Mr. Osomatsu

Dobusu is a squat, heavy woman with large breasts and a wide face with a hippo-like mouth and snout. She has huge, wrinkled pink lips and narrowed green eyes. She often is depicted with wavy, shoulder-length brown hair decorated with two blue hairbows.
In her debut appearance, she wears a purple patterned dress with long, black sleeves. Meanwhile, her season 3 appearances have her wearing a white blouse and a red, patterned skirt. Though her skin is slightly darker in her usage as the Ugly Fairy and in the more recent roles, the guest spots of Dobusu in "Chibita's Revenge" and her cameo of "Osomatsu-san in Hell" showed her to have a paler complexion and slightly lighter brown hair than usual.
In her re-use in Osomatsu-san: The Movie , as one of Totoko's classmates, Dobusu has a pinker complexion and slightly longer hair in an orange-brown shade. She continues to resemble a hippo and wear her usual hair decorations, though she has blush swirls on her cheeks and can be seen dressed in the Akatsuka High girls' uniform. Unlike the others in the last year of high school, it is said in character notes that Dobusu is not actually 18 as she was held back from graduating at least eight times at the school. As a result, this would make her significantly older than the sextuplets and Totoko.
Usually in other roles for season 3, she retains her season 1 coloration except for having orange hair in "To the South" and having even darker skin and lips than usual in "Wannabe Detectives".

As the Ugly Fairy, Dobusu was shown to be possessive and highly-controlling of Karamatsu, demanding anything she wanted from him with the threat that she'd die if he didn't. This eventually lead to her forcing him into marriage, claiming she'd die if he refused as well.
In her other appearances through the show and games, while she may have a different role she may still be treated as a contemptible and foul presence; though Iyami is shown as her lover in "Chibita's Revenge" he seems to want to hide her presence from anyone else around. However, in season 3, she is shown to have a nicer or more neutral usage when revealed to be Nyaa's baby-sitter, as well as wishing Iyami luck at the ZANSU tournament.
In fact, compared to Nyaa and Totoko, the later role of Dobusu is said to be a more "common sense" type of woman and motherly, mature figure to contrast the two other women. The second opening to season 3 depicts the three casually talking and being amused at a coffee shop, which the voice actresses acknowledge can't be seen in the actual series but that illustrates how these different sort of women can just easily do things without worry.


Mr. Osomatsu

The Flower Fairy is shown to be petite, with long hair reaching her mid-back, parted bangs, blue eyes, and a big blue flower as an accessory. She wears a white dress with scalloped edges on the sleeves and hem, with a green scalloped lining as well.

Being that she was born due to the kind deeds of Chibita , she is incredibly devoted to him during her short stay with him. She is kind, if not a little pushy, but genuinely wants to thank Chibita for helping her, even if her own demise comes soon after.
She seems to have a distaste for how Chibita obsesses over oden, and often takes him out to try new things.


Mr. Osomatsu

As a teenager, Iwase had long black hair that she wore in a high ponytail, and dressed in the standard Akatsuka High girls uniform.
In the present day, she has short, wavy hair that she has bleached out to a light brown shade. She wears a loose, purple and pink striped turtleneck sweater and a gray skirt.

Iwase is one of two classmates initially curious and excited to know about what the sextuplets have done with their lives. Her continued curiosity and questioning gets them visibly flustered, but they persist in trying to lie some more about their salarymen jobs. After they attempt to claim that they're advertisement men for the Akatsuka Hotel and claim it has ghosts, she becomes repulsed and remarks that she wouldn't want to stay at such a hotel.
She is among the multitude of others disturbed by the reveal that the sextuplets are NEETs, though she doesn't explode in anger as Uchikawa-kun had and instead is seen grinning throughout, either out of wanting to stay polite or taking some amusement in the matter.
In the past, she is shown to be quick and strong-willed, not letting Osomatsu get away with flipping her skirt.


Mr. Osomatsu

She has long braided brown hair down to her waist and wears a white blouse with a light blue ribbon on it and a knee-length brown skirt when seen in episode 9.
At the end of the episode, she wears Jyushimatsu 's yellow wristband with the number 14 on it as a memento from him, on her arm.


Mr. Osomatsu

Kaoruko is only ever seen in her informal work attire which consists of a taupe blouse over a collared white shirt, a tight skirt of the same color, and a pair of black flats. She has brown eyes and long black hair, partly tied up and held in place with a yellow clip. She is also commonly seen blushing, most often when she's around Sanematsu .

Kaoruko is seen as polite and friendly, being the only worker to greet Sanematsu when he arrives to the office and also being the only person who offers to spend time with him so that he isn't alone. She is constantly worried about Sanematsu as shown during her continuous attempts to interact with him, however it often results in the other co-workers either redirecting her attention away from him or mocking him. Whenever she is shocked, she has a habit of covering her mouth with her hand in disbelief.
By her appearance in SaneCop she is more persistant in an attempt to get Sanematsu to remember her and who he was.


Mr. Osomatsu

Kinko is a tall, slim young woman with light brown skin, short dark hair, and blue eyes. She wears a white T-shirt with a red star on it, blue jean shorts, and white sneakers.

Kinko is a cheerful, tomboyish and fun-loving girl who always takes great responsibility of herself, especially in making sure to retrieve her bras from the Sextuplets' house. She always seems to have a great time with the boys, and doesn't seem to care if they find her fashion sense to be tacky. In contrast to Totoko, she asks for no praise for the sextuplets and seems to casually get along with them with no demands.


Mr. Osomatsu

Matsuyo is a tall, slender woman often wearing a sort of dress, or more commonly a long-sleeved top and skirt with apron. In -kun, she has short black hair that flips up in the back, and bangs that are also flipped up.
She wears large, round glasses and has small, beady eyes when seen without them. She is incredibly near-sighted without her glasses, and can fail to recognize large animals such as gorillas or lions if she is not wearing them.
In Osomatsu-san, her middle-aged self instead wears her bangs pulled back and wears her hair in a bun to give the impression of an older housewife appearance.

She is described as a no-nonsense hard-worker and constantly busy due to her large family, somehow still remaining energetic and able to handle all her work. However, there are times when she becomes frustrated by the amount of children, and the amount of food and expenses that they take up.
In the very first chapter of -kun , she states that it was easier for her to buy clothing in bulk, resulting in her giving her sons the same style of uniforms and making it even harder to differentiate between them. She also attempts to have her sons adopted out by other people to try to lighten the burden.
On her own, she can be shown to be particularly mischievous and crafty, ordering Osomatsu to wear a bear suit to scare his father, and gladly taking advantage of Iyami 's insurance claims to break dishes around him. In alternate universe scenarios featuring the whole family and where the children are set as villains, it becomes clear where her sons' chaotic behavior stems from.
There are occasions where she will be a more openly sympathetic and pitiful figure, being ignored by her family when sick or finding herself forgotten and left out by them. She can be shown to become sick
with worry and grief if a child leaves home, or be unrelenting and practical in taking care of those who mock them going missing.
Matsuyo is shown to be especially fond of gold and jewelry, and will be tempted by them and do whatever she can to own any. Naturally, in a story with her set as a rich woman, she insists on wearing all sorts of expensive accessories.
By the time of -san , Matsuyo still loves her sons, however she wishes they would move out and get jobs. She has a strong desire for grandchildren, as seen in Episode 4. She still has her motherly instinct and wants to baby her sons from time to time.


Mr. Osomatsu

Throughout a majority of the movie, Nozomi is not seen in full, though she is eventually unveiled as a somewhat nerdy young girl with large glasses, brown eyes and long black hair tied into a pair of low pigtails reaching past her shoulders. She wears a longer-skirted version of the Akatsuka High girls' uniform. Nozomi's teeth are also somewhat uneven, and she has a pair of ahoge ("idiot hair", cowlicks) sprouting from the top of her head.
Yet, more commonly, as revealed by the end, Nozomi was also in fact the black cat that had transported and followed the Sextuplets around in the "world of memories". Though dark in color, this cat does not resemble Nozomi much herself, and bears cryptic, bright green eyes. When shown outside that world, such as outside Nozomi's window or at the sextuplets' window, the cat is drawn with more realistic proportions and detailed eyes.
The present-day Nozomi is vaguely seen as a sickly, sleeping young woman with long hair and a white hospital gown while the prettier apparition that appears in her walk through the end and in her fantasy of meeting the grown sextuplets, has her hair worn loosely, similar to Totoko in her high school years, with her bangs now styled as being side swept to the right side of her face and her teeth now being evened out. She still wears the Akatsuka High girls' uniform but with the skirt now being shorter.

Nozomi is a shy, kind-hearted young girl who goes at her own pace on everything. She appeared distant among her classmates to where not many remark on her lack of presence at the reunion (other than Totoko), though rumors spread among the other girls of how she supposedly had a crush on one of the Sextuplets.
In fact, Nozomi deeply admired all six of them from afar, but never had the confidence or chance to get close to any of them which inspired her to try to write out her letter.


Mr. Osomatsu

Nyaa-chan has long pink hair with two green strands, and wears greenish-blue contacts. As part of her idol get-up, she is often seen with gray cat ears and a tail no matter what outfit she has on, with her cat paw gloves being an optional accessory that may or may not appear. However, her most common idol outfit is a brown jacket with a yellow-green ribbon, paired with a short blue skirt and green boots.
When shown as a 9th grader in the film, however, Nyaa's true face is revealed. Prior to ever becoming an idol, the younger version of Nyaa was shown to be a rather simple young girl with brown eyes and short, dark brown hair, with a pink cat hairclip as an accessory.
In one of the Tidbits Collection #3 skits, a space program scientist version of Nyaa shows what she would look like if she didn't dye her hair in her present-day life; it would be long and dark brown, but she would have pink-dyed strands in place of green. We can presume (as her eyes are closed in the shot she appears) that she would also not be wearing contacts and have her natural brown eyes.

Nyaa is an idol who centrally performs around the cat theme; when she sings, her fans call out different cat species to complete it, and she usually ends her sentences with " nyan ".
While Nyaa is stereotypically seen as an innocent and sweet girl, she is revealed to be two-faced in episode 24, when she showed off her engaged boyfriend to Totoko and farted on her as a farewell. However, even with how catty Nyaa behaves, she has an easy advantage with her career and is shown to be more appreciative of her fans.


