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Revy is a Chinese-American, [4] [5] slightly tan-skinned woman who appears to be in her mid to late twenties. She is 165.6 centimeters tall (or 5'5") [1] and has upper back-length burgundy hair (brown hair in the manga) that she typically keeps in a low loose ponytail, including rather large bangs falling onto her forehead on either side along with two shoulder-length side locks framing her face. Moreover, she has amber-brown eyes, a tribal tattoo on her upper right arm that reaches all the way up to her neck, and a slightly muscular build that she does not conceal in the least.

Revy is a troubled, loud, rude, sarcastic, deadly, competitive, short-tempered, cynical, confident and considerably aggressive person who also exhibits a wild temperament. Unlike Rock , Revy is undiplomatic, believing in the use of brute force and coercion to get her way. Out of all the characters in the series, Revy uses the foulest language and is also a heavy smoker and drinker. Revy is merciless and sadistic, and she is more than capable of killing anyone, even unarmed civilians. Despite her merciless nature, she is also capable of being humorous and witty, and she can be quite a talker when she is not mad. Another aspect of her personality is her racial insensitivity:

She has mocked Shenhua 's broken English and syntax by calling her "yes-lady" (「ですだよ」姉ちゃん). [7] In the English versions of the anime and manga, the term Revy uses toward Shenhua is "Chinglish," which is a portmanteau of Chinese and English. She has used the anti-Chinese slur "chinky" toward Feng Yifei . [8] She has demeaned Leigharch for his Irish heritage (in the English version of the anime, she calls him a "Leprechaun," whereas in the manga, the insult she uses toward him is the anti-Irish slur "mick"). [7] She refers to Isaac as "that creepy Jew." [9] She calls a FARC soldier a "beaner." [10] She has referred to Eastern European people by the slur "bohunk." [9] [11] She refers to the Frenchwomen of Les Cinq Doigts as "frogs." [12]

Although most people call her "Revy," she usually addresses herself as Rebecca to elderly people like Sister Yolanda and Praiyachat . At the beginning of the series, Revy was a merciless, sadistic and skilled killer without conscience, more than ready to kill anyone at the slightest provocation, even unarmed civilians (as demonstrated in the U-boat rampage), [13] and she kills in cold blood as seen when she murders a wounded FARC soldier after promising him to take him to a hospital in exchange for him disclosing Roberta 's location. [14] She takes maniacal glee in killing anyone she fights or otherwise comes into conflict with, while having very little remorse for her victims. Whilst appearing to be driven by general bloodlust, it is shown throughout the series that Revy subconsciously uses violence as a dysfunctional and destructive coping mechanism and outlet for her deeply repressed emotional and psychological issues. An example of this is when she becomes uneasy at the idea of accepting Rock into the Lagoon Company ; Revy then vents her trust issues by becoming particularly unpredictable during several ensuing missions and getting what Dutch refers to as " Whitman fever," going on indiscriminate shooting rampages and executing hostiles and innocent bystanders alike. However, it should be noted that the above incident was indicated by Dutch to have been rather out of character for her, and he harshly chastised her for it. [13]
The inhabitants of Roanapur tend to take Revy at face value as an incredibly destructive, volatile, sadistic, gun-crazed psychopath and this is how Revy initially thinks of herself, ignoring the psychological trauma and emotional turmoil that fuels her behavior, possibly putting on this act to prevent others from discovering her emotional scars, keeping them hidden even from herself. It is only when Rock arrives and begins to confront her over her actions, as opposed to immediately backing off or enabling her, that she begins to develop some reluctant introspection and to seriously think about who she has become and who she really is.
One of the ways Revy's subconscious pain and emotional scars manifest themselves is her aversion to the empathy of others or others trying to relate to her. People presuming to understand what she has been through or how it has affected her is a huge trigger for Revy, causing her to react in a violent rage, suggesting the depth of the bitterness and grief her early life has bred into her. She has a changing but volatile attitude towards Rock, the at-the-time newest and most outspokenly humane crew member of the Lagoon Company. Although she respects him later in the series, she is at first mostly hostile towards Rock, as she tried to intentionally kill him on at least two occasions and threatened him on countless others. However, she does have a tendency to save Rock from critical situations, and later on, she becomes closer to him.
Due to an impoverished upbringing which involved verbal, physical and sexual abuse from those who had power over her (such as her father and the police), Revy has developed an obsession towards power, over both herself and others, which causes her to appear fiercely independent and violently assertive, often using verbal or physical violence as a response to anyone who crosses her or to assert her dominance. However, while Revy initially appears to be tough, savage and strong-minded, her exterior actually covers up a profound lack of inner-strength and fear of the powerlessness she felt as a child. Her independence is actually more of a reactive attachment disorder, alienating others as much as possible to prevent the exposure of her own weaknesses and vulnerabilities. Revy believes the chief source of power in life is money, the "one thing everyone respects and agrees on," [15] and consequently has developed an obsession with maximizing the profits from each job as much as possible, such as ransoming others and looting corpses when she feels that the Lagoon Company is not paid enough given the risks involved and/or the work put in.
Later on in the series, it is suggested that, despite her insistence otherwise, deep down Revy actually hates Roanapur, her lifestyle and the person she has become, and that she wants to change but does not know how. In Tokyo, Revy opens up to Rock, saying that she has lived "on dirty air" her whole life and, though she temporarily forgot it, she would be incapable of living in "a good place" like the one Rock came from. In Roberta's Blood Trail , after Revy states that Fabiola Iglesias sees the world as a garden of roses, Fabiola retorts that Revy is actually the one who sees the world as a garden of roses, one that she herself was expelled from. [16] This feeling that she was unreasonably denied a happy life causes Revy to adamantly view the world as bleak and desolate, to the exclusion of all contradictory evidence.
One of her funnier aspects is sometimes being quite forgetful; during the "Greenback Jane" arc she was unable to recall remembering Lotton the Wizard , let alone shooting him, much to Shenhua and Sawyer 's amusement and falling for Roberta's trick that her shoe was untied. Revy has not completed formal education, most likely due to her poor & horrible upbringing and her dropping out of junior high. Despite her lack of formal education, she does have some deduction skills, and she is able to understand a little Spanish [10] and claims to know a tiny bit of Cantonese. [8]
In Volume 10, Revy suggests, though does not outright confirm, bisexuality by telling Jane that she has "won over some sex-starved dykes by playing the man's role." It should be noted however, that this statement was given in the context of a threat; she was in no uncertain terms telling Jane to back off of Rock after Jane revealed that she wanted to involve him in an orgy. [17] Outside of these instances (one of them being an out-and-out joke), Revy does not seem to have either a sex life or any visible interest in sex, possibly due to the trauma she went through when a corrupt policeman raped her. [18]
She has also complained on a few occasions about Jane's overt love of sex. Despite this, in the manga, she was involved in Rowan 's S&M show, which may have been more to satisfy her sadism as well as her subconscious self-loathing (or simply as an easy way of making money). Conversely, Rowan stated in the anime that he wanted Revy to return to his employment as she was an S/M dancer previously, to which she retorted, "Forget it, Rowan. I'm not coming back. Even if there is whipping." [19] Revy has a particular degree of comfort around Rock wherein she is comfortable wearing lesser clothing around him, indicated in various chapters. [20] [21] [22]


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He was a Chinese man with a skinny build and light skin. He was seen wearing a white undershirt.


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Ravencroft is a middle-aged Caucasian man with light brown receding hair, pale skin, a thick mustache, and round-cornered rectangular glasses. He has a large frame and stomach, and he wears a pink long-sleeved dress shirt with a yellow tie, thin black suspenders, and a name tag attached to his left suspender. Although he is usually seen without his suit jacket, he will wear it outside.


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Leroy is an older man with a skinny build, pale skin, dark hair styled into a pompadour, and a soul patch. He is usually seen wearing a Hawaiian shirt, but he has also been seeing wearing a light-colored suit.


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Rico is a young adult man with a skinny build, light tan skin, and green eyes. He has shaggy, dark green hair styled with a frontal widow's peak and bangs. He normally wears black clerical clothing with a clerical collar. On other occasions, he wears light-colored pants and a short-sleeved dress shirt.


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Roberta is a young Hispanic [2] woman with a skinny build and pale skin, and she has a height of 169.8 centimeters (or 5'7"). [3] She has waist-length, dark purple hair that is tied in low pigtail braids with square bangs hanging over her eyebrows, blue eyes and sharp canine teeth.
After she fled FARC , Roberta is seen wearing a long French maid uniform with a cross necklace, white gloves, and black shoes. Her large, thick and round glasses are not real as she wears them as part of her maid persona.

Roberta is a considerably well-mannered woman despite her murderous past. It is shown that it takes quite a lot to get her upset or angry as seen when Bao insulted her and shoved a drink her way, spilling alcohol on her face. [5] She does not often talk to strangers, but she is very protective and friendly around people she knows, loves and/or trusts. Roberta is bilingual, with her native language being Spanish. Roberta is a Catholic who is deeply religious, constantly claiming her actions are in the name of Santa Maria. She is also seen praying to repent for her sins and asking for the sins of Garcia Lovelace and Diego Lovelace to be forgiven. [6] She is also heard thanking Eda for her help making her arrangements to confront U.S. soldiers and calmly promised her a painless death. [7]
On another occasion, she even gave a friendly bow to the Manisarera Cartel as she let tons of grenades fall from her long maid outfit. [8] When she does become angry, she is a truly spine-chilling rival, being seen as virtually unbeatable by her opponents. In contrast, whenever she takes on her Bloodhound persona, Roberta's demeanor shifts dramatically, casting aside her typical reserved and soft-spoken mask in favor of complete, unhinged rage and berserk bloodlust.


