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With an unbalanced body measure, his head is almost as tall as his body. Because of this particular characteristic, his facial features are very large in size with a small mustache decorating his face and a mole between his eyebrows. He wears a traditional green kimono and wraps it with a red obi belt.
In the Chapter 108 of the manga, he revealed his true, magnificent appearance in the form of a beautiful, white dragon. Although his characteristics are pretty similar to the dragon familiars of Hakozaki , he maintains his notable mustache which is much longer in length compared to his usual form. Takashi also stated that his dragon scales are remarkably stunning and other spirits even regarded them as a sign of good luck during their shedding season.

Not much was truly known about Chobihige aside from the fact that he seems to act politely towards humans and can even ask for their help if the matter concerns their kind. However, being a dragon in nature, he regards himself as high and mighty and views other creatures as lowly and pitiful. Despite of his complex personality, he likes to drink with the other middle-class spirits, particularly the Dog's Circle , as he frequently appears at Takashi's house for a drinking session.


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One Chukyuu is an ox-like youkai while the other is a one-eyed youkai with one horn.
Both wear grey kimonos with a black Japanese-style coat over it.

The two are peaceful in general, supporting "Lord Natsume" with his tasks when asked.
The one-eyed youkai is usually the one who does the talking as the ox-like youkai follows and gives his bits of information.


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Different with the friendly Chukyuu that lived in Yatsuhara, the ox like youkai body color was much more darker. While the one-eyed youkai was red color.


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He wears a plain grey yukata with nothing underneath and no footwear. He also has jet black wings and messy black hair with grey eyes that have slit pupils.


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In anime, the youkai seems to be more like a male, but the appearance look closer to a female in the manga.


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Enkou seems to be a kappa-zaru (a kappa-zaru literally translates to water-imp monkey). The reason he's not a regular kappa , who usually has a beak and webbed feet along with the shell on the back, is because of his facial feature and limbs which represent more of a monkey than that of a water creature.
Furry with grey hair, along with a shell on his back, Enkou's face is white with red around the eyes. His "hair" is dirty-blonde, with a kappa -dish upon his head to signify that he is some kind of kappa .


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She had two big black holes where the eyes should be. Her hair was tied back in a bun and wore red kimono.


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She have long black hair which is unkempt all the times, considering all she thinks about is having her revenge. She also always wears a white/grey gown, which gets dirty from all the activities.

It's unknown what she was like prior to her lover 's murder but it can be assumed she was much happier. After the death of her lover, she changed into a dangerous and violent person, fueled by rage and hate. She had only one thing in mind - revenge. It blinded her of all reasoning and eventually got her injured.
She perhaps is very open-minded about human and youkai relations. Another example was when Natori opposed of such close relations with youkai, she immediately rejected his beliefs.


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In human form, she had black hair and eyes. She was always seen wearing pink blouse and bright pink coloured skirt. She had soft voice whenever she talked with the young Natsume.
It is unknown what her true form look like.

She transformed herself into female form because she always wanted to talk to the young Natsume. She did this every time Natsume came to the nearby park.
For a while, Natsume thought she was a real human who could see youkai as well, but when one of his neighbors asked him why he was sitting by himself, he realized she was another youkai. The youkai apologized to him and told him that she just wanted to talk to him.


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It appears to be about the size of a child or a bit bigger. It looks elongated and round, has tiny skinny arms, its eye is large and round with a small, black dot at the center. It wears a simple white yukata and is transparent.


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Some frogs youkai that seemingly living underneath a house. Nyanko-sensei was asking them about the whereabouts of Sui .


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Originally, he was just a spirit resting in a guardian statue. But when he attempted to take Natsume's body, he missed and took the "body" of a snow-made bunny.

Gen's snow rabbit form

When in human form, he has medium-length ice-blue hair with rabbit ears (due to possessing a snow-made bunny). He wears a traditional Japanese outfit.


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Ginro is a youkai that takes the form of an old woman with white hair and silver eyes. She wears a black kimono underneath her extensive gray haori. However, when she's acting as a maid in her master's residence, she covers her dress with a kappōgi instead.

Ginro is a very loyal and caring servant of Yousuke Takuma . Despite of the fact that her master can no longer see her, she decided to stay on his side for the rest of his life. When Takashi and Shuuichi came to the residence in response to Tsukiko 's request, she felt threatened and displayed a hostile attitude as she thought they came to exorcise her. However, when Takashi was caught by a distraught Jinbe , she protected him and discouraged the agitated youkai. She is concerned that if she let a child of man be harmed on her master's property, it will become a problem for her master and his daughter. Later on, she revealed her protective nature by stating that if Jinbe and Benihimo had tried to attack Yousuke, she was going to handle them by herself. She then opened up to Takashi and asked him to perform the Ritual of Release if that is what the two familiars want— showing that she still have some affinity towards them. She was seen bowing to Takashi afterwards to express her deep gratitude in helping her master with his problem in regards to his two familiars.


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Natsume saw her from his class's window, staring down at something on the ground.
Later on, this girl handed over the stone to Natsume. Immediately after this, she recovered her consciousness.


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A bipedal youkai, a good majority of his body is fur-like with a slightly darker shade of yellow as opposed to his exposed skin, which is a very light tan shade. He has a long face, black eyes, jagged teeth and a goatee, which is only distinguishable by the three lines on his chin.


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Inside his forest, Hakuhi is a large youkai covered in white feathers. His right eye is covered and he appears to not have any iris thus making his eyes pure white. His feet are the same as his owl form.
Whenever he goes outside his forest, he takes the avatar of a white owl with red eyes. He carries a ring with a red stone by putting it on his leg.


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This youkai appeared in Natsume's house, even when the bodyguard Madara supposedly had put seal surrounding the household.


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Hiiragi has short pale blonde hair and while her eyes are blue. Her mask has horns and a large eye in the centre.
After her first appearance, her mask had a crack in it due to it breaking when Natori first tried to exorcise her.
Due to Natori's attempt at her exorcism, there was a crack in her mask and it broke afterwards due to his failed attempt.

When Natsume first met Hiiragi, she was rather rude towards him, saying that he should mind his own business and that she won't tell him her name (this might be because she had no name at the time but she still made it sound like Natsume, as a human, shouldn't be asking in the first place) and also got irritated at Natsume when he pulled on her rope.
When she speaks, she says exactly what's on her mind, even if it hurts someone's feelings. While she's often blunt about things, she shows a very loyal connection to Natori, mainly due to his kind act of bandaging up her wounded hand when he was a child.


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Hinoe is a beautiful woman. She has long, dark-blue hair that is tied with golden ornaments and a silver hairpin, ghostly pale skin and willowy body.
She wears a traditional michiyuki coat with vivid colors and flowers over her kimono. Hinoe also wears purple lipstick and eye shadow while also having long, purple fingernails. She has red eyes.
Hinoe can float in the air and is sometimes seen sitting in trees. She smokes tobacco from a long pipe.

She is proud and looks down on others, although she is secretly kind-hearted. She also has a twisted sense of humor.
Like most ayakashi, she gets bored rather easily and would help Takashi out if he asked and if she feels like doing so. She seems to hate men, though the reasoning behind this has not been disclosed.
However, she has a grudging affection for Takashi because of his uncanny resemblance to his grandmother Reiko . She gradually learns to like Takashi as an individual. This affection grows to the point of strong attachment and deep fondness such that she openly worries for Natsume’s safety, gives him advice and information about yokai, protects him, acts as a sort of mentor, displaying strong affection and cuddling him, and threatening anyone who harms him.
She seems like an ordinary youkai although it is hinted many times that she is possibly one of the stronger youkai, perhaps on the same level as Misuzu and Madara. She possess several magic scrolls and has a lot of knowledge about fellow yokai , has a lot of strong acquaintances, and is respected by both Madara and Misuzu.


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She has one eye and long-flowing white hair. She wears a white kimono.

She was a gentle and kind-hearted youkai. It was also indicated that before she met Reiko, she was very lonely. However, when Reiko told her that she was now her servant, she anticipated for her call, wanting to be around her again.
When Reiko didn't call and seemingly forgot about her, she felt hurt and even lonelier than before and longed for her name back, the only thing that she had left.


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Hitomi has the appearance of an adult woman, likely in her mid-twenties to early thirties.


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The details of Honokage's true form was never fully revealed. However, it was revealed that Honokage is a giant bird with pure white feathers and red stripes around his eyes.

As Mukuo, he is a friendly young man who loves his mother. He has got some careless traits.


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Hotaru has blond hair that goes past her shoulders. She wears a mauve kimono with a pale green coat. Hotaru often wears a mask with a simplified version of 'firefly' in Japanese written on it but sometimes takes it off at night. She also glows at night.
When she returns to her firefly form, she is a glowing bright green orb.

Unlike some youkai, Hotaru is not malicious and rather friendly who exhibits a calm demeanor. Hotaru saved Takashi when he ran away from her and fell off a cliff, noting that he is reckless. She is curious and enjoys having fun with people she loves (as seen in her memories of her time with Akifumi).


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He is a beautiful youkai wearing a coronet of peonies and a white deer-horn mask.


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Isamu seems to care little for his appearance as a fraction of his hair falls over the top of his face. Additionally, when he is first seen, he is wearing a long-sleeved shirt that has a bear print and a claw with the word 'SHUTOBOTU' and a small star on the left.
This is further supported by his second appearance as he's wearing trousers, a short V-neck shirt and a jacket whilst casually holding a mug.

