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A listing of characters in ''[[Medaka Box]]''. [[Loads and Loads of Characters|You may wish to go get a drink,]] as due to the infamous [[Genre Shift]], there are effectively three casts -- thecasts—the original cast of the [[Slice of Life]] manga, the cast of the fighting manga, and the cast of the meta [[Deconstruction]] manga.

'''Note''': All names are written in Eastern order, with the family name first.

{{quote| Voiced by: [[Aki Toyosaki]]}}

Medaka is literally better than everybody, no matter how accomplished. The student council president, elected with 98% of the vote, Medaka is one of the mysterious ''abnormals'' -- [[Ultimate Lifeform|genetically perfect human beings]]. In addition to being vastly better than average, this manifests itself in a special power -- shepower—she has the ability to take other people's special power along with their personality and master them instantly, then use them at will. This ability is known as "The End".

{{quote| '''Zenkichi:''' She's so smart she passes right back into stupid.}}

* [[Always Someone Better]]: Medaka plays this role to everyone else. Ultimately [[Deconstructed]], however: She can and does copy any physical ability she sees and any other character's "abnormal" power she comes in contact with. This means she can copy, say, Akune's "superhuman" abnormality, or Maguro's "perfection" abnormality... but she can also absorb and perfect things that '''shouldn't''' be perfected, like {{spoiler|[[Kill 'Em All|an abnormal desire to kill others]], or the abnormal ability to [[Walking Wasteland|cause everything you touch to decay]].}} Thus she is sometimes forced to sit out a fight in favor of someone else on the team, lest she absorb and ''improve'' that one thing from her opponent that she '''shouldn't'''.

* [[Bi the Way]]: She doesn't differentiate between sexes. At all.

* [[Berserk Button]]:

* [[The Berserker]]: Medaka doesn't have a middle ground. Either she is a consumated pacifist and willing to love people equally or she is ready to beat you to an inch of your life and wounds, enemies and buildings be damned.

* [[Cannibalism Superpower]]: Played with. While she doesn't devour her enemies, her Plus "The End" allow her to somewhat copy (by devouring them in a methaphysical plane, apparently) any Plus/Minus and use it to its utmost perfection. Regardless of what kind of Plus/Minus might be.

* [[Cry Cute]]: [http://www.mangareader.net/215-15431-10/medaka-box/chapter-6.html The] [http://www.mangareader.net/215-58350-14/medaka-box/chapter-71.html cutest].

* [[Ineffectual Loner]]: She needs people, in order to be somebody. Anybody. Without people she is... only stats and abilities, very similar to her step-brother Tsurubami, a thing of enormous power, but without purpose, happiness, or orientation. "Live for People Happiness" is her [[Goal in Life]] after all.

* {{spoiler|[[I Just Want to Have Friends]]}}.

* [[Invincible Hero]]: Played with and Deconstructed.

* [[Hyperspace Arsenal]]: Won after the fight against Munakata Kei, even when she didn't face him.

* [[Kuudere]]

* [[Might Makes Right]]: [[What the Hell, Hero?|Called out by]] [[Madden Into Misanthropy|Unzen of all people]].

* [[Ms. Fanservice]]:

{{quote| '''Medaka''': [Lingerie Pose]''What's the point if I can't show my toned body then?''}}

* [[NoblewomansNoblewoman's Laugh]]

* [[No Social Skills]]: She is lucky she is so charismatic.

* [[No Sense of Personal Space]]: None whatsoever.

* [[One Hero, Hold the Weaksauce]]: The protagonist is the only [[Differently -Powered Individual|Abnormal]] who isn't psychopathic by default.

* [[Super Speed Reading]]

* [[Screaming Warrior]]: '''ZENKICHIIIIIIIIIIIII'''.

* [[Tough Love]]: To Zenkichi.

* [[Training Fromfrom Hell]]: The only way she trains.

{{quote| Voiced by: Yuki Ono}}

Medaka's main man and punching bag. He's been with her since both of them were learning to speak, and his enthusiasm has rubbed off on Medaka. Has grown into a bit of a [[Knight in Sour Armor]] due to years of dealing with Medaka and having started to give up hope about her returning his affections; Zenkichi is special because he's perfectly normal,<ref>[[Wild Mass Guessing]] aside, that is</ref>, but able to keep up with Medaka and the other Abnormals in single combat. Maguro refers to it as "Normal-cool."

* [[Adaptation Dye Job]]: The anime makes his hair almost the same colour as Akune's, much more yellow blond than in the manga.

* [[Almighty Janitor]]: Though he is good at helping others and a capable fighter, he is only "General Affairs Manager" within the student council, which is pretty much the lowest rank in the student council.