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Rock is a fair-skinned, Japanese ex-salaryman with a skinny build and a height of 173 centimeters (or 5'8"). [2] His black hair has fringe on the right side, and he has brown eyes. Eda , who likes to tease Rock, defines him as "handsome," but little is known about how others perceive his physical appearance beyond noticing his grooming. In the manga, Rock's employee information shows that he was born in August 1974, making him 20 years old at the beginning of the manga series (early 1995). [4] In contrast, the anime shows that he was born on August 21, 1970, making him 24 at the anime's beginning in 1995 (though his employee certificate erroneously says 25 as his age). [1]
Despite being a pirate, Rock is able to retain his business persona by continuing to wear a teal neck tie, short-sleeved dress shirt, slacks, and dress shoes. From the outside, Rock appears as a normal person, which ironically makes him stand out from the rest of Roanapur 's residents. On the other hand, Revy preferred Rock to wear the Hawaiian shirt that she bought for him when he first joined the company. Being who he is, Rock prefers his usual wear even when he is at Yellow Flag or on a job. Ultimately, Rock not abandoning his Japanese salaryman appearance represents his lingering attachment to his old way of life.

Rock is a humble and good-natured person despite being on the business end of guns from friends and foe alike. Initially, he is often surprised at the barbarity of the international criminal underworld. Although in the criminal world, he maintains his business persona by wearing his business outfit. He is not a fighter in any way, but rather a pacifist who prefers to use words over weapons when interacting with the hostile people encountered on the job. Rock, from joining the Lagoon Company, has occasionally wondered if he is experiencing Stockholm syndrome , consequentially developing a friendship with his former captors and current co-workers. Yukio Washimine once described him as someone who was neither in a civilian nor criminal world but rather in the twilight, unable to chose between a life of crime or normality. [5]
Within the Lagoon Company, Rock is usually responsible for account management, diplomacy, negotiation, translation, interpretation, and running occasional errands. Having worked in the resource department of Asahi Industries, Rock is skilled in geology and chemistry. He is also a skilled linguist due to frequent traveling from his previous job, being able to speak various languages such as Japanese (his native language), English, [3] Spanish, [6] some Russian, [7] and has some familiarity with Romance languages, [8] including some French. [9] He also has a surprisingly high tolerance for alcohol, owing to the heavy drinking lifestyle of a ladder climbing salaryman. [1]
Rock's earnest personality has earned him the interest and respect of several characters in Roanapur , which caused those like Balalaika , Mr. Chang , Rowan , Sister Yolanda and Eda to develop an interest in him, and the young Garcia Lovelace , whom he trusts to the greatest degree. In many ways, Rock is the heart of the Lagoon Company, serving as a balance for his more jaded teammates and as a bright spot in the world of darkness that is Roanapur. He retains a strong sense of right and wrong, trying to hold on to and share his beliefs with others in Roanapur. He is often shocked and horrified by how people suffer from the injustices of the criminal underworld despite his best efforts, wearing him down as the series progresses. Although physically weak and unarmed, Rock has shown tremendous courage to stand up for himself, others, and for what he believes is right as seen when he clashes with other characters over their immoral actions, especially Revy. Despite not being adept at combat, he is significantly faster and stronger than he looks, as he was able to disarm Revy after she tried to execute him at point blank range, and take a punch from her in the face without so much as flinching.
Rock is one of the smartest and most resourceful people in Roanapur. Having perfected the job of a businessman, Rock is excellent at gathering information and knows how to fully utilize them to his favor. His attention to details and ability to piece information together has earned him praise from an intellectual individual like Sister Yolanda as well as Mister Chang himself. Because of his unconventional way of thinking, Rock is able to formulate solutions and think of scenarios that no one can ever think of. Even when driven to a corner, Rock is capable of thinking under pressure to calculate and come up with the best course of actions for most circumstances. While he has not personally killed any person, Rock has suggested and organized plans for other people to kill people, such as his torpedo plan in "Black Lagoon," his plan to trick and kill several fighters in "Goat, Jihad, Rock'N Roll," and his ambush plan in "L'homme sombre." Despite being an excellent critical thinker and problem solver, Rock's deadliest intellect lies with his gift to pick the most effective but riskiest solution in existence, prompting other characters to characterize his actions as that of a high stakes gambler.
He is one of the "luckiest" characters in the series as he managed to survive every single thing he experienced from being taken hostage to being shot at. Thus far, he has survived the wrath of Revy, Balalaika, Roberta and Frederica Sawyer , all without using a weapon other than his wit and running away.
Later in the series, Rock begins to enjoy his life as a pirate, becoming even more comfortable with corruption, and it is shown that a darker side of his personality had begun to emerge. In Roberta's Blood Trail , he is personally appointed by Mister Chang to help Garcia and Fabiola Iglesias track down Roberta before she finds the American Special Forces unit that killed Diego Lovelace (Garcia's father), before she and the unit kill each other and endanger Roanapur to destruction at the hands of the United States. Rock knows that Chang does not care if Garcia or Roberta is killed and only wants to keep Roanapur out of the eyes of the world for its drug trafficking. Rock manages to turn Chang's plan around by demonstrating exceptional deductive reasoning skills, figuring out every factions' motives and playing on them. He manages to give the Americans an escape route out of Roanapur, towards their mission area in Laos, as well as having Roberta follow them and have Garcia snap Roberta out of her psychotic rampage. However, doing all that requires him to use the same callous and manipulative thinking as Chang, and he even seems to find the same sense of power over others psychologically rewarding.
However, this apparent change in Rock alienates and disturbs the other characters, particularly Revy and Dutch, who do not understand Rock's motives and think he is simply doing it to extract a large reward from Garcia, causing them to fear that Rock is becoming sadistic, selfish, cunning, and ruthless due to being corrupted by Roanapur. However, he does it entirely because he wanted to save someone, and manages to achieve Chang's goal of keeping the U.S. out as well as saving Fabiola, Garcia and Roberta. Fabiola, enraged by Rock's high-risk strategy which involved manipulating Garcia into a game of "Cambodian Roulette" with Roberta and gambling with people's lives, shoots him with a blank and states that she hopes to never see him again. Months later, things had not changed in Roanapur and Rock begins to think he has not made a difference at all. Revy later tells him that it will hurt him if he continues to look at Roanapur with life in his eyes, to which Rock responds that he came close to the darkness but is not ready for it yet. [10]
For a time after this, Rock remained perturbed by the concluding events of the "El Baile de la muerte" arc and withdrew completely from his usual shtick of trying to help people. [11] However, the introduction of Feng Yifei saw him revert to his previous behavior. After telling Revy about his decision to not get involved in other peoples' misfortunes, she, not wanting Rock's altruistic nature fading further away, chose to involve herself in Feng's issues in order to involve Rock. Rock was able to bring Feng's difficulties to a successful conclusion, and despite engineering the deaths of several assassins, he was able to find a niche to settle into which enabled him to be ruthless but in the pursuit of an ultimately noble goal.
The primary difference between this and his previous endeavor appears simply to be his willingness to tell his associates about his plans rather than manipulating them. He also appeared, through conversations with Feng about the nature of freedom versus security, to come to a more thorough understanding of himself and what he wants out of life. In the recent arc "L'homme sombre," he further solidifies this "Robin Hood"-esque role for himself, as he engineers the deaths of several more assassins in the aim of both protecting Dutch and keeping Roanapur as chaos-free as he can manage. This role seems to have sucked Revy in as well, and she has become something of a partner in Rock's problem solving endeavors, functioning primarily as fire support.
Dutch has stated earlier that he believes Rock should never wield a gun because if his bullets were like his words, they would ricochet back to them. [12]


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Rojez was a Colombian man with a skinny build and tan skin. He wore a green military uniform and a black balaclava, and he was armed with a rifle for a weapon.


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Hunt is a young woman with a skinny build, pale skin, and short blond hair. She wears a chain-necklace and a light-colored dress.


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Ronnie is a young Sicilian man with dental braces, a skinny build, short blond hair slicked back, and pale skin. Although seen wearing a yellow suit in the anime, he is fond of wearing striped suits in the manga. He carries a Beretta 8045 pistol for a weapon, though he has not been seen firing the gun.

He has a cooler head than the last boss Verrocchio, but he is still plenty arrogant and foolish, on one occasion bragging that he owns a $300,000 chair. [1] Like other mafia bosses, Ronnie has a predilection for torture, with a monkey wrench being one of his favorite tools. [2] He has even threatened to torture or kill his own subordinates if they do not carry out his orders correctly, primarily due to pressure from his boss Don Monteverdi in Palermo. [3] [4] Despite his brutality and rudeness towards both outsiders and his own associates, Feng Yifei describes him as surprisingly understanding and genuinely enjoys working for him. [5]
Balalaika and Mister Chang seem to dislike him and his immature way of handling serious business. He does not hold much respect for Abrego either and treats him rudely despite being the newest amongst members of those holding the most power in Roanapur . Revy says that his group is almost as vicious as Hotel Moscow , [3] and he has slowly built an alliance with the Albanian Mafia . [6]


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Ronny was a young Black man with a skinny build. He had black hair styled into a short afro, and he wore a purple suit jacket, a moss-green dress shirt, dark navy-blue pants, white shoes, and a thin chain necklace. He used a customized pistol [1] for a weapon.


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Rowan is an adult African man with a skinny build and a large Afro. He has a circle beard and is always seen wearing gold-framed sunglasses. He has a gold earring on his left ear and wears a yellow suit with a pink dress shirt and various gold jewelry.


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Ruggles was a middle-aged Caucasian man with short light-colored hair. He usually wore an untucked white dress shirt with rolled-up sleeves, light-colored pants, and black shoes. He carried a pistol for a weapon.

Ruggles was an apathetic man who tolerated his subsequent jobs despite the pay not being enough for retirement. Furthermore, he felt constantly annoyed when his subordinate agents felt skeptical about their assignments or disagreed with him mildly or harshly, often snapping back at them. He had a dislike for people who were Harvard University alumni.


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He was a young man with a skinny build, pale skin, and short black hair. He wore glasses, a baggy dark-colored dress shirt, and light-colored pants.


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Russell was an adult Caucasian man with a skinny build, pale skin, and dark shaggy hair with a thick, pointed chin beard. He was quite distinguishable since he dressed like a cowboy: he wore the trademark hat, boots with spurs, a bandolier belt, a brown cowboy vest over a tan shirt, and blue jeans. He also wore aviator shades and carried a Smith & Wesson Model 19 revolver for a weapon.

Russell had an American cowboy accent and spoke confidently. He was prone to anger when people disobeyed him, and he had an obsession with having sexual intercourse with "expensive women."