Mr. Osomatsu

Uehara is a tall young woman with a more narrow face and features, and wears her hair up in a wavy ponytail. She can be seen wearing a pale pink jacket over a lavender top and white skirt, and gray heels.
As a high schooler, she wears the standard Akatsuka High girls uniform and has her hair in braids.

Not much of Uehara's personality is seen throughout the film, though she can be seen to appreciative and easily impressed by a man with status such as Atsushi .


Mr. Osomatsu

At a diminutive 60cm [2] in -kun, Chibita is towered over by the other characters, and has a shaved bald head with a crease in the scalp and only one hair protruding from it. His head is shown to be incredibly durable. If Iyami bites Chibita's head, his teeth usually shatter or crumble.
He is also characterized by his wide eyes, pointed nose, and the "whiskers" on each cheek that are said by Fujio Pro to be evident of hardened mucus from a runny nose that has been wiped off on the face [3] . He most commonly wears a long-sleeved shirt with a single button, along with pants. The color of the shirt can vary throughout colored art, often appearing as a deep red, but is depicted as yellow in the 1988 series and pachinko game.
Chibita's appearance was not very consistent at first in the manga, changing until his final look was settled on (see "History").

Personality [ ]

Chibita is a cheeky young boy known for his strong determination and inability to give up, no matter how much he's pushed around. In the early period of the manga, he is depicted at points as a troublesome child making chaos for the sextuplets, but the setting of him being picked on by them became more frequent.
He is best known as a pure, kind-hearted child who is great friends with animals such as cats and frogs. But sometimes, he can be more devious and he is subject to play many sorts of roles. His unfortunate yet resilient nature especially tends to make him worthy of the protagonist role in dramatic stories, or scenarios where he seeks revenge on being wronged.
Chibita's favorite food is the Japanese winter dish oden. In Osomatsu-kun , he is usually drawn running with his iconic stick of oden in hand. The oden stick is often shown to have a piece of konjac on top, a ganmodoki (fried tofu) in the middle, and a narutomaki on the bottom [4] .
Chibita also has a habit of getting into fights, which he almost always exits unscathed. He is generally considered an even better fighter than Osomatsu.


Mr. Osomatsu

There is little if nothing to distinguish Choromatsu from the other five brothers.
However, the Takeshobo reprints of the manga assigned him green as a color, with a cover of the latter showing his uniform shirt as that instead of blue. This color carries over to his adult counterpart in -san , though the April Fools' redesign of the website opted to depict the younger Choromatsu as being associated with yellow.

Personality [ ]

As a child, Choromatsu is described as "quick to judge and quick to flee." He is the fastest among the six, and good at sports where his agility is required. But he is also a high boaster of himself, and can have a short, fiery temper and a dry side, not showing much consideration towards his other brothers' thoughts and well-being and having more priority about results. [1] [2]
He gets along particularly well with Osomatsu, and the two often cause mischief together, but there can sometimes be a power-struggle and rivalry between them if Osomatsu tries to sabotage the others [3] or if Choromatsu wishes to get ahead. However, the two can make up rather easily in such occasions. Whereas the other four brothers may be less name-dropped or distinguished later on, Choromatsu is pretty much more defined than them if only due to his association with his leader.
Out of the brothers, he has an average amount of money saved (40 yen in one instance [4] , 200 in another [5] )even if he can be as foolish as his leader.
In one instance when Osomatsu let himself be adopted out by a rich couple, Choromatsu grew mad with power and took it upon himself to be the dominant one of the family, whipping his brothers and attempting to do the same to his father. This was undone when Osomatsu returned and reclaimed his dominance [6] .
There are certain occasions where it seems Choromatsu would love nothing more than to doze off [7] [8] , which can lead to him being quite unreliable in certain situations [9] . He also can be shown to be flustered and awkward with some spotlight put on him [10] .
In other events, he may wind up quite unlucky, such as being urinated on by an elephant while in the African safari [11] . In the 80s run, he tries to greedily expect Totoko to be his girlfriend too when wanting a love fortune from Chibita, only to become horrified when he's paired with a pushy and amorous ugly girl and tries to reject her, futilely wishing for Totoko to be his love instead [12] .
Early on, Iyami mistakes his name as being Chocomatsu [13] . When licked by a scientist, it is said that he tastes "salty". [14]


Mr. Osomatsu

Ichimatsu's appearance differs very little, if at all, from that of his brothers . He wears the same clothing, and his proportions are subject to vary depending on the artist.
In the Takeshobo reprints in 1995, he was assigned orange as a color and appeared with his uniform shirt colored that way on a cover (as opposed to the usual blue shirt).

Personality [ ]

Ichimatsu is the most serious and strong-willed of the boys. He is described to be very intelligent, although as he can be as poor as the others at studies and education, it is likely only a marginal amount in comparison. Otherwise, he mostly acts in tandem with the other five.
He can act as an older brother-type to younger children and show a kind and caring demeanor [1] , but can be just as merciless and violent as his brothers. Because of his practical nature, he tends to have the most money saved up (in one instance 50 yen [2] , in another 400 yen [3] ).
When attempting to chase Chibita in one story, Ichimatsu is the one who almost makes it to the top of a building, but collapses in defeat, showing a greater endurance than his brothers [4] . He also is quick to defeat Chibita in the "Smog Family" story, mowing him down with a road-roller [5] .
His name is mistaken by Iyami as being " Ishimatsu " [6] . His skin when licked by a scientist is stated to be "sweet" [7] .


Mr. Osomatsu

Iyami is a tall, skinny man who usually is seen in a pinkish-purple suit. In most iterations he wears a red bow-tie, but this is removed in his counterpart in - san . He usually claims his clothes are from France. He is well known for his large, protruding overbite of three large teeth which he is very prideful of. He is a very graceful and theatrical man, often walking on tippy toes and twirling.
He has a thin black mustache, a small nose and long, narrow eyes. His hair is a smooth bob with a straight fringe and flicks around his cheeks. His hair stylistically ruffles if he is irritated or disheveled. It is usually black but can also be depicted as a deep brown. He is often seen with a small hat or cane.
His clothes are sometimes tattered and torn. His socks in particular are always loose and patched up, which is visible when he 'sheehs' and the sock comically springs out.
In the past as seen in Osomatsu-san: The Movie , Iyami is initially almost never physically shown, appearing to be nearly invisible within the "world of memories" and characterized by being a floating hat, overbite, and mustache. This would appear to be a reflection on how "invisible" he is to the other characters (and staff of the show) and forgotten to where they don't remember him at all there, and also highlights his fear of being forgotten and no longer a main character.

Iyami is a very childish, flashy, and self-centered man who often gets in trouble with the law. He is an opportunist with little shame. He steals, cheats and lies to get what he wants, but these plans often backfire. The reason he commits these acts usually is for money, food or so he can 'return' to France. He is also a conman by trade and sets up elaborate schemes to scam and hurt the sextuplets or other Akatsuka Ward residents.
He also however will work hard and behave if he needs to, having had many honest jobs over the years like a chef, door to door salesman or laborer. He is also very vain and occasionally seems to take joy in how much he annoys the people around him. He is very gaudy and loud, often insulting people and getting into fights. Iyami is also a coward and will often shift the blame of his actions onto other people. While being proud he is also rather repulsive and crude, doing things like eating out of trashcans and being generally unhygienic.
Iyami also has a kinder, more naive side however, showing genuine happiness and gratitude at times. He is also capable of acts of kindness, like when he bought a futon and food secretly for Chibita when he was raising an abandoned baby. He is prone to strong emotions such as dancing for joy, crying out of grief or fear and throwing tantrums.
Throughout the years, he has consistently suffered bouts of homelessness and poverty, which turns his stealing and crude behavior into more of a necessity to survive. Depending on the story, Iyami may be a single man who is terribly unpopular with women, he may wind up lucky, or may already be established as married.


Mr. Osomatsu

Jyushimatsu's appearance differs very little, if at all, from that of his brothers .
In the Takeshobo reprints, he was assigned purple as a theme color and even appears wearing it on a cover. However, for the April Fools' joke on the Osomatsu-san website, the -kun era Jyushimatsu was assigned green.

Personality [ ]

Jyushimatsu is a kinder, friendly, and thoughtful type of boy, tending to avoid roughness if he can and crying easily. But this does not mean he is never complicit in fights and trouble, and he can participate in plenty mischief and unreasonable pranks (such as creating pitfalls, or putting dandruff in shaved ice). He can also be a bit eccentric in such ways. Out of the savings the brothers hold, he is often in possession of 14 yen though this can also vary upon a setting.
As he is fairly obedient, he can be easily coaxed into a situation by his brothers. Unfortunately, this obedience also makes him very gullible and weak to others' harm. At times, he'll wind up late for a plan as he'll instead take part in actions that seem natural to him. In the story "Our Rooms are Cool", he confesses to Iyami that he's insecure of not standing out among the sextuplets (as his name "is never called first"), with his presence being the weakest and him becoming weary of the world.
In Iyami's first formal appearance, he can't get Jyushimatsu's name right and instead refers to him by Jyunimatsu ("twelve matsu").


Mr. Osomatsu

As with his brothers, Karamatsu has short, dark hair with two cowlicks sticking up in the back.
He is most often seen wearing the three-buttoned uniform shirt, pants, and running shoes, wearing a shorter-sleeved short and shirts in the summer. In the Comic BomBom and Takeshobo reprints of -kun, he is often associated with the color red, even appearing with his shirt in that color on a cover. This was also reflected in the April Fools' joke for the Osomatsu-san website.

Personality [ ]

Karamatsu is a cheerful and carefree young boy said to have the most energy. Yet, he is also described as being energetic because of his bravado/"empty spirit" ( karagenki ). He is a bit of a crybaby and often winding up with the worst luck of the brothers, or getting another brother into trouble along with him due to his impulsive ways.
He can be eager to fight like any of the others, but can wind up a scapegoat and vulnerable in situations, and his impulsive nature leads him to get injured in brawls [1] , if he doesn't simply run away crying in fear (such as the boxing match against Knock-Out Tsuyoi) [2] . When shown to wrestle against Osomatsu in one story, he is too easily defeated and thrown to the ground [3] . However, he was once able to evade Chibita's wrath by falling over to "play dead" [4] .
Karamatsu also has somewhat of a large appetite, easily being able to eat all the family's rice for the day but with a resulting stomachache [5] . Compared to the others, he can also be considered a bit tidy and orderly, as he dutifully fans off his overheating X-1 robot when it is shown suffering from having to do all his homework [6] (however, the 1966 anime changes this to have Karamatsu simply eating and ignoring the robot as it studies).
He is also noted to not be too intelligent (playing on the term karappo, "empty"), to where it's questioned if his head and body are in fact entirely vacant, and his wallet is also often empty or containing little cash of value, with him coming third place (20 yen) to Osomatsu and Jyushimatsu in one story [7] (Osomatsu having absolutely nothing). However, in another instance he is shown to have some more money saved up, making him the brother with the second-most savings (310 yen to Ichimatsu's 400) [8]
This boy has no clue how to play cards [9] , but can easily sew a giant stocking in a Santa-capture scheme [10] , and seems to be a more artistically inclined brother who tries to show off painting to Totoko (though this is sabotaged by Osomatsu) [11] . Another story has him tasked with taking care of a goldfish, which he seems to care deeply for to the point of angrily force-feeding Iyami a bowl of karashi in revenge for having eaten the fish [12] .
Early on, Iyami mistakes his name as both being Kuzumatsu and Kasumatsu [13] . When licked by a scientist, it is stated that his skin tastes "spicy" ( karai ) [14] .