Isamu can be deemed as a realist as he doesn't believe that youkai or superstitions are real despite the thoughts of his sister, Tooru and his grandfather. He constantly tries to disprove their existence, even heading into areas that hold old legends. He's extremely determined to disprove them as he even states that on his trip to Mount Kenba he had camped there for several days and when nothing had happened, he decided to investigate the superstitious matter further.
He is also rather straightforward with his thoughts and feelings and can be pretty insensitive, even telling Takashi that even though he doesn't look the part, he must like prying into other people's matters.


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He wears a monk like attire, with a straw hat. With greyish hair and a walking stick, he seems to travel a lot. His left eye has been destroyed at some point and there is nothing left but a scar on that side of his face, a mark normally hidden by his hair. His right eye is bright gold.

As a Youkai, Nezumi seems like a polite and mannered spirit who does not harm others unless necessary. He gave Natsume a subtle warning instead of forcefully trying to claim Tama.
After he failed to capture Tama and Tama turned into an adult, Nezumi smiled, pleased. It may be he didn't want to bring the chick to his master to be eaten.


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Ito's human form is that of an elderly woman with grey hair. Her eyes are often closed and she's usually smiling. In her human form, Ito wears a white collared shirt underneath a light pink sweater, with a long brown skirt that reaches below her knees.
When she first interacted with Natsume as a youkai, she maintained her human form but could freely stretch her body and fly in the air.

She helped care for Tanuma when he was young and sick while he was recuperating at his aunt's inn.


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Sasada has the appearance of a young teenage girl. She wears glasses and has dark brown eyes and straight, shoulder-length brown hair. She clips her bangs to the side with a green hair-clip, and is most commonly seen wearing the school's uniform.
When she was in middle school, she is shown to have worn her hair in pigtails.

As class president, Sasada acts authoritatively towards her classmates, and can be a bit bossy at times. Takashi Natsume notes that despite her complicated family situation, Sasada is a hard and efficient worker. As shown by how she looked for Shigure in the old school house every day to thank him for returning the amulet to her, Sasada greatly appreciates kindness, and is a very determined person who won't give up once she sets her mind to something. Her persistence is also demonstrated when she frequently follows Natsume around and asks him about what he's doing, possibly because she has feelings for him.


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It had an old pottery cup with big eyes in the middle of it. Sporting two legs but no hands.


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Kai is a youkai that can be seen by humans, probably due to his own powers. Kai looks like an ordinary human boy, with black-grey colored hair and eyes.
His right eye can't be seen because of his bangs that cover it. He usually wears a simple white shirt and shorts.

Unlike most youkai Kai is shown within the episode to have near human emotions. He is also known as "Crybaby god" by his worshipers for the frequent floods that spill from the rivers.
Obviously prone to outbursts and driven to loneliness in his mountain home, Kai is one of the more affectionate youkai shown in the series.


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It's other body parts were strewn all over Taki's house. However the body is wearing a white kimono.


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Tanuma has the appearance of a slender teenage boy. He bas messy black hair that frames his whole face until his neck and fall on his eyes, as well as dark black eyes. He is pretty tall, at least more than the other boys his age in the series, although he's still shorter than adult men like Shuuichi Natori .

Tanuma is a quiet and reserved boy. He often worries for Takashi's involvement in youkai but knows that he can't stop him from helping them. He tries to help Takashi when he can and was discouraged by Madara , saying he was "useless" since he can't really see spirits. In the manga, he desires strongly to protect Takashi and is angered quickly when someone (usually Madara or Shuuichi Natori ) calls him powerless.
Tanuma is also insightful as he notices when Takashi attempts to hide his feelings or tries to protect him as he often sees the hidden meanings beneath the surface but doesn't understand them. This is supported by his curiosity about Reiko when Madara mentions her and his notice of Takashi's reaction.
In the anime, he merely asks because the name was unfamiliar and forgets about it afterwards.


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Tanuma's father wears glasses and is bald with a slight beard on his chin. He is most commonly seen wearing black Buddhist robes with a light brown origojyou around his neck.

As a Buddhist monk, Tanuma's father is very kind and understanding. He is a devoted father to Tanuma and had exorcised Yatsuhara, but not out of ill-will towards youkai. It was an attempt to help his son feel better. When Natsume hesitates to ask if he can see youkai, Tanuma's father wisely decides not to press the matter any further and tells him to feel free to come by any time.


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He was covered by rings all over his body. Some bells trailing from his back.

Despite his ugly appearance, he was actually a kind-hearted youkai. He realized about his body letting off deadly miasma, and was really regretted about it.


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He has a white disc on his head with a green body. His mouth is beak-like and is similar to a duck's.
On his back, he wears turtle-like shell.

He is a kind spirit that's willing to help Natsume after he was saved twice by him. When he caught fish, he searched for Natsume so they could share it together.


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He's human-like in form, with black hair and white skin. He has ears that fan out of his hair to the side, and his eyes are fox-like. He wears a light-violet kimono.

Though he looked "intimidating" at first when he tried to capture Takashi along with Hishigaki, Karikage is one who comes to understand others properly.


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He wore white mask with red lip. His body cloud-like in white.

He is a gentle and understanding youkai. Karikami is usually calm and didn't get angry or annoyed when he lost to Reiko. He even informed her that he had the power to restore the paper with his name on it should it ever get old. Karikami, like most, was a bit baffled when Natsume didn't order him to restore Yobiko 's letter. Karikami nevertheless restored the paper in exchange for returning his name. He also holds restored paper with care; aware of its fragile nature.


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Karime has a strange large ash green body, with arms long enough to touch the floor. His head only has two dots that are technically his eyes, while a larger set of eyes are on his upper chest. Gumby-like design.
His nostrils are right under where his ribs would be, with his mouth right underneath.


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Kayatsubo lives in an old brown pot with a wooden lid. The pot has small cracks and a hole from which an eye can often be seen. She can stretch her arm or half her body through the top of the pot.
When she comes out from her pot, Kayatsubo's form resembles that of a human. She has long, light pink hair with the front bangs clipped back, leaving only short fringes.
She has slanted, pale blue eyes, a pale complexion, and wears a white and pale blue Japanese dress.

In the pot. Physical appearance.

Kayatsubo is vindictive, holding onto a grudge and seeking out Reiko Natsume to get back her doll. She can also be very emotional, as seen when she comes to Takashi's home full of anger and hatred for Reiko, whom she claimed was a thief.
Kayatsubo is also seen as rather playful, pretending to be a different Youkai when Takashi comes to her shed in order to tip him off about the doll that she's looking for.
She seems to be very lonely living by herself in her pot. She becomes possessive over the doll which she called her "friend" and her "treasure," and even expressed her wish to have Reiko to live in her pot. She also seems to have a fondness for pretty things, such as the doll she picked up, and even Reiko.


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A small white fluffball with no hands or legs, only two small white eyes in the middle of its body.

The small youkai attached itself to Nyanko-sensei 's tail after it was rescued by Natsume. The scared youkai bounced all around Natsume's room, getting itself hurt in the process. Natsume's hand was hurt by it's poison so he had a hard time sleeping that night.


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Kirinoha is a youkai that takes the form of a short, feminine boy with an unkempt green hair and eyes. He wears a yellow sweater and black shorts and wraps his neck with a red scarf. He’s one of the few youkais in the series that dresses themselves with modern clothes as most of them are seen wearing nothing or in traditional costumes.

Kirinoha is introduced as a clumsy youkai that is easy to prank because of his gullible nature. He tends to believe something that might not even exist and give them his full trust without knowing that they’re just messing up with him. Because of this, he was pranked by Reiko and got his name afterwards. It was shown that Kirinoha is a very patient and obedient youkai as he waited exactly 50 years to get his name back. At the end of his story, it was seen how thankful he was to Reiko after she helped him see the sea he wanted to take a look so much.


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He is bird-like youkai that had wings on his back. His body color was pink.

He just returned from fishing with his load of hauls when he was almost trapped in the younger Nanase's sealing process of sealing the Evil Youkai . Luckily he managed to escape unharmed. He and the other gossiping youkais mentioned to Nanase's face that she was not as strong as Reiko Natsume was.
Later from the incident, the furious young Nanase caught Kotengu, wanting to know more about Reiko Natsume. Kotengu then brought Nanase to Mikage but he was mistaken for Mikage as Reiko.
When the young Nanase hurried to go back, she entrusted Kotengu to Mikage to take care of him. Ever since then, Kotengu seemed to be always at Mikage's side. He even knew Mikage asked Reiko for an exorcism to himself but was refused.


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Kurokama has the head of a Komainu with a tennis ball stuck in its mouth and a black kimono. He glides a few inches above ground. Finally, he carries a black sickle in its right hand.