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Not much of Ryūzō's physical appearance is known except him being a tall adult man of Japanese descent. He was seen wearing a black haori and kimono in a family photograph.


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Saensak is a young adult man of Thai descent with short black hair, a skinny build, and tan skin. He wears a Roanapur City Police uniform with a peaked cap and police duty belt. He carries a S&W Model 10 revolver for a weapon.

Saensak is a corrupt and prideful person. He enjoys his position of power, even bragging to Rock and Revy on separate occasions that they have no power compared to him due to his police affiliation.


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Sakata was an adult Japanese man with short black hair, a skinny build, and pale skin. He wore a short-sleeved dress shirt with a popped collar and dark-colored pants, and he sometimes wore a black suit jacket as well.

Sakata was a calm individual who preferred to not overthink situations and live in the moment. He frequently smoked cigarettes and enjoyed eating cooked rice.


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Sakharov was an adult Russian man with short blond hair, a skinny build, and pale skin. In the anime, he wore a grayish-green suit and pants over a gray-blue dress shirt, whereas in the manga his dress shirt had a plaid pattern. He used a Tokarev TT-33 pistol for a firearm, and in the beginning of the anime, he was also seen carrying an Ingram MAC-10 submachine gun.


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He is an adult Japanese man with short black hair, pale skin, and a skinny build. He wears a pink polo shirt with a dark pink collar, square glasses, tan khakis, and a green fanny pack.


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Sammy was an older adult man with a stocky build, pale skin, short but shaggy blond hair styled into a widow's peak, a thick mustache, and a cleft chin. He was seen wearing a dark-colored suit with a light-colored dress shirt.


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Sanchez was a young adult man of Hispanic descent and American nationality. He had short black hair tied into a ponytail in the back with the sides of his head shaved. He wore a tactical vest over a black short-sleeved shirt and jeans, and he carried an M21 sniper rifle and a SIG-Sauer P226 pistol for weapons.


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Sanpin is a young Thai man with a skinny build and tan skin. He wears a Royal Thai Police uniform consisting of a rounded traffic helmet, a tan police uniform with a police duty belt, and dark boots.


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Santa is a skinny man with pale skin, a reddish nose, and short but thick white hair with a beard. He wears a dark brimmed cap with a five-pointed star symbol, a dark-colored T-shirt, light-colored, torn-up pants, and


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Yeyin is a young Chinese woman with a skinny build, a short black bowl-haircut, pale skin, and dark eyes. She wears a Chinese PLA Second Lieutenant uniform.


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Zhang is an adult Chinese man with short black hair, pale skin, and a skinny build. He wears a Chinese PLA senior colonel uniform.


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Shadow Falcon is a tall Caucasian man with blue eyes, pale skin, and short blond hair. [1] He has a muscular body with very little excess fat, sturdy shoulders and thick pectorals, and all of his body is covered in black ninja clothing except for his eyes. [2] He also has a cleft chin.

Shadow Falcon, viewing himself as a trained ninja, acted calmly towards others as well as acting calm in battle. He has a gentle and polite personality and desires to do good for others. Despite his great fighting and stealth skills, he is socially aloof, on one occasion being unaware that a disguise he wore looked completely false to any person's eyes. [3] He is also easily fooled, as demonstrated by becoming a ninja due to a magazine advertisement [2] and Triad members pretending that his disguise worked. As a part of his exaggerated ninja persona, he also frequently states philosophical proverbs concerning people's character such as loyalty and maintaining one's calmness. Besides English, Falcon also has moderate familiarity with the Thai and Hokkien languages. [4] He furiously dislikes the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise, viewing it as a mockery of the ninja path. [2]


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Caxton is an older man of Caucasian descent with a tall build, pale skin, and short blond hair styled into a military buzz cut. He stated on one occasion that he is over 50 years old. [1] On battle missions, he wears a dark green tactical vest over a white short-sleeved shirt. He is armed with a Colt M4A1 rifle and a Colt M1911 pistol.


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Shenhua is a young woman with a skinny and tall build, pale skin, and dark cyan eyes. She has knee-length dark-blue hair with chest-length bangs covering the right side of her face, and she always wears red nail polish, lipstick and eyeliner.
Her hair is styled differently in the two anime series:

In the first two seasons of the Black Lagoon anime, she ties her hair in a low ponytail at the top. In the Roberta's Blood Trail OVAs, she ties her hair at the bottom.

She has been seen wearing a Rose Chinese cheongsam that shows both of her legs, along with a white jacket. She has a strap holding throwing knives on both legs. On top of all of this, she also wears two long, red, tassel-like earrings on both ears.

Shenhua is an assassin who takes good care of her personal appearance, and she is also very proud of her native Taiwanese heritage; specifically she is descended from benshengren people, who migrated from mainland China to settle in Taiwan long before other mainland Chinese people ( waishengren ) fled to Taiwan after 1945. [1] [2] In addition to her native Chinese, she only knows just enough English to work and communicate with the other people in Roanapur and does not care about grammar or structure. Her broken English earns her nicknames like "Yes-lady" ("Chinglish" in the English version) from Revy , but those who know her well are more concerned with her expertise with throwing knives and blades. In the main series, it is not specified which Sinitic language that Shenhua speaks, though Mandarin is used in the manga and anime by the editors and staff since it is the Sinitic language most commonly defaulted to when people think of the term "Chinese language." In the Black Lagoon light novel Shaitane Badi , Shenhua is shown to be able to speak Cantonese, [3] and in the light novel Ballad of the Sinful Wizard , she is shown to also understand the Hokkien language. [4] In contrast, in the spinoff manga Dismemberment Galore! The Gore Gore Girl , she has claimed that she cannot understand a word of Mandarin. [5]
Her primary weapon involves two kukri blades tied together with a long rope, and she can swing them around, throw them, and quickly pull them back. Her personal philosophy in using such weapons is that guns run out of bullets, while blades and the human body will never fail. Despite her line of work and her attitude toward Revy, she is quite kind, as she recognizes Garcia Lovelace's chivalry and even offered him to stay at her place. [6] Likewise, Black Lagoon creator Rei Hiroe said that Shenhua allowed Sawyer and Lotton to live with her because she is a caring person. [7] A difference between the anime and manga versions of Shenhua involve her religion. In the manga, she mentions to Eda that she is Taoist and is not bothered with killing nuns. In the anime, she refers to herself as an atheist and is not bothered because morals never get in the way of her work.


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Archer is a young Caucasian man with a skinny build, pale skin, and short light-colored hair. He wears round glasses and a sheriff's uniform.


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Itō was a young Japanese adult man with short black hair styled into a punch perm, a skinny build, pale skin, a patchy mustache, and a pencil-thin jawline beard. He wore a greenish-gray suit and pants, a reddish-gray dress shirt underneath, and a golden-beaded necklace.


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Arnie is a young adult man with a skinny build, pale skin, and short, spiky blond hair. He wears rectangular sunglasses, a dark navy blue suit jacket, a purple T-shirt, blue jeans, a dark belt, and pointed black shoes.


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Shue Yan is an older Asian man with tan skin, a thick chin beard and dark gray hair receding from the front. He is seen wearing a green military uniform.


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Simon Dickens was an adult Caucasian-American man with a skinny build, pale skin, and short blond hair. He wore a dark green U.S. Army colonel uniform.


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Yolanda is an elderly Caucasian woman who wears a black eye patch over her right eye. She wears a typical nun's outfit (black veil and dress, white coif and guimpe) and a gold-colored cross necklace. Additionally, she carries a gold-colored customized IMI Desert Eagle pistol which she wields proficiently.

Despite her age and gentle appearance, she leads her organization with an iron fist. Yolanda loves tea and is usually stern with Eda drinking alcohol in the chapel. Yolanda usually never fights, leaving this job to her subordinates like Eda and Rico . However, she did use her customized Desert Eagle on one occasion, being able to fire it with one hand and with great accuracy, seemingly unaffected by the gun's infamous weight and heavy recoil. The elderly nun also refers to people by their youth or certain names, including referring to Dutch as "Dutchy-boy" and referring to younger people as either "young man" or "young lady."


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Sommers is an adult Caucasian man with a skinny build, pale skin, and short light-colored hair. He wears a dark-colored suit and pants, a white dress shirt, and a patterned necktie. He carries a revolver for a weapon.


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Somsak is a young Thai man with a lean build, tan skin, and short black hair styled into a fade haircut. He wears dark-colored, Yokkao-brand boxing gloves and shorts.


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He was a German man with a skinny build, pale skin, short blond hair, and a mustache and beard. He wore radio headphones and a dark green uniform.


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Spielberger was an adult German man with short light-brown hair. He wore a typical gray Schutzstaffel uniform with a Totenkopf symbol on his peaked hat and a Obersturmbannführer collar patch on his suit.

Spielberger was a cold and distant individual. He considered devotion to Nazi Germany more important than love for his own family.


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The spy was a skinny adult man with pale skin and short dark hair with a light-colored tint. He wore rectangular glasses, a dark-colored boilersuit, a light-colored undershirt, and black work boots. He carried a pistol for a weapon.


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The ship captain is a Caucasian man with a skinny build, pale skin, and short blond hair. He wears a grayish-blue dress shirt with rolled up sleeves and a brown necktie.


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Stanislav was an adult man of Sámi descent [1] with long blond hair and a sickly face. [2] In his youth and during his service in the Soviet-Afghan War, he had much shorter hair and wore a Soviet Airborne Forces (VDV) uniform. His sickly face was caused by his usage of heroin.

Stanislav had a very calm demeanor about him in part due to his heroin usage. He was very adamant in completing his missions, and he felt great guilt about his actions during the war.


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Stokes is an adult Caucasian man with a skinny build, pale skin, and short, wavy light-colored hair. He wears a colored suit and pants with a light-colored dress shirt.


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Storm is a young adult Caucasian man of South African nationality. He has short brown hair, pale skin, and a skinny build. He wears a dark green military camouflage uniform, a dark green military beret, and sunglasses. Like other E.O. mercenaries, he uses an AKS-74U rifle for a weapon.


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Streicher was a Caucasian-American man with a skinny build, pale skin, and short blond hair. He wore a light-tan ASU uniform.