* [[Anti -Hero]]: {{spoiler|Was actually the one who gave Medaka her reason to live, and though he still protects those ideals, he's not as enthusiastic about it}}

* [[Anti -Magic]]: Zenkichi's new "Devil-style" Skill {{spoiler|nullifies ''[[Plot Armor]]''.}}

* [[Audience Surrogate]]: Being essentially "the ordinary guy who follows the monster", he's bound to have this role. He acts as a straight man for most characters, but isn't completely without his own quirks (see [[Cloudcuckoolander]]).

* {{spoiler|[[Back Fromfrom the Dead]]}}: {{spoiler|He died after being bitten by the vipers while fighting Kumagawa, but then had a conversation with a long-lost schoolmate and returned to life with his eyes restored}}.

* [[Badass Longcoat]]: A school uniform variant when Zenkichi takes parts of the summer and winter uniforms to make his own. In a subversion, [[What Do You Mean ItsIt's Not Awesome?|everyone else thinks it looks stupid.]] And his [[My Beloved Smother|mother]] repairs it, with ''martial arts sewing.''

* [[Berserk Button]]: Mess with his friends or make Medaka cry and he would end you... no [[Taking You Withwith Me|matter]] [[Heroic Sacrifice|what.]]

* [[Boring but Practical]]: His fighting style compared to other characters.

* [[Crazy Prepared]]: He created perfect models of handguns and ''bazookas'' and trained daily on how to dissarm them ''just in case''.

* [[CloudcuckoolandersCloudcuckoolander's Minder]]: The only person that truly understands Medaka.

* [[Dogged Nice Guy]]: Zenkichi has a breakdown in chapter 126 when he realizes he is this in regards to Medaka. He wangsts to himself that he's no better than a [[Stalker Withwith a Crush]] and wants to die from sheer embarassment.

* [[Dude, Where's My Respect?]]: Played with. He starts the series known primarily as Medaka's lapdog, and doesn't get much attention other than that. Gradually, other characters see his good traits, and respect him more.

* [[Freak -Out]]: Has an absurdly over the top one when he finally realizes that {{spoiler|he's in love with Medaka and really just wants to go out with her.}} It's absurd because it is in every way a typical [[Freak -Out]], except over something rather mundane. It just totally shatters his self image as an aloof, disinterested actor and he has to be assured that, really, this is completely understandable and normal.

* [[Jack of All Stats]]: While obviously not supremely talented in nearly everything as Medaka, Zenkichi has shown proficient abilities at various sports, martial arts, and befriending others. As he was known as the "Club Typhoon", he's picked up various skills.

* [[Put Onon a Bus]]: Yes, and he's a main character. Zenkichi only appears in the opening bit of the Treasure Hunt, after which he's promptly left behind.

* [[Say My Name]]: '''ZENKICHIIIIIIIII'''

* [[Spanner in Thethe Works]]: Zenkichi {{spoiler|defeating and befriending Munekata after taking over for Medaka.}} The leader of the Flask Plan had intended for Medaka to befriend him, not the other way around. He does it again to {{spoiler|Ajimu's plan. Deep down she ''wanted'' him to fail since that would mean that she had failed by proxy (thus restoring her faith in reality). His victory over Medaka pushed her to commit suicide in despair (barely averted by Medaka).}}

* [[Stalker Withwith a Crush]]: Zenkichi's [[Heroic BSOD|big realization]] in Chapter 126 is that {{spoiler|Medaka doesn't return his feelings, which means he's basically been stalking her for years without any concern for her feelings.}} {{spoiler|He's wrong, as shown by Medaka's [[Berserker Rage]] when she thought he had [[Taking You Withwith Me|taken Kumagawa with him.]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Taking You Withwith Me]]}}: The conclusion of chapter 70, where Zenkichi {{spoiler|tries to kill Kumagawa by stomping the net so hard they both fall into the viper pit.}}

* [[Theory of Narrative Causality]]: Zenkichi's {{spoiler|"Devil Style" allows him to defy this.}} In other words, he becomes {{spoiler|the sort of the character that ''wouldn't'' be the main character of a story}}.

** You could say that {{spoiler|his ability lets him avoid the tropes that usually affect main characters}} e.g. [[Crash Into Hello]], [[Plot Armor]], etc.

* [[Touched Byby Vorlons]]: {{spoiler|When Ajimu gives him "Parasite-Seeing" to replace his lost eyesight.}}

* [[Weak but Skilled]]: While fairly strong physically, Zenkichi has had to rely more on crazy-preparedness to handle some of the superpowered foes in the series.

* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: Type 1 with Shiranui to the [[Chew Toy|reader]] [[For the Evulz|and]] [[Crowning Moment of Funny|every one else]] until {{spoiler|he turned her around}}

{{quote| Voiced by: [[Ai Kayano]] }}

Mogana is the treasurer of the Swim Club who participated in the Student Council's challenge for club funding. She seemed greedy at first, but she later revealed in a dramatic monologue that she and the others in the club only wanted the money to escape their poor living conditions. After the swim meet, Medaka convinced her to join the Student Council as their Treasurer. She has a significant amount of subtext with Zenkichi and Medaka -- orMedaka—or at least did, before the [[Genre Shift]] (after which she gets some with {{spoiler|Kumagawa}} of all people).

