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Birk has shoulder-length orange hair that hang in bulky strands, and lovely blue eyes. He wears a blue tunic and a belt twice wrapped around his waist, kitted out with a pouch and sheath that holds a knife.

Birk is a cheeky, fun-loving and rational boy who tends to be realistic rather than fanciful, in contrast to how Ronja is. He is level-headed and is able to think on his feet, calmly assessing any situation he is met with. He is gently charismatic — so charming indeed, it quickly frustrates Ronja's initial determination to dislike him.

Birk, though usually emotionally steady, ends up crying in a moment of serious character development.

For most the series he shows little emotional variation. Mostly seen with an even, serene smile and the occasional cocky smirk, the only emotion he tends to express passionately is anger. Later in the series, particularly during the Bear's Cave arc, some of his serene demeanour melts away and feelings of grief and jealousy show through.


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Chihiro is a ten-year-old girl with brown hair, brown eyes, and rosy cheeks. She is very petite and has a childish appearance and a pudgy face. Her attire includes a white medium-sleeved T-shirt with bright green stripes, bright red shorts, white socks, and sunshine yellow velcro sneakers. While working in the bathhouse, she is barefoot and wears a coral-colored kariginu robe with a white hitoe underneath, short sashinuki pants, and a tasuki cord for tying her sleeves up.

Chihiro's growth into a capable individual is a core factor in the movement of Spirited Away's plot. During her adventure in the Spirit World, she matures from an easily scared girl with a childlike personality to match her age to a hard-working, responsible, and brave young girl who has learned to put her fears aside for those she cares for. To protect her friends and rescue her parents from a spell that has turned them into livestock, Chihiro sheds her former personality and adapts to her environment to become a courageous, caring, quick-witted, and reliable girl.
As the story progresses, the strength of her bond with Haku eventually evolves into a heartfelt form of love that dispels Yubaba and Zeniba 's respective curses on Haku.


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Haku appears to be around 12 years old in physical age. He has straight black hair (some see it as black, others say dark/forest green) in a bob haircut and slanted, green eyes.
When he is human, Haku wears a traditional white robe that resembles closely a Kariginu tied with a lavender sash, a short traditional indigo dyed Sashinuki (a type of kuribakama) underneath, and beige sandals. A darker blue Hitoe can be seen from the sides and shoulders of the robes.

Haku has multiple personalities. He can sometimes be kind-hearted and supportive, other times strict and high-strung. He is wise and is able to act accordingly to the situation. He is more than willing to stick his neck out when he cares about someone. From the beginning of the story, through to the end, he does everything within his power to keep Chihiro unharmed and to help her leave safely. His steadfast resolve helps Chihiro finally trust him, amidst contradictory information from other Spirited Away characters about him.
Haku always said she could trust him. However, Lin, was not sure of Haku's intentions and told Chihiro to not trust him. Yubaba 's twin sister, Zeniba insisted that Haku is a greedy thief, who had stolen her golden seal . In the end, Chihiro puts her faith in Haku. Later, it is revealed that Haku is Yubaba's slave, who controlled him with a black worm in his body.


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Karen has dark brown hair and pink bows on her pigtails. She wears a light-pink shirt with a white collar, darker pink pants, and white shoes. She has a light-green elephant plush toy that she carries around all the time.

Karen becomes quickly offended when Sōsuke didn't give in to her demands to play with her.


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Ket has light brown hair and brown eyes. He wears a white undershirt, green pants (with purple suspenders), white socks and light blue shoes.


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Kiki has short, dark brown hair, which she ties back using a large, amaranth red bow. She wears a medium-sleeved, jet black dress, which mostly appears to be violet or indigo, white undergarments that consist of a tank top and bloomers, and amaranth red flats that look scarlet red at times.
At the beginning, she's dressed in a bright green, short-sleeved dress with a medium turtle-neck and a bright pink apron, long, grey socks that are falling down and the same shoes.
Kiki is not initially pleased with her appearance at the beginning of the film, but later on is told to like herself as a witch by her mother, Kokiri .

Kiki is strong-willed, leaving her home in Karikiya for a year at 13-years old in order to undergo the training she's required to complete to be a witch. She is very friendly, curious, kind-hearted, sweet and upbeat. However, she is also rather stubborn and proud at times, which is sometimes to her disadvantage. She is very attached to her pet black cat, Jiji , and introduces him as her best friend. Kiki is not particularly popular when she first arrives in Koriko , but gradually makes new friends with her customers and is the town heroine at the end.


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The Kittenbus looks like a cat with space inside its back for a child or small person to ride in. He has four legs and he has brown and orange fur with yellow eyes that can light up to help it see in the dark. He can travel anywhere in seconds and is adorable.


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Beautiful blonde boys with bob heads. They all have the same appearance, and serve Madame Suliman .


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A slender, small 5-year-old, Kumiko has short brown wavy hair with matching eyes and a pink bow tie on the top of her head. She wears a sky blue dress with a small pink ribbon and white Capri-like pants or bloomers with a pink pair of shoes.

Kumiko is a sensitive and impulsive little girl who emphasizes her feelings for Sōsuke, showing him her new dress as well as requesting a ride on his boat. Generally, she's not the best role model among her classmates.


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Markl is small child of average build, with messy tangerine orange hair and peach skin. He looks after the castle for his master, granting customers requests for spells and magic. Every time a customer comes in, he's disguised as a wizard's disciple. [1]

Markl is an obedient, albeit messy apprentice working under wizard Howl. He is initially wary of Sophie, particularly when she cleans out the entire castle, but grows to appreciate her through the course of their adventures.


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Mary is a young girl with bushy, bright red hair that reaches just past her shoulders. She has two short strands of hair on her forehead, along with a couple shorter ones. Mary's eyes are sharp blue, and she always has a bright expression.
Her fashion choice includes, short skirts, long shirts, cartigans, over-the-knee stockings, sweaters, and cute sneakers, or brown laced boots. Her sleepwear consists of a light-yellow shirt-dress that reaches the knees.

Mary is a strongheaded and witty girl, stubborn and loud. She tries to help out when she can, but due to her clumsiness, is often let go. She has a lack of perception, and is quite teasing at points. She hated her hairstyle at first, but gradually accepted it.


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Mimiko has red hair and black eyes.
She wears a pink dress and yellow shirt underneath and yellow shoes and white panties.

Mimiko is described as being a sweet little girl that never gets lonely, despite not having any parents.


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Miyoko has chin length hair.
She wears a red sweater as Anna Sasaki and wear she a blue skirt and White shirt with red school uniforms.


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Nonoko has black hair.
She typically wears a beige shirt with a white collar and orange skirt.


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Peter has dirty blonde hair with cornflower blue eyes, and pale skin. The front half of his hair is longer than the back, and the bottom of his partially shaved underneath.
Peter has a blue baseball jacket with white sleeves, along with a single horizontal red band down the center of the wrist, bottom, and neck cuffs. He wears olive green pants that are rolled up to his ankles, and plain, brown shoes. He sometimes uses his jacket as a pouch to put his cats inside. Peter can also sometimes be seen in a backwards red hat.
SPOILER WARNING : In his transformed state (under the effect of the Fly by Night,) he grows noticeably larger and 'grown up.' His hair grows long and blue, and he sprouts large, iridescent wings. This only lasts a short while, however, when his is engulfed in a glob of blue magic goop from the flower.

Peter is generally a witty, kindhearted kid. He seems to like helping out, being the "delivery boy" of the neighborhood. He typically tries to act brave when it comes to something he's scared of doing, and is a sweet boy. When he was first shown, he was laughing at Mary's clumsiness, but tried to help her out a couple times afterwards. He is also shown to be helpful and selfless, as seen by wanting to ease his family's burden and sacrificing himself for Mary .


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Ponyo has two forms: her goldfish form and her human form. As a fish, she is cute, but as a little girl, she is magical. She has thick copper-red hair and has only two-piece clothing: an adorable little amaranth red dress with puffy sleeves and large. puffy white bloomers. She behaves just like a regular five-year-old child: intelligent, adorable, mischievous, and later in the film, sleepy. She's very happy, sweet, and barefoot all the time.

Ponyo is an extrovert, tending to go outside when her father is distracted doing his magic.  She also pleased when Sosuke finds her while he is playing by the sea by his house and frees her from a jar. Again, she pays him by licking his scar, and they bond and become friends.  Ponyo does not like her father at first, which is why she runs away from home at the beginning of the film, and she is also rambunctious, causing trouble around the house after Sosuke adopts her.  Soon, she withdraws magic and decides to live by Sosuke's side as a part of his family. She is a fish at first but becomes more humanlike when Sosuke self-injures his finger and she licks his scar, healing him.
Her favorite food is ham.


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As a child, Rie has short, chin-length black hair with bangs and wears a white blouse with a pink neckline, a blue jumper and beige shoes with pink socks. She seems to have a heavier set than ten year old Taeko. She usually has a bored or sad expression on her face.

She seems to be shy and introverted but is still able to handle her male classmates' bullying by laughing off their attempts at making fun of her.


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Riku has brown hair, brown/black eyes and he seems to be a bit taller than his two older sisters.


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Ronja is slender 10-year-old girl. She wears a salmon tunic and yellow tights. She has dark brown hair and brown eyes.

Everyone in Mattis ' fort is fond of Ronja, and respects and cherishes her. As an only child, she is spoiled with love. It powerfully nourishes her growth into an empathetic, intelligent, and lively girl. She's often happy, sweet, and giggly. She naturally takes on some character traits from her parents even if polarizing, such as Lovis ' cool rationality in problem solving, but Mattis' big emotions in interpersonal matters.
She develops a lot of courage and fearlessness; the simple principle she obeys to "never be scared in Mattis' forest" extends itself from reckoning with supernatural creatures, to being able to overcome Hell's Gap. She also discovers a pacifist ethic within herself that drives major aspects of the story.
In her energetic and childish way, every spring Ronja loves to do her "spring yell". She stands in the open forest and joyfully screams at the top of her voice to let the drudgery of the past winter out of her system.


