Anime Characters: Best 100+ Anime Characters of All Time

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Akeno Himejima

Akeno Himejima is the black-haired vice-president of the Occult Research Club; she wears her hair in a long ponytail. Issei describes her as an ideal Japanese woman with a pretty face that is always smiling, and along with Rias, make up the two…

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Rias Gremory

Rias Gremory is a fictional character who appears in the light novel, anime, and manga series High School DxD authored by Ichiei Ishibumi. Rias is the main love interest of the protagonist, Issei Hyodo. Rias is a high school student at Kuoh…

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Hinata Hyuga

Hinata Uzumaki (née) Hyuga is a fictional character in the anime and manga Naruto, created by Masashi Kishimoto. Hinata is a kunoichi from the fictional village of Konohagakure and a member of Team 8, which consists of herself, Kiba…

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Erza Scarlet

Erza Scarlet is an S-Class swordswoman of Fairy Tail who is nicknamed “Titania” for her notoriety as the guild’s most powerful female wizard,[ch. 14] referencing the Fairy Queen from A Midsummer Night’s…

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Nico Robin

Growing up in Ohara, home of the world’s oldest and largest library, Nico Robin becomes an archaeologist at the age of eight.[ch. 218,391f.] At some point she gains the power of the Paramecia-type Flower-Flower Fruit, which allows her to…

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Nami

Nami is a fictional character in the One Piece franchise created by Eiichiro Oda. She is based on Ann and Silk, two characters from Oda’s previous manga Romance Dawn. She is introduced as a thief and pickpocket who…

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Mirajane Strauss

Mirajane Strauss is the guild’s barmaid and administrator,[ch. 2] who also works as a pin-up girl for the fictional Weekly Sorcerermagazine.[ch. 1] Nicknamed “Demon Woman”, Mirajane is the oldest of three siblings who use a…

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Sakura Haruno

Sakura Haruno is a fictional character in the Naruto manga and anime series created by Masashi Kishimoto. Sakura is depicted as a kunoichi affiliated with Konohagakure and a part of Team 7, which consists of herself, Naruto…

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Lucy Heartfilia

Lucy Heartfilia is a fictional character and the main female protagonist of the Fairy Tail manga and anime series created by Hiro Mashima. She is depicted as a teenage wizard and aspiring novelist who joins the titular guild due to…

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Saeko Busujima

Saeko Busujima is a third-year student at Fujimi High School with dark violet hair and bright blue eyes. As the president of the school’s kendo club Saeko carries a bokken (wooden sword). Saeko is introduced as a calm and…

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Asuna

Asuna Yuuki is a fictional character who appears in the Sword Art Online series of light novels by Reki Kawahara. She is mononymously more commonly known as just Asuna, her player name in the eponymous video game which the novels are set…

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Xenovia Quarta

Raised by a swordswoman-turned-angel named Griselda Quarta, Xenovia Quarta becomes an exorcist and member of the Catholic Church. Along with her partner Irina Shido, they are sent to retrieve or destroy the stolen Excalibur swords. She has blue…

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Kurumi Tokisaki

The most dangerous Spirit that appears in the series. Kurumi transfers into Shido’s class in volume 3 and even announces that she is a Spirit. She is attracted to Shido from the very start, gaining the envy of Tohka and Origami. However,…

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Esdeath

Raised under her father’s philosophy of “the strong survive and the weak die”,[vol. 4] Esdeath has gained notoriety as one of the Empire’s most powerful generals.[ch. 7] Originally a resident of a northern tribe of…

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Kushina Uzumaki

Kushina Uzumaki is the mother of the series’ protagonist, Naruto Uzumaki and the wife of the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze.[ch. 382] She is a host of Kurama, immediately preceding Naruto.[ch. 499] While Naruto physically resembles his…

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Akame

Akame has long black hair, red eyes, and a cold, serious demeanor.[5] Sold along with her sister to the Empire at a young age, she becomes one of the Elite Seven assassins under Gozuki.[ch. 3] Despite her serious attitude in battle, she displays…