Mr. Osomatsu

The younger Osomatsu generally appears as a young boy who wears his hair short in an old-fashioned style, with the fringe either swept to the side or more often depicted as a bowl-cut from later head-on views. The hair has two curled strands in the back, as cowlicks.
In the initial frontispiece for the manga, he was depicted with more of a larger snubbed nose, freckles, and a long mouth, but these facial features were quickly altered for the actual comic (although the freckles would still appear in some other early frontispieces). His more iconic features include larger eyes that are set closer together, a smaller rounded nose, and a mouth not as set to the side.
He is most often seen wearing a three-buttoned uniform coat with a white collar, lighter-colored pants, and running shoes. In summer chapters, he wears a lighter, short-sleeved shirt with dark shorts; these colors are swapped around to match the winter outfit in the 1988 Pierrot anime.
In both the manga as well as anime adaptations, Osomatsu's height varies from reflecting how he is relatively tall for his age (150cm) and slim (46kg) but strongly built, to him being much shorter and chubbier of a child. The 1988 show in particular infamously depicts him and the others much smaller as the series goes on, due to the overall art shift.
Osomatsu tends to have the most trouble with his teeth [1] [2] , being stated to have at least three cavities in an official profile [3] as well as once actually depicted with such teeth in horrid condition for a specific chapter setting, which helps in visually differentiating him from the others [4] . It is such that in one of those in-manga occasions ("Four Stories with the Theme of Teeth"), he had his aching teeth knocked out, but only wound up with more decay when he continued to keep eating candy.

Personality [ ]

In his overall depiction, Osomatsu is a fiery, self-confident, and pushy boy who often proclaims himself the "leader" of the Matsuno brothers. Although he is regarded as a hooligan, he is also said to be well-liked by others due to his smooth attitude. He is the strongest fighter out of the sextuplets. He is particularly gluttonous and greedy when it comes to food and money, though he often is quite lacking in yen itself when it comes to his savings (having 0 yen on two notable occasions [5] [6] ).
He often leads his brothers around, but he is incredibly unreliable and there are occasions where he'll sabotage them and lose their trust and satisfaction, leaving him to act alone. But even in some such situations, it is Osomatsu that the others have to wind up relying on to get them out of trouble. Out of the six, he tends to be seen on his own the most if not amongst the rest, and acting independently in a good or bad sense. Depending on the situation, he may show his strength and craftiness [7] or be an average, vulnerable young boy who's left a victim of certain shady men up to no good [8] [9] .
When it comes to wanting to win the heart of Totoko or wanting the most attention, Osomatsu will indeed betray his brothers without much thought [10] , even going as far as to abandon his family for the promise of money when a rich Kansai couple offers to adopt him [11] . In some cases such as that, he would feel guilt and lonely for leaving his family behind, and even tells his brothers to "Take care of mom and dad" when he believes he's dying of a disease [12] . There is also an early instance where he feels bad over attempting to run away from home and having gotten his brothers in trouble for a broken window, shaving his head in repentance and buying sunglasses for his mother with his pocket money (to shield her eyes from the glare of his and the others' bald heads) [13] .
However, other specific scenarios show him deviously taking delight in the idea of his brothers dying, so he would be left as the only child [14] . Likewise, one situation where Osomatsu believes himself to have cancer (due to Dayon's mistaken claim) shows his brothers to laugh off his concern in turn, claiming "It'll be okay since there will still be five of us left" [15] .
Osomatsu is most at odds with Chibita and Iyami, either set as the bully and rival of either one, or going against both of them in their schemes. But there are also times when Osomatsu would be more of the victim to either or both, or would be assisted by them (if it's not simply a pretense for further manipulation). In one rather specific case, Osomatsu is made to stop bullying Chibita due to having been humiliated thoroughly by the other boy having used an embarrassing photo of him to shame him to Totoko, and thus he orders his brothers to stop picking on him as well. The others proceed to find such behavior "strange".
He notably hates green peppers, and his blood type (like the rest of his brothers) is given as A in his profile. In one of his more embarrassing traits and secrets, he is shown to wet his futon and be ridiculed for it by his brothers while Chibita finds it blackmail-worthy [16] . On another occasion, his father soundly scolds him over it after Osomatsu has a nightmare and believes the heat in his futon was a "fire" and not his urine.
Mistaken or derogatory nicknames he receives in the series from others are: Osumatsu (by Iyami early on) [17] , Imomatsu ("potato-matsu", by brothers due to him working with Iyami and Chibita for some sweet potato scam) [18] , and Oneshoumatsu ("bedwetter-matsu", by Choromatsu).


Mr. Osomatsu

As children, their height, weight, and overall clothing styles are exactly the same. Due to this, it is virtually impossible to tell the six apart. They are best known for wearing their hair short with an initially side-swept fringe that is later depicted as more even and bowl-cut from the front. Two cowlicks (or ahoge , "idiot hair") stick up in the back.
They are often seen wearing a three-buttoned uniform jacket with a white collar and gold buttons, lighter pants, and dark running shoes. In summer seasons, they tend to wear shorts and shorter-sleeved shirts. It is rare to see them in different fashion, as it is much easier for their mother to buy their clothing in bulk. The colors of these clothes may vary through manga illustrations, but it is common to see the jacket depicted blue and the pants as a lighter blue or grey. The summer uniforms are depicted with a paler blue shirt and darker shorts in the manga, but are the same color pattern as the winter uniform in the 1988 anime.
The sextuplets are initially depicted by Akatsuka with much different facial features in the first chapter; snub noses, smaller eyes, and longer mouths, as well as freckles in the early frontispieces to chapters. This design was quickly swapped out for them having cuter faces, and the boys' designs gradually evolved to the more iconic look.
Their designs were steadily re-interpreted over the run of the manga by Akatsuka and his assistants, the last and current artist to draw them being Takayoshi Minematsu (current alias: Katta Yoshi) in all later and posthumous Fujio Pro illustrations and content. An overall style evolution can also be seen in the Pierrot anime, with the designs similarly starting out closer to the manga but evolving to be more super-deformed and stylized, resulting in drastically shorter and chubbier children.
As adults in the 2015 Osomatsu-san adaptation, they will occasionally wear pastel blue jackets with two gold buttons, a white collared undershirt and black tie, as well as khakis and dress shoes. However, they are more often shown wearing hoodies sporting identical matsu pine symbols, and can also be seen in their own individual fashions on occasion. It's important to note that some of these hoodies may also bear their own differences, such as Jyushimatsu having floppy sleeves and Karamatsu rolling his sleeves up.
Their hair has also underwent some change in their adulthood, with Choromatsu no longer having any hairs sticking up in the back, Ichimatsu's hair being shaggier, and Jyushimatsu only bearing one hair sticking up in the back. The character designs also have the hair highlighted in each brother's respective theme color, and each have a different facial expression to help identify them and their personality.
Although the physical statistics for the -san versions of the sextuplets have been left unstated, the 1988 guide Burst of Laughter World-zansu by Kodansha gave these shared measurements for them as children:

Blood type: A Height: 150 cm (4'11) Weight: 46 kg (101 lbs) Foot size: 22 cm (8.6 in) Foot length: 60 cm (23.6 in) Visual acuity: 2.0 Cavities/Decayed teeth: 3 (for Osomatsu)

Image Colors [ ]

The sextuplets being color-coded is more commonly associated with Osomatsu-san due to the reliance on using the theme colors as part of the identification of each brother.
But prior to -san, the earliest instance can be seen in the original
Weekly Shonen Sunday issue #27 for 1965, depicting the sextuplets in differently-colored uniform shirts (blue, teal, green, tan, and two different shades of purple) although none of them are identified.
More commonly, color-coding can be seen in late 1980s Kodansha reprints with Minematsu's art where the front covers may depict the younger sextuplets this way, yet not necessarily specifying their identities each time. The back covers depict a line-up of colored squares with each boy's face (yellow, blue, red, green, purple, and orange), again with their identities not quite listed.
The 1995 Takeshobo reprint covers depict CGI models of the
sextuplets, with only Osomatsu wearing the regular blue outfit and the five other brothers given colors to set them apart:

Ichimatsu: Orange Karamatsu: Red (rendered as pink in the CGI) Choromatsu: Green Todomatsu: Yellow Jyushimatsu: Purple

As the -kun era sextuplets were not often set with any sort of theme colors after this, save for a 2010 Fujio Pro window illustration and the 2016 Osomatsu-san anime website's April Fools Joke (which had Todomatsu as orange, Ichimatsu as purple, Choromatsu as yellow, and Jyushimatsu as green), such an aspect is less important or consequential in aiding in their identification.