Long ago, Kurokama was the guardian of a shrine where a god lived. The fate of the god is unknown, but it is safe to assume that it no longer reside at the shrine. Kurokama's duties were to take human disasters and suffer in their place.
One day, Natsume left a Suneko that clung onto its arm by a river. Feeling guilty, he went back the next day only to find Kurokama attacking it. Natsume tries to protect the small youkai from Kurokama. He is mad at Natsume for loosing its prey, he curses him.
Natsume has 30 days to escape the wrath of Kurokama or he will die. If he escapes by traveling to another town, someone else will die in his place.
Kurokama chases him all around town and even at Natsume's school where he broke multiple glasses with its sickle. Because of that, Natsume had no choice but to move out of town, but before moving out he confront Kurokama and beg him to not kill anyone. Kurokama calls Natsume a liar, not trusting him on the fact that he has no choice to move out of town.
In the end, Kurokama says to Natsume that he can't harm humans in any way nor does he knows how to curse anyone. The sole reason he chased Natsume was because he hated him.
He was last seen saving Ogata from a car accident.


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He wore white mask and traditional  kimono in black, hence the name. He was a big youkai compared to the other youkai.


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This youkai is the one responsible to instigate the other minor youkai to attack the house with tall red-bricks wall, which have their Master Riou sealed.
He discovered Takashi Natsume , Nyanko-sensei and Benio were hiding at the bushes with Riou-sama in cat form, without knowing that it is him.


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In human form, he appears as a youthful boy with shoulder length, brown-blonde hair and has fox ears. He wears a dull-brown kimono.
Regular humans can only see him as a fox, while youkai and those able to see youkai sees him as the human form. However, after consuming a special medicine, he transforms into a human.

As he's still young, he's constantly bullied by other youkai. Due to this, he's scared easily and is considered as a 'crybaby' by many others.
The following year after his first meeting with Natsume, he became stronger, in terms of strength and mentality and is able to defend himself from his bullies.


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It wanted to know Natsume's secret that he hide from his friends.
The rock also followed Natsume to his school. It was easily banished by Nyanko-sensei's light.


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This youkai has long straight white hair and one big eye. When she finds Natsume again, she first appears with a mask depicting a face with two eyes and a creepy smile.

She saved Natsume when he was being chased by the Three Eyed Youkai . She told Natsume to hide by climbing up a tree. The three eyed youkai was bad with spotting things higher up.
During their second meeting, she asked for Natsume's name. She criticized Natsume for easily giving his name to youkai. She also told Natsume that she liked to watch lonely people as they were easy prey to be eaten.
She was then tricked by Natsume and fell into the sealing well. Natsume easily sealed her away but somehow the seal was broken when someone dug out the well.


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Little was known about this youkai. She appeared at Natsume's window and asking for her name back.


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it had long white hair and long pink tongue (hence the name). It's body was bluish colour.


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He takes the form of an overweight lucky cat that is round and cute (at least according to him, however, this is also confirmed by Taki [1] & disagreed upon by rest of Takashi's friends). Other characters such as Tanuma , have noted that his head in this form is unusually large.
His maneki neko form is white, with an orange and grey marking on the top of his head and back, black eyes and wears a red cat collar with a gold bell on his neck and has small red markings on his face. [2]
In his original form, he is a colossal wolf-like youkai with white fur, with red markings on his face, and gold eyes. He is extremely large that he can cover Takashi underneath a single paw and a single eye is larger than Takashi's head. Also, in his original form, Madara's voice becomes a lot deeper.
Like most youkai, his original form cannot be seen by people with little or no spiritual energy.

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He has a somewhat condescending personality. [3] At first, he only protects Takashi for the Book of Friends but as the series progresses, he becomes friendlier with not only Takashi, but Natori , Tanuma , and Taki .

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His attitude throughout the series can be described as selfish, prideful, and comedic, the way he acts and his attitude becomes the usual "gag" of the series.
He does have an immature and playful side; Madara often drinks himself silly by consuming a lot of sake and loves to eat dango (a Japanese snack) and other sweets, making him heavier and rounder. He enjoys eating in general, often eating fish in the river or stealing Natsume's food at times. When he smells something delicious or hears of a place with good food, he insists that Natsume goes with him so they can eat there. In addition, he is particularly fond of Touko's home cooking.
Despite his protests that he is not a cat, he acts exactly like one, for example, getting excited about cat toys and chasing small animals. He also likes to bully dogs and throws the occasional tantrum.
He has a more caring side to him, which he tries to deny or explain away, but as the series progresses, it becomes obvious that he is attached to Takashi and is extremely protective of him.

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Evidence of this is when he went into a rage when Takashi was wounded by trying to protect him in Chapter 26 but Takashi managed to calm him down.
He has also shown to care for Shigeru and Touko as well but yet again tries to explain it away. This is evident is when an angered Kayatsubo began charging towards their home to steal something Takashi treasures, as punishment for failure of returning her doll, Madara immediately transformed into his youkai form and quickly charged back home to stop her, knowing that the Fujiwaras would be home. He remained stationed atop of their home, protectively guarding it until Takashi returned.
He is shown to be acquainted with several youkai, like Tsuyukami , Hinoe , and Benio . His strength and rank as a youkai are evident in his interaction with other youkai who are obviously afraid of him, even in his cat form which was seen in Episode 11 of the anime where he overheard the Dog's Circle talk about him and complain about how he was a fat, tone-deaf, drunk and old cat. Madara got his revenge by summoning lighting which left them stunned and the entire forest around them destroyed.


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It is a white face mask with gray eyes and elongated red mouth, its teeth are jagged. It has long hair light-gray hair.

It is hostile and seeks out its own agendas for its own benefit. It seems that the parent takes on the dislikes of whoever it is possessing. These dislikes are transferred to its children.


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Mana has brown hair tied into a short ponytail with dark brown eyes. She has a fairly normal complexion and is only seen wearing her sailor uniform.
Her uniform consists of a white shirt with a red collar, a yellow ribbon and a maroon coloured skirt. She had been wearing black shoes and white socks before entering the house.

Mana seems to be an extremely carefree person, even dismissing the fact that she had woken up her ill father. Stating that Atsushi shouldn't worry about him waking up, she proceeded to say a new doughnut place opened nearby and asked her father which one he would like, offering to get some for him.
Atsushi scolds her saying that they haven't eaten dinner yet and their mother will disapprove of this and get mad at her. She also dismisses this saying to not worry about it and that she'll get a doughnut for her too.
Despite her actions, she gets along well with her family and loves them all.
She prepares boxed lunches (bento) for her brother Atsushi although constantly prepares his food using several different shapes, hence, another point at her personality. However, Kitamoto states that he wants her to stop with the shapes and just fill the lunchbox. Nishimura becomes envious, commenting how he wished he had a little sister to make him boxed lunches as well.


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The youkai's body was entirely in black. When he was sealed under the tree, ropes attached with talismans surrounded him.


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Nothing about its appearance can be guaranteed as it was shown only in its human form.
It assumed the identity of a young girl who had come to visit the festival. Although not much is clearly shown, we can conclude that this youkai has the ability to stretch a lot even while it is in its human form.

The Mask-Snatcher youkai was introduced in the episode " Distant Festival Lights " as a youkai that got excited really quickly. It broke into the inn where Natsume and his friends were staying at, after it stole a mask, which controlled the festival, from Ito .
A careless youkai, it seemed as if it stole the mask purely for 'fun', and was extremely distraught when Natsume and Madara caught her, just before Ito banished her.


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They wore white mask and white kimono. Their body were black and seemingly could not speak. However they were very obedient to Matoba's commands.


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When he was in the beast form, his appearance was the same as his true catfish form quite but larger.

He seemed to be short-tempered, as he easily got mad when Santou gave his name to Reiko without a second thought. He cares a great deal about Santou even though he never showed it in front of Takashi and Master Kitty-Cat.


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He is extremely large in terms of size, even in comparison with the other giant youkai in the series. Misuzu is a water horse ayakashi with black skin and has a horse's head. He wears a lavender-colored kimono while his right ears are pierced with two golden rings whilst the left has been additionally pierced with three small bells. His right hand is that of a bull hoof while his left hand is a human-like hand with two golden bangles.

Misuzu has a condescending personality and tends to look down on both lesser youkai and human beings.
He can also be deceptive at times and tends to have ulterior meaning when he speaks. Despite this, he's very caring towards his followers and his friends. He's willing to go out of his way to protect his followers and help his friends whom Natsume later becomes, as Natsume Reiko''s grandson.


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Mitsuzara is an extremely small youkai - with his height being roughly that of a human palm. He is almost always seen wearing a peach-coloured cap on his head that resembles a mushroom. Due to this, many others mistake him to be a mushroom youkai.

Mitsuzara was originally very bossy and demanded many things from others. He usually didn't carry out any physical tasks himself (with the exception of fishing) under the pretense of being weak, whereas his real excuse was that he was lazy.
However, he soon changes his ways in hopes so that he can join Shuon-sama's troupe, and vows to work and train harder than any other youkai so that he would become stronger.


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Miyoko had shoulder-length brown hair that has bangs swept on either side and brown eyes.
As a teenager, her hair is still the same style, and she dons an orange blouse.

Miyoko was quite a spoiled child as she is the only child in the Aoi's household. When she was younger, she refused to eat while Takashi Natsume was staying with their family. However, her antics did not get reprimanded by her parents .
Furthermore, she was also the daddy-girl type and it was always her father that consoled her whenever she was sad.


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Both the Aoi's parents have brown hair. Only the father have lighter brown hair and the mother have darker shades of brown hair.

They were both soft-spoken as seen when they talked with both Natsume and Miyoko. They are also very kind and understanding people, much like Touko and Shigeru. Both tried their best to understand Takashi and their daughter. However, despite this, they did not reprimand Miyoko for being mean to Takashi. Most likely, though they did not blame Takashi for anything, deep down, they may have found it troublesome.