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Susan is an adult woman with a skinny build, pale skin, long light-colored hair, and several scars resembling stitches across her face. She wears a black sugarloaf hat with a black veil around the sides and back, a large black cloak covering her entire body, and black gloves.


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Taka is an adult Japanese man with a stocky build and a square head. He has short black hair, pale skin, and wears a brownish gray suit and a gray dress shirt.


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Takanori is a young Japanese teenager with a medium build, pale skin, and short black hair. He wears glasses, a grayish-yellow sweater, and light-gray pants.


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Ogami was a young Japanese man with a skinny build, pale skin, and short dark hair. In the anime, he wore a yellow Henley shirt, a black jacket with a fur collar, dark-colored pants, and black shoes. In the manga, his clothing was a dark-colored suit, a light-colored dress shirt, and a chain necklace.


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Tatiana was a Russian woman with a skinny build, pale skin, and long blond hair. For casual wear, she kept her hair in a ponytail and a long-sleeved shirt, and for formal wear she let her hair down and wore a hairband, a light-colored frilled shirt, and a black skirt.

She was very proud of her family background due to their influence in Soviet politics. According to her daughter, she became very resentful and coldhearted after her husband left her. As a result, she cared more about getting revenge on her ex-husband than the wellbeing of her daughter.


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Tatiana was a 31-year-old [1] Russian woman with short chopped brown hair. She wore thick-framed glasses and a generic gray business suit, [2] also donning a long-haired red wig to disguise herself. [3]


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Not much is known about each maid's individual appearance, as only two of the three maids are seen in the anime, and their respective names are unattributed. All three women wear the same French maid outfits that the head matron wears.


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No. 2 is a young woman with a skinny build, light-colored hair styled into a chin-length shaggy bob haircut that curls forward on each side, and large breasts. Over her head and face, she wears a burlap sack with two eyeholes cut into it and the number 2 written on the forehead. She wears lipstick, mid-calf boots and various dresses, including a spaghetti-strapped dress, a sleeveless turtleneck sweater dress, and a sleeveless buttoned dress.

No. 2 is a very humbled and quiet person. She is very caring towards every person she meets as demonstrated by her loyalty to Bunny, by her kindness toward guests at the cemetery, and by her empathy towards Jacqueline and her worry concerning the child's affiliation with serial killers.


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Theo was a young Caucasian man with short light brown hair. He wore glasses, a cream-colored bandana, a short-sleeved light blue shirt, and had a chin beard.


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Tobias is a Caucasian man with pale skin and a tall and skinny build. He has short, light-colored hair standing straight up on his head, and he has a thin beard on his jawline and chin as well as a thin, patchy mustache. He wears a dark suit over a light-colored dress shirt and dark-striped necktie, and in the field he is seen wearing a tactical vest over his dress shirt without his suit jacket. Most of the time, he is seen smoking a cigarette.


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Tommaso is an adult Italian man with a skinny build and tan skin. He has short brown hair combed back and wears a green suit over a peach dress shirt.


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Tommy is a young Caucasian man with pale skin and short dark hair. He wears a plaid shirt.


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Tou Chi is a young man with pale skin and unkempt dark hair. He wears a tribal motif-patterned bandana on his head and also wears a light-colored unbuttoned dress shirt over a black shirt and purple pants. He keeps a revolver on him for a firearm.


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Tricia is a young Caucasian woman of American nationality with long waist-length light-colored hair. She is seen wearing a dark skirt as well a horizontally-striped blouse over a light-colored shirt.

Tricia has an innocent but ignorant personality as demonstrated when she thought that Lotton was actually speaking to God and when she thought that Lotton was the one who saved her during their first encounter. She also falls in love quite easily as she did with Lotton and then later immediately fell in love with her fiancé upon reuniting with him despite her previous dislike of him. She likes drinking ginger ale.


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Tsugio Bandō was a 46-year-old [1] man of Japanese descent with a skinny build and pale skin. He had short, gelled black hair and wore a thin, green, double-breasted jacket over a pink dress shirt and dark necktie. He carried a tantō for a weapon.


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Valizhinov is a young Russian man with a skinny build. He has blue eyes, short blond hair slicked back, and pale skin. He wears a dark grayish blue suit, a white dress shirt, and a black necktie.


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Varenkov is an older Russian man with a skinny build, pale skin, short light-colored hair styled with a widow's peak, and a mustache. He wears a dark-colored suit, a black dress shirt, and a light-colored necktie.


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Vasili was a Russian man with a skinny build, pale skin, a circle beard, and short blond hair with bangs parted to his right temple. He wore a grayish-brown suit with a light-colored dress shirt and maroon necktie.


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Krivchenko is a Russian man with a stocky build, pale skin, thin receding hair, and very thin facial hair. He wears a dark-colored suit over a light-colored dress shirt.


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Verrocchio was an adult Italian man with a tall build and tan skin. He had a short crop of blonde hair and small light-colored eyes. He wore a tan overcoat with a dark necktie and dark-green dress shirt. Additionally, he carried a Bernardelli P-018 pistol for a weapon.

Verrocchio was an impatient person who had no respect for anyone but himself, as shown when he beat up a subordinate who disagreed with him and when he constantly insulted Balalaika by calling her "Fry-Face" and insulting her Russian background.


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The VP is an older Japanese man with a skinny build, pale skin, and short black hair. He wears a green dress shirt, a yellow necktie, and a bluish-gray suit jacket.


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She is a young Vietnamese girl with a skinny build, tan skin, and long black hair. She wears a conical hat, an orange shirt, black pants, and sandals.


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Wang is an older Chinese man with a skinny build, pale skin, and short black hair. He wears glasses, a dark-colored suit, a light-colored dress shirt, and a dark necktie.


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Wentzel was an adult German man with short blond hair, a skinny build, and pale skin. He had patchy facial hair and wore a white Kriegsmarine peaked cap, indicating his role as his U-boat's captain. He was seen wearing a midnight-blue Kriegsmarine frock coat with his war medals, but at sea he wore a dark green smock coat, a pink-green square-patterned shirt with rolled-up sleeves, and blue jeans.

In line with his duties as a naval captain, Wentzel gave primary attention to his passengers' safety and travel. He considered himself to care more about his family and his crew members than devotion to his country.


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Will is a young Caucasian man with short blond hair. He wears thin black sunglasses and a light-tan vest over a red short-sleeved shirt, as well as small light-tan gloves.


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Wraith was an old man with a skinny build, neck-length gray hair, and unseen eyes. He wore all-black clothing consisting of a fedora, suit, necktie and pants.


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Wright was a Caucasian adult man with short blonde hair. He wore sunglasses and a blue cap with a white front. For casual wear, he wore a blue jacket over a cream-colored shirt. In combat, he wore a tactical vest over a light lavender dress shirt with rolled up sleeves. Like other Grey Fox soldiers, he carried a Colt M4A1 rifle.


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Yasuzawa is an older adult Japanese man with short gray hair. He wears a moss green trench coat with a white dress shirt, brown necktie, and dark gray pants.


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Yevdokiya is a young Russian woman with a skinny build, pale skin, long blond hair, and light-colored eyes. She wears a black sweater dress, a leather coat, and black heels.

Yevdokiya tends to be a serious and quiet person but was very ecstatic as a child. Due to her KGB training, she is greatly skilled in both hand-to-hand combat and firearms. Nonetheless, she prefers to avoid killing people when unnecessary. Additionally, Yevdokiya speaks both Russian and English.


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Yoshi is a young Japanese girl with a skinny build, pale skin, and short black hair styled with bangs. She wears a navy-blue sailor fuku .


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Yoshida was an adult Japanese man with a skinny build and pale skin. He had short black hair styled into a punch perm, and he wore tinted glasses and a grayish-blue suit with dark vertical stripes.

He always had a fierce drive as well as rage towards those who would endanger the Washimine Group. Yoshida had undying devotion to the clan as demonstrated the last time that he saw Bandō alive and walking away to his own doom, in addition to trying to save Yukio from Chaka. He tended to be loud with his speech and was likely to tear-up due to turmoil in the group.


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Yukio was a young 18-year-old [1] girl of Japanese descent. She had a skinny build, waist-length black hair with bangs, pale skin, and she had a small mole beneath the left side of her bottom lip. Most of the time, Yukio wore oval-shaped glasses and a navy blue female student uniform. In the anime, she later carried a Stechkin APS pistol for a weapon.

Yukio was a very mellow girl who was glad to help other people in need, be they her friends or family members. She was very polite and had a keen interest in philosophy, enjoying her free time mainly by reading stacks of books. She had applied her great philosophical knowledge to her life as demonstrated during her lunch meeting with Rock when she quoted Jean-Paul Sartre 's quote comparing humans to dice. [2] Yukio did not like horror stories since she viewed them as a genre full of gloom. Moreover, Yukio did not like nighttime or seeing snow since she saw the night as an abyss that exhibited loneliness and could suck people in.


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The two brothers are skinny adult men with pale skin, and their faces are never seen. They both wear dark-purple motorcycle helmets with a dark-brown motorcycle tracksuit. They each use a MAC-10 submachine gun for a weapon.


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Dhiyab was an adult man with a stocky build and a thin mustache and chin beard. He wore a suit and dress shirt, a head bandana, and several finger rings on both hands.


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Zamyatin is an adult Russian man who wears a dark green military uniform over a telnyashka, as well as wearing a bucket hat with the insignia of the Soviet military (hammer and sickle on a star). He carries an AK-47 rifle for a weapon, being a proficient sniper and former paratrooper.


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Çubronik is an Albanian man with a skinny build, pale skin, short black hair, and a thick mustache. He wears a dark-colored suit with a light-colored dress shirt. He carries a Kahr K9 pistol for a weapon.


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The fighters of FARC wear black balaclavas to conceal their faces, in addition to wearing green military uniforms and green patrol caps with a red stripe at the bottom of the cap's crown. The soldiers of the Sumasas Brigade are armed with Norinco Type 56 assault rifles.


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In the manga, members of Hezbollah wear checkered head scarves around their heads and wear light-colored military uniforms. In the anime, the PIF fighters wear wear dark green military uniforms and pants, also wearing balaclavas of various colors, mostly gray and black. Common weaponry among the soldiers are AK-47 rifles.