As a unit, they are mischievous and greedy young boys that can range from being in a more heroic role to more antagonistic depending on the story. They can use their identical looks to their advantage, though
they often also become frustrated by being mistaken for one another and this can lead to other disadvantages of being indistinguishable.
There are some differences between each brother that are noted in Akatsuka's official settings in Shonen Sunday as well as in later Fujio Pro profiles, but they are not always the most consistent with each other or seen to be the most reflected. The most recent revision of the Fujio Pro profiles, circa 2023, now consider the sextuplets to not have any defining personalities at all throughout Osomatsu-kun; [3] despite this being said, multiple actions and characteristics can still be observed to differentiate the six. Osomatsu has the most stable setting of the brothers, being depicted as a stingy hooligan and the leader of the group. The brothers can be more immediately differentiated by voice in the first two -kun anime adaptations, although not all of them are always name-dropped and there may be cases where some boys share an actress.
There are also occasion when the six also do not act as one unified group; in such instances, Osomatsu goes alone or against the others. Osomatsu and Choromatsu also tend to run off on their own the most, or are left behind by the other four.
The Osomatsu-san incarnations of the characters have undergone some changes in their personalities to separate them better as the main characters of the show, with their dynamic becoming more dysfunctional with their age and competing personalities and goals. Unless as a means to an end, they have no desire to work or move ahead, and those who try wind up dragged back down and back to the status quo in any circumstance.
The - san movie goes with the pretense that the sextuplets had continued to act as a unit up until age 16, when other classmates grew tired of their "weird gimmick" and began to mock and shun them for their identical appearances and behavior, which lead to the group attempting to fracture off and cultivate stronger individual identities that eventually lead to their adult selves. This led to the start of an unstable relationship in that time, however, as some classmates remarked on how they didn't seem to get along and even the Iyami of that era points it out to the present Osomatsu and Karamatsu. Though as suggested by the climax, the adult versions' meeting with the teenage selves reinforces the ideas of progressing to such states, e.g.; Karamatsu reinforces the narcissistic path his 18-year-old self will eventually take, and Ichimatsu encourages his younger self to cast aside his forced social persona but to also relax and laugh.
Even with the above time paradox loop implications in mind, the director Yoichi Fujita debunked the viewers' assumption that it is absolutely concrete and prefers to think of the circumstances of the sextuplets' progression to their -san states as ambiguous, pointing out that he left enough unclear as to if the "world of memories" was just a dream or taking place outside reality (as it is not a traditional "time travel" plot) and whether or not the sextuplets could truly affect things there, although some implications in the ending may lend evidence to some events in their past being changed or clarified. But Fujita also had stated that no matter what happened, the sextuplets would've become their -san selves anyway in citing Akatsuka's catchphrase of Kore de ii noda ("That's how things should be").


Mr. Osomatsu

There is nothing to visually set Todomatsu apart from the other five as a child, and he cannot be told apart from the others easily by other characters most of the time.
In the Takeshobo reprints, he was given the theme color of yellow, with his uniform shirt being depicted with green buttons. However, April Fools' joke for the -san website depicts the younger Todomatsu with orange as his assigned color.

Personality [ ]

He is a bit of a belligerent child and left complaining and flustered by upsetting situations, whether being lead into trouble by a brother or his own foolishness. However, this does not stop him from acting in tandem with his brothers and bullying Chibita, or even attacking Chibita on his own (though it can be seen he's not very strong in fights and will lose out in one-on-one conflicts). As with his brothers, he's not averse to food and may even be lured in with it as a trap [1] .
Compared to the other five, his individual hobbies may seem more lax, with him liking to play with marbles [2] or model airplanes with Jyushimatsu [3] . When trying to impress Totoko early on, he attempts ballet, though he's not too great at it and is pranked by Osomatsu [4] .
Though he enjoys swimming, he hates the heat of the public baths as they make him feel dizzy [5] and does what he can to avoid any unnecessary bathing [6] . He tends to have a minimal amount of yen saved up, in one instance 30 [7] and another with 70 [8] .
In the 80s manga, he is shown to be insecure and upset at Osomatsu forgetting his name in "Osomatsu the Yakuza", and repeatedly stresses "I'm Todomatsu!" [9] . Otherwise, he is shown to be average as any other boy, pleased to spend mysterious money he received on toy cars [10] . In a story where the boys claim separate rooms of the houses as theirs, he opts to turn the kitchen into "Todomatsu's Restaurant" and forces his family to each pay 1500 yen to eat the food he cooked, though the dish is never specified [11] .
The first time the boys meet Iyami in the series, Todomatsu's name is mistaken by him as being Doromatsu [12] . However, in the 1988 show, he gets mistaken for Osomatsu by both Iyami and Totoko on two separate occasions. When licked by a scientist, he is stated to taste rather "bitter" [13] .


Mr. Osomatsu

Atsushi is a young man in his 20s, dressed in a bluish-purple business suit. He has dark brown hair in a similar style to that of the Matsuno siblings, and large, spaced eyes that would otherwise also be similar. These eyes are often half-lidded, and he bears a pointed nose to contrast against their rounded noses.
The younger Atsushi is shown to have similar facial features to his adult self, but his hair was instead black and worn in a full bowl-cut style (similar to that seen on the obese famous Choromatsu in "Osomatsu-san Returns") and he wore the usual Akatsuka High School uniform.

Atsushi's own very personality is left vague in the main show, though he clearly fits the criteria for being someone sociable and prestigious, and attracts women due to the fact he has a nice van. In materials like the games, he is often a smug and confident type and has great success all around and will (inadvertently or outright) be the cause of sabotage for Todomatsu's desires.
In the movie, Atsushi is outright presented as a rival figure and nemesis type to Todomatsu, as he and the other successful classmates highlight how pathetic and lowly the Matsunos are as adults. His presence is enough to make his friend Uchikawa calm down and to turn all the attention of the room over to himself, and he at first appears to defend the sextuplets, earning favor from the women he's with. However, once he makes light of their situation by agreeing to call them the "NEET Village", this earns Todomatsu's anger and an attempt to physically attack him.
In the past, Atsushi appears to be an average high school boy that appreciates the company of Todomatsu, but expresses concern over how the sextuplets hadn't been getting along and also feels the Todomatsu he sees (in actuality the present-day one) is "acting out of character".


Mr. Osomatsu

Dayon has a large exaggerated mouth that stretches his face outwards giving him unrealistic proportions. He is usually seen smiling, similar to Jyushimatsu Matsuno . Little changes between his designs in -kun and -san.
He is a slender man usually dressed in a khaki-colored suit, with his hair neatly slicked and parted to the sides. His unusually-shaped head is one of his notable features, starting small at the top but widening out to emphasize that huge mouth and teeth. Stubble grows all over his face, and he has a long, curly mustache.
In the original manga, Studio Zero anime, and the CR Osomatsu-kun pachinko game, he wears geta sandals as his footwear. But in the 1988 Pierrot anime and -san, he instead wears modern leather dress shoes.

He is often a simple, easy-going man, but his exact personality details and usage are variable with his role and he is officially described by Fujio Pro as an unclear man whose identity cannot be easily
 understood.
His large mouth often comes into play for gags centered around his gluttony, where he can use his mouth to swallow anything as he pleases. This is not just limited to food, as he attempts to consume people and garbage, and this is exploited in -san. The large size of his mouth can also come in handy for forming snowballs to make snowmen. T
One early appearance in -kun shows him to be fond of haiku.


Mr. Osomatsu

Little if anything (aside from some crow's feet wrinkles, and the pattern/coloring of his pants) significantly changes between Dekapan's designs in -kun and -san.
He is a short, heavyset middle-aged man who always goes about in his large, striped boxers and nothing else. He is bald, with only sparse hairs at the base of his head, and has a thick black mustache and a single bucktooth sticking out of his mouth.
His boxers are able to store many different kinds of objects for whatever may be necessary, even live animals such as cats. According to Fujio Pro, his boxers are not super-dimensional, they just happen to be
very wide and able to accommodate any sort of item.
In some appearances, especially early examples, he will wear regular clothing when the role calls for it. However, he is mostly seen just in the boxers.

Most commonly, he is a big-hearted, easy-going man who can be anything from a doctor,a millionaire, a policeman, and so on. He may strive to help out others, although he is also quite eccentric, in one example wanting the sextuplets to study and give him Chibita as a replacement for his dog that ran away.
He loves animals, and can be seen with a dog or a cat that he refers to by "Boya" ("boy"). But in some cases, he may treat his own pet better than an adoptive son, or equate the two.
When cast in darker roles such a mafia boss, he can be much colder and wicked, but still a comical character.


Mr. Osomatsu

Dracula is a tall, slender man with a pointed mouth and fangs, but a rounded nose. He has a swirly ahoge extending from his dark hair, and dresses in a black suit, cape, and top hat.

Dracula is a rather kind and gentle father figure to his son and would otherwise seem to be a normal guy, but his vampiric instincts do come out when he has the need to bite.


Mr. Osomatsu

Esper is a short, round cat, with pointed ears, green eyes, orange fur and a white underbelly. Unlike other cats, he is shown to have dark eyebrows and a bright red nose, along with two protruding teeth. He is also distinctly shown to sport a pair of round, blue glasses.
In Osomatsu-kun , he is often seen standing up and acting similarly to a human. He is also shown to have a cross on his belly.
In Osomatsu-san, similarly to Ichimatsu, he has constantly droopy eyes. He is also seen wearing his glasses all the time, whereas in Osomatsu-kun he was only given them after he gained his psychic abilities.

ESP has quite a tame, kind and easy-going personality. He is shown to be calm when Ichimatsu and Jyushimatsu carry him, and appears content when Osomatsu pets him. When he understands the true feelings of others he shows no hostility towards Todomatsu - who wishes to make money off of his psychic abilities, however he does get upset when Ichimatsu, who he is close to, yells at him for exposing his true feelings.
He is rather close to Ichimatsu and seems to care about him as shown when Ichimatsu was terrified of being injected by a needle, Esper jumped in the way and took the injection instead. After his runaway, he apologized to Ichimatsu by sharing his own true feelings.


Mr. Osomatsu

The first vague appearance of the character in the series only displayed his face on a poster, in which he had a black bowl cut like the sextuplets, squinted eyes, and a large round nose.
However, in his formal debut, he was shown to be a taller young man with rounded features similar to theirs, but messier hair and freckles (or perhaps adult acne) clustered on his cheeks. He is seen to wear a white turtleneck and black pants, along with an overcoat.
Even if there is a clear ten year age difference between the sextuplets and Yowai, Totoko believes they are otherwise identical in appearance and atmosphere to him, which necessitates her request for them to fill in for her brother.

Fighting Yowai appears as if he is a responsible older brother, to where Totoko inherited her strength and "Body Blow" from him, but is in fact a laid-back and foolish young man who lives at his own pace. He is seen as a timid boy by his parents, which plays into his father's anger about him going out of his way to refuse inheriting the fish shop. Even so, Yowai is shown to be rather unaffected by his upset father, and in Totoko's own observations, she remarks that her older brother is notoriously stubborn and shameless.
He is indeed one of the few people that cannot be swayed by Totoko, and disregards his younger sister's pleas and attempts to intervene with his idea. He also shows a bit of slyness in manipulating Osomatsu to let him board in his room, claiming that Totoko finds him the most charming of the sextuplets (a confused Totoko claims "I never said that!", but in the end angrily regrets that she ever did consider him charming).
Ultimately, the sight of Matsuyo touches upon a weakness; though Yowai claimed he would no longer be the scared and foolish boy who'd rely on his mother so much, that "mommy's boy" nature proves strong and he becomes tearful and lonely over leaving her behind. In the end, he declares he's still really a child.