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Satsuki has short, walnut brown hair and chocolate brown eyes (the eyes mostly appear black due to coloring and art style). She wears a tangerine skirt with tangerine suspenders, white bloomers, a sunshine yellow collared shirt, a sky blue pair of shoes, and a white hat (only worn in a few scenes).
In the second half of the movie she wears a yellow dress with white hems. During the end credits she has a yellow shirt and tangerine overalls on with a picture of a chibi Totoro embroidered onto the right leg. She is noticeably tall compared to her sister, and somewhat taller than a few of the children her age at her school.
Whenever she is inside the family household, Satsuki typically wears her choice of casual clothing or her pajamas during nighttime. Like her sister, she prefers to be barefoot when inside and/or around the house.

MISCONCEPTION: Satsuki does not wear a sky blue and carnation pink version of her normal outfit, the lighting is darker and changes the color pallete in the scene.

Satsuki is a bright and cheerful individual. She generally tries to be someone to look up to, most likely for her sister. She seems to idolize her mother's peaceful demeanor, and she even says that she wants her hair to cooperate to look like her mother's hair. Satsuki is hard working and intelligent, as shown when she is studying at school or helping out around her new home. She is also very open minded and pleasant towards people like Granny and even Kanta after getting to know his friendly side.

"I'm making this one for you, Mei."

Satsuki Kusakabe seems to be an independent and mature young lady. She does constantly feel grief and pressure, but does not let it show. The grief she feels for her mother being ill is only revealed towards the end of the movie when she breaks down in front of Granny. She also clearly feels very stressed to act like an adult and be a good role model for Mei.
Most of Satsuki's anger stems from Mei's contrasting irresponsibility. She gets easily frustrated, but is still a lovable character with good intentions.

Satsuki carrying a tired Mei at the bus stop next to Totoro


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Sawako wore a blue dress and a beige-yellow shirt underneath and carried a pink bag and red ruck-sack. By the time Sawako was reunited with Koro, she wore a yellow dress.


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Sayaka is a slender young girl and a little younger than Anna. Sayaka has  light brown hair tied in pigtails and teal eyes. She also has big round glasses and wears a yellow halter dress with orange stripes on the top and orange wavy stripes fading to sage green to orange.She wears white socks and strapped hot pink buckle shoes.

Sayaka is a very friendly and upbeat girl who considers the health and happiness of her friends (Anna) to be the most important part of her day.


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At the beginning of the film, Setsuko is shown to have the average body. As the film progresses, however, she is shown to have lost a considerable amount of weight. When Seita Yokokawa takes her to the doctor, she lifts up her shirt to reveal her agonizingly-haggard stomach; her ribs clearly visible, as well. She has dark brown hair cut short above her ears and shiny, dark brown eyes. She wears an off-white polo shirt and blue monpe , and a hooded cape of the same color and pattern and off-white bloomers along with tabi socks and getas (clogs). She also wears a red dress, and a white seifuku with black shoes and short socks in various flashback scenes.
As a spirit, Setsuko glows with an orange light, she is surrounded by fireflies and she is healthy once again.

Although Setsuko is young and naïve, she is shown to gain a deeper understanding of life and death as certain events unfold throughout the film. When she finds the dead fireflies that prompts the question "Why do fireflies have to die so soon?" and figures out that her mother is deceased, it is clear that Setsuko's outlook on the cycle of life has been cemented into her still-developing mind.
Setsuko loved sweets and once tried to eat stones thinking that they were her favorite candy drops. She also had a deep connection to her brother where she was overall a sweet and happy child. She also loved eating rice for dinner, except if it is rice porridge.


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Sho has navy blue/black hair and brown eyes.
He wears a white shirt and blue trousers, and is also seen wearing light blue pyjamas in the movie when it is his bedtime (he also wears a dark blue jacket when walking around in his pyjamas).

Sho is shown to be a quiet and very polite boy. However, he is initially listless and pessimistic about his operation, as he has no will to live, thinking that every living person will die, eventually, and he also has a low chance of survival from the operation.
This changes when he meets Arrietty , and he is inspired and amazed by her perseverance and strong will in rescuing her mother and thus gains the will to live on. It is shown in the very beginning of the film that he survives the operation, as he is reminiscing the time he met Arrietty.
In a director's interview, Hiromasa Yonebayashi describes him as "an ordinary 12-year-old boy," noting that he is younger than Arrietty who is 14, adding, "that adds a twist to the story." [1]


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Spiller is dark skinned with white stripes on both sides of his cheeks. His hair is uneven and spiky, most likely showing he doesn't cut it. His height is not determined but he is shorter than Arrietty. He is slightly muscly and has a sharp face.
He wears a brown fur coat and brown clothing underneath. He usually carries a bow along with some arrows in case danger lurks around the corner.

He’s fairly polite, not really being rude to the family he interacts with. He is especially nice to Arrietty , maybe due to him having a crush on her.


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Sōsuke is a 5-year-old boy who wears a sunshine yellow t-shirt and chocolate brown shorts, and white slip-on shoes. His hair is walnut brown with his hair shaven underneath. Also, he sometimes wears a sailor hat and binoculars.

Sōsuke is intelligent, smart, loyal, cute and heroic. He is willing to protect his friends (including Ponyo, starting from when she washes up on the shore near the house, stuck in a glass jar), even if doing so gets him in trouble with his mother or Ponyo's father (whom they hate).
He is interested in the sea, especially since his father is the captain of a ship. He also knows that Kōichi does his best for the family, as seen when Lisa gets angry at Kōichi and chides him for abandoning her family on a cliff.


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The Forest Spirit looks like deer, but with plant-like antlers and a human-like face. [1]
It can transform into a gigantic, translucent humanoid during the night called the Night-Walker.


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Gonta is a particularly stocky tanuki, with grey fur like Oroku's. He is distinguished by heavy black eyebrows, pockmarks on his face and tufts of scruffy fur on the top of his head. Like other clan elders, he has crow's feet around his eyes, and like most of the older males, he has a few whiskers on his upper lip that give the appearance of a mustache. His default clothing is a red vest with a single orange stripe across it. In his human form, which he only takes on a handful of times, he appears as a fat young man with short black hair, stubble on his chin, a red T-shirt similar to the vest of his tanuki form and pale blue jeans. When he leads an attack against the humans and takes a human form, he wears a red raincoat with a stripe a different shade of red across it, red trousers the same colour as his raincoat, and black boots.

Gonta is hotheaded and pugnacious. His wife is Otama, a docile, doting tanuki who worries about him constantly but is strong enough to fend off his attempts to woo her.
Gonta is combative and loves to argue with others. He threatens violence on tanukis who oppose his actions. In contrast, Shoukichi respects the opinions of other tanukis; for the most part, Shoukichi even listens to Gonta's ideas.
Both sides of their argument have valid points. While Shoukichi is right in that hurting humans is excessive, in retrospect he admits that Gonta was right on a couple of things. Gonta accurately observed that the developers are relentless and will become desensitized to hauntings if it means making a profit. He was also right that they were just wasting time by debating after the failure of Operation Specter.
He loves to assert power, but he's sensitive to criticism and will lash out if his ego is slighted in any way.
He leads the Red Tanukis to eliminate all humans, but all mentions of humans' food cause him to soften his approach a little. He really hates lazy tanukis. However, he, hypocritically, gets bored easily and would sometimes get distracted by a hamburger or doze off during important meetings.
Though he is proud and selfish, he respects Oroku and the Transformation Masters, and joins in on the celebration of Master Hage's birthday.


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Jihl has a tan beard and Brown Soldier uniform and possibly Brown pants with red necklace.


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Princess Lastelle is a beautiful young woman around Nausicaa's age. She has brown hair that goes a couple inches past her shoulders and brown eyes. She is seen wearing a long pink and yellow dress with a matching yellow hat, with jewels embedded in it and diamond earrings. She was a princess, but after her country was destroyed, she was reduced to a slave with her hands shackled. She then was moved to slave market by Airship Corvette.

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind Characters Main Cast Nausicaä | Teto | Gol & Gikuri Valley of the Wind Jhil | Yupa | Mito | Obaba Pejite Mayor of Pejite | Asbel | Lastelle | Lastelle's Mother Torumekian Empire Kushana | Kurotowa Miscellaneous Locations Valley of the Wind | Nausicaä's Tower | Pejite | Toxic Jungle | Torumekia Mechanical Designs Dreadnought | God Warrior | Mehve Creatures Fox Squirrel | Hebikera | Ohmu Glossary Miasma | Seven Days of Fire