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Murasaki has light-mahogany hair and dark-blue eyes. She wears a school uniform with green collar and skirt.


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Nanamaki is a youkai that takes the form of a short, old man with gray hair and gray eyes. He covers himself with a black robe and blankets his eyes with a piece of paper that contains two dots appearing white when he's unconscious and black when he's awake. As a stonewasher, he carries a paintbrush to wash stones and hides it inside his robe.

Nanamaki is a gentle youkai shown to have an extremely caring attitude towards lost youkais. He possesses a strong will as he once begged Natsume to help him find his student by squeezing the child of man from his back. Although he feels a little competitive about his student 's extraordinary talent in stonewashing, he is very proud of him. That's why he is remarkably grateful for all the letters he received from Azuma when they left the village.


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She is an older woman with grey hair and grey-green eyes. As a girl, it was black.
She often tends to wear either traditional clothes or male suits.

A bit of a grouch with an aura of superiority. She seems wise but cruel (especially to youkai). However she's careful. She understands that being an exorcist is part of her "karma," and doesn't attack youkai just to make them bend to her will, but to keep a balance between the human and youkai world.


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His face was not shown fully and only half of his upper body.

When Nanase failed in her attempt to seal the Evil Youkai , because of the appearance of Kotengu in the process, she was scolded by her father.
Her father told the younger Nanase that being an exorcist, there should not be any pity when sealing a youkai, even if some lesser youkai got trapped together in the process.


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He is often shown with his back turned, hence, his face is only seen once during both the anime and the manga. He has brown hair that is seemingly slicked back naturally with only several parts of his hair covering his forehead. He has brown eyes although it can't be seen very clearly.
He wears a light navy-blue button shirt that has a collar and a breast pocket. He wears grey pants. He also seems to have a fairly pale complexion, unlike Nishimura, although it's unclear as to whether this is the lighting within the anime or his actual skin colour.

He is deemed as very cold and direct within both the anime and the manga. He is also extremely determined as he is first mentioned by Satoru stating he is studying his practice exams. The second time, he doesn't appear but is in his room, most likely continuing his study to the point that he doesn't even have leisure time for himself. However, it is implied that he may be somewhat observant.
It is during this time that his personality traits are displayed when Satoru invites Natsume over due to his 'anemia' (which is later revealed that Natsume had just encountered a youkai). He becomes irritable, coldly saying to Satoru that he's inviting his friends over while he doesn't have the time since he's so busy.
When Natsume leaves, stating he's fine, he makes several other comments to display that he's observant. He questioned if Satoru had forced Natsume to come to Nishimura household and that he was just being annoyingly nosy. He also says that Natsume gives him the 'creeps' then tells Satoru to not invite Natsume over again.
Afterwards, he is shown to be caring and kind, demonstrating swiftly how to fold a paper crane when Satoru gets stumped whilst teaching Natsume how to do so. This time, he doesn't say that Natsume gives him the creeps. It is unknown as to whether it's because he is aware Natsume is Satoru's friend or if it's because Natsume is presently there.


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She wears a red hood and had a beak-like for mouth.


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He trapped all the lower rank youkai in the big house so that he could consume them one by one. He gained his power by consuming the lower-rank youkai.


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The one responsible sealing Takashi in the bottle had three lines on his forehead and pointed horns. The other one had ear-like horn on his forehead.

The two followers are cruel to other youkais, only seeing them as food for their master. They are extremely loyal to Omibashira but can be petty, especially when their plans are exposed to other youkais as they can be seen trying to pin the blame onto Takashi and Shuuichi .
They are sneaky and determined, seeing as they followed Takashi after failing to capture him, and tossing a jar into his room which imprisoned him in it. All done solely for Omibashira.


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The youkai did all the dirty works of depriving other youkai's blood. Nyanko-sensei mentioned that they did not taste delicious as ordinary youkai. Even Takashi Natsume could sensed evil spirit from the paper youkai.


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A youkai that always sits on the fence, terribly scared the younger Takashi Natsume whenever he walked past the pathway.
Natsume was so scared seeing this sitting youkai, that he once turned back around to his school, instead of crossing the path to return home.


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For unknown reason, he was inside the Seiji Matoba 's mansion. He could also probably a servant youkai to the Matoba family. When Natsume was hiding away from the Matoba's servants, the youkai mentioned in passing that he smells human scent nearby.
Natsume saw the youkai through a small opening at the door.


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Throughout her young life, Reiko physically resembled Takashi Natsume 's (her one and only grandchild and descendant) characteristics through her long, dusty-blonde hair, amber eyes and usually wearing a slight smile, just like Takashi. It is because of their similar appearances that most yokai and ayakashi often mistake Takashi for Reiko. She has been noted to be quite beautiful by both youkai and humans; be they ordinary or exorcists such as her. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] Her ash-blonde hair was shoulder-length, and usually, it was seen to be unkempt.
She's usually seen only in flashbacks wearing her school uniform, which is sometimes torn. She once had a bruise on her cheek because fearful human children threw rocks at her for being "creepy' and a well-known "harbinger of misfortune and curses."

Reiko was despised by both humans and youkai. [6] She was a bully towards humans and youkai alike, resulting in her being socially isolated. She defeated many yokai and made them write out their names in the Book of Friends , making them "servants" to her. However, there are times she was kind to certain normal humans, but they don't return the gesture. For instance, she had taken a doll from a pot youkai, Kayatsubo to return to a human child, but they told her that she could keep it, believing she stole it.
Initially, her actions were presented as a desire to have control over youkai, but over the course of the series, it's revealed that they were done more out of loneliness and longing for companionship. Despite generally acting apathetic to what other people think of her and, as noted by certain youkai, her expression rarely ever changing from her usual smile, it is indicated that Reiko was actually somewhat bothered by other people's tendency to assume the worst about her, and that in turn, her usual demeanor was something she assumed as a sort of coping mechanism. However, as noted above, she has shown herself to be surprisingly empathetic and kind on numerous occasions where she would help a youkai or another person despite there not being anything for her to gain from doing so. Despite this, most people would still treat her with wariness or disdain, so she often avoided getting involved with them and their problems when she could. Conversely, some of the youkai genuinely appreciated the things she did for them, and on the occasions when she let her guard down, she is shown having genuinely happy interactions with them. This probably strengthened her conviction that she was better at making bonds with them compared to other people, but due to a combination of a lack of social skills as a result of her not having any friends and poor experiences with others, she often went about it the wrong way.
Due to the varying circumstances of her encounters with them, some of the youkai she "enslaved" or made plans with grew to despise or even fear her, while some youkai (like Santo , Gomochi and Hidika ) continued to wait for her return. Regardless of the specifics, she never ended up following up and returning to them like she said she would, indicating she was either forgetful or simply never got the chance to due to dying at a young age.


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Amamiya has the appearance of a young woman in her early to mid-twenties.


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In his sealed cat form he's identical to Nyanko-sensei except for that his fur is black instead of white. In this appearance, Natsume finds it very adorable (much to the annoyance of Madara).
In his normal state he looks humanoid, except he has blue eyes and hair and is between fifteen and twenty feet tall with white feather wings that have a wingspan twice as tall as he is.
He wears a white yukata with nothing underneath and no footwear.

During his sealed stated - a black, mute Maneki Neko - he is shown to be patient and also enjoys leisurely things (such as bathing).
Much to the annoyance of his followers, he loves humans and was overjoyed when he had befriended one. He is kind, gentle and understanding but also protective. He loves all his followers and while he appreciated their concern for him, he disapproved of their attempt to avenge him by attacking humans. To prevent this eminent attack he stole the Book of Friends from Natsume to lead him to his forest and stop them; this action shows his determination, willpower and love for humans. He also never blamed nor got angry at those who sealed him revealing his benevolence.
Riou is selfless. When he returned to visit his friend, he learned that he had passed long before. This deeply saddened him but seeing as what his followers were willing to do anything for him (including violence acts) he gives up visiting human settlements for their safety, fearing another possible Youkai attack.


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She had slit eyes and blue hair. Her inner kimono also in same bluish colour. The outer kimono was in white.

Same with Kanawa , she was from the Ukiharu Village. However in her case, she was banished because she broke a tree's branch. Feeling disappointed and angry, she tries to find any way that she could just to return.


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Santou is a large bear-like youkai with green fur and small eyes. Whenever he's happy, he wears a big goofy small and blushes.

He is very loyal to his best friend, Mikuri, even after got beaten up by him. He's also a patient youkai as he waited for Reiko for about half a century. He doesn't have a very good memory as proven when he couldn't tell Reiko why Mikuri was mad at him.
He's very kind-hearted and compassionate as shown when he refused to give the cursed Mikuri the Book of Friends, as it was Reiko's precious thing.


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They wears large monkey-like mask, as mentioned by Madara , and wears white kimono. Seemingly because of their mask, they are much taller than Hinoe and the Chukyuu (A and B) , as seen when the chukyuus were taken hostage to confront Hinoe and Misuzu , demanding for their friend back.