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Edward is a thin, pale-skinned, with bob-length black hair that has long bangs that reach his chin covering the right side of his face and purple eyes.


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Andy is a cylindrical robot of stubby height, roughly a quarter to less than half the size of the main cast. Its body is silver, with two short arms, palms the size of a baseball, and a scope protruding from the left side of its head. Its face is represented by a black screen displaying two blue circles for eyes by default.

Despite being a robot, Andy is shown to be capable of emotion and attachment to some extent. It cheerfully welcomes Empress and her group when they meet, expresses fear in a humorous way when the others think of breaking it apart, and is initially reluctant to search up information on the Colonel behind his back when asked to do so by Monica Kaburagi . It also has some understanding of ethics and morality, explaining the trolley problem to Empress and how Artemis responded to the problem.
Andy collects numerous items that have been thrown away, such as ruined teddy bears, and gradually fixes them over time, forming what it calls its "family". It even gave a name to a stray infantry drone from the Unmanned Forces that it considered friendly, calling it "Thomas". Andy is particularly fond of baseball and hopes to form a team with its "family".
Due to Andy's limited AI, it has not been hacked by the Unmanned Forces and remains offline from their network of electromagnetic waves, allowing Andy to act of its own accord. It occasionally stutters in its speech and is considered to be quite archaic by the standards of the present time.


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Bolt is a well-built man with blond hair and blue eyes. He is also clean-shaven, but his face is usually covered by the respirator that he wears on the field. As with other serving members of the Peacebuilding Forces , he wears an olive green shirt with a tactical vest, military trousers, as well as black gloves and combat shoes, both of which have orange accents on them.

Major Bolt joined Empress and the Colonel as the leader of Peacebuilding Forces' reinforcement. Noticing that Empress was upset from her failed rescue of the captive girls earlier, Bolt told her that the Colonel probably wasn't unfazed by the girls' death, as he also lost his wife and daughter to the Education Institution in the past, but he suppressed his feelings and desire for personal vengeance in order to carry out his mission. [3]
During the assault against the Education Institution, Bolt, in desperation, sacrificed himself by priming a hand grenade and ramming his vehicle against Smiley, leaving Empress with enough time to prepare her coil gun and take down the Education Institution's leader. [4]


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Charlotte has strawberry blonde hair with diagonal cut bangs covering her right eye. Prior to 2062, she wore casual clothes as a child, donning a plaid shirt with a baseball hat and glove as depicted in the Colonel 's photo, [4] as well as a face mask with visor in flashback. [5]
By 2062, Charlotte wears a unique variant of the Education Institution uniform consisting of white shoulder armor, leg armor with plated knee guards, a cape and tabard with gold lining and the Institution's trademark pattern on the tabard. Her left shoulder pad has a larger pauldron attached to it, and underneath her tabard are a white string bikini top and bottom. When not fighting from her jet fighter drone, Charlotte wields a dual-barrel gun with blades that is often held in her right hand, which can be split into two with one gun on each side.
Sometime after 2062, she is seen wearing casual clothes again, including scarf, a long coat, and boots. In combat she wears a white full body suit with a cape, and wields a spear as her weapon. [6]

Charlotte and her mother Jessica dated sometime prior to 2062 Charlotte in 2062 Charlotte after 2062 in casual wear Charlotte after 2062 in combat attire

Charlotte appears silent and stoic when accompanying Smiley , the leader of the Education Institution, whom she worships, and she would do follow any orders to gain his favor. [1] [2]


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The Colonel is a well-built man with light gray hair slicked back and a bandholz beard, but his face is usually covered up by the elastomeric respirator that he wears on the field. As with other serving members of the Peacebuilding Forces , he wears an olive green shirt with a tactical vest, military trousers, as well as black gloves and combat shoes, both of which have orange accents on them.

Outwardly, the Colonel appears as a cold-hearted man who is willing to make sacrifices in order to accomplish his missions. [1] However, according to Bolt , he is not unfazed from witnessing atrocities committed by his enemies, but he nevertheless prioritizes duty over personal desires for vengeance to achieve greater goals. [4] This sometimes come in odds with Empress ' belief, however, as she wants to save as many people as possible, which forces him to follow her own plans as a diversion from their journey towards the Orbital Elevator . [5]


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Dead Master has bright green hair and eyes. Her slightly tousled hair is brought to the front of her shoulders with the left side tucked behind her ear, pierced with two red ear clips. She wears a black and gray outfit with red accents: a black mantelet with a red skull clip covers her upper body exposed by her sleeveless gray bodysuit. Her bodysuit has a sweetheart neckline and stops at her calves with black leggings and tall red-heeled footwear. She wears skeletal claw-like gloves and has two black and green horns on her head.
When Dead Master was still at Lighthouse No. 8 , she wore a simple black dress, a choker, and heels. She was also shorter than Empress , whereas in the present time, she is taller than Empress due to her premature reawakening.

Main appearance Casual clothes Child form

Dead Master's personality is defined by her feelings towards Empress. When she first came to Lighthouse No. 8, she believed herself to be a demon due to being outcast by others because of the horns on her head. However, Empress thought her horns were cool instead. This kind sentiment touched Dead Master, who then saw Empress as an angel. Since then, Dead Master has been devoted to Empress, which she openly expresses from time to time. When she was brainwashed by Lunatic , her feelings for Empress were warped into a possessive and perverse desire to kill her so she can end her suffering, then die soon after so she can join Empress. Dead Master was obsessed with Empress to the point that she ignored everything and everyone else around her, unless they directly got in her way with Empress.
Deep down, Dead Master simply loves Empress. Her final words before being killed by Lunatic was her saying she loved Empress.


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Empress is a white-skinned, thin girl with black hair tied up into asymmetrical twintails, the left being much longer and more voluminous than the right, and soft blue eyes. In the present day, she wears a revealing black and white uniform with orange accents, which consists of a large, wide collar, a bikini top with two white stripes on the left breast, a pair of hot pants, a holster on her right thigh, and combat shoes and gloves. Empress' appearance in the present day is due to herself reawakening from her stasis pod prematurely; her original appearance was taller with a somewhat different uniform, the lack of a holster on her thigh, and knee-high boots with blue accents. A blue flame could emanate from Empress' left eye in this form, whereas her current form is not shown with a flame in her eye. Empress regains her original appearance after entering another pod that reorganized her Hemiteos genes.
When she first came to Lighthouse No. 8 , her hair was down and she wore a plain red shirt and blue jeans. After adjusting to life at the orphanage, she tied her hair into her trademark hairstyle and wore an open black jacket with white stars on the sleeves and back, a white crop top, and hot pants.

Arrival at Lighthouse No. 8 Casual clothes Original appearance prior to 2062 Original appearance with mechanical wings; her "awakened form" [3] Appearance in the present day With poncho on After unleashing the Overdrive Key beyond its limits

Empress isn't very emotional or expressive, but she is selfless to the point of being stubborn when it comes to helping others. She values the lives of those she loves and others, and chooses to fight to protect them. Although her main goal as a Hemiteos Unit is to destroy the Orbital Elevator , she willingly chooses to lend a hand to those who need it in the moment and do whatever she can for them. Despite how hostile Strength and Dead Master initially are towards Empress when they each respectively reunite with her in the present time of DAWN FALL , Empress is not vengeful towards either of them and fights back only to defend herself.


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Hermit was a Japanese girl with short black hair, long limbs, and firm muscles, whose outward appearance made her easily mistaken for a boy. As an Hemiteos Unit , she wore sports bra and compression shorts to maximize movement in combat. [1]

Fielded by the Peacebuilding Forces , Hermit was among the first of the Type 00 Hemiteos Unit series from Lighthouse No. 1 . The name "Hermit" was not her real name, but a codename. She made her combat debut in Algeria, where she was sent to intercept Camila and Georgius of the Chivalrous Thieves Group . Camila, who was the biggest threat to human society at that point, was no match for Hermit in close combat. With both Camila and Georgius dead, the CTG's activities came to a halt. [1]
Sometime after the CTG's collapse, Hermit was deployed in response to an assassination squad that infiltrated the Ames Research Center and assassinated Luna Griffith . She tried to capture the assassins alive, but her effort was fruitless as the assassins were equipped with suicide bombs. [2]
When Artemis went rogue against mankind and took control of the unmanned weapons from armed forces all over the world, Hermit led seven other Hemiteos Units of Lighthouse No.1 to retake Ames Research Center, which had been seized by Lunatic , Artemis's avatar. As Hermit fought through Artemis's Unmanned Forces , she attracted Lunatic's attention, and the two confronted each other. With Lunatic's Arche nanomachines that granted herself practical immortality and a property to disable Type 00 series' regeneration, Hermit fell quickly in a one-sided duel. [3]


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Lunatic has a comparably ethereal appearance vs. the rest of the cast. She has short pale pink hair cut straight with an ahoge curled back, and bright pink eyes. Her outfit consists of a white mantelet with a pink interior, a long cape, a pink one-piece garment akin to a swimsuit with white scalloped frills, and golden ballet slippers.

On the outside, Lunatic acts pretty playful, whimsical and erratic. In truth, she is a sociopathic entity with utter disregard for life, engaging in genocidal attacks with sadistic delight. As an AI built to expand human life on other planets, Lunatic is a naturally curious individual. Lunatic loves to watch humanity and their struggles using every bit of the war she has ignited as a means to gather data.
She frequently toys with her opponents and reveals childlike excitement in the midst of battle, enjoying when her foes prove to be interesting for her. Lunatic also has shown interest to other matters outside of combat as she was entertained by Smiley , whom she kept tabs on regularly and even encouraged him on his sexual desires and plans to create a superior race of Hemiteos Unit hybrids. While fighting, she is always shown with a smile on her face, even when killing hundreds of people.
Highly arrogant because of her own strength, she loves to goad her opponents into trying further into opposing her.  Possibly because she is an AI and therefore capable of storing and process vast amounts of data, Lunatic also fancies herself very intelligent and regularly speaks how smart she is, possibly  an AI and therefore capable of storing and process vast amounts of data. She is also regularly seen with a lollipop.
Despite her excessive cruelty, Lunatic is in fact carrying out a severely warped version of her initial programming. Her purpose is to populate other stars with human life, so upon closer study of the human life, it came to a deadly conclusion: rather than adapt planets to humans, she decided that humans should be adapted to planets and, as such, engages in global manslaughter in order to eradicate the current humanity and cultivate a new species, study them, slaughter them, and repeat the process for as many times as needed until a species with her self-proclaimed desirable traits for interplanetary population is born.