V • T • E Studio Ghibli Animated features Feature films Castle in the Sky (1986) • Grave of the Fireflies (1988) • My Neighbor Totoro (1988) • Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) • Only Yesterday (1991) • Porco Rosso (1992) • Ocean Waves (1993) • Pom Poko (1994) • Whisper of the Heart (1995) • Princess Mononoke (1997) • My Neighbors the Yamadas (1999) • Spirited Away (2001) • The Cat Returns (2002) • Howl's Moving Castle (2004) • Tales from Earthsea (2006) • Ponyo (2008) • The Secret World of Arrietty (2010) • From Up on Poppy Hill (2011) • The Wind Rises (2013) • The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013) • When Marnie Was There (2014) • Earwig and the Witch (2020) • The Boy and the Heron (2023) Short films Nandarō • On Your Mark • Ghiblies • Film Guru Guru • Ghiblies Episode 2 • Imaginary Flying Machines • The Invention of Imaginary Machines of Destruction • The Whale Hunt • Koro's Big Day Out • Mei and the Kittenbus • Looking for a Home • The Day I Bought a Star • The Night of Taneyamagahara • Water Spider Monmon • Iblard Jikan • A Sumo Wrestler's Tail • Mr. Dough and the Egg Princess • Treasure Hunting • Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo • Boro the Caterpillar Documentaries The Story of Yanagawa's Canals (1987) • Miyazaki and Kurosawa Fireside Chat (1993) • Ghibli Was Born This Way: A Birth Story Spelled Out With Reproduced Images (1998) • World Journey of My Memory / Journey of the Heart (1998) • How Princess Mononoke Was Born (2001) • Lasseter-San, Arigato! (2003) • Hayao Miyazaki Produces a CD (2004) • Yasuo Otsuka's Joy of Motion (2004) • Hayao Miyazaki and the Ghibli Museum (2005) • Ghibli: The Miyazaki Temple (2005) • The Work of Toshio Suzuki (2006) • Scenery of Ghibli (2006) • A Ghibli Artisan – Kazuo Oga Exhibition – The Man Who Painted Totoro's Forest (2007) • How Ponyo Was Born (2009) • Poppy Hill - 300 Days of War Between Father and Son (2011) • Ghibli's Bookshelf (2011) • The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness (2013) • Until The End of The Creation of When Marnie Was There (2015) • Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki (2016) • NHK Image File: I Want To Meet This Person - Isao Takahata, Animation Film Director (2018) • 10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki (2019) • Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron (2023) Television series The Blue Seed (1992) • Ronja, the Robber's Daughter (2014) Concerts Joe Hisaishi in Budokan • Joe Hisaishi Symphonic Concert: The Music of Studio Ghibli Video games Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (Video Game) • Jade Cocoon: Story of the Tamamayu • Jade Cocoon 2 • Magic Pengel: The Quest for Color • Ni no Kuni (Series) • Ni no Kuni: Dominion of the Dark Djinn • Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch • Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom Printed works Animage • Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (manga) • Starting Point: 1979-1996 • Turning Point: 1997-2008 • Kaze no Kaerubasho • People of the Desert • The Age of the Flying Boat • Hayao Miyazaki's Daydream Data Notes • To My Sister • The Journey of Shuna • Studio Ghibli's Trajectory as Seen on Animage (1984-2011) • The Art of My Neighbor Totoro • The Art of Castle in the Sky • The Art of Kiki's Delivery Service • The Art of Porco Rosso • Princess Mononoke: The First Story • The Place Where Totoro Was Born • The Bountiful Food of Studio Ghibli • Children's Picture Book Ghibli's Dining Table Earwig and the Witch Co-Productions Flying City Plan • Shiki-Jitsu ( Studio Kajino ) • Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence • Nasu: Summer in Andalusia • Nasu: A Migratory Bird with Suitcase • Portable Airport • Red Crow and the Ghost Ship • Space Station No. 9 • The Red Turtle Pre-Ghibli works Hustle Punch (1965) • Horus, Prince of the Sun (1968) • Animal Treasure Island (1971) • Lupin the Third Part I (1971) • Panda! Go, Panda! (1972) • Heidi, Girl of the Alps (1974) • Dog of Flanders (1975) • Future Boy Conan (1978) • Anne of Green Gables (1979) • Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro (1979) • Chie the Brat (1981) • 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother (1981) • Gauche the Cellist (1982) • Sherlock Hound (1984) • Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) Ghibli-related labels Animage • Animage Home Video • Ghibli ga Ippai Collection • Ghibli Museum • Ghibli Museum Library • Ghibli Park • Totoro no Furusato Foundation • Totoro no Mori Unproduced projects Border 1939 Related productions Like the Clouds, Like the Wind • Mary and the Witch's Flower • Modest Heroes • Natsuzora • World Masterpiece Theater


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Marnie has long golden blonde hair that falls over her back, ending is smooth ringlets. She wears her hair loose for most of her screen time, wearing a blue dress with white frills and a blue ribbon tied at her collar and also wears a green dress with a yellow bow on her collar. She wears at one point a white nightgown with a blue ribbon on her collar and goes barefoot.
At the party, she wears a pink dress with various frills and high heels. Her hair is held in an elegant-yet-simple style, having only one portion held back with a matching ribbon. She sports red earrings.
As an adult and old lady, her clothing is much more simple, having a warm, earthly look.

Marnie is a kind, friendly and lively person. She is always cheerful and has a smile on her face. Marnie is adventurous and loves running in the forest, picking mushrooms and rowing in boats in the marsh. Marnie is very caring and sympathetic, she listens to Anna talk about her life at home and lovingly reassures her that everything will be alright. But beneath her warm smile is a sad, lonely and fearful girl who misses her parents and is scared of the silo on the hill.
Marnie is very brave at times, like rescuing Anna from crashing her boat, tricking her abusive nanny by locking her in her room and going into the silo during a thunderstorm.
As an adult, she lived a bittersweet life and in the last moments of her life, she is determined to make sure her granddaughter Anna is well taken care of.


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Seita has dark brown hair cut short and dark brown eyes.
He wears an off white Captain's cap or school uniform cap with a black viser and a beige Kokumin-fuku jacket with a name tag, white tank top underneath and beige pants with leg wrapping on his shins and black ankle lace boots.


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Dazaburō is a small, ancient tanuki with light brown fur, and long fur growing from his chin like a beard. He rarely shows his eyes except in significant moments.

Dazaburō is very mild-mannered, and empathetic to the cause of the Tama Hills tanuki. After he becomes senile, he thinks of himself as something of an arhat.


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The Radish Spirit is a hefty, slow-moving god with a build like that of a sumo wrestler . He has two large appendages extending down from the sides of his face, and is covered from head-to-toe in white fur. He wears an upturned sake bowl on his head and a red Etchū fundoshi . He also has a very short tail.


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By his appearance, he is an extremely old river god, evident by the countless wrinkles on his face, white-colored eyebrows and the thinning amounts of facial hair and lack of teeth, the River Spirit is revealed to have a water-based, dragon -like body in his original form with multiple, wiry, avian legs.
In his first introduction in the film, the River Spirit is shown to be a disgusting, grimy, muck-infested spirit mistaken to be a "stink spirit" by many. However, Yubaba notes that he didn't seem like a stink spirit and ordered Chihiro Ogino to wash him in the Big Tub. After being relieved of all the human-made trash that had clogged up his body, the unnamed River Spirit was freed from all the gunk he was carrying and revealed himself to be a grand spirit.

Not much of the River Spirit's personality is made apparent in the film. It is known that he is a very rich and powerful spirit with much influence in the Spirit Realm. He is shown to be very energetic once freed of his polluted burden and displays a hefty amount of gratitude to Chihiro, who freed him, by giving her a famous type of medicine as thanks. He is also generous, leaving a great amount of gold pieces on the ground as a tip to the Bathhouse workers for their service to him.


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Charlotte has short, grayed hair that reaches her ear length, along with separated short bangs. She has red, rounded glasses which she is rarely seen without, and blue eyes. Her skin is fair and smooth, and she is slightly overweight. Charlotte usually wears a vintage dress that reaches the ankles and a short cardigan over it.
When Charlotte was younger, she had long, layered red hair, similar to Mary's, but longer and slightly darker. Her eyes are blue, and she resembled an older Mary in a way. She was often seen in a black, flowing dress that looked similar to a cloak. The sleeve were long and oversized, like the rest of the dress. With the attire, she wore a plain red scarf and long heel boots that reached her knees.

Charlotte is a rather sweet and gentle person, and deeply cares about close ones. When Mary had gone missing for the night, Charlotte was in great panic and very relieved to see her. As a thoughtful gift, she picked the Fly By Night and gave it to Doctor Dee and Madam Mumblechook , unaware of their awful intentions.


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Granny has grey hair, black eyes, and wears a white shirt, a periwinkle robe, and a white hat.

Granny is a kind elderly woman, who cares for every one of her neighbors. Mei is hard to deal with, because she is stubborn. Despite this, Granny tries to please her and even bring Mei to Satsuki's School House .


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His limbs can apparently extend indefinitely, enabling him to access the upper cabinets of his workplace without having to leave his original work position. Kamajī appears to spend most of his time at his workplace, as he is seen sleeping and eating his meals there.
A number of Sootballs work for him by carrying coal into his furnace. He has large cabinets where he keeps all the herbs that are used in the baths. He rarely stands up, so you hardly see his two tiny legs. His eyes lack visibility, even anywhere behind his glasses.


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Kayo has light brown hair and wears blue dress and pink ribbon.


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Noddle-Pete has peachy skin and brown eyes. He is bald on the top with scraggly hair, white with age, fanning out from either side of his head, with likewise white eyebrows, and goatee.

Noddle-Pete is bright, teasing, and slightly misbehaved. He sometimes cracks banter at the expense of Mattis, usually to sarcastically comment on his less thought-out plans. In spite of this, Mattis loves him a great deal; after all, Noddle-Pete knew him since he was a baby, having attended his birth.
He knows a lot about the forest and its creatures, he will for example tell Ronja about Mirktrolls that come out in the spring moonlight and imitate their dance.


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Noriko has brown hair and grey eyes. She wears a beige blouse with green circles, and a blue.


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Oroku is a grey tanuki with black hair pinned neatly, and a red kimono. In human form, she looks almost exactly the same, but has the appearance of a middle-aged woman.


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Sophie is a relatively plain looking 18-year-old young woman who works at her father's hat shop . She has big brown eyes and matching hair, tied with two pink ribbons in a long braid. She has thick eyebrows, and Howl says that her smile is beautiful. She wears a cerulean dress with a white neck and black buttons.
After receiving a curse by the Witch of the Waste , she is transformed into a 90-year-old woman. She adapts quickly to her situation, remarking she has become more cunning in her old age. As elder Sophie, she continues to wear her cerulean dress, pairing it with a straw hat adorned with a red ribbon.

Elder Sophie vigorously cleaning Howl's castle .
Due to her love for Howl , Sophie de-ages depending on her emotional state. When defending Howl to Sullivan, Sophie briefly regains her original appearance, but turns back after. Throughout the rest of the film, her old form doesn't suffer back pain and she stands straighter; her wrinkles also smoothen. Sophie's braid is shorter in her old form.
Her hair becomes grey as a side effect of the curse; however, eventually, it attains a silvery sheen which Howl likes, saying it looks like starlight. Her hair style changes to a shoulder-length bob cut after she cuts her braid off and gives it to Calcifer as a sacrifice of a part of her. Afterward she tucks her hair behind her ears.

Sophie is a reserved, plain-looking young woman. She is far too mature and serious for her age, much to the chagrin of her sister Lettie and stepmother Honey . Tired of wizard Howl's indolence, she initiates cleaning his castle . She develops feelings for the poor, cowardly wizard. She also serves as a maternal figure to Markl and a friend to Calcifer and Turnip Head . Despite her misgivings, she ends up tolerating the Witch of the Waste after she is turned feeble by the royal sorceress Madame Suliman .