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Yoruichi Shihouin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bleach_characters#Yoruichi_Shih%C5%8DinYoruichi Shihōin is an old friend of Urahara Shop owner Kisuke Urahara, and so uses it as a place of residence when she is not abroad.[12] She is a slim, dark-skinned…

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Koneko Toujou

A white-haired two-tailed humanoid nekomata raised by a devil, Shirone has to witness her master being killed in self-defense at the hands of Kuroka, who becomes a stray devil. Sentenced to death for her crimes, Shirone is rescued by Sir Zechs…

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Lucy / Nyuu

Her original personality (Kaede) was that of a depressed, distrustful, withdrawn and frustrated kid. She was discriminated against by others, because of her horns. Thinking that she was abandoned by her parents, she was also ostracized by the staff…

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Shiro

Shiro is the main female protagonist of the No Game No Life series and the calm and calculative half of the siblings. Abandoned by her parents, Shiro is an 11 year old genius NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training) hikikomori (shut-in)…

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Tsunade

In the popular manga and anime series Naruto, a character called Tsunade is the Hokage of the village where Naruto Uzumaki lives. Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru appear as three legendary ninja known as the…

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Touka Kirishima

Touka Kirishima is a ghoul and ex-waitress at Anteiku and Ken Kaneki‘s wife. She wears a rabbit mask while hunting, earning her the alias Rabbit. In Tokyo Ghoul, she was a second-year student at Kiyomi High Schooland later a third-year…

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Ino Yamanaka

Ino Yamanaka is a member of Team 10. She is a childhood friend of Sakura Haruno, helping her to develop her own identity. When they discovered that they both liked Sasuke Uchiha, their friendship was ended.[ch. 71] The two eventually make amends…

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Rin Tohsaka

Rin Tohsaka (Hepburn: Tōsaka Rin) is a fictional character introduced in Type-Moon‘s 2004 adult visual novelFate/Stay Night by Type-Moon. Rin is a highschool student who becomes the master of the warrior Archer to participate in a war…

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C.C.

C.C. is the pseudonym of a fictional character in the Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion franchise by Sunrise. With her real name kept from the audience, she first appeared in the 2006 initial anime season, and afterwards has appeared in…

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Saber

Saber, whose real name is Altria Pendragon, is a fictional character from the Japanese 2004 visual novel Fate/stay night by Type-Moon. In Fate/stay night, Saber is an ancient warrior who is summoned by a teenager named Shirou Emiya to…

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Orihime Inoue

Orihime Inoue is a fictional character in the Bleach manga series and its adaptations created by Tite Kubo. She is one of Ichigo Kurosaki‘s best friends, and later his wife. Like many other friends, she quickly develops spiritual…

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Holo the Wise Wolf

Holo is a wolf harvest deity originally from a land in the north known as Yoitsu. She made a promise with men from a town called Pasloe where she would ensure the town would have good wheat harvests year after year. However, as time went on,…

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Temari

Temari is the oldest of the three siblings. Unlike her more combat-loving brothers, Temari values peace, as she questions Sunagakure’s justifications for going to war with Konohagakure.[ch. 95] This trait carries over to Part II, in which…

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Juvia Lockser

Juvia Lockser is a fairy tale wizard and is one of the main protagonists in the Manga/Anime Fairy Tail. Juvia formed a quarter of the Phantom elite group, Element 4. She was sent by the Guild Master Jose Porla, along with Sol, to capture…

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Taiga Aisaka

The other title character of the series, Taiga is a girl in Ryuji’s class. She has a beautiful appearance, but dislikes the company of others, with the exception of her best friend Minori Kushieda. Because of her tendency to snap fiercely at…

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Konan

Konan (小南) is the only female ninja in Akatsuki. As such, Kishimoto originally wanted her to have an obscene appearance showing more of her bust.[38] Being the partner of Pain, Konan was also a pupil under Jiraiya…

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Mine

Mine is the tritagonist of Akame Ga Kill!. She is a self pro-claimed “genius sniper”, as well as being a sharp-tongued and quick-witted member of the assassin’s group, Night Raid. Despite not thinking much…