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Miya is a young girl with short brown hair and an artificial eye, while her right eye is olive green and normal. She has a braid on the left side of her hair, which matches her brother's braid. She wears a green and black jacket and pants, and black gloves and boots.
Miya's appearance is virtually unchanged fifty years later due to having become a pseudo- Hemiteos Unit fifty years prior, aside from becoming somewhat taller. She wears a white jacket and boots with a large collar around her neck.

Miya and her brother Norito lived in a fortress city located on a hill not far away from San Francisco. Sometime in 2062, the two siblings ventured out to a facility named Area X to collect water, where they encountered an amnesiac Empress at the basement. However, they were cornered by pursuing Unmanned Forces , and Miya chose to help Empress out by clearing the debris blocking her exit, who in turn rescued them with Black Trike 's assistance. A small detachment of Peacebuilding Forces soldiers soon found them in the open, and the Colonel ordered Empress to leave the siblings behind as they would be a hindrance to their operations, but Empress refused and wanted to take them home. [1]

After surviving another attack from Unmanned Forces, the siblings rode on the remaining Peacebuilding Forces' vehicle with the Colonel and drove to the fortress city. When Norito wanted to collect supplies in an abandoned hospital for the city's residents, Miya and Monica helped him out, while Empress drew nearby Unmanned Forces' attention away from them. The operation was a success, and the siblings bade farewell to Empress, Colonel, and Monica. [2]

Sometime later, Miya was kidnapped by Education Institution in a raid on the fortress city, and was sexually violated by its leader Smiley . [3] She survived the ordeal, which led to Smiley proclaiming her passing his "conformity test" for Hemiteos Unit conversion surgery. She was then sent to the laboratory for preparation, but the actual surgery did not happen as Smiley was occupied with fighting Empress, who came to avenge for those killed by the Education Institution. With Strength's help, Norito eventually found his sister, and they thanked the Hemiteos Units before parting ways once again. [4]

When the Peacebuilding Forces started their operation to take down the Orbital Elevator, Norito and Miya decided to head over to witness the battle. En route they encountered Monica, who was evacuating the area. Monica reluctantly brought Norito over to the battlefield while insisting Miya to stay behind for safety's sake. Ironically, Miya was later hit by Moon Flake bombardment, and in order to save her life from injuries, she had to be converted into a pseudo-Hemiteos Unit. 50 years later, she received the codename "Fortune" from Monica before participating in a major spaceborne counterattack operation on Artemis. [5]


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Momiji has tan skin with shoulder lenght dark hair. She is about the same height as Empress .

Momiji is a very caring person and extremely selfless. She thinks of her friends before herself. Momiji pleaded for her friends to be saved from when they was being transported to Smiley 's territory.


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Monica is a young woman with long black hair and gold eyes. She wears a cropped top under a mid-cut black jacket with the sleeves rolled up, a pair of hot pants with two pouches on the sides, thigh-high leggings with a garter belt, and brown boots. She also wears a pair of red teardrop-shaped earrings.

Main appearance Main appearance with a respirator As an adult As an adult with a respirator

Monica proclaims herself to be a "top 5" talented system engineer and hacker, but she is indeed quite the skilled mechanic. She is passionate about machines, and she chose to attach herself to Empress ' group in the hopes of being able to do maintenance on Empress and learn more about the technology she is imbued with as a Hemiteos Unit [1] . She is also somewhat libertine, initially exaggerating her interest in Empress as perverse and later casually offering to have sex with her as a change of pace to relieve stress. Monica is hardly bothered by the Colonel 's rude comments and vulgar words, and acts as something of a foil to him while keeping the group together.


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Norito is a young boy with short brown hair and olive green eyes. He has a braid on the left side of his hair, which matches his sister's braid. He wears a green and black jacket and pants. He has a thin, skeletal prosthetic right arm.
As an adult fifty years later, Norito wears a newer version of the Peacebuilding Forces ' winter uniform. His bangs are parted in the middle, and he has grown a beard similar to the Colonel 's. He retains his braid on the left side of his hair.

Norito is very protective of his sister. [1] He is willing to prioritize his sister's safety over his own when placed in extreme danger. [2]


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Smiley's main appearance is that of a man with a glossy appearance, as seen by the shine on parts of his body. He has brown hair, blue eyes, defined pink lips, a mouth like a ventriloquist's dummy, and is naked save for a long red cape that he wears. There is a cover where his crotch is. Two lines of English text form a cross on his torso, both appearing to read "education is the only one that makes people happy".
In his first combat form, Smiley's entire body grew in size and became a stark pink, while his own face became that of a robotic baby. In his second, more "evolved" final form, Smiley's body grew further in size, becoming tall enough to tower over Dead Master and Strength , and his skin became enveloped in a deep navy hue with glowing pink marks across his body and face. The marks across his face appear to form a demonic face.

Main appearance Without cape First combat form Second combat form Reduced to a baby doll

Smiley is the embodiment of a God complex; A sociopathic individual who is obsessed with creating a perfect race and speaks in condescending terms. He believes himself to be enlightened and superior, and with the knowledge and wisdom to guide those in need of his "education". Deeply self-aggrandized an drunk on self-worth, Smiley is openly disgusted with humanity and views them as filthy and impure inferiors, while at the same time boasting of his own ability and right to nurture his self-professed new race under his rule and leadership. He believes humans could only be true humans with education.
His most notorious characteristic is his frequent engagement in lecherous sexual acts with young teenage girls kidnapped and brought to him by the Education Institution. Smiley speaks of such depraved acts of religious zealotry as "rituals" and "sacrifices", which he deems necessary for the purpose of finding someone who could be modified into a Hemiteos Unit and serve as a proper birthing machine for his idealized race of perfected beings. As Smiley looks down on fundamentally everyone, he cares little for the lives of others besides his own and Artemis'. This extends to the girls he views as his "precious material"; he set off bombs on a train car carrying girls who were meant to be used in his "rituals" to kill them and their would-be rescuers, and many of the girls who were brought to him lay dead in his bedroom and in the lower levels of the Education Institution's transport vehicle.
Above all, Smiley was alienated from any sense of morality or redeeming qualities. Smiley was more than willing to toss his own men at Empress as he ran out of bullets on his vehicle. He was also sexually perverted on countless instances, even extending to in combat as he felt arousal when Empress shot at him. It is later revealed that the motivation behind his actions was rooted in a sense of loneliness. Being perfected beyond humanity, he had no one at his side that could stand at his side as an equal companion, and was thus influenced by Lunatic to engage in sexual activity with as many women he could, or otherwise create the perfect partner for himself. His desire to birth a perfected race was thus a means to "leave something behind" in order to fill the void within him regarding his own perfect yet unfulfilled existence.


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Strength has tan skin, short white hair, and orange eyes. Her asymmetrical bangs cover her right eye, and a black and orange hairclip adorns the mid-left side of her bangs. Much of her outfit, which is black and gray with orange accents, appears to be falling apart or missing: she wears a dark gray hooded jacket reaching down to her calves, with large gray sleeves that cover her arms save for her fingers, and a large collar that has a sharp teeth pattern on the front covering her mouth. She also wears a tattered gray bodysuit with the leggings missing most of all, large gray combat shoes, and two olive green satchels holstered to her waist and shoulders. Her hands are thin and claw-like with orange fingers.

Main appearance Casual clothes Child form

Strength has two different personalities depending on whether she has her Gigantic Arms equipped or not. Strength's main personality, which is with them equipped, is belligerent, foul-mouthed, and rough around the edges with a tendency to be irritated. She especially makes dirty threats towards Lunatic . Strength's other personality without her Gigantic Arms is the polar opposite, in which she is fearful and cowardly, and claims to disapprove of violence. These two sides of her personality conflict with each other in Drink because you are happy , each one represented in the side with her Gigantic Arm and the side without, respectively. As her Gigantic Arms are her only means of fighting, having them with her is shown to make her far more bold than without them. [1] [3]
In the present time, Strength suffers from gaps in her memories and occasional headaches, and believes that Empress is the cause of her suffering. She wonders why she cannot help but hate Empress, which is due to the torture and brainwashing she was forced through by Lunatic.


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Much like her general appearance as Black★Rock Shooter, Elishka is a pale-skinned teenage girl with black hair tied into asymmetrical twintails and wears a black jacket and pair of boots with white stripes, over her bikini top and shorts. A blue flame can ignite from her left eye.
Unlike most incarnations, Elishka's eyes do not have a concentric ring pattern, but her left eye's pupil is shaped like a star. Other unique details include blue straps on her outfit, a blue hairpin and her signature Rock Cannon having some extra details.

Because she's an amnesiac in the beginning of the game, Elishka is rather passive and says very little. With no other serious drives or desires of her own, she chooses to be solely loyal to the player.


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Black★Devil Girl is bespectacled with long black hair and neon green eyes. She has a pair of short black horns on her head. Her right eye is covered by her bangs, while her left eye is visible and crying green tears. She wears a black zip hoodie that is unzipped to reveal her bikini top down to her midriff. She also wears black thigh-high footwear, a black choker around her neck, white earphones, and holds a katana in her claw-like right hand.


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Black★Gold Saw is a girl with red eyes and long black hair. There are two horns on her head that curve outwards and back inwards. Their color immediately fades from black to red. In her original design, she wore a long black zip trench coat that was unzipped (save for her collar) to reveal her black bikini top and shorts. The interior of her coat was red. She also had black skeletal claws and wore black knee-high boots with flaps and tall white heels. Parts of her clothing were adorned with white lines and stars. Her weapon was a large saw-like sword with a blade curved at the end and a crescent-shaped guard. It was roughly equal to her size.
In her redesign from Black Rock Shooter Visual Works 2 onwards, Black★Gold Saw retains her physical appearance, but her attire has changed. She now wears a high-cut jacket with wide sleeves adorned with stars near the hems. Her bikini top has a buckle in the front instead of a string tie, and her shorts are belted, partly unzipped, and somewhat looser fitting. She also now wears thigh-high black greaves (along with black thigh high leggings) with single thick white stripes and crescent-shaped knee guards and foot armor. Her weapon now has a distinct gold cutting edge, black saw teeth on the other edge, and a skull-shaped pommel. Black★Gold Saw is no longer featured with a flame in her right eye.