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Madam Suliman has a platinum-colored hair with a mini hat and grey eyes, and wears red dress with a beige fur trim along the ends. She sits upon an elaborate wheelchair, with soft cushions. She holds a large magical staff, which is capable of projecting images and even opening a hole into another world. [1]

Despite appearing before Sophie as an elegant old woman, she is an extremely dangerous and possessive sorceress of great power. She cruelly dispatches the Witch of the Waste , revealing her to be a feeble, decrepit old woman, and threatens Sophie that Howl will meet the same fate if he refuses to cooperate with the king. [2]


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He is burly and steely-eyed, with muscular rowing arms and a grey beard. He wears a brown fishing jacket, and a dark green knit cap. Anna describes him as "like a bear".


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Yoshie has blonde hair and wears a pink dress. She was often seen sitting in a wheelchair. In the ending, she was seen walking around without any sort of support during the time with the other seniors and Granmamare when she states, "Life Begins Again".


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She isn't the student-body president, but she keeps a strong company among the girls. She gives advice not to backbite as it damages their solidarity. She is respected for her effort to keep the girls together, besides Rikako Muto . She dislikes Rikako for their years at Kouchi Outemae High School .
Later on she changes her mind about Rikako. She recognizes the world is much bigger than her own world as a teenager. She even starts talking to Rikako, when she meets her in Obiyamachi. At the class reunion, she tells Taku and Yutaka Matsuno about her conversation with Rikako in Obiyamachi.


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Anna has messy coffee brown hair styled into a pixie cut and  sapphire blue eyes. She wears a few outfits through the movie but she typically dresses in red shorts, light blue sneakers, and various blue shirts. At the Tanabata festival, she wears a pink yukata with pink and blue flowers that belonged to Setsu Oiwa 's daughter. By the end of the movie, she starts wearing her grandmother's hairpin again.

Anna is a caring, curious, and introspective person. She is usually polite with her elders, especially her aunt and uncle but doesn't talk unless it's necessary. She is an artist, and is often carrying around her sketchbook although at first she believed that she wasn't good at drawing when in fact she is great at it. The drawings shown in the movie are mostly of landscapes, such as the playground in the beginning, the marsh house, Marnie's house and Marnie herself.
Anna has a low self-esteem, deeming herself worthless, ugly, awkward, a nuisance and abnormal. Her social anxiety is also very prevalent, causing her to struggle in large crowds and interaction with people, cutting herself away from others, which is usually mistaken for shyness. She suppresses her emotions, usually donning on a neutral expression, and is also very prone to emotional outbursts, suddenly changing moods but with the help of Marnie and Sayaka, Anna starts to open up and becomes slightly more upbeat, smiling more, apologizing to Nobuko for hurting her feelings and even referring to Yoriko as her mother.


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Arrietty is a 14-year-old girl with shoulder-length auburn hair and black eyes.
Oftentimes, she wears a red dress whenever she is out borrowing, if she is not, she is seen in a light brown blouse and a pale yellow dress. Since she is a borrower, she is very small (around 2 or 3 times taller than a pin in the film), so she is hard to spot.


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Bella Yaga has bright blue, curly hair with mismatch eyeshadow of purple and blue. She is usually well dressed with heavy amounts of makeup and jewelry. When she is working on spells, her hair is tied up and she is in an apron.

Bella Yaga is hard around the edges, coming off as cold, cruel and selfish. She is not heartless, though. It takes Mandrake and her getting in a dispute for her to treat Earwig better. She freezes up when Earwig hugs her or shows any kind of affection, indicating she is used to being solitary and miserable.


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Earwig's mother is extremely beautiful with thick red hair and a lovely voice. She seems to not age at all.

Earwig's mother is shrouded in mystery, it is unknown what provoked her to break Witch Code, if it was her becoming a mother or something else. Not much is known about her other than that she is willful and does eventually come back for Earwig.


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Esther has blonde hair in a ponytail and blue eyes. She a dark indigo crop top with a gold neck collar and light purple short sleeves a matching dark indigo skirt with a gold band near the bottom pink puffy pants with gold bands at the legs and orange dancers' slippers. At the Winter Isles, she wears a pink coat with fluffy white edges. In Castaway Cove she wears a blue bikini with a purple towel skirt around her waist.

Esther is a bright girl with a positive attitude. She is very helpful and quickly feels sorry for others, which is why she wants to help everyone. Precisely for this reason, she often clashes with the pessimistic Sven and also shows her loud, spirited and stubborn side in arguments with him.


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Fio is a 17-year-old girl with fiery orange hair and walnut brown eyes. She wears a shirt that is white with sky blue lines (or a blue shirt with white checkers) and sky blue pants/jeans with a belt. She also wears pearl earrings.

Fio takes after her grandfather in being cheerful, carefree and confident. She confronts the air pirates after Porco's life and manages to win them over. Fio's conviction slowly has an effect on Porco. Fio's confidence and youthful beauty also charms Donald Curtis .


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Kaya is a young human girl in the movie. She has brown hair with a single red bow pigtail and brown eyes. She wears a purple kimono with red lining and a straw hat.


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Kushana has ginger hair with a crown she has blue eyes, blue earrings, and she wears knight armor. She later appears without her armor, revealing white dress and her mechanical arm and legs when she escapes from captivity.

Despite her ferocity in battle, Kushana has a nobility of character that earns her the respect of both Nausicaä and Master Yupa . While she admires Nausicaä's pacifist ideals, she sees herself as inescapably destined to walk the path of bloodshed. She cares deeply for the men under her command, but is portrayed as brutal and harsh to her enemies.
Just like Nausicaä, she was born into a man's world. She had to survive by, in a sense, becoming a man; she wore armor, commanded fleets, etc. She had to make tough decisions, and had to be very cautious of her surroundings. Because she knew, behind everything, her brothers were out to kill her and take over the throne.
While seemingly cold-hearted at first, the reader's approach to the character becomes more emotional as we delve into the plot. We find out that the emperor who succeeded Kushana's father poisoned Kushana's mother, making her insane. People took Kushana away, and left her mother alone with only a rag doll. In her insanity, Kushana's mother thought that this rag doll was her daughter. This part of the story once again reflects upon Greek mythology, where many gods and other characters killed their children in fits of temporary insanity.


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Lily has white fur and light pink ears. Her eyes are greenish, with a tint of yellow.


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Lin has chocolate brown eyes, straight chocolate brown hair with short bangs parted in the middle and long side strands of hair on both sides of her head. The length of her hair goes past her waist, and the end is tied with a carnation pink ribbon. She wears a standard salmon colored jinbei uniform with a sunshine yellow undershirt and turquoise blue apron that most of the female staff wear and is barefoot.

Lin is very strong-hearted, stubborn and occasionally bossy. Although she has a good heart and cares for Chihiro, she is quick to go on the defensive, and her attitude and words are often sarcastic. She is also very protective, as she hides Chihiro when sneaking her to the top floor to see Yubaba, and also comforts Chihiro while attempting to cure the River Spirit by telling Chihiro she won't let him hurt her.
But she is not always cooperative. Kamajī has to give her a roasted newt to change her mind about accompanying Chihiro to Yubaba . Later on, she uses the newt to sidetrack one of her co-workers from Chihiro's human smell. When Chihiro gets a job in the Bathhouse, she is totally happy about it.


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Lovis has brown eyes and reddish-brown hair tied into two braids with red ties. On either side of her head she wears two large medallion-like hair clips. She has two strands of hair hanging off her head, with red and white ribbons twisting around them.


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The Potpie Girl has brown hair with green hair bands she wears a pink party dress and mini necklace.

The Potpie Girl appears to be around Kiki 's age and is shown to be rude and ungrateful after receiving a present from her grandmother .


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Miki is shown to have brown hair that is usually tied back into a ponytail.
She is seen wearing a yellow cardigan throughout the film.

There's nothing much to say about Miki Hokuto except that she is a laid-back and calm person who spends most of her time doing whatever she wants in the Coquelicot Manor.


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Naoko has brown hair.
She wears a beige shirt and a skirt.


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Nobuko is an overweight girl with black hair that has straight bangs and small, dark-colored eyes.
She usually wears her hair in a braid and loose for special occasions.


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Senior Witch has light brown hair with two plaits and teal eyes. She wears a dark purple dress, two heart-shaped gold earrings and a red necklace. Her broomstick is brown and she flies with a black cat with radiant green eyes and a lantern at night. She is possibly 14-years old since she has stated to have completed her training.

She is proud of what she has accomplished, but also has a snobbish personality. However she is also polite as she wished Kiki well on her journey.


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Sheeta wears a plain, indigo dress with a white petticoat underneath. Later, she changes into Dola's large red pants, with a yellow blouse and brown slippers. She has dark brown hair with a short fringe and wears her hair in two braids on either side of her head. Her eyes are a deep greyish blue (though often appear as entirely black). She also wears a red headband. Each braid is tied neatly at the bottom with a red ribbon, a common color for hair accessories in Studio Ghibli films. After having her braids shot off by Muska, her hair is very short, very similar to Kiki 's hairstyle.


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Like majority members of the Tsukishima family, Shiho has brown hair that reaches just below her shoulders. Her height is average for an nineteen-year-old, college student; although she is the tallest in her family. She has dark to almost black eyes, high nose and arched eyebrows.
She often comes in the house wearing a colored T-shirt (often beige or pink) or a sleeveless top (white with blue collars) matched with jeans. When cooking, she is seen wearing either a beige or pink sweater, jeans, and a blue apron. Her bedtime clothing consists of a beige T-shirt accompanied with dark, navy blue shorts.