* [[Disappeared Dad]]

* [[Hair Decorations]]: Always wears a blue ribbon in her hair.

* [[No Social Skills]]: Probably due to her lack of friends, at first she doesn't know how to hold a conversation and {{spoiler|attempts to make Zenkichi her friend by kissing him}}.

* [[School Swimsuit]]: Wears it under her uniform as apparently she feels more secure that way.

{{quote| Voiced by: [[Daisuke Namikawa]]}}

A reformed hooligan and former [[Number Two]] of the school's Judo Club, Kouki has decided to make Medaka his wife and joined the Student Council as secretary at her request. Unfortunately, Zenkichi has other ideas. Well known for enjoying dirty tricks in combat (but not to the extent of the official [[Combat Pragmatist|Combat Pragmatists]]s).

* [[The Atoner]]: For his violent and shady past as Kumagawa's wing man.

* [[Bishounen]]: Also a [[Long -Haired Pretty Boy]].

* [[Charles Atlas Superpower]]

* [[Day in The Limelight]]: The Treasure Hunt, and the Medaka's Successor Arc in general has put some focus back on Akune.

* [[Not What It Looks Like]]: Invoked. Naze tells Kouki to get off Koga, who he had pinned to the ground, in case anyone mistook him for a pervert.

* [[Right -Hand Hottie]]: Well, he ''is'' Student Council secretary.

* [[Walking Shirtless Scene]]: In middle school he wore his jacket open, with only a [[Sarashi]] underneath.

* [[Would Hit a Girl]]: Despite being quite a gentleman, he won't hold back against women, evidenced in his takedown of Koga and {{spoiler|Wanitsuka}}.

Post-[[Genre Shift]], Nabeshima is referred to as the "Foul King," being able to keep up with Abnormals simply through [[Combat Pragmatist]] techniques both in and out of her Judo training. She even survived {{spoiler|Kumagawa's massacre of the Abnormals at the end of the Flask Plan Arc}} due to simply faking her own death during the attack, and seemed genuinely surprised that no one else thought of it.

* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: This is her "hat" -- as—as mentioned above, she can keep up with even the superpowered Abnormals by fighting absolutely, disgustingly, dirty.

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|You Gotta Have Green Hair]]

Senior of Class 11 and Captain of the Swim Club.

* [[Death Byby Materialism]]: Partially subverted: the whole Swim Club values money more than their lives, but they later reveal they value each other more than money.

* [[Dark -Skinned Blond]]

* [[Death Byby Materialism]]: See above explanation.

* [[Lightning Bruiser|Lightning]] [[Cute Bruiser]]: She can throw around 30 &nbsp;kg metal ball and chains like nothing, and she's chained to six of them to boot. Taking off the ball and chains gives her a ''massive'' increase in speed.

* [[Awesomeness Is Volatile]]: His greatness is so overwhelming that people literally can't endure his memory and forget he exists as a defense mechanism.

* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: One of his attacks is a [[Shout -Out]] to E. Honda's "Hundred-Hand Slap."

* {{spoiler|[[Marked Change]]}}: Once Shiranui lends him her power for the Chougasaki fight.

* [[Absurdly Powerful Student Council|Absurdly Powerful Hall Monitors]] - The herald of the [[Genre Shift]] was seeing just how absurdly powerful these hall monitors were -- Myouriwere—Myouri used ''high explosives'' and ''garrotte wires'' against Medaka in their fight.

* [[Humans Are Bastardsthe Real Monsters]]: Myouri's philosophy, to the point he's willing to dish out capital punishment and put the fear of God into people to keep them in line.

* [[Finger -Poke of Doom]]

* [[Ludicrous Precision]]: He can perfectly calculate the trajectory of a dozen super balls.

* [[Pint -Sized Powerhouse]]

* [[Kinky Cuffs]]: She uses them like brass knuckles.

* [[Proper Tights Withwith a Skirt]]

* [[Well -Intentioned Extremist]]

* [[Chain Pain]]

* [[Meganekko]]

* [[Cursed Withwith Awesome]]

A dark-hued man from the 13 Party, nicknamed "Hard Wrapping." His abnormal ability is the power to use his reflexes to instantly counter-attack anything he is hit with, usually without even realizing it.

* [[Flash Step]]

* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: He's strong enough to make Medaka bleed (one of the first characters to do so).