They first appeared after Natsume saved a goat-like youkai, friend of Bearded Youkai that got it's leg trapped underneath a boulder. They were physically threatening Natsume until he was saved by Nyanko-sensei .
Later on, they followed Natsume to his school and one of them suffocating Natsume in front of Nishimura. Natsume, realizing that they could harm other people if they stayed on the school's ground, lured them to nearby forest. However Natsume was captured and were brought to the Eastern Forest.
After Natsume managed to escaped, they tried to search for him. At the same time, Seiji Matoba and his servants were conducting exorcism in the forest and lead to one of them sealed in a pot .
The other monkey-masked youkai were unaware that it was Matoba who had their friend. They instead accused Natsume of capturing their friend.
To lure Natsume from hiding, they captured the Chukyuu A and B as hostages. Afterwards, they found out that Natsume was also missing and it was the Matoba clan's responsible.
Two of the monkey-masked youkais searched for their friend at the Matoba's mansion. They found their friend and Natsume with Nyanko-sensei at the dungeon. They were furious that their friend was sealed in a pot and blamed Natsume for it. They tried to grab Natsume's bag, believing the Book of Friends was inside. However the sealed-away in the pot falsely claimed that he had checked the contents of the bag and the Book of Friends was not in it.


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Sasafune is a mermaid, with pale skin and silky, blonde and long hair. She is wearing a white inner-kimino with a blue-ish coat on the outside. When she is a mermaid, she has a light-blue scaled tail. She has little horns on her head. Her eyes are blue.

She hates humans because they hunted her species in order to eat their flesh and obtain immortality. In the past she felt betrayed by Chizu Sakanaka , a little girl she had made friends with, because of a misunderstanding.


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She has horns on her head that are similar to a ram's. She has brown-purplish hair and her eyes are covered by bandages. She also wears purple lipstick.

Even though Natori mentioned to Natsume that youkai were good-for-nothing for humans, she still served him loyally, along with Natori's other shiki servants. She's offended when someone insults her master.
She doesn't get along with Nyanko-sensei, considering he insulted Natori when they first met.


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He has short brown hair and eyes, and seems to be slightly shorter than Natsume, Kitamoto and Tanuma. He is often seen wearing his school uniform, consisting of a white collar shirt and grey pants. However, when he's seen hanging out with his friends outside of school,

Nishimura is a funny and easy-going person with a slightly perverted sense of humour. Both he and Kitamoto went all out to be friends with Natsume, who wasn't willing at first. Eventually, however, they all become close friends, especially after Natsume coems to realize how open-minded, accomodating and accepting he and Kitamoto are.


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He was a big youkai that was sealed long-time ago deep in the forest.


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Matoba has long black hair and black eyes. He has a smile, much like Natsume's, except Matoba has a more sinister atmosphere.
He has a scar over his right eye which is covered by a special eye-patch. The reason for the eye-patch is a protective talisman of sorts due to an ancestor of Seji's who had surrendered his right eye in return for the help given to them by a youkai, but had broken said promise. Ever since then, the youkai has been targeting the male heads of the Matoba family for their right eye. Due to this, he has depth perception problems.

Matoba is a coldhearted exorcist. Although he wants to protect humans, he won't hesitate to get rid of anyone who stands in his way.
He will also readily sacrifice weaker youkai to lure stronger ones in for the catch. Natsume arouses his interest after one meeting, up to the point where he would save Natsume and Madara from being eaten, which is unusual considering his personality.
As the story progresses, Matoba seems to start liking Natsume and is seen smiling kindly at him. He acknowledges Natsume's strength and even asks him to join the Matoba clan, promising to protect him if he does. However, Natsume refuses. He also seems to believe Natsume and sends him a letter once, asking for cooperation. Natsume lost it and told him that he had lost it, to which Matoba chuckled, saying he made excuses like a child, although he insisted to Matoba that it was true and Matoba believes him.
This demonstrates that Matoba most likely trusts Natsume enough to believe the things he says. He even stated that he had written an uncharacteristically long letter, hence, it shows that he would explain things to Natsume regardless of the time taken and even if it was out of character.


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Senki is a type of bull youkai, which would explain his aggressive personality.

He is short tempered, and with an aggressive mindset. Due to this, he refuses to back down from any challenge, and is also extremely arrogant, at least till he met Reiko, who had quite a humbling effect on him.


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Shigeru is a middle-aged man who has short black-gray hair and eyes. He has a stubble, along with rectangular glasses. He is usually seen wearing long-sleeved shirts and long pants, but he also wears other attires. He is always seen quietly reading his newspaper at the dining table.

Shigeru loves pottery [1] , where he asks for Natsume's help to get a pottery cup from his friend, Yasui . Later, Shigeru also brought Natsume along for pottery class [2] .
Fujiwara Shigeru is a soft spoken and serious man, but he is also very kind and affectionate towards Natsume. Initially, Natsume was rather in awe of him, and not quite sure how to talk to him, but once they get to know each other better, Shigeru’s warm heart and sense of humour become apparent. Natsume addresses him as ‘Shigeru-san’.
Shigeru wants Natsume to feel more at ease with them, and to think of them as his real family. For this reason, when Natsume acts spontaneously, whilst Touko worries, Shigeru is pleased. When Natsume messes the house up exorcising an ayakashi, Shigeru waves away his stuttering apology and tells him, ‘This is your home.’


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Shigure is a handsome man who looks deceptively young, he wears an old umbrella upon his head, with one eye-slit for vision.
Underneath the old umbrella he has light brown wavy hair that goes down to his neck, red eyes and pale skin.

Shigure is a considerably kind Youkai to humans, but grew to hate them once he was imprisoned by one greedy merchant.
Even so, he does not cause deadly harm to the humans who unintentionally approached him. He mentions that only Reiko and Sasada are not afraid of him being impure.


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Shinobu has a the appearance of a young adult in her mid to late twenties. She presents herself as quite masculine, with short light hair and generally wearing a male suit.
When she was younger, likely in her late teens, Shinobu looked the complete opposite of her adult self; very feminine, she had very long hair and wore elegant dresses.


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Shiro's first appearance with two horns and with a similar looking to a goat.

He seeks help from Natsume to be the judge for their match since Natsume is impartial to neither party, making him suitable for the position.


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Shuuichi has short blonde hair, red eyes, and a medium build. Roses and background light appear when he smiles, representing the fact that he's handsome. Contrary to his looks, he's often seen with a lizard tattoo which is actually a youkai that moves around on his body.
The tattoo can only be seen by people or spirits with strong spiritual power and it's his signature feature. Apparently, the lizard youkai never goes to his left leg, indicating that he might lose it one day.

When he was a teenager, Shuuichi tended to have a pessimistic and negative outlook on life. He was often in a bad mood and would typically ignore the people that spoke to him at school.
His personality changed when he met Takuma Yousuke who had introduced him to the exorcist community. Shuuichi became more positive afterwards but still maintained his cynical outlook in life. He then met Takashi Natsume, whose naive and optimistic nature would gradually change his outlook in life. Despite that, he hasn't completely changed just yet.


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This had small eyes and wear white kimono. Its hair was long-flowing black. Not known whether this is a male or female youkai.


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She has white skin and long black hair, her lips are blue. She wears a red yukata.

She is an evil and deceitful. She pretends to be innocent in front of Natsume, as she senses that Natsume is rather soft-hearted. When she gets her name back, she attacks Natsume.


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Natsume first saw this youkai clinging to his teacher's arm in another town before. When he seemed to scream at nothing while chatting with the new friends, they started to avoid Natsume.


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Sōko has short hair that ends around her chin and typically reaches her neck. She is portrayed wearing her school uniform and isn't seen wearing anything else.

Sōko is an honest, straightforward yet determined girl as depicted through her efforts of continuously duelling with Reiko to know her name and become her friend, even training when the two parted. She's also very kind, which is shown shown when she returns a school badge to Reiko, suspecting that it belongs to her despite not even knowing her that well.
Additionally, she's also extremely patient as depicted by her willingness to wait for Reiko at their meeting place without pause.


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He had a slightly dark-grey hair and soft eyes whenever he's looking at Youko.


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Takashi has dusty-blonde hair (silver hair in the manga), golden-brown eyes with slit irises (green eyes in the manga) and he usually seen with a soft smile (noted on several to occasionally be fake). He is currently around 167 cm in height.
He is often mistaken for his maternal grandmother , by various youkais, making him a constant target of youkai who had a history with Reiko. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] Similarly, Takashi has also been considered to be a bishounen ("quite the beautiful boy") by many and has multiple fan girls in his high school [7] . However, he seems to be oblivious to his appearance and his admirers, much to the disbelief of Atsushi Kitamoto and Satoru Nishimura .
It was revealed in the Official Fanbook that Takashi has a complex about his feminine appearance from the late Reiko and consciously makes an effort to be more masculine by using manly language (Natsume uses "ore", the masculine version of "I" in Japanese, instead of "boku" or "watashi", which is more polite).

Unlike Reiko Natsume (Takashi's grandmother), Takashi is a kind boy to both humans and youkai, to the point that he is easily fooled by them as mentioned by Tsubame . [8] Prior to the beginning of the series, he was originally reserved and soft-spoken because of his troubled past and used to greatly dislike having the ability to see youkai because of the trouble it's given him. Because of his reservedness he's had trouble interacting with other humans.