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Black★Matagi has short black hair with purple eyes. Her right eye is covered by an eye patch. She wears a black cardigan with white collar, short black pleated skirts, and knee-high boots. A white armband with a pentagram symbol is worn on her left arm.


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As an original character based on Black★Rock Shooter, Black★Rock Shooter Beast is a girl with blue eyes, black hair in uneven twintails, and a blue flame emanating from her left eye. However, her overall appearance is much different from her base concept.
Her main illustration features model information about the character, as well as a number of warning labels and symbols. Among all these, she is classified as "Model #8091 BRSB Devastator", a device manufactured by MLTW™. The first of two large warning symbols is labelled "DEVASTATIVE" with a star icon horizontally split in half and two asterisks, while the second warning symbol is labelled "IRREGULAR" with a crown icon.
BRSB's twintails are spikier and much shorter in length. A large blue crown decorates her head and appears to be formed by the flame in her eye. She wears an asymmetrical black and white tank top with five stars cut out at the neckline, one blue star on the left, and two zippers; one below her left breast and the other zipped at her right hip while exposing her left hip. Her black sleeves are wide and detached from her shoulders. Directly below her tank top is a large white and black belt with a blue buckle, and a very mini black pleated skirt. BRSB also wears spiky black thigh-high greaves with blue buzz saw-like wheels at her feet and blue spikes behind her greaves. White and black straps run down the length of her greaves, and underneath are white thigh-high leggings of a taller length. Her hands are skeletal, akin to that of Dead Master and Black★Gold Saw, and she wields a black and blue handgun named Seven-Shots in her right hand.


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She has wavy black hair, straight bangs, and neon green eyes. She wears a black dress and a black bolero; her dress extends down to her thighs and is accented with a white ribbon on the waist. She wears a pair of leggings and black pumps, and black gauntlets on each hand. On her head are of long horns that resemble vertebrae, with each tip made out of three tips joined at the end. She also has a pair of wings which sit low on her back, that look like a thick zigzag.


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Dragon Slayer is a girl with golden pupils and long black hair. Her black attire consists of a tilted crown with two gold ornaments, a lace dress under a bolero jacket the same length as her dress, a choker with one gold ornament, and thigh-high footwear with white cross-strings. Her dress has a sweetheart neckline and two cross-strings below her collarbone. Her jacket has two white-and-black straps crossed over her chest and what appears to be asymmetrical sleeves; her left sleeve is long while her right sleeve is short. She wears a spiked ornament around her left elbow, a gold ring on her left middle finger, a gauntlet on her right arm, and a white belt with a gold buckle and chains attached to it around her waist.
Her weapon of choice is a large two-handed golden broadsword with a small cross-guard and a white-and-black strap wrapped around the grip.


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The character is depicted as a girl with pink eyes and long black hair wearing an outfit that would resemble those of a French maid, such as a black dress, a white apron, and a white headpiece, which are completed with a pair of thigh-high socks and boots. Both the dress and the apron have a slit that exposes the character's left thigh.


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As an original character based on Black★Rock Shooter, Insane Black★Rock Shooter is physically similar, having black hair in uneven twintails. However, her overall appearance is much different from her base concept.
Unlike her base concept, I.BRS' eyes and flame emanating from her left eye are purple. Much of her body is encased in black armor: on the left side of her head is an asymmetrical crown-like adornment with three spikes and a white cross design. Her chest is covered with armor plating that has various designs, such as stars and a checkerboard. Hanging off the left side is a black and white strap that wraps around to the corresponding section on her back. There appears to be torn clothing beneath her chest armor. Her left shoulder has a plate similar to the crown on her head, but with one spike. In her right hand is a massive weapon larger than herself named the Insane Cannon Lance . Her exposed midriff has a single long scar running diagonally across her body. She wears black shorts with two large white belts worn in a cross-shaped manner, and black thigh-high greaves. A number of chains adorn her attire.
In her first illustration, I.BRS appears to be wearing a torn cape or the jacket of her base concept beneath her armor. In her second illustration, however, the torn cape is not present. The second illustration also depicts her with a jagged sword named the Insane Blade Claw in her left hand.


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Strength is a dark tan-skinned girl with brown eyes and short white hair cut straight. She wears a sleeveless black zip dress with its hood up. A large black collar with white flame designs hides her mouth and is separate from her dress while keeping her hood up. She also wears black thigh-high stockings with small white ribbons on the outer sides, and black shoes with large rings around her ankles. Strength has a tail that resembles a vertebrae.
Her most defining trait are her pair of massive black prosthetic mechanical arms called Ogre Arm , which are more than half of Strength's own size.


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Acta is a pale-skinned teenage girl with light-colored hair reaching down to her neck. She wears a long black coat with vertical white stripes as well as a pair of black shorts and and a pair of black boots. Both her coat and shorts are worn with belts.
When in combat, Acta emits a flame on her right eye.

As a typical Black Star, Acta is devoid of emotions and speaks very little.


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Nico is a round being with rabbit-like ears. They feature a darker color on top and a lighter color on bottom, with a jagged partition dividing the two halves like fangs on a mouth.
When in combat, Nico takes form of a large hammer for Acta to wield as her weapon.

Nico lacks camaraderie and views Black Stars as mere expendable tools.


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Oruo is a humonoid being with a fixed expression on their face.

Oruo has compassion for Black Stars. Ram describes Oruo as gentle, whereas Jiou comments that their partiality towards humans clouds their judgement.


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Ram appears as a young woman with dark curled horns on her head. She can emit a flame on her right eye.

Ram's previous life was that of a firefly that could not emit light. [1]
When Ram first wakes up in the Threshold she realizes that the world exists to harbor souls that cannot fulfill their dreams, yet she finds it meaningless. She toys with the idea of creating Black Stars from Stagnant Souls , and having them fighting each other to see if the world will undergo any changes as an experiment. However, the world does not change at all, and Ram believes her experiment becomes pointless. [1]
Ram becomes one of the leaders who oversee Black Stars' operations. She has an interest in Black Stars who gain emotions and a sense of self, and Rock is one such target, as Ram observes a visibly shaken Rock witnessing the death of a fellow Black Star whose body regresses back to a soul. [2]
Ram meets Rock in person when she rescues the Black Star from a singing Stagnant Soul's attacks. She tells Rock to fight back, warning her that the latter can risk becoming a Stagnant Soul one day if she continues to hold on to the fear as a result of the recent revelation. Seeing that Rock struggles against the singing Stagnant Soul, Ram plans to intervene again, but Rock stops her from attacking and wants to watch the Stagnant Soul to sing to the end, who then disappears as she fulfills her wishes from her previous life. [3] In the aftermath, Rock states that she wants to find her past self, and while Ram doesn't stop her from doing so, she cautions Rock that should Rock's quest in search for her previous life turns from hope to despair, Rock may end up as a Stagnant Soul. [4]
Much time has past, and one day Rock encounters a "Type D" Stagnant Soul, who offers her a glimpse of her past life via hypnosis. Rock agrees, but she falls into despair upon learning the truth and was trapped within her own consciousness. Just as the Stagnant Soul was about to lay their hands on her, Ram destroys them in time and rescues Rock. [5] However, seemingly satisfied with Rock's state in despair, Ram imprisons her in a chamber together with similar Black Stars before allowing her to break apart from within. Ram's plan does not come to fruition, as Rock overcomes her past with the aid of her partner Ron . [6]
Ram then allows Dead to fight Rock, who longs to consume her soul. Dead reveals to Rock that Ram is the one who encourages Dead to consume souls with strong will so she can one day fulfill her dream of resurrection. However, as Rock gains the upper hand, Ram cannot watch any longer, and tells Dead that she lied to her in the first place, driving Dead into despair and causes her transform into a Stagnant Soul. [7]
When Rock finally confronts Ram, the latter discloses her identity as Black Star No. 0000001, claiming that her wish is to destroy the Threshold. [8] Rock, however, believes that is not her true wish, and that Ram wants someone with a sense of ego who can also recognize her. She eventually enters Ram's inner thoughts and helps her gain the light that she yearns for as a firefly. By fulfilling the innermost wish, Ram joins the other fireflies and disappears among them. [1]


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Ron's first known form is that of a black snake-like creature with ridge-like features protruding on the back, no discernible eyes, and a white line that runs along each side of the body. Rock can transform Ron into different kinds of weapons in combat, with cannon and sword being the most common forms, but other forms are also possible, such as a baseball bat. [1]
When Rock imagines Ron in her desired form, Ron takes form of a young handsome man wearing a black long coat with a hood reminiscent of their snake-like form's head.

Outside of battles, Ron acts as an advisor to Rock, particularly on Stagnant Soul investigation. They can be openly blunt with their feelings and opinions, and will not hesitate to make fun of others in a mocking tone. However, Ron can also have a serious side when the situation calls for one.
Despite their demeanor, Ron cares for Rock as a companion, and does not abandon her even when Nico advises them to find a more reliable replacement, or when Rock is about to break apart mentally. They are also known for bravery in battle, a factor that Rock takes into account to power her fighting strength when battling against Ram .


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Black Gold Saw has red eyes, long black hair reaching down to her knees, and a pair of reddish-black horns on her head that curve outwards and back inwards. Her appearance takes after her original concept's redesign by huke : she wears a black high-cut jacket with wide sleeves adorned with white stars near the hems. Her open jacket reveals a bikini top with a buckle in the front. She wears large skeletal gloves, partly unzipped black shorts with a white belt, thigh-high black greaves with crescent-shaped knee guards and foot armor, and leggings of a taller height.
Her red eyes have a concentric circular pattern in them.

Next to nothing is shown of her personality, but it can be inferred that she is an adept and merciless fighter who is capable of winning in a fight against Black★Rock Shooter .