{{quote| "I don't kill for no reason, I have reasons to kill. I'll kill you because I don't want to fight you. I'll kill you because you're in my way. I'll kill you because the weather's nice. I'll kill you because my phone's batteries are low. I'll kill you because I had a good dream. I'll kill you because I'm in a hurry. And I'll kill you for no reason at all. (To Medaka in particular) I'll kill you because the chairman told me ''not'' to."}}

** Interestingly, he's [[Unskilled but Strong|not actually that good at using these weapons, but he makes up for it in sheer power]]. In fact, he's stronger ''without'' his weapons -- heweapons—he's so used to lugging them around that once he discards all that weight he is quite possibly the fastest person in the manga (barring Medaka herself). At the very least, he's faster than {{spoiler|Kumagawa.}}

* {{spoiler|[[I Just Want to Have Friends]]}}

* [[The Stoic]]: To the point that Kumagawa accuses him of trying too hard to look cool.

* [[Took a Level Inin Badass]]: {{spoiler|He managed to ''kill Kumagawa'', albeit by playing somewhat dirty.}}

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]

* [[Ascended Fangirl]]: She's a huge fan of the Showa-era [[Kamen Rider|Kamen Riders]]s, most of which were [[Hollywood Cyborg|Hollywood Cyborgs]]s like her.

* [[Bare Your Midriff]]

* [[Barrier -Busting Blow]]

* [[Feel No Pain]]: Inverted. She actually feels more pain so she doesn't burn out.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Her first name sounds the same as the kanji for "pain".

* [[Wall Crawl]]: She walks on the ceiling more than the floor.

* [[Cursed Withwith Awesome]]: {{spoiler|Being born into the wealthy Kurokami family doesn't jibe with Kujira/Naze's "true genius only occurs in great adversity" way of thinking.}}

* [[Laser -Guided Amnesia]]: One of her specialties

* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]

* [[So Beautiful ItsIt's a Curse]]: In a sense. Due to her [[Misery Builds Character]] philosophy, she's unhappy about being very attractive, since it gives her an advantage in life. She hides her face behind bandages most of the time.

* [[True Art Is Angsty|True Genius Is Angsty]]: Invoked.

* [[Vapor Wear]]: She finds putting on a bra too much hassle.

He also has a special move called "Unreasonable Taxation," where he can expand on his power to control electrical impulses and steal the ability of another Abnormal nearby. This nearly proves fatal when he tries to use it on Medaka near the end of the Flask Plan Arc.

* [[ItsIt's All About Me]]

Members of the 13 Party who were able to pass the impassable door into the research lab some time after Maguro left. They have been practically [[Demoted to Extra]]. Their abilities are briefly alluded to when they end up fighting "The Loser Team" so Medaka and the Student Council can continue their descent into the research lab. However, outside of a couple chapters, one can only infer how the battle went, since {{spoiler|Kumagawa slaughtered both sides}} upon his introduction into the story and [[What Happened to Thethe Mouse?|they were never mentioned again.]]

* [[Blessed Withwith Suck]]

A boy with an abnormality so large that it cannot be properly measured. He first met Medaka during their psychosomatic evaluation at the hospital, when both were just two years old. He was already pessimistic at that point, but fell in love with the hope-inspiring Medaka. He later became student body president, and employed Akune as an enforcer. After he [[Rashomon Style|seemingly]] made his [[Faux Affably Evil|outwardly friendly and harmless]] girlfriend Najimi, literally lose her face, Medaka beat him to within an inch of his life. In fact, he had not killed her, but discovered her true nature, and sealed her off from reality.

'''「HIS SPEECH IS SURROUNDED BY BRACKETS LIKE THIS (JAPANESE QUOTATION MARKS) AND IN BOLD」'''.<ref>As an in-joke about people who overuse [[Scare Quotes|scare quotes]].</ref>

* [[Anti -Hero]]

* [[Armor -Piercing Question]]: Done by {{spoiler|Emukae Mukae}}, leaving him in an epic [[Villainous BSOD]].

* [[Berserk Button]]: Never try to ''truly'' cheat him. [http://www.mangareader.net/215-58350-15/medaka-box/chapter-71.html Never].

* [[Can't Get Away Withwith Nuthin'|Can't Ever Win]]: He really, really can't. He is like the antropomorphic representation of Murphy's Law.

** It is not he can't kick unbelievable amounts of ass. He can. Until he {{spoiler|discarded his All-Fiction}} even Medaka would have certainly been killed by a single fully serious attack from him. He even managed to {{spoiler|seal a nearly omnipotent [[Physical God]]}}. As of now he's the second or third most powerful {{spoiler|individual on the good guys' side,}} solely because of his sheer physical ability. He just can't succeed whenever success will make him feel fulfillment or triumph, and even if he apparently can he'll back away and admit failure thanks to his [[Achilles' Heel]].

* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: [[Zig -Zagging Trope|Zig-zagged]], depending on your [[Your Mileage May Vary|view]] and the spoilers of Chapter 88.