Mr. Osomatsu

The little character is an older man with a round head, big ears, small nose, a rectangular unibrow, a single buck tooth, and a long and downward-pointing mustache. He usually wears a brown business suit with a blue tie.

He is usually depicted as a random and cryptic figure, used for whatever purpose he is needed for in a story.

Osomatsu-kun [ ]

He is a crafty and creative type of man in some of his appearances,
such as disguising himself in a dog suit with the intent to rob a house, or working with a myna bird to fly him around to steal.
At other times, he's an average guy of few or no words, working as an assistant to others or seen with his own job. When he hears of Iyami's death (actually a scam), he at first acts mournful, but is actually pleased that his childhood bully has finally died.

Osomatsu-san [ ]

Now christened "Shonosuke", he is often a silent figure, mostly appearing as a gag in skits. Unlike the NEET sextuplets, he is employed and a figure of a higher enough status to attend a prestigious matchmaking party.
Otherwise, him not having much of a personality and his unusual nature would be the whole joke behind him. However, he and his 16 brothers are shown to become frustrated at the nonsensical and incomprehensible opening speech at the invitational and attempt to impulsively rush out. They also make the mistake of mocking Iyami, which results in their deaths.
In the second season's first episode, he is the one to introduce Iyami and Chibita to the Matsunos' "half-assed" fame and their more expansive home. He quickly vanishes through the season, and the previous season's "Hijirisawa Family" setting is discarded in favor of ultimately revealing him to be King Enma as a plot twist in the finale. But this too is done away with for the case of the movie , where he is once more a random nobody (but one never knows, as Enma could still be lurking about).


Mr. Osomatsu

Hatabō is best recognized by the small Hinomaru flag that protrudes from the top of his skull, which can be removed if he pleases. His hair is a shaggy bowlcut, with the ends of his bangs often compared to that of a Kappa.
In the original manga, the Studio Zero anime, and the CR Osomatsu-kun pachinko game, he often can be seen wearing pants and a single-buttoned shirt that resembles the type worn by Chibita and other Akatsuka child characters.
But in the 1988 Pierrot anime, he is instead depicted wearing a white shirt and green overalls with a baby chick printed on the front. This is also utilized in his Pachislot Osomatsu-kun design.
He notably has a pair of vertical lines under his nose, representing a runny nose along with the whisker-like marks he bears on his cheeks indicating dried mucus. A single bucktooth protrudes from his mouth.
In different alternate universe or movie-inspired stories, the design of Hatabō's flag can be subject to change, with it appearing as the United States flag if he is set as an American, or a black flag with a skull and crossbones as the assassin Joe Hatabō. In Hatabō and Wanpei , he wears a solid red flag to represent the Communist party of Japan.
His two earliest appearances in the manga had him with the flag hanging out of his ears [1] ; this would persist in some later appearances [2] . The third and fourth appearances of the character showed some further indecision on how to draw him, depicting him with spiral blush marks on his cheeks, and either entirely lacking a flag [3] or simply holding it in his hand [4] .

Personality [ ]

In the early manga, Hatabō is often seen as simple-minded young boy that is not too intelligent, but free-spirited and going about things at his own pace. Because of his nature, other characters like to take advantage of him and bully him, including the sextuplets and Chibita.
But there are also scenes where he can boast of strength at being able to beat Chibita, and when cast in a less innocent kind of role, he is often immediately stronger and can use subordinates to his advantage.
In the Shonen King run, he is depicted much smarter than before and this intelligence carries over to his characterization in the 1988 series. Even so, Fujio Pro commonly still thinks of him as a "baka" (fool)-type character, and has him appear in interactive site materials for the Bakabon Bakada University section. His official profile also describes him as a boy who does not know anything, nor really think of anything, just that he's vaguely lively [5] .


Mr. Osomatsu

Ichiro has a lanky figure, and a visibly smooth head which is depicted with sparse hairs arranged in a fringe around his eyes. This is not necessarily meant to be baldness, at least in his earlier depictions (as he winds up with his head shaved in a gag), but more suggestive of a bowlcut; a similar style appears in caricatures of a young Akatsuka. However, with art evolution and later gags, this pattern does seem to be a suggested baldness and meant to evoke the idea of a taro vegetable.
He has a long, jutting beak-like shape to his mouth and so is often depicted in profile, with it usually open and moving. This was changed in his 1990s redesign; instead, his face changes to be smoother and his nose goes from being round to a more triangular shape like that of Chibita . The hairs around his head become arranged more like the style seen on Dekapan .
He is most often seen wearing a long-sleeved dress shirt, a floppy tie, and a pair of short shorts, making for a very distinctive and recognizable outfit compared to other children.

Ichiro is characterized as more of a "fool" type character, not being very intelligent and having to be assisted by others or being vulnerable to pranks. This is seen in an early -kun appearance where he is easily tricked by Chibita's dentist scam and bullied by the other boy. He is nonetheless energetic, and is willing to take part in a scheme (be it trading places with a similar homeless boy, or attempting to disguise himself as a cat to round up cats).
He is fond of cats, and can be seen carrying his pet cat Mike around or having him strapped to his back as if transporting a baby. He will even bring the cat on a vacation or to a bathhouse.


Mr. Osomatsu

Kamimatsu has the basic appearance of a Sextuplet, but differs in that he has elongated earlobes like a Buddha and differently-shaped eyes with irises colored a pure gold. It can also be seen that he is slightly chubbier than the other six, owing back to a "Buddha" image, and this is clarified a bit more in his season finale cameo when his proportions in his funeral suit are a bit thicker.
When he grows to be more of a "perfect human", he can be seen to have grown in height, become slimmer and more like a bishonen type from another anime.  His haircut also changes some, to have a fade occur near his ears. Both these appearances of Kamimatsu are later seen as their own entities and "actors" in a season 2 cameo.

Kamimatsu is kind, humble, forgiving, and seems to have endless patience and a sense of calm. He is even able to provide his "brothers" with gifts and advancements in society that they'd long for; however, these are not appreciated by the Sextuplets as they are only reminders of how Kamimatsu outclasses them and exposes their inferiority. This leads to them seeing Kamimatsu as their enemy and wanting to kill him, eventually succeeding when they summon Akumatsu .


Mr. Osomatsu

Oyama is a tall, plain young man with narrow eyes and light brown hair. He wears a green jacket over a white dress shirt, khaki pants, and black shoes.
In the past, Oyama looks about the same but wears his Akatsuka High uniform.

Oyama is a simple, easy-going guy who is shown to quickly chat up Iwase, Uchikawa, and the sextuplets, only to be confused by the claim that the sextuplets also work at the same hotel he does and then annoyed at the build-up of their ridiculous claims.


Mr. Osomatsu

Sanematsu is a tall, plain, and haggard man who looks older than his apparent age. He dresses in a dark business suit. After being remodeled as SaneCop, he takes on a more obviously Robocop-like appearance.
In his dream in being the seventh Matsuno, he wears a brown-and-white henley hoodie.

Sanematsu is a struggling, foolish and ridiculed man in his 30s, not taken seriously by his boss or colleagues. He refuses to work overtime and instead likes to go home early. He is easy to be taken advantage of and will wind up in compromising situations and accused of impropriety, as seen in his second skit. Still, his co-worker Kaoruko worries a lot about him and has her own growing crush.


Mr. Osomatsu

The Shinigami's design, at first glance, may resemble a shorter, chubbier Dracula , along with his fangs being closer together. He wears a dark business suit (being a black in the manga, but deep blue in the anime) along with a black cape and tiny top hat.

His work consists of finding those who are near death, represented by their life candle's flame about to go out, and taking them to the other side. His house is filled with candles representing the town's population, with each candle in a different state of its life.


Mr. Osomatsu

Uchikawa is a shorter, somewhat plump young man with black, spiked hair and wearing glasses. He is dressed in a yellow plaid shirt, a red tie, and brown pants.
In the past, his hair was straight and with side bangs, and he wore the Akatsuka High boys' uniform.

Uchikawa is inquisitive as to the current situation of the sextuplets, curious as to what they're now doing for a living. He is astonished to hear Todomatsu's claim about being a salaryman, and even more surprised when other brothers lie about having the same job. However, he gets a little more openly suspicious and annoyed as things go along, expecting something to be up with their claims.
Yet once when Osomatsu casually reveals that he's a NEET and that the rest are truly NEETs, Uchikawa is shown to be the most angered and offended by their lie and the reality of their situation, stating that as a former classmate he's ashamed of knowing a "NEET Village". Even so, he still offers for them to come to the after-party, but leaves them with a cutting remark that they wouldn't have work the next morning anyway.
In the past, Uchikawa is shown to be energetic and outgoing, taking the present-day Todomatsu (who he believes to be the younger version part of his friend group) along to karaoke and proceeding to show off his off-key singing skills. His younger self is still rather perceptive though, and is concerned by the unusual behavior that Ichimatsu and Todomatsu have.


Mr. Osomatsu

As a high schooler, Yanagita was a tall young man with tan skin and spiked brown hair. He wore the usual Akatsuka High boys uniform.
In his 20s, the current Yanagita has somewhat longer, parted and wavy hair. He dresses in a gray suit jacket, a black top, white pants, and black sneakers.

Yanagita was one of many highly sociable, popular high school classmates that hung around Ichimatsu. He is shown to have loved performing "High-Five"s with Ichimatsu in their youth, a fact and memory which highly stresses the older Ichimatsu out when he attempts to impersonate his younger self in that past.
In the past, though he didn't necessarily hate the sextuplets, he was one that remarked on how hard it'd be to get involved with them due to their close-knit nature and incited mockery of their ways, which Ichimatsu had overheard. This wound up being pivotal to the six diverging in attempts to be individuals, and Ichimatsu trying to be popular to be at Yanagita's level.
He appears to otherwise be a calm, easy-going guy who nonetheless stresses out both the past and present Ichimatsu in certain pressuring moments.