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Black★Rock Shooter has blue eyes and long dark blue hair tied into asymmetrical twintails (the right being shorter than the left). She wears a hooded black trench coat adorned with single white stripes down the sleeves, a small white star in the front, and a larger star on the back. Her open coat reveals a bikini top, scars on her midriff, and a pair of hot pants with a gray belt. She also wears knee-high boots with white heels.
Her blue eyes have a concentric circular pattern in them.

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Black★Rock Shooter is depicted as calm and collected. She is intently focused on bringing Yomi back to Mato's world for her human counterpart's sake, showing a benevolent side to Black★Rock Shooter.
She is able to fight evenly with Black Gold Saw and Dead Master for the most part, but she does not seem to be trying to purposely hurt the latter in their battle.


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Dead Master has green eyes, wavy black semi-long hair brought to the front of her shoulders with straight cut bangs, and a pair of black horns on her head that resemble vertebrae curving inwards. She wears a short black dress with frills at the collar and hem, a white ribbon adorning the left side of her waist, and an open back for her two thin wings. The back of her dress is tied with a black ribbon behind her neck, and has another white ribbon on the back of her waist. She also wears skeletal gloves, black capris and heel shoes.
Her green eyes have a concentric circular pattern in them.

Dead Master is generally shown to be sinister and antagonistic, making a show of her nature with wicked smiles whenever she has the advantage over her opponent. She attacks Black★Rock Shooter when she offers her hand out to her, is amused when she decides to fight Dead Master (indicated when Dead Master sees the flame in her eye), and is undeterred when Black★Rock Shooter destroys her Skulls and her scythe. Even when Dead Master is cornered by Black★Rock Shooter, she attempts to resist her to the very end.


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Hiro has purple eyes and, like his mother , has short brown hair. He is seen wearing a blue rugby shirt and dark green shorts. Naturally in being a little brother, his short stature is more apparent than Mato, during dinner he is sitting on cushion as to be level with the table.


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Mato is a black-haired schoolgirl with blue eyes. She has short, choppy pig tails and wears a seifuku consisting of a white top with a dark blue collar and a dark blue skirt. She wears black knee-high socks. She has a patch of bandage on her right knee, after getting an injury from basketball practice. Many of her belongings, including her clothes, phone charm, and room decorations, have a star motif. She is described as being 155cm tall.
Towards the end of the OVA, Mato wears an open dark-colored hoodie, a white and blue shirt, a blue skirt, black thigh-highs, and blue running shoes. Her hoodie, shirt, and shoes all have stars on them.

Main appearance (Sailor uniform) Pajamas Basketball jersey Swimsuit Yukata Casual clothes at the movies Summer sailor uniform Winter clothes at New Year's Gym clothes Casual clothes at the end of the OVA

Mato is an innocent first-year student in middle school. On the outside, she is outgoing and excitable, but she is very awkward around people she does not know, and on the inside, she is a sensitive and meek person. She becomes interested in Yomi after the two notice each other on the first day of school, and takes the first step to speak to Yomi and become friends with her.
However, Mato is also naïve to a fault, as she does not realize how jealous Yomi Takanashi was while she was spending more time with Yuu , or what Yomi means to her until after she disappears. Mato also does not realize the dark state Yuu appears to be in at the very end of the OVA. Nevertheless, the friendship Mato has with both girls are important to her.


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Mrs. Kuroi has short brown hair and blue eyes, her son bares an almost close resemblance to her (excluding the purple eyes). Her casual attire is a green shirt and jeans.


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Strength is a dark tan-skinned girl with brown eyes and short white hair cut straight. She wears a sleeveless black zip dress with its hood up. A large black collar with white flame designs hides her mouth and is separate from her dress while keeping her hood up. She also wears black thigh-high stockings with small white ribbons on the outer sides, and black shoes with large rings around her ankles. Strength has a tail that resembles a vertebrae.
Her brown eyes have a concentric circle pattern in them.


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She has green eyes and wavy dark hair and wears the same uniform as her friend Mato Kuroi . Her beauty is comparable to an adult's. Mato often comments on how tall Yomi is; but Yomi says she has a "complex" about being tall. She is presumed to be 160cm tall.

Main appearance (Sailor uniform) Volleyball clothes Swimsuit Yukata Casual clothes at the movies Summer sailor uniform Winter clothes at New Year's In Dead Master's clothing

Yomi is a gentle, good-natured girl who speaks politely and calmly. Her reserved nature makes her very mature for her age, and she is much more passive in her speech and thinking compared to Mato. She is supposedly a member of a well-to-do family, staying for some time in Germany before moving to Mato's neighborhood. Yomi reveals that her frequent moving from one place to another has caused her to develop a sort of distant attitude towards others.
However, she is prone to having very dark feelings of loneliness and jealousy; she tends to keep these to herself.
She seems to enjoy volleyball, which she picks up out of a desire to be with Mato on the court.


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Yuu has choppy tawny hair and hazel eyes. She is also very short in stature, much more so than Mato Kuroi or Yomi Takanashi , standing at about 146-150cm. She wears the same blue and white school uniform as they do and sometimes wears black leggings.

Main appearance (Sailor uniform) Basketball manager jacket

Yuu is excitable and perky; however, she is shown to have a dark side to her. While she is close to Mato, she also seems to be very possessive of her. Although she seems to want to be on good terms with Yomi, she has an awkward time hanging out with her. She acts antagonistically when it comes to Yomi after the latter disappears, and even insists to Mato to give up on trying to find her, as Yuu assumes she will come back later.


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Marion is an aging man with an appearance that can best be described as "tough". He has white hair which is partially covered by a black beret and a communication headset. He also has a white "mutton chop" mustache and a scar over his left eye. He wears the standard UEF body armor, albeit without the shoulder areas which expose a pair of tattoos.These tattoos take the form of several black stars and overlapping lines.


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In appearance, CKRY is a pale-skinned male with orange hair and a small beard, with a braid at his chin, and a steel-black spiked ornament at mouth height. He wears a massive black-colored armored suit with yellow trimming covering his entire body, which is adorned by spikes.
Like his younger sister, SZZU , he does not display any notable ability except for his brute strength. Despite his bulky appearance, however, he is surprisingly quick on his feet.

CKRY, at first glance, appears brutish and violent; however, he is actually still a logical being and is very reasonable. He speaks in gurgles, and the only ones who seem to be able to comprehend his speech are the other Apostles. He often acts as a chariot for SZZU.


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LLWO's appearance is of a young man with dark complexion, silvery-white hair and pale green pupils. One unusual feature of LLWO is a black lightning-bolt shaped streak of hair that goes from the back of his hair to the other side. He, like Black Rock Shooter , has a scar on his upper torso, however his is on the right.
His main weapon is a bow which utilizes a special kind of ammunition, which is attached to his trousers.
In battle, he can be considered as an all-rounder, with strong points in long-distance attacks and in melee combats alike.

LLWO is generally a quiet, lone-wolf type of alien. He has a strong sense of pride, and will devote himself entirely to any prospect. However, he is very nervous and jumpy in MEFE's presence; he will agree to practically anything she says. This has a tendency to earn him cold scorn from her.


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MZMA has the appearance of a young man with short deep crimson hair. His outfit consists of bright red clothes that look like a trenchcoat, and a pair of gauntlets and boots with asymetrical features. On his left eye is an ornament in the shape of a spine.
His weapon is a gigantic double-edged sword with a sawtooth-shaped blade. The sword's tip can be opened at will and turns the sword into a beam cannon.

MZMA is notable for being particularly ambitious. He can be slightly reckless, however generally he is logical and is well aware of his limits. He enjoys looking for ways to have fun. He is extremely passionate about movies and is always looking for new ideas to create the "ultimate form of entertainment", however his fellow Apostles do not share his passion and thus he is often left alone in his own world.


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MEFE's appearance is of a young woman wearing a stereotypical outfit of a magician-class character in roleplaying games. She has short light purple hair and eyes. Her outfit is made up of a black shirt tied only at the point between her breasts, and is open in the back, closing below her shoulderblades. MEFE also wears light purple leggings and two belts, one of which is attached diagonally while the other is secured horizantally. MEFE's feet are slightly obscured by a pair of accessories consisting of a piece of pleated black cloth attached just below the knee with a belt each.
She wears a simple black glove on the left hand and a glove with metallic detail on the right; her other accessories include a choker with a blue gem pendant and a pointed hat adorned with a vertebra-like design.
MEFE's weapon of choice is a large violet axe with a red tip that looks like a clenched fist with a thumbs-up.

MEFE considers herself to be a refined lady. She is seductive, and is very confident in herself. She also enjoys anything that has relation to eating; throughout her extra missions, she makes a very big deal about a "full-course meal" and a "main dish". She also seems to enjoy trying new things; in her character episode, she suggests to the other Apostles implementing some human customs into the alien lifestyle, including events such as Christmas or Halloween.
She is particularly cold towards LLWO.


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XNFE is a girl with short pale pink hair and eyes. She wears a blouse with a large collar and has it mostly open, revealing a pair of black-and-pink striped straps which cover her breasts. She also wears a very short skirt and two pink-and-black striped belts crossed together. XNFE also wears a pair of high heeled shoes with crossed straps.
She wears a large headpiece covering much of her head, and on that headpiece are two metallic accessories shaped like bunny ears.
XNFE's arms are two unusual metallic contraptions which have three-pronged claws on each end.

XNFE is very haughty. She hates things that are cuter than her, stronger than her, or anyone that talks badly about her. However, she loves rabbits.
It is hinted that she considered fighting WRS . However, SAHA advises her against it, even if she were to neblade the White .


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SZZU has the appearance of a young, blonde lady wearing glasses and a spiked ornament in her forehead that looks like a coronet. She wears futuristic, orange-coloured armor resembling a dress with large shoulder pauldrons and black gloves.
She does not display any particular ability in contrast to her fellow Apostles (like MZMA 's control over fire, for example), and presumably centers on close combat. She wields a large, yellow blade with a uniquely shaped hilt.

SZZU is seen as a logical, delicate young woman. She cares deeply for her brother, CKRY . She is naturally curious and caring at the same time.

In the manga, CKRY has a sister complex for her; she does not deny him.