* {{spoiler|[[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: Kumagawa managed to seal and banish a near omnipotent "Not Equal".}}

* [[Inferiority Superiority Complex]]: Inverted. He has no sense of self-worth, and thinks that his life is meaningless, while actually being far more capable, strong-willed and charismatic than he believes. {{spoiler|Fate also constantly pits him against - and/or in unhealthy "romantic" relationships - with the most overpowered and godlike people in the series.}}

* [[Implacable Man]]: No attack can truly "harm him" and he could easily destroy all of the student council or the entire world all at the same time if he so wished. {{spoiler|No longer true in chapter 90 after giving up his "All Fiction"}}.

** {{spoiler|And yet in chapter 96, he survives, and quickly recovers, from being stabbed in the back, shot in the head, being hit with a stun gun, having acid splashed on his face, being kicked down a flight of stairs by a cyborg with super strength, and possibly going through God knows what from those [[Cold -Blooded Torture|gardening tools]]...and later gets back up to [[Curb Stomp Battle|incapacitate his attackers without harming them.]]}}

* [[Impaled Withwith Extreme Prejudice]]: Giant Screw flavor.

* [[I Am Not Left -Handed]]: After {{spoiler|losing All Fiction}} he seemingly becomes several times weaker, a fact that {{spoiler|the five middle-school students take advantage of to ambush and beat him to an inch of his life}}. [[Made of Iron|They]] [[One -Man Army|were]] [[Curb Stomp Battle|wrong]]. If anything that was the ''first time'' in the entire manga that Kumagawa really took a fight seriously against someone who wasn't Medaka, showing that if he wanted, any of his fights would have lasted ''seconds''.

* [[Knight of Cerebus]] - Subverted because his arrival did not make the manga that much darker in comparison when it stopped being a [[Slice of Life]] series, it just marked the beginning of a ''second'' genre shift to a bizarre [[Deconstruction]].

* [[The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort]]: A lot. This seems subverted in his fight against Zenkichi but it turned out he was only messing with him.

* [[Leaning Onon the Fourth Wall]] / [[This Is Reality]]: Kumagawa does this a lot, as [[Freudian Slip|Freudian Slips]]s of his damaged mind, as he loves Shonen manga for brightening up his horrible life somewhat. Or more practically speaking, as massive [[Take That]]'s against the most traumatised part of the audience. For example referring to the fact that "If we were published in ''Shounen Jump'' bullying wouldn't be allowed...", with the author, through Zenkichi, twisting the context of his extremely damaged state into [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|that he is so disgusting that it would be a holy act to hurt him even more, exterminate him, and cleanse the world from his foul presence]]; and additionally mocking the online fans by twisting ''Shonen Jump's'' mottoes into something hollow and meaningless.

{{quote| '''Takarabe''': Er... Kumagawa senpai, could you take a look at my panties, please? <br />

* [[Ocular Gushers]]: [http://www.mangareader.net/medaka-box/113/6 When he is accepted and appreciated by winning the popularity competition].

* [[One -Man Army]]: Really, the only reason that the Student Council survived was because Medaka is really that [[God Mode Sue|absurdibly]] [[Boring Invincible Hero|powerful]] {{spoiler|and this was after he forsaken his [[Reality Warper|All fiction]] }}

* [[Punch -Punch -Punch Uh -Oh]]: A bloodier version of this trope.

* [[Sympathy for Thethe Devil]]: Chapter 88. Even Zenkichi states from the onset that (unlike Najimi) he isn't remotely evil as such though, which makes it all the more complicated to deal with him.

* [[Troll]]: He sometimes seems to piss people off for the heck of it, but when asked about a motivation he simply seems very confused, and basically doesn't know why he is doing things.

A junior whose elegant wardrobe, soft-spoken demeanor, and rational mindset hides a depraved, twisted personality like his classmates. His Minus "Encounter" allows him to instantaneously push any physical, mental, or emotional damage he receives to anyplace else. {{spoiler|He used it during childhood to push away his injuries, bad feelings, painful memories, anything that could be the least bit unpleasant, until there was essentially nothing left. However, since he has never dealt with any sort of mental pain, the smallest insult that he allows through will cause him to explode into a murderous rage}}.

* [[Battle Butler]]: While not technically a butler, his position in the Minus 13 and his attire certainly gives that impression.

* [[Evil Gloating]]: It lasted less than an issue but it was by far the hammiest scenes in the entire manga.

* [[High -Class Glass]]

* [[Implacable Man]]: Even more so than Kumagawa. Hinokage after getting a very big powerup, only managed to win thanks to a loophole in the battle. And his opponent's apathy. He didn't scratch or even tire Chougasaki.

* [[Insult Backfire]]: After being defeated by Hinokage, he not only accepted but ''expanded and explained'' all the insults that the rest of the school were throwing at him with almost Academic serenity.

* [[Minor Insult Meltdown]]

* [[Nigh Invulnerability]]: Nothing, absolutely nothing had managed to even wrinkle his suit in the entire manga.

* [[Punny Name]]: His first name contains the character for "moth", while his surname contains the character for "butterfly".