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Thanks to the kindness of Shigeru Fujiwara and Touko Fujiwara , Atsushi Kitamoto , Satoru Nishimura and his friendship with Madara , Takashi slowly opens up to both humans and youkai. However, he does occasionally suffer slight trauma from his past, often in a dream or when he sees humans (usually exorcists) acting despicable. One of his wish as a child was to grow up and live independently, away from everyone else. [9]
Takashi does not reveal his ability of seeing youkai to the Fujiwara couple, nor Kitamoto and Nishimura (Takashi's friends), because he's worries that they would stop being normal for constantly worrying about him. [10] He also tries to hide what he sees from Kaname Tanuma because he is worried that he may drag him into his problems. [11] [12] [13] [14] The author describes him as, "a person who try his best to be kind".

Natsume always have some kind of quarrel with Nyanko-Sensei to mask how well they really get along.

Though Takashi has seen youkai all his life, he has little tolerance for their antics. When angered or pushed, he lashes out in a punch or a kick of resistance, which has enough spiritual energy to knock even the highest level of youkai out in a second. [15]
However, his fighting abilities only extend to youkai; his punches, as noted by Madara, do not work on humans. [16] Takashi is very agile and good at climbing trees because he was always running away from youkai. He has short stamina (constantly mentioned by Nishimura) and is very susceptible to heat and, infections and viruses.


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Natsume's father looks like a slender young man in his early to late twenties. He has short brown hair, and in Natsume's picture he's seen wearing a casual white shirt, with a blue jacket.

Not much is known about Natsume's father's personality, but from the little his son remember of him he seemed to have been a kind man and loving father. It is shown he would often put him on his lap and pat his head, and talk to him in a warm voice. [1]


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At the time of her death, Takashi's mother has the appearance of a young woman probably in her early to late twenties. Unlike her mother and son who have light hair (either blond in the anime or silver in the manga), she has black hair, cut short above her shoulders. However, according to Satoru Nishimura , she still does look a lot like Natsume. [1]

Having not yet properly appeared in the story, almost nothing is known about Takashi's mother's personality. However, when Seiji Matoba coerce Natsume into talking about his family, he says that he heard his mother was a "normal, quiet and kind person." [2]
Once, when Natsume asked one of his relatives about his grandmother, she replied that "neither she [Reiko] nor her daughter was close to anybody," implying his mother might also not have been a very social person like Reiko. [3]
Natsume remembers his father saying his mother was very happy they had a yard and that she planted flowers there, so she must have loved gardening and flowers. [1]


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It is a small white bird. On both of its underwings, it has the yin and yang symbol.


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Tatsumi Youkais do not have a definite form when they are still young. They take upon the same form as the first thing they see, believing that person/youkai/animal is its mother.

Tama's true form

Since Natsume was the first living thing "Tama" saw, it took on the form of a human. The only defining feature all young Tatsumi Youkai have are the horns.

Loyal and kind. Even though he could not speak the human language, Natsume seems to understand every word when he 'speaks'. This can be seen when Tama invites Natsume to take a look at the vase-like nest that he made.


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She had long black hair that always loosely tied in two ponies. She had a sweet voice.

She fell into the same hole where Nyanko-sensei later falls in after chasing birds. When she first saw Nyanko-sensei, she thought he was a huge white pig.
Upon closer look, she realized that it was a big fat cat. When she hugged Nyanko-sensei to prevent him from climbing up, she noticed that Nyanko-sensei smells like sake.
They both escape from the hole with Nyanko-sensei in his beast form. Tamiko was unaware that she was actually flying with Nyanko-sensei, and thought it was just a nice dream.
Later on, at the Autumn Banquet, Tamiko freed Nyanko-sensei from the rope binding. Instead of releasing him, she dragged Nyanko-sensei, running for cover.
Somehow, Nyanko-sensei did managed to escape from Tamiko.


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The beast's size was almost the same with Madara in true form.


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Normally he is of human size and seen wearing a black robe. His true form is a gigantic wolf like youkai, much resembling Madara's true form, with only darker fur. He might be just as powerful.

Appears to be playful, Tarusaru enjoys festivals and gatherings. He decides to help Natsume out of curiosity. He mentioned to Natsume that he also had friends he cares about living at the Futaba Village, soon to be submerge in water.


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She has green yet greyish hair and wears a paper-mask (with a large eye on it) which covers her eyes. She has green eyes and they are revealed occasionally.
She's dressed in a white, traditional Japanese kimono. When she's in her cat form, her fur is black and white.

Since she lives on a tree, she's usually bored. To fulfill her ennui, she is mischievous for a majority of the time. Although, she is rather hotheaded shown when someone rudely yanked a branch off her tree. The youkai finds human horrible creatures when she sees children harassing another. Annoyed by them, she freaked them out by making caterpillars rain on them.
She herself has mentioned that as a youkai, she doesn't understand humans but nonetheless, exhibits concern and remorse, and even prone to tears. She is curious and follows her curiosity and can be described as a tsundere. When Natsume questioned her interest in him mainly because she is bored to which she quickly denies.
She shares Natsume's loneliness but disagrees that being alone is better when he wished he was.


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He is a youkai with a third eye on his forehead.


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This youkai has a face resembling that of a horse, or a cow, as stated by Natori, which it cover with a mask with three horns.


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Taki has the appearance of a small young girl, and is generally described as cute (notably by Satoru Nishimura ). She has short dusty blonde hair and light brown eyes.
She tends to wear casual, feminine clothes.

Taki is generally a happy, friendly and optimistic girl. She refrained from speaking due to a youkai's curse, not wanting anyone else to be cursed along with her, making her seem introverted and mysterious at first, but was returned to her former personality when the youkai was sealed away.
She is a very determined and resourceful person, as shown with the fact she kept trying to catch the youkai that cursed her for a while on her own despite the fact she couldn't even seen them; and she is quick to react and take action in dangerous situations. She is pretty booksmart and knowledgeable, especially when it comes to youkai due to what she learnt through her grandfather and can get very excited and talkative on the topic. She however can also be quite blunt and tactless sometimes, as well as a bit obtuse to other people's feelings.
She is shown to have a peculiar taste in cuteness, as is shown when she hugs Nyanko-sensei , calling him cute. She however isn't very good when it comes to art and craft, and is often described as lacking in delicacy despite her appearance.
Like Tanuma , she tries to help Natsume in any way she can, but is usually prevented from doing so because Natsume worries about their involvement with youkai. In season 4, she expressed interest in learning onmyoji through her grandfather's books, gradually becoming more curious with youkai literature and ancient onmyoji spells while still fearful from her past experience with the curse.


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Tōko is a middle-aged woman with dark brown hair and eyes. She ties her hair back in a low bun. She is always seen in a pink, long-sleeved apron with a collared shirt underneath.

She is a warm, kind and caring person. Initially, without even knowing much about Natsume, she had cared about him.
Tōko is very fond of children, and as having none of her own, she has been treating Natsume as her own child.
Towards Shigeru, her husband, she is very attached to him to the point where she constantly thinks about him. In season 5, she stated that if they were to be completely apart from each other, she wouldn't know what to do and would worry about him.


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He used to be known as a bookworm for his appearance of being a geek. However, as noted by Junko , when he joined the Cycling Club, his body bulked up, which was very different from what he used to look like.


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Takashi Natsume decided to visit the Natsume's residence before it was sold. On the train going to his parent's hometown, this youkai was sitting on Natsume's place.
Natsume then asked to youkai to allow him to have his seat. The youkai politely gave way to Natsume.


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Tsubame, in her true form, like her name, is a spirit of a swallow. As a human form, she has short, ruffled light brown hair.
She has an eye cover that has a bird like art upon it.

She is kind, humble and caring. There's certain melancholy to her.


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Tsuyukami's size depends very much on his worshipers. The more there are, the larger in size he would be, with human size being the maximum. But with only the single support of one human, Hana, he is now palm-sized.
He wears traditional Japanese clothing with a red cap. He wears a white mask that has a mustache upon it.

He always speaks in the soft tone and likes to watch the weather. He finds amusement in many things, and shows good humor (i.e. laughing at Madara 's tiny lucky cat form.). But he does get embarrassed and angry when people make fun of/laugh at him. Shown when Natsume and Madara laughed at his (bad) drawing of Susugi .
In any case, Tsuyukami is mostly a calm youkai. He accepts reality quite easily making it easier for him to depart from the physical world without regret. He is shown to be devoted to those he comes to love and care for.


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Little was known about this youkai except that he was guarding the entrance to Ukihara Village. He punished Sagume by turning her into a branch, later breaks it.


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He officiated the tournament between the guardian gods of Mt. Misumi by releasing the target youkai for them to capture.


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They wear a big white bamboo hat that seemingly covered their entire head. Also wears white kimono over white robe.

They approached Natsume when he was relaxing at the field, asking for his help to disguise as Houzuki for the Moon-splitting Festival.


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Due to his other classmates unable to see spirits like he does, they accused Natsume as a liar when he mentioned that there was a woman at the window that has been staring at them for a while.


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She wears white traditional kimono with wings at her back.

After saving Natsume from Matoba, she took Natsume and flew off. On flight, she mentioned that Natsume was quite heavy and warm for a youkai. After learning Natsume really is a human, shocked, she dropped Natsume. Luckily Natsume's landing was soften by a big fat cushion (Nyanko sensei).
The winged youkai then asked for Natsume help after knowing he is the owner of the Book of Friends. She was also a determined youkai to help all her friends that she still had.
At their next meeting with Matoba, Winged Youkai was hurt but still managed to escape with both Natsume and Nyanko-sensei. Again, in midriff, she dropped Natsume and Nyanko sensei. This time it was because the load was heavy and her right wing was also hurt add further when Natori's paper shiki tickled Natsume's nose.
Winged youkai was nursed to health by Hiiragi at an abandoned place.