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Sinon

Shino Asada is a fictional character who appears in the Sword Art Online series of light novels and anime by Reki Kawahara. She is more commonly known by her portmanteau, Sinon, her player name in the Gun Gale Online and ALfheim…

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Riza Hawkeye

First Lieutenant Riza Hawkeye is Roy Mustang’s most trusted and dearest subordinate. She often carries out many of the tasks he is too lazy to do, acts as his personal assistant, and protects him from danger.[ch. 4] She holds a strong sense…

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Nao Tomori

Nao Tomori is one of the main characters of Charlotte. She is a first year student and the Student Council president of Hoshinoumi Academy. Nao often uses her camcorder to record the power of ability users for proof, and is a huge fan of ZHIEND,…

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Kallen Stadtfeld

Kallen Stadtfeld is a fictional character in the Sunriseanime series Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion. In the series, she is legally known by this name at school, but prefers her mother’s maiden surname, using Kallen Kouzuki during…

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Ayuzawa Misaki

Misaki Usui (née Ayuzawa) is the main female character. She was known as the “Demon President” as the former Student Council President of Seika High School[1] Misaki secretly worked part-time as a maid at Maid Latte. Her love…

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Cana Alberona

Cana Alberona is a teenage alcoholic woman who drinks entire barrels of liquor at a time,[ consuming 30% of the guild’s alcohol.[ch. 38]Her name is derived from the tarot term “arcana”. She uses magic cards either as…

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Rangiku Matsumoto

She often avoids her duties as a lieutenant so that she can go shopping or drinking with her fellow lieutenants. She usually uses her beauty, or her famously exposed cleavage and large breasts to gain attention or to manipulate others to get what…

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Hestia

Hestia is a fictional character who appears in Fujino Ōmori’s light novel series Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? (shortened to DanMachi based on its Japanese title[a]), and its manga and animeadaptations. The…

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Krista Lenz

A petite girl who is described as friendly, warm-hearted,[ch. 16][vol. 5:profiles] and popular to the point where her peers regard her as a goddess or an angel, and want to marry her. Her true identity is Historia Reiss, the illegitimate child…

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Lisanna Strauss

Lisanna Strauss is Mirajane and Elfman‘s younger sister who can shapeshift into different animals at will with her Animal Soul Takeover variety. She is one of Natsu Dragneel‘s childhood friends who helps him hatch Happy‘s…

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Kouko Kaga

Kōko is a highly attractive woman with large breasts by most boys. She has long wavy hair that goes just below her waist, with has little “flicks” similar to curls at the ends of her hair & hazel eyes. Her hair is always seen worn…

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Yuno Gasai

The main female protagonist of the series and the Second Diary user. While a perfect model student on the surface, she is actually a psychopathic, Yuki-obsessed yandere who kill unhesitatingly to protect him. Her Diary is the Yukiteru Diary, a…

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Leafa

Suguha Kirigaya is a fictional character who appears in the Sword Art Online series of light novels by Reki Kawahara. She is more commonly known as Leafa, her player name in the fictional Alfheim Online virtual reality MMORPG in which…

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Isuzu Sento

A royal guard who forces Seiya to go on a “date” with her to Amagi Brilliant Park. She has a stoic personality, rarely showing emotion. Despite that facade, she is also very sensitive. She managed Amagi Brilliant Park before…

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Shiba Miyuki

Shiba Miyuki is the main female protagonist of the “The Irregular in Magic High School” light novel and animated series. She is the biological sister of the main protagonist, Shiba Tatsuya. She is a student of First High School. The…

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Wendy Marvell

Wendy Marvell is a young dragon slayer adopted and trained by the dragon Grandeeney to perform Sky Dragon Slayer Magic, which draws power from clean air to heal others’ injuries and ailments,[ch. 135] and can temporarily relieve dragon…

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Toph Beifong

Toph Beifong is a fictional character in Nickelodeon‘s animated television seriesAvatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra, voiced by Jessie Flower in the original series and Kate…

