrogant and self-centered, dismissive of Alcyone and mocking of the Magic Knights. Zagato sends him to the underwater shrine that houses Seles, the first of the Mashin. Despite his brattiness, he does care about the monsters he summons. In the anime, he is sent out much earlier and kills Presea by having his creatures destroy her home.

He is defeated by Umi, who forces him to apologize and tells him he needs to stand up for his animal friends. This causes a Heel Face Turn, and he returns in the second half much taller, having developed a huge crush on her.

• All Love Is Unrequited In love with Umi in the second half, but she doesn't realize it.
• Anger Born of Worry: Towards Umi in the second half.
• The Beast Master
• Blinding Bangs
• Bratty Half-Pint: He's very dismissive of Alcyone's failure and mocks Hikaru and Fuu for falling to his monsters so easily.
• Creepy Child: Before his Heel Face Turn.
• Cute Shotaro Boy
• Dark Is Not Evil: Just because he has fearsome beasts as friends doesn't make him nor them evil.
• Fluffy Tamer: He considers the fearsome monsters he summons to be his friends, which makes it difficult to find a place to live.
• Easily Forgiven: Especially in the anime, when he actually kills Presea.
• He Is All Grown Up: Physically ages himself up between the first and second halves of the story out of his feelings for Umi.
• Hidden Eyes
• Love Redeems
• Nice Hat
• Summon Magic: For which he has the title of Palu.

Caldina

One of the assassins sent by Zagato to kill the Magic Knights. Caldina is a self-possessed dancer from a foreign land, and is far less concerned with Zagato's motivations than getting paid for her work.

She decides that Fuu and her friends are pretty cool, so she leaves them alone after Fuu breaks her enchantments. But she returns to help Cephiro in the second half, in part because she develops feelings for Lafarga.

• Cool Big Sis: Particularly to Ascot in the anime. She takes this role towards the Magic Knights in the second half.
• Dance Battler
• Dark-Skinned Pinkhead
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: With Lafarga.
• Kansai Regional Accent: A trait of Chizetans.
• Master of Illusion: Her favorite tactic is to hypnotize her targets and have them kill each other.
• Official Couple: With Lafarga, in the anime. It's hinted at in the manga, but not explicit..
• Punch Clock Villain: She's in it for the money, and quite happy to leave the Magic Knights alone when Fuu defeats her, since she was only obligated to try and stop them.
• Rose-Haired Girl
• Shipper on Deck: Umi/Ascot fangirl.
• Squishy Wizard: Not very tough in the games, very archetypal mage character.
• Stripperiffic: She's a Shameless Fanservice Girl who is very proud of her "hot bod."
• Woman in Black: In the first half. Becomes a Woman in White as per her Heel Face Turn in Part 2.

Innouva

Voiced by: Ryotaro Okiayu (Japanese)

• Canon Foreigner
• Go Out with a Smile
• I Owe You My Life: It's implied that Innouva was regarded not too highly in Cephiro as a result of his true form. Zagato giving him some measure of dignity and self worth is what motivated Innouva to serve him in the first place.
• Man in White
• Pointy Ears
• Sleep Mode Size: He's a Big Badass Wolf in his normal mode, purposedly took the form of a Bishonen to serve Zagato better and only stops doing so for his last battle.
• Subordinate Excuse
• White-Haired Pretty Boy

Nova

• Canon Foreigner: Anime-only.
• Enemy Without: She is Hikaru's despair and anguish in physical form.
• Expy: Of Iczer-2, from another anime directed by Toshiki Hirano.
• Jerkass Woobie: Being Debonair's daughter and the living embodiment of someone's sorrow is rough, but she does some fairly awful things.
• Miki Ito
• Pointy Ears
• Psycho Lesbian
• Psychopathic Manchild
• Reverse Shrapnel
• Rose-Haired Girl: A rare villainous example.
• Stalker with a Crush
• Yandere: She wants Hikaru all to herself and won't hesitate to kill her friends in order to eliminate all competition.

Debonair

• Abusive Parents: She adopted Nova and calls her daughter, but abandons her late in the story.
• As Long as There Is Evil: Claims that she will never truly die because she came from the fears of Cephiro's people. A reasonable assumption until Hikaru decides to reshape the Pillar System.
• Big Bad: Of season two in the anime.
• Canon Foreigner: She only appears in the anime. In the manga, Cephiro is crumbling away quite capably on its own.
• Evil Laugh: All the time.
• Femme Fatalons: Good grief, they're about a foot long.
• The Heartless: She was born from the fear and despair in Cephiro's inhabitants.
• Nietzsche Wannabe: Her goal is simply the complete destruction of Cephiro.

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