* [[Rant -Inducing Slight]]: The most epic/silly one you would ever see in the manga world.

* [[Sharp -Dressed Man]]

* [[Slasher Smile]]: After he was "mortally offended". It dissapeared after his fight with Hinokage.

* [[This Is Unforgivable!]]: A parody on the concept.

* [[Absolute Cleavage]]

* [[Abusive Parents]]: And she was even madder because the abuse didn't leave scars she could play with.

* [[Agony Beam]] She can unlock and reopen all your "mental scars" letting you re-experiece the trauma you had before

* [[Beauty Is Never Tarnished]]: Thanks to Kumagawa's "All Fiction".

* [[Hair -Trigger Temper]]: Curiously, she became more estable ''after'' meeting both Chou and Kumagawa. Before she will have hit a total stranger wit a bat with enough force to break the floor because his game was too loud. And this was after Chou apologized and lowered the volume of the game immediately.

* [[Hoist Byby His Own Petard]]:

* [[Morality Pet]]: It tells you something when Chou became this for her.

* [[Odd Couple]]: With Chou, who she first attacked and then followed since they where five. Double so because she is sure that he "would kill her" if she ever leaves him and said this as if it was a good thing.

* [[Sanity Slippage]]: A momentary one. She got better.

{{quote| '''Shibuki''': Do you know the taste of gas that your parents make you swallow? How about the taste of licking a perverted teacher shoe? The taste of sand that your classmates make you swallow? At least you know the taste of a newspaper that was the only food you coudl obtain?}}

* [[Taking You Withwith Me]]: She tried this after she realized she couldn't win against Naze. It didn't go as planned.

* [[Vapor Wear]]: She's clearly not wearing a bra.

* [[Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him]]: She could have won easily if she had avoided playing and taking her opponent seriously and/or tried to kill her/maim her permanently. [[Curb Stomp Battle|She regreted]] [[No -Holds -Barred Beatdown|that]] [[Kill It Withwith Fire|very much]].

{{quote| Voiced by: [[Emiri Katou]] }}

A troublemaking girl who prefers to watch the action from afar than actively participate, though her true motives are unknown. It later turns out that {{spoiler|her grandfather runs the school and the Flask Project}} and she later joined Class -13 with his blessing, but even there she seems relatively unconcerned with the fate of either side. She can eat a massive amount of food in one sitting, though it is currently unknown whether or not this is connected to any special power.

* [[Face Heel Turn]]: Spontaneously decides to join Class -13 as a [[Secret Test of Character]] for Zenkichi.

* [[Older Than They Look]]: She's fifteen, but looks at least five years younger.

* [[Token Mini MoeLoli]]

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]

* [[The Atoner]]: {{spoiler|The reason he's chosen Zenkichi's side over Medaka's is because he felt guilty about telling him that he'll never be good enough to protect her. And now, after apologizing and asking him to stay by her side, he feels even guiltier because he now understands the kind of person Medaka is and realizes that he was essentially sacrificing Zen for Medaka's sake. One might think that he blames himself for the pressure that Zenkichi's been put under}}

* [[Chivalrous Pervert]]: Claims to be capable of stealing the eyes, heart, bra and panties of any girl he meets.

* [[Determinator]]: He survived having half his organs removed [[For Science!]] and still lives a comparatively free and easy lifestyle.

* [[Limited Wardrobe]]: Always wears the same jeans, shirt and crucifix.

* [[Long -Haired Pretty Boy]]

* [[What Exactly Is His Job?]]: So he's manager of an empty building that no one ever enters or uses for anything?

* [[Martial Arts and Crafts]]: You've never seen sewing made so awesome.

An old acquaintance of Najimi, that she found while looking for people very similar to Medaka, and found sufficiently interesting to transfer to the school, after getting him interested by telling him that he {{spoiler|is Medaka's adopted brother, and that she killed his father}}. Moody, lonely, somewhat obnoxious in a silly manner, and serving a supporting role from the sidelines, but described as a "dark hero", i.e. has good intentions.

Tsurubami avoids eye contact, is very verbose, quite self-centered, and easily embarrassed. He has the ability to anticipate and counter other people's attacks before they have a chance to make them. After Medaka attacked him for babbling too much, he defeated her when she tried to overcomplicate her attacks, but lost when she went with brute force "War God Mode" instead.

* [[Hidden Eyes]]: Permanently.

* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: A spinning top.

* [[Motor Mouth]]: When he goes off on one of his rants.

* [[Open Mouth, Insert Foot]]

** [[Now That's Using Your Teeth]]: When Medaka literally puts her foot in his mouth, Tsurubami catches it.

* [[Slasher Smile]]: Flashes one at Zenkichi, hinting that you may need to...

* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]: He [[Luminescent Blush|most definitely]] doesn't read ''[[To Love LOVE-Ru (Manga)|To Love-Ru Darkness]]'', oh no.