Mr. Osomatsu

They have a primarily white body with black horns on their heads that resemble hair. Their ears extend outside of their heads and make a disk shape similar to that of a satellite. They have heavily colored outlines along with their eyes and a little line coming out the top to resemble eyelashes. They have blue eyes with small pupils. With red swirls on their cheeks.
They only have two articles of clothing that they wear at all times. One being their ties (Shake with an orange tie and Ume with a red tie) and jean shorts.
They also have many tools at their disposal that they can out with parts of their bodies. For example, their yellow hands are often seen to be swapped out to be other devices such as vacuums or cooking utensils. They also contain a video monitor on their chest that can display a variety of things. Later, it is revealed that the white circles on their stomachs resembling bellybuttons are apparently retractable, slim, and cylindrical tools that are used for smoking like cigarettes.

The Riceballs are often seen to be highly intelligent and resourceful in their thinking. They are often seen to be willing to do anything the sextuplets ask them to do from minor things such as remembering place/going to grab drinks to much more dedicated projects such as helping Ichimatsu find cats all around town for an entire day. They often find satisfaction from helping out the brother and receiving compliments and head pats from them. They are also shown to be very dedicated to the completion of whatever task is given to them.
They however have trouble considering the emotions of a person when speaking with them. For example, when speaking with Totoko about how cute she is, they persistently tell her low ratings which caused her to take it out on a few of the Sextuplets. Although they beg the Riceballs to tell Totoko that she's cute, they continue to state the same thought and are left in confusion. A similar situation can be said to Iyami when they were hopeful to understand the concept of “Sheeeh!” in which the lessons Iyami provided for them led to the tall man taking a journey of self-understanding instead.
However, Shake and Ume always put in the effort to understand the situations around them, although it has its failures. Examples such as this is when they were desperate to understand the concept of “Sheeeh!”, and when Totoko requested them to reevaluate her. The twins found difficulty in ‘reading the room’ by giving her a lie when the truth was what she sought, as she was searching for how much room for improvement she still needed as an idol. That, and that Shake and Ume were struggling with the timing to “Sheeh!”, with not even Osomatsu and Karamatsu being victorious when it came to teaching them the proper timing for it.
It is later revealed though that Shake and Ume are also seen lowly by other humans and AI in their facility, leading them to one day insert more effort in providing support to the Matsuno brothers, in which they were casually dismissed. This led to the twins requesting replacement with Sukeroku, who took over their positions as the Matsuno family's personal AI assistants. But following a series of events, a realization had struck them and they decided to convert their status as support AI to NEET AI. This gave them a bigger range of emotions such as expressing laughter, surprise, anger, and sadness, alongside constantly smoking.
As NEET AI, they begun obtaining independence from the sextuplets, developing slightly different personalities, and even competing in the “A-1 Grand Prix,” a comedy competition for AIs. They poured in their effort to come up with jokes and routines, leaving the house to practice in the park, compose ideas in restaurants, and even present what they currently have to the sextuplets as a way to improve. They are not yet successful in their endeavors, which led them to have an argument with one another in “Are They Disbanding?” when Ume wanted to disband their comedy duo. And even during the Finals of the Grand Prix, their jokes were not amusing enough to evoke laughter in the audience prior to them cheating. Despite this, they are shown to continue practicing on their comedy afterwards, as seen in the season 3 finale.


Mr. Osomatsu

Unlike the sextuplets and Kamimatsu, Akumatsu has no discernable human shape. Instead, he is a giant mass of purple shadow with red eyes in the shape of the sextuplets', with a barely-visible nose among his vague facial features.
In his season 2 cameo, Akumatsu can be seen in the "Secondary Matsuno Team" training field, still bearing his usual features and being a shadow but being much smaller and human-sized.

Just as Kamimatsu is too successful at doing good, Akumatsu is successful at being the worst and operates fast in his job of killing his "brother". He is appreciative of his other brothers, and reminds them they can call on him for help any time. Of course, with -san having a skit show nature, this does not come to pass and such a gag is unneeded.


Mr. Villain's Day Off

Rooney has pale skin with pointed ears. His hair is short and blue with curtain bangs. He wears a long black coat with white details. He has a long blue scarf.

He is shown to be very friendly with The General, often hanging out in his office with him. He works as an analyst with zero ability to fight. He cares highly of what The General thinks of him, worrying when he loses C-018, not for the safety of the robot, but for The General hating him if it returns damaged.


Mr. Villain's Day Off

Sakura is a young girl with pink hair and two small sakura flower hair pins. She wears a knee length white dress with a pink sailor collar and pink shoes. Her eyes are pink and orange.

Little is known about Sakura’s personality. She seems to be timid.


Mr. Villain's Day Off

Pink is a teenaged girl with pale skin. Her hair is pink and fades into a light blue at the tips. She wears a pink hoodie over a black V-necked shirt over a white collared shirt. She has a black skirt, black socks, and brown slip on shoes. She wears a pink bracelet on her left wrist.

Pink is usually quiet, but she is quite nerdy when it comes to magical girl shows. She shows resentment toward her ranger costume, saying she wishes she was a magical girl instead.


Mr. Villain's Day Off

Blue has short blue hair. He wears a black shirt with upturned collar and dark blue jeans. He wears black shoes with white laces and a blue band on his left hand.

He is the big brother of the team. He experiences stomach-ache often. He is especially close with Pink, though they constantly bicker, but they have known each other since childhood.


Mr. Villain's Day Off

While on duty, Warumono-san has slicked back hair and a shadowing around his eyes and nose bridge, which also makes his very light eyebrows invisible. He wears a large cloak, held closed over his chest with chains in the front and skeletal hands draped over his shoulders. He wears gloves over large, clawed hands and his pointed ears and barbed tail appear prominently.

Warumono-san is often straight-faced and calm, however he can become distressed when his expectations or plans aren't met. These instances are often expressed by outbursts that can frighten those around him, even if he usually doesn't intend harm.
He has strong beliefs around work-life balance, especially about taking days off and having rest time. Being a general of the Evil Organization is hard work, and he (and others) deserve a treat and rest. His rules for days off are as follows:

Spend your days off wisely. A good night's rest and delicious food are both musts Step away from your work; if you see a coworker you must quickly flee like a shooting star (and later feign ignorance) [1]

Pandas are his favorite thing. He enjoys going to the zoo to see the pandas and also enjoys panda items. Although, in terms of panda themed food, he often has trouble deciding where to start eating it, since it is too cute. Warumono-san's enjoyment of cute things also extends to other items, such as other animals (polar bears, red pandas, kittens, etc.), steamed buns, and his local convenience store. He has the desire to have all of his favorite things prosper after humans are wiped out. [2]


Mr. Villain's Day Off

Black has shoulder length black hair. His eyes are black and he has a beauty mark under his left eye. He wears a long black coat with a popped collar over a black shirt, black pants, and black shoes.


Ms. Koizumi Loves Ramen Noodles

In the manga , Koizumi-san is petite with red eyes and blonde hair (although more precisely, her hair color is more like kansui , the ingredient that gives ramen its distinctive yellow color). Her hair is normally long and wavy, but is fixed to a ponytail whenever she eats ramen. The only difference in the anime is that her hair is tinted orange, but still retains a "noodle-like" flow.
In the live action drama , Koizumi-san has long dark hair.

She is generally quiet and reserved. Although Koizumi-san has a penchant for ramen, she prefers to eat by herself, much to the chagrin of Yuu, who constantly begs her to eat together. Koizumi-san often carries with her a dull, emotionless demeanor, but upon eating ramen, a cheerful and satisfied expression will often light up on her face. Her manner of speech is generally polite and straight to the point, but whenever the subject of ramen comes up, she will speak at great lengths about it. And if an unrelated conversation heads in a direction that might involve ramen, Koizumi-san will interject almost immediately with a ramen-related fact.
Koizumi-san's knowledge of ramen is miles deep, but she is constantly trying out new dishes in order to learn more about them. Simply being around ramen can make her anxious and excited, and when she is denied access to ramen in any way, she may fall into a state of acute psychological shock. Once having been ill, she was without ramen for two weeks and the moment she took her first bite of noodles after her recovery, she became emotional and broke into tears.
Being so fixated on ramen, Koizumi-san has little interest in anything else, including other hobbies and personal relationships. While she is constantly hit on by men, she brushes them off swiftly with a simple "No, thank you." She also has a tendency to wear her school uniform even when it is not a school day, although she will wear casual clothes on certain occasions. Despite her fixation on ramen, Koizumi-san is also fluent in German and has an amazing singing voice .
According to the Volume 1 omake, Koizumi-san is most likely to carry the following in her schoolbag: a scrunchie, a book (usually one that describes the wait-time to get in a ramen shop), wet tissues, breath fresheners (used whenever she adds garlic or onions to her ramen), and a hand towel. In addition, she also uses a smartphone to look up ramen-related news and events, and to check the latest trends in specialty ramen menus.
Despite her love for ramen, Koizumi-san is unable to successfully make any herself, and often has to rely on others to cook even instant ramen for her.


Ms. Koizumi Loves Ramen Noodles

In the anime and manga, Misa wears purplish-pink twin-tails and has pink eyes. She has brown hair in the drama.

On the surface, Misa has a cute, bubbly personality and a great sense of fashion. Under this facade, however, she is very protective of her popular image in school, and is jealous of Koizumi-san for the attention she receives after transferring. Misa feels that she has to compete with her, as she is often seen as a "backup" among the males who were rejected by Koizumi-san. Oddly enough, Misa has a tendency to reject many guys herself despite yearning for romance.
Whenever she feels threatened by Koizumi-san, Misa can become angry and boisterous. She is often reluctant to have Koizumi-san for company, even if accompanied by Yuu and Jun. But after first being introduced to ramen through Koizumi-san, Misa will usually forget her animosity towards her and simply enjoy eating her noodles. Misa once had a strict dieting regime that she followed in order to stay in shape, but that was ruined by Koizumi-san. In fact, Misa will confide in Koizumi-san for beauty advice even if it involves eating a certain bowl of fatty ramen to have an effect.
Misa later reveals that she always yearns for stimulation in her life, which is the reason why she is a fan of spicy foods. While she was in middle school, Misa and her mother would go to a ramen shop together, where her mother would order ramen with a "level 7" level of spiciness. Misa eventually picked up her mother's habit of eating spicy ramen, even though her mother insisted that "kids should only eat level 3 ramen." Gradually, Misa's habit would slowly develop from there, up to the point where she would now always order the spiciest ramen dish available.