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Asuka Langley Soryu

Asuka Langley Soryu is a fictional character of the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise. Within the series, she is designated as the Second Child and the pilot of the Evangelion Unit 02. Her surname is romanized as Soryu in the English…

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Ryuuko Matoi

Ryuko Matoi (Matoi Ryūko) is a 17-year-old schoolgirl, and the main protagonist of the series, who transfers to Honnouji Academy in order to find the one who murdered her father Isshin Matoi. She possesses the Scisssor Blade, one half of the…

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Shiina Mashiro

Mashiro is the female protagonist of the story. She is the resident of room 202, as well as a world famous artist who transferred into Suiko as a second-year to learn how to draw manga. Although her artwork is widely admired, she knows nothing other…

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Ultear Milkovich

During her early childhood, Ultear Milkovich is taken to a magic research facility by her mother Ur. She is subjected to unethical experiments and assumes that Ur has abandoned her, unaware that her mother thinks she has…

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Rukia Kuchiki

Rukia Kuchiki is a fictional character in the anime and manga series Bleachcreated by Tite Kubo. In the series, Rukia is a Soul Reaper in charge of slaying evil spirits known as Hollows. At the beginning, after a brief meeting with…

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Inori Yuzuriha

Inori Yuzuriha is the main heroine of Guilty Crown, and the stoic 17-year-old vocalist of the group Egoist. She is also a member of the “Funeral Parlor” resistance group and her Void is a sword. She becomes Shu’s partner and as…

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Virgo

Virgo, “The Maiden”, is a Celestial Spirit that is one of the 12 Golden Zodiac Keys. Her key is currently owned by Lucy Heartfilia and formerly owned by Everlue. Virgo takes the form of a maid with shackles around her wrists,…

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Android 18

Android 18, born as Lazuli is a fictional character in the Dragon Ball manga series created by Akira Toriyama. Android 18 makes her debut in chapter #349 The Androids Awake! first published in Weekly Shōnen Jump on November 12, 1991. She…

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Haruhi Fujioka

Haruhi Fujioka is a scholarship student at the prestigious Ouran Academy, a fictitious high school for rich kids located in Bunkyo, Tokyo. Looking for a quiet place to study, Haruhi stumbles upon the abandoned Third Music Room, a…

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Faye Valentine

Faye Valentine is one of the members of the bounty hunting crew in the anime series Cowboy Bebop. She is often seen with a cigarette and in a revealing outfit complete with bright yellow hot pants and a matching, revealing top (and, on occasion, a…

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Sailor Moon

In Minato, Tokyo, a middle-school student named Usagi Tsukino befriends Luna, a talking black cat who gives her a magical brooch enabling her to become Sailor Moon: a soldier destined to save Earth from the…

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Ikaros

The title character and main heroine of the series, Ikaros is a beautiful gynoid known as an Angeloid.[a] She falls from the sky at the beginning of the story. After Tomoki recovers her, she forms a bond with him…

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Winry Rockbell

Winry Rockbell is a fictional character from Hiromu Arakawa‘s Fullmetal Alchemist manga series and its adaptations. Winry is a 15- to 16-year-old mechanic who often spends time with the central characters, brothers Edward (Ed)…

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Revy

Revy (Revi, mistranslated Levy in some adaptations), sometimes referred by her real name of Rebecca Lee, is the female protagonist of the series. She does most of the fighting for the Lagoon Company. Very little is revealed about her past. Revy…

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Lisbeth

A side-story character in SAO, who is a blacksmith with her own shop and takes great pride in her abilities. Lisbeth or “Liz” is a close friend of Asuna who recommended her to Kirito. Kirito commissioned Liz to forge a custom-made sword…

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Levy Mcgarden

Levy McGarden is a member of Shadow Gear, a three-wizard team that also includes Jet and Droy. She becomes one of Lucy Heartfilia‘s friends over their shared love of books, encouraging Lucy to let her be the first to read her…

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Chitoge Kirisaki

Chitoge is a half-Japanese exotic and extremely beautiful transfer student from the United States, and the daughter of the leader of the Beehive Gangsters. She is annoyed by Raku, who calls her a gorilla woman, but pretends to be in a relationship…