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When the youkai reveals his face, he exhibits a stretched, wood-like appearance. The stretching elongates his features and makes him appear frightening. He also has wood-like teeth.

It appears that he enjoyed teasing and frightening people, especially Takashi when he was a child.
However, it is shown that he can express concern for a person's well-being. This was seen when Takashi was sick with a fever, the youkai had stretched out his hand and gently laid it on Takashi's forehead, which seemingly calmed Takashi down.


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Yasaka was a young, but weak, man with dark blond hair and grey eyes. He was usually seen in a kimono.


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Yobiko wears an animal mask to conceal his face. The mask appears to be a sort of deer animal, is an ivory color with its eyebrows, dots, and nostril in an brown color. Perhaps for comical effect, the mask's expression mimics its wearer's emotions.
His hair and mustache is gray; the mustache is a chin curtain style. He wears a pale, green yukata over a dark green under layer. The entire yukata is worn under a brown open yukata coat which has a small belt that secures it. At the end of the belt, is a sakura flower and triangular cloth hangs underneath it.
He wears tan traditional Japanese sandals.

Like most youki, he is rash and aggressive. Often using threats in hopes to acquire what he desires. If that doesn't work, he tries bribery and eventually resorts to a polite request. He shows he is full of emotions.
He can get defensive which is demonstrated when Nyanko-sensei bluntly stated that he was watching the two love birds, Youko and Takahiko .
Yobiko is a determined individual but means no harm, willing to protect the person whom he placed his request with or grown an interest in. He can and will express gratitude.


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Since her childhood, Yorie has always had shoulder-length brown hair with bangs that cover the left and right side of her forehead. She started wearing eyeglasses on her middle high school times.

Yorie is a clumsy and careless person like her son. However, she is friendly and hospitable to everyone. During her middle high school times, she was very shy and couldn't convey her feelings correctly to several people, such as Reiko Natsume.


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Yorishima has the appearance of a young man in his early twenties. He has narrow black eyes and pale, dusty blond hair. He is generally seen wearing traditional clothing, and has always his left arm in a sling.
Although he looks like a young adult, it is said that because of his yokai blood he is in reality much older. [1] It is not known what his real age is, however because it did not seem odd to him that his friend from college of the same age had adult daughters, he must be at least fifty years old. [2]

Yorishima is a very introverted man with a serious, impatient and irritable personality. Shuuichi Natori describes him as "a bit of an eccentric" and a "walking dictionnary." [1]
Living alone deep in the woods, he doesn't seem to have any family or close friends and barely interact with anyone at all. Likely due to his usual isolation, he is also a bit uncomfortable and awkward in social situations, such as even just visiting an old friend's house and interacting with his friend's family seemed like a struggle to him. He even wanted to use Takashi Natsume as an "excuse to leave when things gets too awkward," [3] and later on he thanked him as he felt he would've turned around at the gate if he'd been alone. He appears to get overwhelmed and feel exhausted easily by energetic people, like with Choko, Tsukiyo and Hanae . [2]
He also seems to put emphasis on good manners and has a tendency to be critical and a bit patronizing towards others, like how he scolded his friend Takeru Kusakabe for talking while chewing. [2] He is very blunt and generally in a bad mood, being very direct and open when he dislikes something or when he's annoyed, as when he was very explicit about wanting to have nothing to do with Natori when he showed to ask for advice. [1]
As a young adult, he seemed to be a bit more open, as he went to college and actually used to have friends like Kusakabe. He could also do quite some impulsive things like challenging a senior he didn't like to a drinking contest and drank a whole keg, or helping out the judo team win the championship when they were short a teammate. Kusakabe also said that Yorishima is very perceptive, which is the reason why he stopped writing as he knew he would notice right away that he was sick because of his handwriting. [2] This is something that can also be noticed when Yorishima observes right away that his words about the scarecrows yokai having been created through a forbidden spell condamning them to have nowhere to go have upset Natsume, despite the fact he's only just met him and that there wasn't much signs of him being upset. [1] As said by Natori, he's also very knowledgeable, especially about yokai and exorcisms.
As such, even if he wasn't particularly social before then, it seems this is principally since his condition with his left arm that he really started to willingly isolates himself as much as possible. Yorishima seems to think of himself as a potential danger to others which is what led him to excludes himself, preferring to keep silent and cut ties rather than worry others, like he did with his friend Kusakabe.
Despite his grumpy and harsh nature, he does however genuinely care a lot about the people close to him and genuinely wishes for their happiness. He appreciated his friend Kusakabe's company quite a bit, pushing him to date the woman he loved; and when she died he became extremely concerned about him to the point that when he learned Kusakabe had a "family" he said he felt so happy he could cry. It also made him very angry at the idea that a yokai would be messing with his friend's family, stating that he would never forgive them if Kusakabe's daughters were to get hurt. And ultimately, he really regretted not having been able to truly tell his friend how concerned he was for him. [2]
In that sense, Yorishima seems to make some gestures of kindness when he wants to, giving loquats to Natori and Seiji Matoba when they were teens just because he saw them staring at them, [4] and although he keeps complaining about Natori he still always ends up helping him out. [5] He seems to have a particuliar hatred of exorcists despite having been one himself, especially of the Matoba clan and its current head, although the reasons for why is unknown. [1] He also heavily dislikes involving children in the exorcist world, as he harshly scolds Natori for it and gets angry when he learns Natori let Natsume comes at the old Yorishima estate, [3] and as soon as he realizes that something yokai -related might be going on at Kusakabe's house he asked Natsume to leave right away. [2]


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She has long ice-blue hair and eyes. She has a red mark on her left cheek. She has white horns and long white ears. She wears earrings and blue and white outfit.


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Natsume first met her while out for a walk on a snowy day. She has the shape of a snowman but her head is bigger and her eyes are like two deep holes.
After finding her destiny, she revealed her true form as an extremely beautiful woman with snow-white hair and budding Snowdrop flowers surrounding her and her eyes were like sapphires.

She is a gentle Youkai with a low level of aggression. She spoke normally to Natsume the first time they met and had no intention of attacking him. She later went to the house to return Natsume's scarf and was a bit angry at Madara's rude behavior with her treasured object. She also pushed Natsume away when he touched her (this caused Natsume to freeze).


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Yuriko is a beautiful teenage girl with upper-back length curly red hair and brown eyes.
During school, she is seen with her hair down and wearing her uniform which consists of a blue vest, a white undershirt and a yellow tie as well as a red skirt.
When she's at home, she either leaves her hair down like at school or ties it up as shown in the beginning of the episode. She also wears red-rimmed glasses.

Yuriko is a rather straightforward girl, which is demonstrated by the fact that when she had been kicked down by Takashi Natsume , she had gone to him the next day instantaneously, demanding a reason and also denying her friends teasing her of romantically liking Natsume.
She's also kind as she defended Natsume when he had been accused of breaking windows and even glad by the fact that Natsume is happy now (when her friends had told her).


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Yuuzuru is that of a slender and malnourished build. He has dark short hair with right side-swept bangs long enough to cover top half of his face. His kimono he wears as well seems to be of a dull-like color and fabric.
When Natsume first encountered Yuuzuru he was covered in scratches which concerned Natsume. However, during this time he looked at Natsume with a very excited but also mischievous smile.
Yuuzuru although, seemingly to embody that of a human from.head to toe has another form. When, Natsume sought him out during their game of hide and seek Yuuzuru came out of a vase he squeezed into displaying a more spectral-like form as his body wasn't maintaining a solid humanoid shape besides from the head to his upper torso.

Yuuzuru is considered "strange" and "weird" amongst other yokai as he invites people to beat him in certain games and bargains the control over Kaiyuute for a prize. Yuuzuru seemed interested in playing with Natsume and allowing a child of man into the game that only yokai should play. Yuuzuru also has sentimental side as he didn't intend to harm Natsume in his games but genuinely wanted to spend time with a child of man who showed him compassion.


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The Elder is an old man. His eyes have no pupils so he may be blind.


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Miralupa's face is rarely exposed, since he wears a hood at all times. His body is covered with mystical tattoos. [2] Both Miralupa and his older brother Namiluth remain alive past their natural lifespans. Unlike his brother, Miralupa has not undergone surgeries to preserve a youthful body. Therefore, his body is fragile and prone to bleeding and cracking. Miralupa must be periodically submerged in an immersion tank in order to preserve himself after exposure to the air.


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The general is short and fat, with a bald head and large mustache. He wears full armor, similar to the armor worn by the Imperial Guard of the Vai Emperor , with a cloak.


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Adam Arclight sports a rather post-reboot Dante -esque appearance. He has pale skin and straight, white hair, as well as red eyes and a greenish gem on his forehead. His outfit is themed in black and red, consisting of a red and black trench, red slacks, and black dress shoes. Besides this, he wears a pair of silver earrings, and retains his metal collar from his creation. He has a cybernetic eye in his right eye and a cybernetic heart as the result from his initial rejection to Eden's Seed while still in the Adam Project.