Ms. Koizumi Loves Ramen Noodles

In the anime and manga, Yuu has short dull blue hair. In the drama she has darker hair and is noticeably more petite in size.

Because she enjoys the sight of cute girls, she naturally develops the urge to make friends with Koizumi-san. Yuu will often ask Koizumi-san to join her and her friends after school, but such offers are usually rejected. Whenever that happens, Yuu will occasionally take the initiative to secretly follow Koizumi-san to a ramen shop, and spy on her from across the street (often recording her observations in a secret journal). On other occasions, she will simply beg and plead to be with Koizumi-san for the day. Whether or not she is able to make any progress to get close to Koizumi-san, one thing that Yuu always receives in return with their encounters is Koizumi-san's knowledge of ramen. Every once in a while, she will take her friends and family out to ramen, only to share with them something that Koizumi-san had imparted to her.
It becomes evident later on in the series that Yuu has a full-blown obsession with Koizumi-san. Yuu can become extremely jealous when her friends get close to her, or at the thought of Koizumi-san ever becoming romantically involved with someone, such as her brother . One by one, each of her friends were able to exchange phone contacts with Koizumi-san before Yuu did, and by the time Yuu finally obtained Koizumi-san phone address, her barrage of text messages tend to remain unanswered by Koizumi-san. On many occasions, Yuu simply wants to be as close to Koizumi-san as she physically can. Once with her brother on a train to Osaka, Yuu spotted someone who looked almost like Koizumi-san from her train window. Excited, and with her brother asleep, Yuu immediately gets off at the nearest station to look for the girl, only to find herself stranded in Nagoya with 500 yen in her pocket. In another instance, Yuu once asked her teacher if she could obtain Koizumi-san's home address, to which her teacher denied giving away confidential information to a student. Becoming increasingly frustrated with not being able to get close to Koizumi-san at that point, she makes it her goal to become Koizumi-san in order to be always close to her "in spirit". Alternatively, if she was unable to physically meet with Koizumi-san, she would simply cook two bowls of ramen and set them on a table with two seats. Yuu would then sit down by herself and pretend to eat with Koizumi-san, talking and gesturing towards the empty seat and the bowl of ramen in front of it. Another example of her obsession towards Koizumi-san is when Yuu and Koizumi-san spent time together with Ayane at a business hotel . Having enjoyed the hotel amenities provided through her cousin, Yuu is fixated only on one thing: to bathe at the hotel's hot spring with Koizumi-san. She eventually bathes in the pool and waits for Koizumi-san to show up, and after hours of watching people go in and out, Yuu continues to muster up courage to wait so that her "cherished wish" could come true.
Despite her quirkiness and extreme fixation with Koizumi-san, Yuu can be best described as a friendly and sociable girl. When Koizumi-san collapsed in front of a ramen shop, Yuu carries her immediately to her apartment and cooks her homemade instant ramen to help her recover. She also cares for her brother Shuu, enough that she keeps close tabs with him on the phone to see whether he's okay, or if she needs to make lunch made for him. And with her cousin Ayane having just moved to Tokyo, Yuu enjoys the time she spends eating out with close family, even while having Koizumi-san constantly in her mind at the restaurant.


Ms. Koizumi Loves Ramen Noodles

In the anime and manga, Jun wears purple glasses and has long green hair. Her live-action actress resembles her two-dimensional counterparts, except she has black hair.

Among her classmates, Jun carries with her an air of being dependable and straight-laced. She is studious and earns top marks on tests, and can be relied upon by her teacher to help others. However, deep below she is an anxiety-prone girl who easily falls into a tizzy whenever she has to deal with uncomfortable or potentially embarrassing situations. Jun used to avoid hot ramen for the reason that it often fogs her glasses, leaving those around her to poke fun and embarrass her. Being around Koizumi-san can also be considered nerve-wracking for Jun, who is perhaps not used to being around seemingly odd people. (Although it was Koizumi-san who eventually led her to enjoy ramen again.)
Most of her anxiety, however, lies in wrestling with her own future career goals. Even if she is a hard worker, Jun feels that her own achievements would not lead her to become a novelist or be secured a position in her mother's publishing company. She attends a cram school on weekends and feels so anxious during mock exam sessions that her appetite shuts down for an entire day. Jun confides much of these worries to Koizumi-san, who in contrast is more carefree and secretive about her own future.
Nevertheless, Jun is a little more laid back when she is with her friends, and can be seen in the group as the voice of reason. Her intelligence can even make way for stimulating conversation, especially when she interacts with Koizumi-san regarding the subtleties of certain ramen . Always studying, Jun has wished at a shrine to place in the top 50 rank for national mock exams.


Muhyo & Roji's Bureau of Supernatural Investigation

Goryo is a young man with long dark hair and a mole under the left side of his mouth.

Goryo is extremely wealthy, and tends to act like all others are beneath him. He prides himself on his strategy in the world of Magic Law. While he acknowledges that Muhyo is much stronger than him in terms of tempering and Envoy strength, he knows that Roji can only drag Muhyo down. He believes that Magic Law can be used for profit (which he shows by having 100 offices open in Japan, the 100th being the Muhyo office). While he may seem heartless, he cares deeply for Ebisu , who has been his friend for years. Goryo's book of Magic Law is a paperback book, unlike Muhyo's hardcover book.


Soratsugu Madoka (Enchu) is a boy with blue hair up till his shoulders, same uniform as the students of the M.L.S, but wears a white cloak instead of black, He also has notably large blue eyes [purple in anime] and fair skin. Many describe him as pretty or beautiful.

Enchu is a polite, sensitive, and smart personalized boy, who became sadistic and evil, but soon returns to his kind side. He also has a very effeminate nature.


Futaro is a short and pale boy with light turquoise hair and neon blue eyes.
He wears a dark blue bandanna like an accessory around his head with a golden button in the middle. Furthermore, he wears a light blue scarf that covers his mouth, a dark blue cloak with a celeste colored shirt, and a very pale blue shirt under the cloak.


Ebisu is a short young man with short brown hair and a blue nose. He has brown eyes and a wooden doll look. He wears a blue cape with a red bow.

Ebisu is a very loyal partner to Daranimaru Goryo as he was once saved by him many years ago and he has sworn to die for Goryo, which is proven when he nearly dies in order to save Goryo.


Busujima is a young woman with blonde hair, amber eyes, and has noticeably large breasts, which causes Yoichi to tend to listen to everything she says.
She typically wears a blue tube-top with the kanji for 'sake' on it, a small necklace, small circle earrings, blue jeans, and sandals.

Busujima is very happy-go-lucky and laid back, and tends to forget to put on a shirt even in public (Much to Imai's chagrin). She is addicted to both smoking and alcohol, and Umekichi tends to try to take them from her and hide them at any opportunity he can.


Roji is a young slim man with blond hair with brown-orange eyes.

Roji is optimistic and always tries to see the good in people. He can be a bit of a whiner and crybaby, which annoys Muhyo . Constantly, he tries to make up for his weak Magic Law abilities by studying, and always tries to help Muhyo as much as he can. Like Muhyo , he also enjoys reading Jabin . In truth, Roji is a very kind, sensitive person, and he is the one who takes a lot of risks when it comes to protecting Muhyo . Therefore, Roji has a different kind of power that no one has: a kind and unwavering heart.


Kenji is a young boy with short brown hair and usually always wear a baseball hat.

He loves to make pranks and wasn't believing in ghosts until it was saved by Muhyo and Roji. Afterward, Kenji grew a liking for the pair, often referring to Roji as "Sprout-Man" and Muhyo as "Onion-Boy". He always tries to find excuses to hang around their office, as Muhyo has made it a rule never to meet a client after the case is complete unless they bring a new one.


Kiriko is a fairylike creature who has pink pigtails and black dress


Lilli has blonde hair and blue eyes. She wears a red-rimmed glasses, a beige colored dress shirt with a blue ribbon, a brown skirt, white socks, and brown shoes.

Lilli like her brother, they're astute as well candid in what they say, never afraid of speaking their mind on whatever.


Maril has blonde hair and blue eyes. He wears a black top hat, blue rimmed glasses, a beige colored dress shirt with a red ribbon, puffy black pants, white socks, and brown shoes.

Maril like his sister is astute as well candid in what they say, never afraid of speaking their mind on whatever.


Mitch is a moderately tall, slender man. He is regularly seen wearing thin-framed glasses, as well as a blue suit over a white shirt with a striped blue and white tie. His messy greenish-blue hair is always in contrast to his well-dressed appearance.

Mitch is regularly very calm and reassuring acting as the foil of his eccentric partner Jyo Harima. Despite acting very kindly toward Muhyo and Roji when requesting their help, he is very skeptical behind their backs. Due to his fear of ghosts, he opts to deny their existence, leading him to consider Magic Law a sham. He is also very prideful when it comes to his work;

Mitch becomes aggravated at Muhyo's decision.

He becomes aggravated at his uselessness in the case of the Shofu abductions, and even more so when he is told that he will only get in the way of Muhyo and Roji’s investigation. To prove his usefulness to the case he follows Muhyo and Roji behind their backs and attempts to singlehandedly capture their suspect. Despite his pride, he actually takes his job with much seriousness, and his main goal is to help people and bring a smile to their faces. At the end of the case, he recognizes Magic Law as a viable thing and voices his respect towards Muhyo and Roji.


Nana is a young girl with medium-long brown hair, usually tied up. She is usually wearing a school uniform: a white shirt and short blue skirt with under knee-long blue socks and brown shoes.

Nana is an avid photographer and enjoys it a lot. To her disdain, Nana is a natural spiritual medium as she attracts all sorts of spiritual beings to her. In the past she was very close to her father, however, as she grew older and her father becoming more of a slipshod, they grew apart. Their relationship ended after an abrasive confrontation between them and her father immediately died after the fact. The father would later go on to haunt Nana appearing in photos that she’d taken. Once his spirit was exorcised, she forgave her father.
Since the spirit of her father was exorcised, she's become a big sister-figure toward Muhyo and Roji .


Page is a tall man at 190cm, with black hair that stands straight up and reveals much of his forehead, a mustache, and a scruffy goatee. He for the majority of the series carries a cane, donning the typical outfits most at the MLA wear, the suspenders, and white dress shirt. He also is usually seen wearing a long cape with a neck.