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Shizuku is a slender fourteen years old girl with short black hair which reaches slightly below her ears and the same colored eyes, although it looks black due to the animation style and which is a bob cut
At the start of the movie, she is seen wearing a buttoned sunshine yellow shirt and sunshine yellow skirt along with it. Later, however, she wears an amaranth red shirt with a white collar, a sunshine yellow skirt and a flat straw hat with a violet band around it. She wears also a royal blue skirt and white shirt with a long-sleeved carnation pink shirt and also a sunshine yellow jacket when she goes to school. In the beginning, she wears a white t-shirt and carnation pink shorts with flip flops, and then a sunshine yellow collarless shirt and a sunshine yellow skirt that matches with baise shoes. Her uniform is a short-sleeved baize sailor shirt with an amaranth red ribbon/tie to tie and a long baize skirt and school shoes with white socks and another uniform later in the year that's a blue long-sleeved sailor shirt, and an indigo skirt.

Shizuku is generally good-natured, although she has the tendency to fly into a rage and call people "jerks".


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For her general appearance, Sora has a bob haircut similar to Umi, and a pink barrette on the right side of her hair. For her school attire, she wears a standard sailor school uniform with a green ribbon that is tied into a bow.

Sora is a stereotypical teenage girl who always do what a normal teenager does. Best shown during her debut where she took most of her time tidying her hair before having breakfast with the family.
She is also depicted as a supportive sister to Umi whenever they visit the Quartier Latin together even agreeing to help her and the other students to restore the building just to save it from being demolished.
Another part of her personality is that she is quite graceful with how Umi and Shun are a couple together, despite that Sora has a crush on Shun beforehand.


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Therru has brown hair that has two long strands in the front where it is tied with red ribbons while the rest of her hair remains short in the back, she has brown eyes a large burn scar on the left side of her face from where her parents burned her. Her red ribbons are removed, letting her hair loose before transformation.
Therru's attire is a plain, dark pink jumper with a lighter, long-sleeved pink shirt under it as well as a white apron in the front.
In her true form, Therru has gray hair, gray scales, with wings, she has red eyes, horns, four legs.

It is hard to earn Therru's trust easily, probably due to being abused by her birth parents. She is tough when she needs to be, independent and speaks her mind. While it takes a while to get to her center, she has a good heart and is very caring towards her acquaintances and any animal alike.


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Toko has brown hair. She prefers to wear a white shirt and blue skirt.


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Umi has shoulder length dark brown hair with lightly swept bangs that are parted to the right and is seen styled in twin tail braids. Her eyes in the film are seen as dark brown.
When seen in her school uniform, it includes a dark blue skirt that reaches down her knees, a white sailor shirt with a single blue line and a red ribbon. But when at home, Umi's causal wear consists of a light pink top with a hot pink skirt and sweater.


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Ursula has taupe hair, and usually wears an amaranth red tank top and jean shorts that are jagged at the ends. She also wears a straw hat  when she ventures out into the city. She also has a yellow nightgown.
She always wears open-toed footwear (either flip-flops or sandals), and likes to go barefoot as well.


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It has long wings and two bird claws, with a facsimile of Yubaba 's head and face. Its feathers are a dark blue/grey colour, and the fur round it's neck is black.


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Yuko is fourteen years old like Shizuku. She is tall, and has brown eyes and brown hair, which she wears in two braids. She wears a Japanese junior high school uniform. In the beginning of the movie she wears a blue sleeveless dress and a floppy hat with a purple band.

She has a huge crush on Sugimura and is a really good student and likes to tease Shizuku after Shizuku acts weird around Seji. She is a good friend, but gets annoyed with Shizuku sometimes.


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Akio is the foster father to Shun Kazama and husband to Miss Kazama. During the day, he works on a boat. At evening he likes to watch baseball on TV.


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Arren is a handsome young man with dark brown hair and deep dark eyes. He often has an innocent and pleading expression, though he can also appear angry.
He typically wears an old blue shirt, occasionally paired with a purple robe with gold edges or a brown cape.


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At the beginning of the movie, Ashitaka is depicted as a handsome young man who has long hair that is tied into a bun, but he cuts it off after he is told to leave the village. His hair then has a layered cut with wild bangs cut over his eyebrows. His hair is dark brown and he has greyish-brown/brownish-grey eyes. His clothing consists of a blue tunic and peach-white pants, as well as brown bottom warmers and shoes made out of fabric. He also wears blue arm sleeves and a red-orange hood to cover his face. He wears a cloak made out of hay for a small portion of the movie. He wears his fiancée's crystal dagger (In the English dub, everyone calls each other brother and sister, even if they are not related) before he gives it to San . After San's attack on Irontown , Ashitaka has a slash scar on his left cheek where San slashed him with her dagger.
His curse often manifested as a glowing purple and black aura on his right arm. This signified his anger or the anger of those around him, and occasionally caused the muscle mass of his arm and body to momentarily increase, and cause him serious pain. The aura itself often appeared similar to the demon curse that initially infected his body.

Ashitaka is very stern and determined to achieve his goals, not allowing his setbacks to stop him from curing his curse and saving his village, or anyone in danger. He is also extremely curious in nature, wanting to discover who San truly is after witnessing her sucking venom out of one of the wolves. Despite his hard outer shell, Ashitaka is also very kind and only wishes for the best outcomes for both sides, not wishing for either side to shed blood in destructive wars, and wants peace between the forces of nature and humanity.
His affinity for peace is portrayed several times throughout the movie. One example of his tendency to only fight as a last resort is his interruption of San and Eboshi's fight. Even though both are attacking him, he initially tries to convince them that hatred is blinding them, and when he's further attacked, he dispatches them in a non-lethal manner.
On top of that, after stating that he will leave and take "the wolf girl" with him, he is brutally shot in the back by one of the villagers, to which he simply moves on, without retaliation, further displaying no interest in actions that would lead to continued violence.
He also saw the good in San, at one point impulsively telling her that she is "beautiful".


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Charles has dark eyes and light brown hair with a very bushy beard and mustache. Like the rest of the boys in the gang, Charles almost always wears a brown shirt with pink pants, a belt, a red hood and brown slip-on shoes.


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Henri has reddish-brown hair, dark eyes, freckles, and no facial hair. Like the rest of the boys in the gang, Henri almost always wears a brown shirt with pink pants, a belt, and a red hood. When he dresses up in white to go into town, his top hat is so large, it covers his eyes.


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Ishitsukuri is a tall, very handsome young man with a small head. When he is first seen, he sports a pencil moustache, but has it shaved off when he visits Kaguya three years later.


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The mayor is a patriot distributing leaflets in his beloved country Ingary . He visits Howl to convince him to join the army.

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Motro is short, somewhat overweight, and bald with a large brown mustache. He always wears round, tinted glasses and his eyes are never seen. He is similar in design to Kamajī in Spirited Away , and to Lonebach, the antagonist of a Lupin III episode Miyazaki directed titled Wings of Death: Albatross .


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Noboru has brown hair.
He wears a dark blue sweater and dark pants.


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Oliver has brown hair and blue eyes. He wears a blue shirt with white collar and a red cloak with green and white trousers and light brown shoes. During his initial appearance in the game, Oliver wore a yellow shirt, blue trousers, and light red socks and blue and white shoes. In Castaway Cove, he obtains red swim trunks with yellow spike designs over the bottom edges. When traveling in The Winter Isles, Oliver wears a thick, blue long coat with white linings, dark gloves, and brown boots.

Oliver is a kind-hearted, nice, and polite young boy. Though a bit naïve and gullible, he's incredibly helpful and helps anyone who asks him to. He does not give up hope and is incredibly brave. Together with his best friend Philip, he pursues the dream of making his own car, one that dwarfs everything Motorville has ever seen. Like most people in Motorville, he is passionate about technology.
Oliver also has a strong sense of justice, believing that while the world may be flawed, it is still a place where many people strive for the greater good. As shown in various points of the game, Oliver is trusting and nice to strangers, even if they had wronged him once before. His good nature completes his great character, and it's what causes many characters in the game to trust and help him.


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Seiji has short, dark hair and white skin. His eyebrows are brown and his eyes are dark, the same black/brown color of his hair. His face is long and his forehead is wide, his chin ending with a point.

Seiji is a confident young man who has been in love with Shizuku for most of their school lives. When they first encounter each other Shizuku perceives him as rude, and refers to him as "stupid jerk" which she repeats numerous times, however as the film progresses we see that he is a very sensitive and loving person, and his affection for Shizuku become very apparent, especially at the end of the film. He is very driven, wanting to go to Italy on his own to perfect the art of violin making, and willing to leave everything behind, showing both his confidence and his abilities.


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Shirou has brown hair and he wears a pair of rectangular glasses for his everyday attire. For his school attire, he wears a standard blue uniform, a blue school cap, a pair of long blue jeans, and a pair of black shoes. For his casual attire, he wears a blue turtleneck sweater and a pair of brown jeans.

Shirou is an easy-going person who speaks more than a few words. Despite this, Shirou is an intelligent person who is quite cunning with himself as evident where he and his friends sang the school anthem to hide the student's debate on saving the Quartier Latin from the school's principal. His other personality has him being quite kind to others even being grateful towards Umi and her friends who came to help in restoring the Quartier Latin to save it from being demolished.


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Shun Kazama is a seventeen-year-old boy. He has dark brown hair and black eyes.


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Sutemaru has tanned skin and feline like eyes that become less catlike as he reaches adulthood and they gain a bored look that changes immediately after spotting Kaguya. Sutemaru wears simple villager clothing. He wears a male blue kimono with a matching hat in his adulthood. His medium-sized hair was held in a small ponytail. He used to go barefoot.


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Tombo is a slender 14-year-old boy. He has light brown hair and brown eyes. He wears glasses, along with an orange and white striped shirt and blue pants.


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Calcifier appears as a living ball of fire with eyes and a mouth. He is usually orange-yellow, but this seems to change with his emotions and size. Calcifier's size also changes depending on the type and amount of fuel he is running on.

Calcifer is bound to the confines of Howl's Castle after he struck a deal with Howl years prior. He later strikes another magical bargain with Sophie , hoping she can break his curse. Calcifer cares about Howl, Sophie, and their makeshift family despite his grandiose threats and prickly demeanor. He worries about Howl's penchant for war and that it will inevitably change him.