* {{spoiler|[[You Killed My Father]]}}: It remains to be seen whether he'll actually confront Medaka about this.

=== Tropes: ===

* [[Nice Hat]]: Wears a moose-shaped hood.

* [[Terrible Trio]] (?): With Saki and Jyuujika. When people refer to a school filled with muggles, [[Badass Normal|Badass Normals]]s, and super-powered mutants as "a farm for humans" it can't be a good sign.

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* [[Paper -Thin Disguise]]: Wears a dust mask to hide her...

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* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]]: Has a scar around her neck that she hides with a scarf; this is because she ''surgically alters her vocal chords'' for each role ([[Wild Mass Guessing|maybe to avoid being pigeonholed?]]).

The beloved vice-president that was in office when Kumagawa was president, who was so warm and loving that even the dark and twisted Kumagawa loved her. Unfortunately, his twisted personality got the better of him and he brutally murdered her, setting off the events of the manga -- Medakamanga—Medaka drives him away and decides to go for his position as Student President.

{{spoiler|This later turns out to be a complete lie -- Najimi turns out to be a "Not Equal", a being of unlimited strength who is [[Genre Aware]] and is as to an Abnormal as Abnormals are to Humans. She has a number of Abnormal powers that place her in the real of [[Physical God]] status, they have to be expressed in scientific notation. Worse, she has nothing but disdain for humans ''and'' other abnormals, and is the true instigator of the "Flask Plan". And Kumagawa didn't murder her, for all his power he was only able to ''seal'' her.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Back Fromfrom the Dead]]: Played up as this, although it's unclear if she was actually dead to begin with.}}

* [[Bad Boss]]: Subverted with Kumagawa, at least until the whole "I love you" incident.

* [[Bodyguard Betrayal]]: Kumagawa.

* {{spoiler|[[Combo -Platter Powers]]: Like everything else in the series, this is parodied and exaggerated. She has 13 quadrillion different superpowers of various shapes and types, with seemingly nothing linking them other than "I win."}}

* [[Death Byby Disfigurement]]: Kumagawa [[Rashomon Style|may or may not]] have ripped off her face. {{spoiler|However, she is not dead, and was simply referred to as having been sealed. One of her abilities is also immortality.}}

* [[Evil Counterpart]]: To Medaka; Both are immensely powerful. Medaka is able to rally people because of her charisma, while Ajimu manipulates them.

* [[Hair Decorations]]: Wears three ribbons in her hair - yellow or red depending on her appearance.

* {{spoiler|[[Happily -Failed Suicide]]}}: {{spoiler|Ajimu breaks free of her delusions when Medaka stops her and then points out that she finally ''did'' fail at something -- suicide.}}

* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: People, society, culture, and ideology, are at best all cheap toys for her amusement, and just as expendable.

* {{spoiler|[[MesMe's a Crowd]]}}: {{spoiler|Combined with [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]].}}

* [[No -Holds -Barred Beatdown]]: Several times to Kumagawa. Specially after {{spoiler|he died and tried to gain his original minus}}.

* [[Physical God]]: As close as an Absnormal can get -- sheget—she has super everything, reality and dream warping powers, the works.

* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: {{spoiler|She regularly gives them to Kumagawa.}}

* [[Sacred First Kiss]]: To Kumagawa {{spoiler|To return his Book marker, but it was all a pretend game to her}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Sealed Evil in Aa Can]]}}: {{spoiler|Due to a [[Bodyguard Betrayal]], which misleadingly was first thought to be [[Death Byby Disfigurement]].}}

* [[Shrouded in Myth]]: The facts known about the character are extremely varied, sparse, and possibly contradictory.

* [[Super Strength]]: [http://www.mangareader.net/medaka-box/113/11 The strongest so far].

* [[Ubermensch]]: Comes with the [[Nietzsche Wannabe]] package.

* [[Undignified Death]]: Her face was apparently ripped off (likely culturally symbolic for making somebody lose face).

* [[Well -Intentioned Extremist]]: Possibly. The flask plan was said to partially have idealistic aims.

* [[White -Haired Pretty Girl]]: {{spoiler|After chapter 140, it goes back to being brown.}}

* {{spoiler|[[What Measure Is a Non -Human?]]}}: Inverted. Big time. {{spoiler|Humans have less worth than dust to her.}}

{{spoiler|One of the "Delayed Two" along with Ajimu, he first appears at the end of chapter 92 with his back to the "camera" displaying the unequal sign of his class.}}

* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Yakuza style.

* [[One -Man Army]]: He is ''supposedly'' so strong that it would take the entire Student Council plus the Minus 13 and several plus to had a ''chance'' to defeat.

* [[Offscreen Teleportation]]

* [[AintAin't Too Proud to Beg]]: [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Forgive me, please. I'm sorry.]].