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Yoko Ritona

Yoko Littner, the series’ lead female character, is a young woman from the village of Littner. She has considerable combat experience even before her chance meeting with Kamina and Simon. In Episode 1 a Gunmen crashes through the roof of Giha…

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Hitagi Senjougahara

Hitagi Senjougahara is a third-year student of Naoetsu Private High School. She is considered to be a frail-looking girl with an “incurable disease” and is distant from others. In an accidental encounter with Koyomi Araragi, her…

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Anko Mitarashi

When she was a genin, Anko was on a team led by Orochimaru. Their team took part in the Chūnin Exams; during the second round, they confronted a team consisting of Hayate Gekkō, Ibiki Morino,…

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Meredy

Meredy was a member of Grimoire Heart[2] and one of the Seven Kin of Purgatory.[3] Currently, she is a member and co-founder of Crime Sorcière, an Independent Guild. In X784, Meredy is a young girl of short stature.…

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Korra

Avatar Korra is the title lead character in Nickelodeon‘s animated television series The Legend of Korra (a sequel to Avatar: The Last Airbender), in which she is depicted as the current incarnation of…

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Ayano Keiko

Ayano Keiko, known as Silica in «Sword Art Online» (SAO), «ALfheim Online» (ALO), and «Project Alicization», is a supporting character in the Aincrad Arc, one of the main characters of the Girls Ops spinoff, along with Kirigaya…

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Sena Kashiwazaki

Sena Kashiwazaki is the female tritagonist of the Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai series. She is the first recruited member of the Neighbor’s Club and the daughter of Tenma Kashiwazaki, headmaster of St.…

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Stephanie Dola

Stephanie is a teenage girl and granddaughter to the previous king of Elkia, the nation inhabited by humans. She has a lot of explicit knowledge but lacks the intuition to win games.LN 2.1 Her grandfather was infamously known for…

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Sakura Chiyo

A cheerful high school girl with a crush on Nozaki. When she confesses to him by saying she’s a “fan”, she gets Nozaki’s autograph and becomes his inker assistant instead. She is part of the school’s art club,…

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Kagome Higurashi

Kagome Higurashi is the narrator and coprotagonist of the series. Brave and kind girl who believes in never turning her back on someone in trouble, she develops a close relationship with Inuyasha over the course of the series and begins to fall…

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Blair Soul Eater

Blair (ブレア Burea) is a black cat with exceptionally strong magic powers, including the power to transform into a young, alluring human woman among other spells, such as conjuring pumpkin-shaped explosions and summoning…

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Nanami Momozono

Nanami Momozono is the main protagonist of the manga series Kamisama Kiss. She is the human land god of Mikage Shrine and one of the descendants of Yukiji and Hiiragi. Nanami is considered to be very beautiful. She has long, dark brown hair…

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Akiyama Mio

Mio is the bassist and lyricist for the light music club. She is a shy girl who is in the light music club. She plays a left-handed, 3-Color Sunburst Fender Jazz Bass with a tortoiseshellpickguard, though is shown playing a Fender Precision…

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Maka Albarn

Maka Albarn is one of the main protagonists of Soul Eater. She is a young but dedicated student who takes after her mother, another prodigious meister. However, her relationship with her father Spirit is strained due to his constant flirtations…

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Yona

Yona is the sole princess of Kingdom of Kouka. Her mother was killed by insurgents when she was young, leaving her father, King Il to raise her. As a child living in the castle, she spent much time with Son Hak (who also lived there) and Soo-Won…

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Yui

Yui is a big fan and initially an assistant to Girls Dead Monster.[6] She is known to be hyperactive and talks extremely fast.[15] Hinata finds Yui annoying, which results in bouts between the two of them though in truth, they truly care…

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Haruhi Suzumiya

Haruhi Suzumiya is the title character and female protagonist of the Haruhi Suzumiya seriescreated by Nagaru Tanigawa. Despite the series being named after her, the lead protagonist is Kyon. She possesses unconscious god-like abilities to…