Page enjoys smoking a pipe quite often. While this may give him an aloof and relaxed image, he can be very powerful in the field. He is a very strong Executor like Muhyo and is very kind towards people especially Muhyo, Yoichi, and even towards Roji. He believes that Magic Law starts with physical fitness. Also, he likes to compose poetry and thinks he's good at it. Furthermore, he can be possessive of his students once calling Muhyo "My Muhyo" while worried about him.


Panza is shown as having several different looks in the manga. Before becoming a ghost, Panza had the look of a regular girl. Long black hair, and the common school girl uniform. While in the Wailing Vale, Panza appears as a ghastly figure, with ragged clothes and messy long hair, which covers a large portion of her face. At the hotel, Panza disguises herself as a maid. There she has a much tidier appearance than the one at the Wailing Vale. She wears a typical maid uniform and regains the tidiness of her hair. As a ghost, however, Panza takes on a much more grotesque form. Appearing as a sort of worm-like creature, Panza’s legs become one long dragging tail, while her arms and neck elongate. Her eyes also take on the typical red lighting that most ghosts have.

From a young age, Panza was able to see spirits, which was something that seriously troubled her parents. Instead of helping her however they chastised her for her abilities. At school, Panza was a loner, who was cast aside as a freak and constantly bullied. During this time Panza always hoped that her knight in shining armor would someday appear and rescue her. One day her family received an M.L.S. application form for Panza. Convinced that this was their chance to get rid of their daughter they sent her away to the M.L.S. and asked her not to come back. However, upon arriving to the examination, she discovered that she was missing her application form. The other applicants shunned her and refused to help her, except for Roji who gave her one of his extra forms. When the time came for the examination she was in a daze from having met Roji and immediately failed. Afterward, she witnessed Roji defeat a spirit and became convinced that he was her knight in shining armor. She then began stalking him, trying to muster up the courage to speak to him again. After deciding she would study Magic Law to gain Roji’s admiration she was confronted by Teeki , who invited her to join him. In an attempt to gain powers quickly and get rid of Muhyo, who she believed prevented her from being with Roji, she accepted. Teeki then transformed her into a ghast.


Judge Imai has brown hair in a bob cut till her neck and has a stern look with her brown eyes.
She wears the M.L.S uniform at all times, and sometimes wears a cloak.

Imai is a serious, and a little mood-off person, but she is also very caring towards Roji , Muhyo , Yoichi , Biko , and Page , and Fujiwara. She is the Master of Swordsmanship in the series, (as said by Ginji that her win record is legendary) some say she never lost a battle when it came to Swordplay. She is very focused and all-time ready for missions given by Page Klaus. However, she mostly doubts Yoichi's capabilities (as shown when they had to fight Buhpu's army and calls him insane). But despite all that, she is very caring and soft towards people and has concerns.


Rie is a young girl with medium length black hair. She has a mole under her left eye.

Rie was initially anti-social and wary of people aside from her best friend, Taeko. In time, she was recruited into the volleyball team and grew more self-confident, which made Taekko jealous of her. This would cause a rift between them and would lead to Rie accidentally killing Taeko at a train station. The event would traumatize Rie, leaving her to feel devastated and remorseful for what she’d done.


Rika has gray hair in twin ponytails and eyes.
She wears a schoolgirl outfit.

Not much is known about Rika's personality, however, she's shown to be rather timid.


Rio is tall woman with long purple hair and pale skin. Many characters describe her to be beautiful and attractive, with a sizeable bust. She usually wears a light pink sun hat and long gray-to-white dress with fraying sleeves and collar, secured by string. Her hair is secured under her hat by a small clip, and she wears earrings obscured by her hair. Her main accessory is a monocle she wears on her left eye, which appears to be half a pair of glasses.
On her back are hidden scars from an accident in class when she protected Biko from an exploding beaker when the latter played with dangerous potions. While she is a practitioner of forbidden magic law, she develops similar scarring on her face and neck like Enchu .

Rio appears to be a kind and good-natured woman who loves her students. She is shown to be very charismatic in class, though her pretty appearance may help tide things in her favor. As shown when she protected Biko from an explosion in class, she is protective of those in her care. This extends to even supposed enemies, as she nursed Imai's wounds after the latter was cut by Mick .
She has a great deal of determination. Due to her struggles as an artificer, she was taken advantage of by an older judge and even scorned by other practitioners as wanton. However, she was fine taking all this abuse so long as she could pay for the medicine to keep her ailing mother alive, whom she loved dearly. When her mother was attacked, she even ran to these people who mocked her for help, because she could not sentence spirits herself.
When provoked, Rio has considerable rage. Losing her mother made her vengeful, and she turned to Ark for revenge on the Magic Law Association (MLA) for letting her mother die. Her rage allows her to attack even those she formerly loved and taught, like Biko and Muhyo. To fulfill her goals, she has no qualms defiling her soul by dabbling in dark arts and using underhanded techniques, like when she used Sophie as bait for Muhyo to expend all his tempering.


Taeko is a young girl with medium length brown hair. As a spirit, she has a large head and long centipede-like body with multiple arms.

She loved her best friend and didn't want to lose her and when she was faced with the possibility of losing her, she couldn't handle it. When she became a spirit, she started killing people and was blaming her friend for her death. When she was sentenced by Muhyo and swallowed by Hades' Banquet, she came to her senses and was happy to hold hands with Rie and accepted her sentence.


Teeki wears a wooden mask with a big nose and has four eyes. He usually wears a fur clothing that covers and almost all of his body is hidden.

He hates the Association and had sworn to make them pay. Seeing people from the Association, he can't control himself and his urge to kill them takes over.


Tomas has tan brown hair, black eyes, and sharp jagged teeth. He wears a black hooded cloak.

Tomas is a sadistic and cunning individual.


Toranosuke is a short old man who has long white hair and a big white beard just like Santa Clause .

Toranosuke Kitajima is the mentor/teacher of Futaro Mitani .


Muhyo is a young short man with a big oval head and cat like blue eyes. His sleek black hair is comically slicked up to a side.
Under his cool black cape (dark blue in the manga), he wears standard MLMA uniform attire: white long sleeve button up dress shirt (a short sleeve for warmer weather), pants of any kind, and suspenders.
Muhyo normally wears a standard white button up dress shirt, bright red shorts, red suspenders with white stripes at the sides, knee socks, and small black loafers.

Muhyo has a somewhat emotionless personality, showing no sign of pity when dispensing of the ghosts. He seems to be sleeping most of the time, (for as an executor of the Laws, a large amount of spiritual energy is needed for him to summon the necessary Hellish being to carry out the sentences of various ghosts, spirits). He seems to try to show no signs of caring for his assistant, Roji. But it immediately becomes evident that he does during dangerous situations, or when one of Muhyo's friends or acquaintances points it out. He is often rude to other people and keeps a stern face, but deep down, he has a strong sense of Justice.


Yoichi is a former student in the M.L.S. He wears a red shirt (or sometimes white) with black pants. His hair color is black, shoulder-length, and he wears a headband on top to move his hair back. He wears a black sweater and black pants with ear muffs instead of his headband during the Wintertime. He has gray eyes and black pupils.

Yoichi is somewhat of a womanizer and is popular with the female Magic Law students. He likes to grab girls' breasts (particularly Nana 's) and is able to determine their bra sizes simply by grabbing their breasts.
Besides this, he can be extremely focused. Known for his skill, he is called the "Prince of Magic Law" by some. He can be annoying sometimes but he is also a smart judge, as he plans his attacks in at least one second or two. At that time, he can set up a decent trap or plan but this is because when he noticed Muhyo's skill bloomed, he kicked into high gear.
Yoichi appears to have a crush on Nana. However, underneath this exterior resides his experience and wisdom that rival Muhyo's. Yoichi had offered to be Muhyo's partner, but Muhyo had already chosen Roji instead. Yoichi is an expert at every type of Magical Law except for Execution. It is also shown that Yoichi has become smarter and faster since Muhyo's talent bloomed.


Biko is a short young girl with medium length blond hair and red eyes. She is always wearing an orange hat and green scarf, and ankle long striped dress.

Biko has great admiration for her teacher, Rio . She affectionately refers to Rio as "Teach". While wearing her hat, Biko looks like a boy, and many people mistake her as one. Roji , for instance, instantly thought Biko was a boy until Rio removes Biko's hat.


Yumi has short brown hair and black eyes.
She wears a schoolgirl uniform.

Not much is known about Yumi's personality, however, she partook in an divination to summon Kokkuri-san. She later regrets doing this.


Yuuri's normal form takes shape in the form of a black and white spotted cloak, a long white beard, and a long, domed head with three eyes in a row.
Yuuri's unleashed form is similar to the normal form. His eyes turn white and rearrange themselves into a triangle formation. The beard grows longer, and the black-and-white spotted cloak turns into pants. Yuuri's arms grow stronger in appearance.


Munō na Nana

Daisuke has red hair with light streaks on the bottom and piercing light-colored eyes. He is tall and buff.

Daisuke is a very brash and bold individual who has no problem speaking his mind. He appears to be a bit of a delinquent, as he does not attend his classes. Nanao even describes him as "the type of guy who wouldn't hesitate to kill someone for his own benefit." However, he seems to possess more intelligence than his classmates, as he suspects that Nana's cute personality is just an act.


Munō na Nana

Fuuko has long black/green hair tied back in a ponytail. She has a pink clip on her hair. Her eyes are usually closed, but they are light grey.

Fuuko is a very reserved and gentle girl. She speaks in a polite, formal manner. She cares deeply for her boyfriend and is also one of the first people to befriend Kyouya (which he takes great pride in).


Munō na Nana

Hikaru has short-cut brown hair, much like Moguo's. He has a gentle face and typically wears robes, as he was raised in a monastery.

Hikaru appears to be a gracious and humble person. He secretly has a perverse side that enjoys abusing his power to make people float into the sky, claiming that it is very "moving" to him.


Munō na Nana

Hitomi had short blonde hair and wore a beanie over it. In truth, she lost her hair to chemotherapy, so she had to wear a wig.

Hitomi was very bold, rambunctious, and had a reputation of being scary. She was very protective over Michiru and kept bullies away from her.


Munō na Nana

Jin has indigo colored hair that is parted to the right side, olive eyes that has cat-like pupils and he wears rectangle-shaped glasses.

Jin is a very cunning individual whose perceptiveness rivals Kyouya's. In terms of wit, he and Nana are on the same level, while they are  frequently butt heads. He is not one to wear his true feelings on his sleeve. Also, Jin is very mysterious, though he is willing to exchange information if it benefits him.