* [[Bad Powers, Good People]]: She can infect any person with any sickness in the world... and she uses it to [[Beyond the Impossible|cure]] any damage done during Flask 13 and the subsequent trials.

* [[Hadaka Apron]]: {{spoiler|Misogi didn't get her to wear it in the story proper, but Volume 13's inside cover sure did}}.

* [[Hello, Nurse!]]

* [[Morally -Ambiguous Doctorate]]: It's unknown if she is an actual Doctor or only posses a plus (or minus) for healing.

* [[Oh Crap]]:

{{quote| ''There is 1/3 chance that tomorrow Aka will have to wear nothing but an Apron'' }}

* [[The Plague]]: She is literally a living vaccine, deciding when and how to infect or cure people.

* [[Punny Name]]: The three characters of her name mean [[Colorful Theme Naming|"Red, Blue/Green, Yellow"]].

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: She tried to play mind games and [[Mind Rape]] Kumagawa. Yeah, it ended as one would expect.

* {{spoiler|[[Cold -Blooded Torture]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Five -Bad Band]] / [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]]: Their traits -- video games, lying about themselves, magical girlyness, artificial inteligence -- were hints that Ajimu thought reality was fake.}}

A cold, militaristic, eyepatch-clad girl who values strength. She was once Akune Kouki's biggest admirer before his--inhis—in her mind--fallmind—fall from grace due to Nabeshima Nekomi's influence. {{spoiler|Despite her initial appearance, she is actually quite emotional, and her name is actually an alias: Her real name is Munakata Koi, and she is Munakata Kei's sister.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Ineffectual Loner]]}}: She really needs her friends around to be effective.

* [[Good Old Fisticuffs]]: Played with. While Sambo is one of the Top Ten Martial arts, it's considered uncut thanks to having never abandoned its "barbarian roots" of savage killing moves. {{spoiler|She still loses against Akune's judo, though}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Luke, I Am Your Father]]}}: {{spoiler|Shori reveals herself to be Munakata Kei's sister. Subverted in that Kei and Shori's friends already know who she really is.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Spoiled Brat]]}}: But she grows out of this very quickly.

* {{spoiler|[[The Worf Effect]]}}: Self-inflicted. Hard.

* {{spoiler|[[Yonkoma]]}}: As the rest of the Successors, she is defined as this genre for the Manga Universe.

{{quote| {{color|grey|What bullshit are you talking about, you scum?}} Yes! I accept your prompt advice with thanks!}}

* [[Insufferable Genius]]: She can come as this thanks to her Tsundere attitude.

* [[Leaning Onon the Fourth Wall]]: Apparently she can see Kumagawa's bracket quotes.

* [[Kid Withwith the Leash]]: Is the only person so far who had managed to {{spoiler|Un-Jerkass Kumagawa's behavior}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Ordinary High School Student]]}}.

* [[Shorter Means Smarter]]

* [[Token Mini MoeLoli]]

{{quote| My real name is [[Overly Long Name|Tsugihagista SS Ruby-Sapphire the Fifth.]] Maybe you know me as [[Lucky Charms Title|The Magical]] ☆ Wonder Tsugiha from the Neighborhood. This child who sits on my right should is my fairy partner Diana! Oh, I'm sorry, normal humans can't see her....}}

* [[Meet Cute]]: Her interview with Hitoyoshi starts out this way. She blushes and informs Hitoyoshi that she is [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|inexperienced]] all the while fidgeting. Just as Hitoyoshi thinks he got the only normal one, she reveals herself to be from another world.

* [[Cutting the Knot]]: When Medaka challenges them with a video game where [[Unwinnable Byby Design|every choice is bad and everyone dies]], she (Medaka) encourages Suishou to "cheat" -- it—it turns out that she'd been holding back her abilities because she didn't want to intimidate her friends even when it could have been used to their advantage. Suishou uses her computing powers to make the game [[Everyone Lives|winnable and uplifting.]]

{{quote| '''Suishou''': Please read the attached manual carefully later.}}

* [[Ridiculously Human Robot]] / [[Robot Girl]]: She is a prototype of an autonomous humanoid android called "Loup."

* [["Three Laws "-Compliant]]: Unsettlingly averted after revealing she lied about not knowing how to cook: "In the robot world we've disposed of those slavery laws long ago."

* [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?]]: Claims to have come to Konikawa Academy to study the human heart (emotionally speaking, not anatomically!). She also acknowledges that while she's an exceptional cook she can't sense if the food she makes is "delicious".

* [[Dual -Wielding]]: Goes way further than that. She wields ''seven'' swords at once. How? ''By impaling three swords into each arm while wielding another one.''

* [[Razor Wind]]: She introduces herself by ''slicing a helicopter in half'' with one swing of her sword. She immediately tops herself by ''slicing a battleship in half''.

* [[Running Onon All Fours]] {{spoiler|which she actually needs to do for her Kanji style to work.}}