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When first introduced, No-Face appeared in a semi-transparent state while shifting in and out of visibility. His organs are visible, pulsating in several states. His figure resembles that of a long, black tube. While it is unknown if No-Face has a physical body, it is shown that he can develop arms and legs with the capability of leaving footprints as he walks. An ominous, expressionless mask with grey-violet highlights is painted on his "head" of sorts, and while there is a "mouth" painted on the mask, No-Face has shown that his real, expertly-hidden mouth is larger than the one present on his mask.

No-Face is a lonely spirit who begins to follow Chihiro Ogino after having developed an interest in her sincerity. His vocabulary consisted of grunts and moans as opposed to coherent words. Not knowing much about the Bathhouse or about other spirits in general, No-Face learned by example and adapted to his surroundings.
Exposed to the corruptive thoughts and greed of the workers, he quickly grew to encompass their personalities, hoping that his endeavor to be like those around Chihiro would eventually garner her affection for him. While this ultimately brought upon the opposite effect, Chihiro was somewhat true to No-Face after she invited him and accepted help from him.
No-Face becomes obsessed with Chihiro, and wants to see her and her only. He becomes extremely volatile after being fed the River Spirit 's emetic dumpling by Chihiro, and while fleeing from the obviously now-hostile spirit, Chihiro calls out to him twice to follow her. She accepts him as a co-journeyer into the train ride on her way to Swamp Bottom after he calms down and is out of the Bathhouse. At this stage, No-Face is no longer aggressive and is quite docile, even obeying Chihiro's orders, like "sit" and "behave yourself."
As a monstrous, out-of-control being, No-Face exhibits all the negative traits of those he had swallowed (most significantly, Aogaeru ), becoming a brash, arrogant, loud, and selfish creature whose obsession with Chihiro proved troubling for everyone around it.
Towards the end of the film, No-Face meets with Zeniba , another witch who works alone, in contrast to Yubaba , who runs her bathhouse with a complex hierarchy. Perhaps attempting to match the rules of the new tiny society, No-Face starts spinning and knitting and appears proficient in the job. Happy with his new environment, he accepts Zeniba's proposal to stay with her as an apprentice.


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Star children appear as translucent beings with a bright, star-like head. When summoned by Suliman , they appear to have small beady eyes. In his youth, Howl saw several star children outside his cottage, and managed to make a pact with one.


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Totoro appears as a large furry creature with grey fur and beige belly with grey arrows on his chest. He has pointy ears, long whiskers along with large paws with long claws. When he floats his mouth expands greatly. His silhouette vaguely resembles that of an owl.


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Drippy has beige skin with spiky nose holding lantern. He wears a blue pants


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Aniyaku has small, black eyebrows and a mustache. He resembles a Charlie Chaplin, Adolf Hitler, like Chichiyaku and the other bathhouse employees.


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Lupin is tall and skinny with neatly styled short black hair that never falls out of place, and large black eyes. Despite the fact that he's older than he is in the series, he has the same boyish appearance as before. He wears the outfit he wore in the first anime: a green jacket, a black shirt and pants and a yellow tie.

Unlike his sociopathic manga counterpart, Lupin is a mischievous but easy-going gentleman thief, with particular emphasis on the "gentleman". While he steals, he mainly does it for the thrill of it, and just to prove he can. While he can be intimidating, he has a warm and friendly side to him. In The Castle of Cagliostro , he's older, wiser, and regrets his actions of his past, seeing his young self as a "punk" and a "greenhorn".
His chivalry is a quality that carries over from the anime; he has a weakness for a pretty girl in distress. But while he's a self-admitted womanizer, he views Clarisse as the same little girl he knew years ago.
He can be a little accident-prone and has a tendency to say "Ay-yi-yi" whenever things go wrong.
He can be incredibly stubborn. When he's recuperating from his wounds, he literally bites off more than he can chew and ends up nearly sick from indigestion.


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In the film, Chichiyaku has orange eyes, salmon-orange skin, and a small, reddish-orange mustache. Like many of the bathhouse workers, he resembles a frog.

In the film Chichiyaku seems at times selfish, but with the help of Chihiro by the end of the film he appears to have more humility. Among many of the other spirits, he first treats Chihiro Ogino with discontent due to her being a human, but gradually comes to accept and even cheer for her as she helps the River Spirit and saves the Bathhouse from No-Face .


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Heen is a lazy, shaggy, floppy-eared dog, who only communicates through wheezing and gasping, jumping and scraping.


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Jiji is a black cat with large white eyes and black pupils. The insides of his ears are iris purple.
As a witch familiar, he has a much longer lifespan than normal cats.

In the American version, Jiji is a chatty and sarcastic cat that likes to act proud whilst in the Japanese version, Jiji is a cautious and humble, and is always ready to help Kiki.
The character of Jiji is significantly different in the American dub. In the Japanese version, Jiji is voiced by the female performer Rei Sakuma , while in the American version Jiji is performed by Phil Hartman , and also has more of a wisecracking demeanor.
In Japanese culture, cats are usually depicted with feminine voices, whereas in American culture, their voices are more gender-specific. A number of Hartman's lines exist where Jiji simply says nothing in the original (such as in the scene where Jiji approaches Lily along the top of the wall). Jiji's personality is notably different between the two versions, showing a more cynical and sarcastic attitude in the 1998 English version, as opposed to cautious and conscience-like in the original Japanese.


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The Kashira resemble large heads that have greenish skin and possess small mustaches and beards.


Princess Mononoke

Niya is a large beige cat with dark gray patches and a pale muzzle.


Princess Mononoke

Kodama have white skin with black and grey, glowing eyes.  Each Kodak has a different head but they all have three black dots on their faces to symbolize their eyes and mouth.


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Demon worms are red/black, worm-like creature beings resembling congealed blood that emerge en masse from creatures turning into demons. They lack visible eyes, but appear to have a mouth similar to that of a leech.
After Tatari-Gami is killed, their flesh rapidly melts away, leaving only bone.


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7 is shown to have brown-red hair pulled back in a braid. She has a white sash with a black ribbon with a rose to keep it closed. Her corset is red and wrapped in a white cloth. Her skirt is black-brown with ruffles. 7's shoes of choice are high heels.

7 is able to deal with unexpected events without letting her personal feelings get in the way. Her professionalism and dedication towards Control even when it's under the management of the military is shown when Ange contacts her to meet her at London train station to give her explanation as to the current status of Control and what happened to L in Episode 11 . She gives her order to stay loyal to the mission if she wants to survive.


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Alicia is described as looking like a 'doll' and child like.

Alicia Northernend is a girl who cooperate in missions by utilizing her unusually sharp hearing and ability to manipulate sound waves. She acts older than her appearance might suggest. [2] Alicias emotions are also said to be 'weak' and she is always staring into the void oblivious to her surroundings. [2]


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Amy Anderson has short wavy blonde hair. She is not seen wearing anything outside of her white infirmary gown. Before her operation, her eyes were bright green due to the cavorite poisoning that she suffered from. Her feet are covered in calluses from ballet dancing.

Before Amy's cavorite poisoning, her older brother Eric described her as a happy and friendly girl. After she was poisoned however, she became much more hostile and defensive.


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Chise's school appearance makes up of a black sash with the regular school uniform underneath. She wears black boots as well as red flowers in her hair.
Chise's spy outfit consists of a black conical hat with a black mask. She also wears the same ribbon and flower. She wears a black tight-shirt and puffy grey pants. She wears a multicoloured frill wrap with a bow, as well as a small patch of black armor with red dots. She wears a black ribbon around her arm with black leg armour, as well as black and red sandals.

Chise has a strong personality, though she also acts like an ordinary girl. It has been shown that she has a weak spot for children. She also writes letters home to her sister , and gets irritated when she is left out of the critical parts of missions.


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Colonel is a tall man with blonde hair and blue eyes. He is only ever seen wearing his army officer's uniform.

Colonel is a stern man with firm opinions. He regards the military as the real power behind the Commonwealth and advocates for its interests on the Control committee. He is also persistent; remaining in post during General 's tenure and after L 's return.
Colonel has been shown to hold racist views. In episode 5 , he makes apparent that he sees Japan as an underdeveloped nation. He did not believe a report about Jubei Todo , assuming it to be a report from Japan, until 7 said that it was a European military report.


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Eric Anderson has messy brown hair and wears glasses. He wears a red tie with a white undershirt and brown shirt. When outside, he is seen wearing a bowler hat and long brown coat.

Eric is a rather down-to-earth man. He is often overcome with surprise or fear when being tossed around by Team White Pigeon during their rescue of him.
He has also been shown to possess a caring side. He was willing to go to great lengths in order to save his sister Amy Anderson, risking his life and dying in the process. When Ange also told him about her supposed tragic past, Eric was shown to be truly touched. Though this did not stray him from his path of trying to expose the Commonwealth 's escape route, showing a more dedicated side.
Eric also displays befitting characteristics of a researcher. When he saw Ange's C-Ball , he was surprised and expressed interest and surprise at it.


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Gazelle is a well built, what can be assumed in her mid or late twenties dark skinned woman, seen usually wearing a pair of round glasses. Her hair is a dark brown colour and her eyes are grey.
Gazelle appears usually dressed in a white suit over the top of a black shirt a yellow tie around her neck, a prominent item between outfits, as well as black stripes lining her pockets, a gold chain across her left breast and a pair of white shorts. She also wears what can be assumed as a pair of tights with her shorts.
She has also appeared in a similar outfit to this in episode twelve although it is black rather than white, is missing any extra detail including the chain however her tie is still present.
In episode 8 she is also seen wearing a large dark grey; grey dress with a black veil; hat.
In episode 2 she is seen wearing a golden yellow dress with creamy with gloves; a crimson fabric draped over the back of her waist.

Gazelle is very clear minded and is able to work under pressure. She adapts to changes in situations, such as her actions during Episode 2: Case 1 Dancy Conspiracy room when Ange and Dorothy are present. In Episode 12: Case 24 Fall of the Wall she is also seen to be a strong leader, having commanded and set up a road block during the bridge chase of Team White Pigeon .


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Kathy admires Annette, who was a former journalist, as her ideal idol figure, and there is also a series of photos called the "Annette Collection" that Kathy herself took of her.