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Kosaki Onodera

Kosaki comes from a family of pastry chefs; all of whom specialize in making and decorating candies. However, her father is missing for the most part of the series and is hinted to have his own work to deal with. Thus, Kosaki has since been living…

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Seishirou Tsugumi

“Black Tiger” Tsugumi is a hitwoman who was raised and trained by Claude of the Beehive Gangsters.Ch. 14-16 Originally introduced as a transfer student in Chitoge’s class, she prefers to dress in shirt and…

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Bulma

Bulma is a fictional character in the Dragon Ball manga series created by Akira Toriyama. She debuted in the first chapter Bulma and Son Goku, published in Weekly Shōnen Jumpmagazine on June 19, 1984,[2] meeting Goku and recruiting him…

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Tifa Lockhart

Tifa Lockhart is a fictional character in Square‘s (now Square Enix) role-playing video game Final Fantasy VII. Created and designed by Tetsuya Nomura, she has since appeared in the fighting game Ehrgeiz and made cameo appearances in…

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Kuroyukihime

Kuroyukihime is the leader of the Nega Nebulus legion. Her real name is unknown (although Sky Raker calls her “Sacchan”). Her pseudonym is Japanese word play with Snow White Shiroyukihime Beautiful and popular, she is also the…

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Shana

Shana is the main female protagonist of the Shakugan no Shana series. She is a Flame Haze, usually referred to among other Flame Haze by her title “Flame-Haired Burning-Eyed Hunter”, or as “The Flame Haze of the Nietono no…

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Eucliwood Hellscythe

Eucliwood Hellscythe, more commonly known as Eu, is a necromancer who was first seen in the streets of Tokyo. In an unexpected turn of events, she met a boy named Ayumu and rose him from the dead after being killed by a serial killer. She is…

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Tsubaki Nakatsukasa

Tsubaki Nakatsukasa is the weapon partner of Black Star, classified as a “shadow weapon” who has the power to transform into a variety of ninja weapons including a kusarigama, a shuriken, a ninjatō, and a smoke…

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Itachi Uchiha

Itachi Uchiha is a fictional character in the Naruto manga and anime series created by Masashi Kishimoto. Itachi is the older brother of Sasuke Uchiha and is responsible for killing all the members of their clan, sparing only Sasuke. Though treated…

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Natsu Dragneel

“Salamander” Natsu Dragneel is a fictional character and the main male protagonist of the Fairy Tail manga and anime series created by Hiro Mashima. He is depicted throughout the story as a member of the eponymous wizards’ guild,…

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Vegeta

Vegeta IV (Hepburn: Beji-ta yon sei)[1] is a fictional character in the Dragon Ball manga series created by Akira Toriyama. Vegeta first appears in chapter #204 Sayonara, Son Goku (Sayōnara Son Gokū), published in Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine on…

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Light Yagami

Light Yagami is a fictional character and the protagonist of the manga series Death Note, created by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. He is a bored teen genius who finds a supernatural notebook known as the Death Note, which was dropped by the…

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Whitebeard

Edward Newgate (Edowādo Nyūgēto), better known as Whitebeard (Shirohige, named after the historical pirate Edward “Blackbeard” Teach), is the captain of the Whitebeard Pirates and one of the Four Emperors.[ch. 432, 474] He is a very…

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Levi Ackerman

Levi Ackerman , often formally referred to as Captain Levi, leader of the soldiers”) of the Special Operations Squad within the Survey Corps, and is widely known as humanity’s strongest soldier. Levi has short, straight black hair styled…

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Kenpachi Zaraki

Zaraki has a wild and aggressive appearance, fitting with his personality. He wears his captain’s jacket without sleeves, and with a more ragged look to it—-he acquired his jacket from the previous 11th Division captain, whom he defeated and…

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Roronoa Zoro

Roronoa Zoro (spelled as “Roronoa Zolo” or “Roronoa Zollo” in some English adaptations), nicknamed “Pirate Hunter” Zoro (Kaizoku-Gari no Zoro), is a fictional character in the One Piece franchise created by…

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