Kathy Higgins has "a cheerful personality." [2] She is described as being is immature as a spy, but she is an excellent newspaper reporter. She speaks well.


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Chris was the first person Kisaragi met after leaving Japan and Kisaragi was comforted by her words.

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Kisaragi gets along well with Sophie and together they have fun by taking out Stephanie 's inventions without permission.

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Kisaragi gets along well with Stephanie and often receives snacks from her. But does annoy her by taking out her inventions without permission with Sophie Mckenzie.

Kisaragi is described as "Innocent, friendly and curious." [2] She also has an interest in western clothes and sweets. [3]


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Monica admires Ange as a "teacher", and here current goal is to become a spy who is recognised by Ange.

Monica has a calm, gentle demeanour and a natural side to her, as well as strength in her negotiating skills.


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Morgan grew up in Cornwall, within the West Country . He grew up with a woman his same age, who would eventually become his wife. They were separated in the London Revolution , and ended up on opposite sides of the border. He later joined the Commonwealth's government; eventually rising to the Foreign Affairs committee. He was also the owner of a coal mine.
At some point before the events of Episode 2 , Morgan discovered that his right lung was failing; and that he did not have long to live. Desperate to spend his last days with his wife, he acquired the key to a Zurich bank vault, containing battleship plans stolen by Commonwealth agents. Despite the danger to the Commonwealth, he planned to hand the key to the Duke of Normandy, in return for asylum in the Kingdom.
During a ball, where he was supposed to make the transaction, he was tricked by Ange le Carré . - in the guise of Princess Charlotte - into revealing his intentions. Ange persuaded him to hand over the key, promising him to return it along with his wife; thus allowing them to return home together.
Morgan accepted, and handed over the key; only to be shot by the Duke of Normandy while trying to leave. He was then killed by Commonwealth agents on the way to hospital; silencing him forever.

Morgan is a mild-manner character, easily-flustered and rarely raising his voice.


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Not Charles has brown hair which he has folded back. He also sports thick brown eyebrows and brown eyes. He wears a black suit with a green shirt underneath with under that a white shirt and a black tie.

Not Charles has a calm and collected personality, and seems to listen to and obey his supervisors.


Princess Principal

Kisaragi and Oboro are sisters. They were seen together in a Game of Mission artwork. Oboro is said to care a lot about her sister.

Oboro personality is described as being "always calm."


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Richard Rae died from a knife wound on St James' Street. [1]


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Stephanie and Sophie are very good friends, schoolmates, and colleagues. It has been said that their friendship makes Sophie feel "vulnerable." [2] Stephanie and Sophie for meet when they were training to be spies on the farm . Sophie also likes being pampered by Stephanie. [2] Their relationship was strained when Sophie believed she could not trust Stephanie after Stephanie tried to dispose of their teammate turned traitor Judith . [3]

Kisaragi [ ]

Sophie has a good relationship with Kisaragi but dislikes her "crazy" personality and how see seems to constantly break her inventions. [3]

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Chris [ ]

Sophie has a good relationship with Chris as a teammate, but often finds her troublesome. [3]

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Sophie McKenzie is a good person at heart. However, she can be overconfident in her power, tends to look down on others, and has trouble being honest. Friendships make her feel vulnerable, though she does like being pampered by people close to her, such as her friend Stephanie. [2]


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Stephanie prefers to wear clothes that do not expose her skin, probably as a way to avoid exposing her true feelings and personality.

As a girl who grew up not knowing love because of past events, she hides her wounded heart and body with smiles and words. Her natural personality is timid and a little backward compared to the mask she always wears.
Stephanie’s fake personality is very caring and friendly towards others, which has earned her many friends at Queen's Mayfaire Academy. Though she has a severe side that cuts off even close friends if a mission calls for it, showing she is very dedicated to her work. [2]


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Tina once adjusted headphones for Alicia and was invited by her to a concert to support her as her family were friends of Tina's father before her father died and were greatly saddened by her father's death. Both continue to have a close relationship. Tina just doesn't know she's a Commonwealth spy.

Tina gets extremely angry when she is called a "little child".


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L is an old-looking man, with grey hair, dark eyes, and wrinkles.
He wears a uniform which consists of a grey (or silver) sleeveless waist coat, underneath it is a white shirt, with a tie tucked under the waist coat, and a chain hanging off it.
For underneath, he wears simple grey trousers, and black shoes.
When going out, L wears a black coat, with a matching top hat.

L is a serious and intelligent man, who considers mission as the "top priority". He is a man of few words and always calmly gives instructions to Team White Pigeon . Throughout the series L is mostly seen discussing current events at meetings with the rest of Control.
His current role as head of Control and shady past have heavily influenced his perspective on life. This is evidenced by his interaction at a library with Dorothy while discussing a new mission. When Dorothy seems to be supportive of the notion of backing Princess as the new Queen, L responds "the world is black and grey', meaning that he thinks there are no morally good people.


Princess Sara

Bianca had blonde hair which was originally long and curly, but was told by Alfredo to cut her hair short to avoid recognition.


Princess Sara

Mary is a very beautiful woman with Indian features. She has black hair, dark eyes and tan skin.

Mary is very kindhearted, loving and caring mother to Perrine. She is shown to be very intelligent and hard-working.


Princess Sara

Perrine is a beautiful young girl with long strawberry blonde hair, blue eyes and fair skin.

Perrine is kind, caring and polite to everyone around her. She is very smart, hard-working and brave enough to handle the hardest challenges.


Prison School

Anzu's a lithe and athletic young woman of average height, with both brown medium-length hair and pale skin. She is described as thuggish looking.
She is commonly seen wearing the standard school uniform without a tie, with an open collar and no undershirt.

The early story line of the series proves Anzu's easy to manipulate. When she is promised a promotion by the Underground Student Council President Mari Kurihara , she easily dedicates herself towards deceiving a person she doesn't personally know. When Shingo Wakamoto confesses to her as to how he was able to leave the prison, she confesses to misleading him because she developed a crush on him. After she leaves the USC, she becomes more courageous and is active in helping the boys later in the manga, becoming a decoy so that Chiyo Kurihara could rendezvous with Kiyoshi Fujino .
Anzu is a cheerful and confident person, who regularly speaks to the boys comfortably when many other girls shy away. Despite her somewhat rough attitude, she's genuinely kind and friendly. She is also slightly immodest, showing her cleavage to the boys while sitting with Shingo in the canteen a few times. In the Sports Festival, she reveals her extensive knowledge on the USC. She is shown to be a highly competitive person with high-caliber gaming skill and athleticism, competing for USC jockey for the All-Student-Council Cavalry Battle.


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Bitch is a tall, voluptuous young woman. She has long brown hair in a pouffe with sideswept bangs and brown eyes. She usually wears the female school uniform with the collar open. In the Sports Festival, she wears a white tank top and dark shorts.

Bitch appears to have a lack of mental inhibition, making her immune to the sight of Kiyoshi Fujino 's nudity and capable of showering him with lewd insults with the other gyaru schoolgirls. She behaves in a very degenerate manner, offering to show Kiyoshi her chest to achieve her goal of eliminating Kiyoshi and the USC cavalry team. This behavior results in her extending the same offer to Anzu Yokoyama , suggesting that she derives enjoyment from her immodesty. However, her emotional outbreak at seeing Kiyoshi wearing striped panties demonstrates some limit to her indecency.


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The chairman is a tall and handsome middle aged man with grey hair and black eyes along with a thin and neat mustache. He typically wears a white vest underneath a dark blue suit with light blue tie.
During his stay in the hospital, he wears a typical male hospital uniform. After his escape from the hospital, he is seen only in an underwear. At one point, he wears Honey's torn thong. He eventually wears suit again after being reconciled with Mr. Important.

The Chairman is a grandiose and stern character who places emphasis on every ending word of his thoughts. He is a wealthy and influential man. He is a reasonable character who tries to judge the students fairly and unharshly, helping the boys; however, his sense of justice allows him to be manipulated by others. He is a compassionate person, as shown by his closeness to his daughter Mari in her childhood, his intervention on behalf of the boys and by filling a hole in the school wall with cement.
Even so, he is an established pervert and is regularly shown watching porn or studying his original photo collection of South American women. He enjoys visiting South America and its beaches (the source of his collection), and has a fetish for women's asses over their breasts (pygophilia).
In keeping with his authority and powerful aura in the school, his name has not actually been stated in the manga as his second name is implied from his daughters.


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Chiyo is a pale-skinned teenage girl with shoulder-length brown hair that has square bangs hanging over her eyebrows, big brown eyes, full pink lips and Kiyoshi Fujino describes her as the cutest girl in the class that her cute outward appearance belies her strength.
She is usually seen wearing the standard female school uniform.
During her incarceration, she wears an oversize female prison uniform consisting of a striped short tank top and carpi pants until Kiyoshi lends her his more form-fitting prison uniform.
On her first date with Kiyoshi, she wears a pink hooded sweater with a half-length dress (one of the few times she is seen not wearing the school uniform).
After Kiyoshi's failed confession and taking Mari Kurihara 's place as the next USC president, Chiyo's expressions have changed as she now has droppy eyes and she has a small smile on her face.

Chiyo is a kind & sweet girl who is notably one of the only female students that is not opposed to the admission of boys in Hachimitsu Academy .
She is an avid fan of sumo wrestling with the dedication to physically purchase tickets for a sumo student tournament. Her commitment to sumo wrestling is what inadvertently results in meeting Kiyoshi Fujino & befriending him. Chiyo's love of the sport is strong enough that she believes her grandmother's statement: "any fan of sumo wrestling cannot be evil".
After Kiyoshi breaks out and goes to the tournament with her despite knowing nothing about sumo, Chiyo chooses to interpret Kiyoshi's actions positively because of his "never-say-die" attitude. This continues throughout the series as Kiyoshi's actions become successively more extreme and strange.
Chiyo has a strong sense of justice, defending Kiyoshi and the boys when he is blackmailed for expulsion by the USC. In particular, Chiyo is a protective and loyal companion to her best friend Mayumi Tanaka and she is willing to put herself in harm's way for her. When girls try to bully her into getting blackmail photos on behalf of Kate Takenomiya , she shows the mental tenacity and physical strength to defend herself and protect Mayumi using sumo moves.
Chiyo can be quite naive at times, and this is shown in particular when she does not know of the USC's existence when her sister Mari is the president. Chiyo is apparently completely oblivious to the fact that Mayumi and Kiyoshi do not share her interest in sumo wrestling. Chiyo even manages to mistake Hana Midorikawa 's sudden disappearance into the mountains as a personal training camp & Kiyoshi being missing as sheer coincidence.
Moreover, this also holds true when she mistakes all the actions for the USC's escape plan for a surprise birthday party. Such is Chiyo's consciousness and purity that she is incapable of thinking ill of another person, even after learning the true nature of the relationship between Hana and Kiyoshi.
However, at the end of the series, Chiyo completely loses her sanity and a complete change of personality can be seen, losing all that was left of her innocence to having a personality similar to that of her sister Mari Kurihara 's misandrous personality.


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Hana is a slightly short and lithe young woman with blonde hair that is styled in a cute bob with square bangs covering her eyebrows (she used to wear her hair in pigtails when she was younger), brown eyes and she is athletic and somewhat muscular despite her light build as a third-grade Dan and the fourth-best karate champion in the inter-high school championships.
She wears the standard school uniform with no socks in tandem with blue leggings and an undershirt.

The first impression of Hana by the boys was that of a kind and cheerful individual who enjoys brewing and drinking dandelion tea, and also has a love for four-leaf clovers. However, it was quickly shown that she can get very violent when angry and expresses her anger with proficient karate attacks. Just like her peers, Hana displays a lot of hostility towards boys.
She is somewhat reserved in comparison to Meiko Shiraki (the Underground Student Council 's Vice-President), wearing underlayers when on guard duty. She is actually very shy and impressionable as shown when she is caught in compromising conditions by Kiyoshi Fujino a number of times. Hana is shown to be quite innocent in contrast to her more tough exterior persona, as she faints or becomes mortified when she finds herself in compromising or sexual situations.
Hana has a fear of mushrooms as a result of remembering the hospital visit. She has a mild obsession with Kiyoshi, which later develops into a crush after they kiss.


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Honey is a tall young woman with an athletic and buxom figure. Though she is described as the posessor of a beautiful face and body by the Chairman, [1] her derrière is the singular target of fascination and adoration from him.

The manipulative nature of Honey is shown in her initial manipulation of the Chairman to complete construction labour for her. Though she proves disloyal to her yakuza to-be-husband from a petulant response to the name of their cat, she shows honesty in confessing the truth of their relationship to the Chairman.


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Jouji is the shortest of the five; due to his frail constitution, he is rather weak and gaunt. No matter what he wears, Joe is always seen wearing a hood over his head that casts his eyes and most of his features in heavy shadow. The hood itself is revealed to be completely detached from any clothing, thus enabling Joe to wear it with anything — even in the pool. During his imprisonment, he wears the standard male prison uniform of white striped overalls paired with his signature hood. When Gakuto triple switches with Joe and Chiyo, it is Jo who impersonates Gakuto by wrapping bandages around his forehead and wearing glasses. After release from prison, Jouji goes back to wearing the standard male uniform.

Joe is the sullen oddball of the five boys, who struggles to fit in outside his group of friends (and sometimes within). He suffers from a bloody cough due to severe stomatitis, though the disease is neither chronic nor physically debilitating to him. However, his canker sores do affect his speech, with bloody coughs often punctuating his sentences and interrupting his speech. Despite being the quietest, Joe is actually one of the more lecherous of the five, reflected in the crass way he speaks and makes jokes. Joe also has a love and appreciation for ants to add to his quirks, going so far as to name the ones he keeps in his ant farm and being able to tell them apart — though they all look alike. Towards his friends, Joe is shown to be accepting and supportive. Though he initially shuns Kiyoshi after he learns of his escape, Jo returns the kindness shown to him after Kiyoshi prevents him from assaulting the USC president. Due to being the last of them to have spoken to a girl out of the five boys, Jo enters a depressive phase after being freed from prison. As a result, he decides to attempt returning to the Prison Block out of loneliness as the other boys are enjoying their freedom. However, his outlook on life in the school improves when he meets Satou .


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Kate is a slightly short and slim girl with chest-length scarlet-orange hair that is tied in two low pigtails by burgundy ribbons where it is styled in drill curls with bangs swept to the left side, green eyes that has long curlicue-like eyelashes, thin eyebrows and a normal bust.
Kate wears the standard female school uniform without stockings or socks.

While Kate shows her cruel and sadistic self in doing so, she is a ruthlessly manipulative and shrewd girl who acts to make gains at the expense of others. A sinister character who displays intelligence and cunning throughout the series, Kate has proven a dangerous enemy to anyone who crosses her.
In middle school, Kate was well known for her intelligence, combative ability (as a capable Aikido user), leadership abilities and talent - until she was surpassed by a newly enrolled Mari Kurihara . Though Kate was responsible for bullying a younger Meiko Shiraki in middle school for her large breasts, Meiko became more confident and was prevented from beating Kate up by her to-be arch-rival Mari. This indicates her bitterness towards Mari is due to her strong feelings of jealousy since childhood.
The middle-school incident is the cause of a serious inferiority complex driving Kate's actions, stemming from Mari's higher capability in every possible area in comparison. She is greatly motivated by her hate of Mari and a powerful urge of vengeance for the embarrassment that incident caused her. This hate eventually turns into a deep obsession with Mari that's sexual in nature. She is unable to resist Mari forcing herself onto her, and submits to various sexual acts with her (such as sucking Mari's breasts).
Ultimately, Kate has been shown to put indomitable effort into any task she sets upon herself which Mari praises by saying that she is a strong-willed person & hard-working. The kindness Kate shows to those who she considers friends is strong, as shown with her close relationship with her loyal aide and best friend from middle school Risa Bettou . Kate has also shown a few perversions, willingly engaging in foreplay with Mari when the latter films her for revenge, wearing Mari's stolen underwear from middle school and showing visible excitement while she is filming Mari and Kiyoshi Fujino in the bathing area of the Prison Block.


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Kiyoshi is a tall and handsome young man of average weight with dark blue hair, black eyes and he is lean at the start of the series, but he gains some muscle during his incarceration in the Prison Block of the school.
During his stay in the Prison Block, Kiyoshi wears the standard male prison uniform of a sleeved white striped shirt and striped trousers. In his second stay, he wears boxers for some time because of giving his shirt and trousers to Chiyo Kurihara .

Kiyoshi is a level-headed individual who seems to have a strong resolve under hard pressure. Unlike the other boys, he does not let his desires get ahead of him, and tends to be the rational member of the group. Kiyoshi is markedly the most normal of the boys in design and character, as well as the main narrator of the manga in thought.
He is tenacious but lacks the stubborn perversion of the other boys. However, he is capable of sometimes doing things that seem untoward or shocking to the other boys, such as cross-dressing to escape the Prison Block. Though he has sexual desires, he is much better at controlling them than the others; this is shown when he refuses to take advantage of Chiyo Kurihara 's attempting to throw herself at him due to her feelings of insecurity and inferiority towards her sister. Kiyoshi develops a deep love for Chiyo and this love is the drive of most of his actions throughout the series, and he engineers breakouts, sacrifices his first kiss, and goes to extreme lengths to stay in the same school with her and develop their relationship. Kiyoshi can be oblivious to his selfishness sometimes as seen when he intended to use the money that he gathered from other to buy something for his own personal reason. [1] Kiyoshi can also be insecure with the other students and can be driven to action by other people's resolve, like when he sticks to the Prison Block breakout so Gakuto could get his collectible figurine.


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Mari is a tall and lithe young woman who is frequently described as one of the most beautiful students in the school with back-length black hair that has two front shoulder-length hair strands hanging in the front with bangs swept to the right side, blue eyes (green eyes in the anime) and full pink lips.
She wears the standard female school uniform with dark tights.
During her incarceration, she wears an undersized female prison uniform consisting of striped short tank top and matching short striped trousers.

Mari is a proud and dignified student who exerts a sense of authority about her that lends to her popularity. Mari prefers the company of crows to people outside of her subordinates and closest friends that are senior members in the Underground Student Council , and she can control them.
Mari is well known for her intelligence, athletic ability, leadership abilities and all-round talent both in her middle and high school years. She is a calm and controlled character who displays intelligence and cunning throughout the series, as shown by her plan to exclude the boys through DTO and her later secret engineering to prevent the official Aboveground Student Council from destroying the USC with their subterfuge. Though Mari's strained relationship with her perverted father results in her misandry treatment of the boys, [2] she adapts to be able to socialize with the boys and empathize with them. [3] [4]
However, Mari is a genuinely kind person deep down, as shown when she helped a younger Meiko Shiraki to become more confident and prevented her Kate Takenomiya (Mari's to-be arch-rival) for bullying her in middle school. Mari is also very close to Chiyo Kurihara (Mari's younger sister), whom she shared her childhood with even as she grew estranged from their father. She is also a graceful loser, as shown when takes punishment from the official Student Council and responsibility for physically abusing the 5 boys during their prison term, even praising Kate for her strengths though she is her arch-rival.


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Mayumi is slim and short teenage girl who styles her hair in a boycut.
She is usually seen wearing the standard female school uniform. In the dormroom she shares with Chiyo Kurihara , Mayumi is usually seen not wearing uniform in her and usually wears a white shirt.

The friendly character of Mayumi and her good friendship with Chiyo Kurihara is shown when she expresses concern about Chiyo when gloomy. While Chiyo relies on her for advice and mental support as a good confidante, Mayumi is a non-confrontational person and tries to avoid fights - thus inadvertently depending on Chiyo for physical defense and/or protection. Though she does not seems antagonistic towards the boys, Mayumi is apathetic towards Chiyo's interest in Kiyoshi & the enrollment of the five first-year boys in the school. In contrast to Chiyo's love of sumo wrestling, Mayumi shows an interest in clothes and magazines. However, Chiyo is completely oblivious to her disinterest in sumo wrestling.