Arclight has a nearly crippling god complex , and is well aware of his power. He is extremely bitter after being cast aside by his creators in favor of Blade, and sought vengeance because of this. Arclight is cruel, ruthless, and precise in his actions, implying that he is extremely intelligent and capable. Leadership skills are also in his list of strong points, as he acts as the head of Simeon Pharmaceuticals and forms a cult of personality .
That being said, Arclight is very aloof and mysterious, more often than not keeping important information well away from his subordinates and the outside world.
In the 4-koma extra panels it is revealed that like Adam Blade he also contains some Loli-con tendencies ( See human form Testaments ).


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Blade is an imponent muscular young man. He is very tall, his height being 201 cm. He has sky blue colored long hair and a greenish light blue crystal (Byakugou) on his forehead. His normal outfit consists of a black overcoat decorated with metal cross shaped decoration over the left and right side of the neck, b
lack gloves each with a cross shaped hole and five metal decorations over the knuckles, black office trousers, and black shoes and a belt with a cross mark on the clasp. He also usually wears pentagonal black sunglasses.
While in the manga Blade's overcoat is entirely black, in the anime the overcoat's reverse is red.
A remarkable feature of his appearance is the large black choker engraved with the characters "079.A.B." affixed to his neck. Blade is unable to remove this choker from his body and it has been present since his very birth.
Blade often used to carry a Bible in his hands, giving him a more religous and respectful appearance.
During the time he was wandering from Blackspot to Blackspot alongside with Seth, Blade wore a different style of his current clothes. Instead of the black sunglasses, he used to wear normal glasses, white sleeves with a black cross mark on each one, and metallic shoulder-straps. His overcoat also seems to has a big metallic button at the high of the belt. In someway, his current clothes seems to be an older and more damaged version of these ones.

While Blade has a serious and respectful appearance, his actual personality is in direct conflict with the image he attempts to project. A sample of this is how Blade distorts verses from his Bible into his own perverse iterations.
Blade is an energetic man with the tendency of reacting violently and unexpectedly. He has constantly raised his voice in a violent shout, laughed at a monster, and due to his strength; tends to destroy his surroundings with raging strikes. This is generally when he is about to take advantage in a fight or order someone to be his slave.
Blade is obsessed with little girls, having signs of being a lolicon, to the point that he will immediately ask these girls on a date, or promise to be their slave. In fact, Eve has stated that Blade's only weakness is "girls".

Blade's expression when seeing a cute girl.
He is often seen having nosebleeds and stated that panty shots of little girls are a totally different thing. In fact, everything surrounding little girls makes Blade go out of his mind. However, all of his eccentric characteristics and personality are mostly for comical effect. In spite of it all, Blade will not hesitate to fight cute girls if his life or the lives of his comrades are in jeopardy.

Another obsession Blade seems to have is about thinking or wishing that their friends or loved ones were dead. This side of Blade's personality has unveiled itself out several times through out the series. Including his eccentric behavior around girls, which is all for comical effect.
Blade has claimed that he is not the kind of person that helps his fellow man. However, he has helped his friends and other people (especially cute girls) in several situations, such as saving Cruz on various occasions or going to rescue Eve from Simeon's hands without thinking about the consequences. In spite of himself, Blade remains a compassionate human being who retains a strong sense of justice.


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She possess the same green hair and yellow eyes as her brother Cruz Schild. Her hair has been shown to be quite long reaching up to her back and has bangs in her style.
Her clothes during the revolution had a high skin exposure, especially in the chest area. It consisted of a blue long coat type upper half, white short shorts and knee length brown boots and gloves.
Her clothes as a shintenou were more tight-fitting. It consisted of a 1 piece sleeveless blue unitard which clung to the upper half of her body, but proceed in the style of a loin cloth along the hips. She also wore a tattered brownish-red cape along with large metal arm guards on both arms, and Knee length boots the same color as her dress.

Aruka has been initially shown to be a deeply kind and caring individual who knew the limit of her fragment, but would still join the resistance and fight against Adam Arclight and Simeon Company. She is shown to deeply care about the life and welfare of her brother, and would even sacrifice her life to buy time for her brother to escape the failed ambush plan to kill Adam Arclight.
It is later revealed that Aruka was a double agent sent by Adam Arclight. Her personality is shown to be more ruthless and uncaring. She is in truth loyal to Adam Arclight and would easily kill others. She is incredibly proud of her status as a needless and her fragment stating that she is at the least a missing-link level needless. Like her brother she is also shown to be gifted in the area of deductive reasoning though to how much compared to Cruz is unknown.
Her relationship with her brother Cruz Schild is complicated as she had initially deceived him about her true allegiances to Arclight. She has even stated directly to Cruz's faces that she had allowed that Testament to go ahead and attack him. She had even inflicted a fatal wound on Cruz and prevented as much as possible for others to save him. It is however notable that there have been at least 2 instances wherein Aruka has taken action or inaction that would allow for Cruz to keep surviving. the first instance in the Black Market wherein She had recognized Cruz from afar but did not mention it to her colleagues and underlings. The second is when she created a hole in the Impregnable Ice wall entrapping the citizens of the Black Market that prevented them from escaping, even killing an Overseer force agent, Kusaimon Nifter to prevent that act of betrayal from leaking out
Ultimately it is shown that Aruka deeply cares for her brother, even going against Adam Arclight and sacrificing herself to give Cruz the chance to live. Her dying words indicated that she knew the potential that Cruz had, and that she knew her brother more deeply than she let on.


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Disk looks like a child when really she is a 100 years old

Disk is half Human Half Machine Being (Cyborg) who has been in existence for at least a century. She is also the current (as of the start of the story) administrator of Iron Mountain.
Being a Cyborg, Disk is immune from the effects of aging, Hack any electronic system (eventually) and is functionally Immortal. She is able to Interchange her Head with various other mechanical bodies, which has included various machinery including a testament. Her Twin tail hair style can become drills in which she uses to attack enemies. She can live as a disembodied head if need be.
Given Disc/Disk's cybernetic parts she can access her memory in video format to show others and use her fragment at a later time to analyze them properly. She also possesses vast encyclopedic knowledge of all things and can upload massive amounts of information into herself. she can download and upload all kinds of information along with her memory. All information she uploads into herself she can make use of immediately, shown as she performs Emergency Surgery on Adam Blade.
Fragment: Scan/Analysis - a non combative Fragment which analyzes an opponents Physical Data (such as BWH measurements.) and Abilities, including the opponents fragment. along with her equipment it allows her to even see in microscopic level and thermal vision.


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Eve is a young girl with long dark blue hair and blue eyes. She has a slim body like most of the female characters. Her usual attire consists of remains of capes and ribbons formed together by Blade when he still had the ability to use Doppelganger. The top is purple and the bottom is a white skirt that shows her legs and butt that are attached together by rings. Underneath she wears a white thong that snuggles deeply between the depths of her warm buttcheeks. She also wears long purple stockings and white bands around her wrists. Sometimes she would wear the outfit to the right during special fights such as with Saten or Uten.

She is bad at remembering other people's names (eg. she calls Cruz Yamada). Her fantasy shows that deep down she is ashamed of this and wishes she could get everyone's name right. Even though she has the appearance of a young girl she is proven to be a capable fighter. This is shown when she is able to defeat one of Simeon's Elite Four, Uten, as well as all three of the Simeon Girl Force. Also, amongst everyone in the group. she seems to care for Blade the most, since even both have been together as kids and have had a strong bond since. Blade also seeems to care for her in an albeit similar way, as both even work well together in a team. Blade also seems to have more concern over Eve than anyone else, since his primary focus was to save her when she wascaptured by the Pretty Girl Squad. Both Blade and Eve were created to be mate partners, a topic both were aware of as children. Even since the beginning of the show, both are together the most, later seen in the end when they reunite with Cruz Schild.


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During the Bloody Rain Arc, Cruz, Disc, and Mio go to the Black Market to help Disc to be repaired encountering Kanna and her two henchmen, Darts and Ishihara in defending the town against Simeon. In the Arc itself explains Kanna's Fragment.


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According to Disk , her height is 160cm and her measurements are; bust 79, waist 61 and her hip 88. In the English dubbing of the anime, her measurements are reported as 5'3, 31-24-34.6 in. (79-61-88 cm). Her signature panties are frilly and laced.

Kuchinashi initially appears as a Yamato Nadeshiko type who refuses to speak and uses her sign board to communicate with everyone. She has even claimed she could not be a wife anymore after Cruz Shild heard her sneeze using her own voice, whether she was joking or not is debatable.
She is considerable perverted, possibly along the levels of Adam Blade and DIsk. She has been shown to wear panties on her face ( think Hentai-Kamen ).
Kuchinashi is an out and proud lesbian, but claims "Guys who make good traps are OK." Although she admires and looks up to Adam Arclight, she loves RIru more.


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Kurumi, like the rest of the squadron girls, is dressed in a mini skirt with red checks, a white shirt with a collar and navy blue jacket. On legs is black knee-high socks and black patent leather.
Kurumi hairstyle consists of four braids with bows.

Kurumi is a clam girl. However she got surprised that Cruz found her


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Mio has a short pink hair that reaches down to her cheeks with a big yellow bow pinned to her hair. she usually wears the Killer Girl Squad Uniform. She is often seen carrying a stuffed bear which is made of Orichalum.
According to Disc her height is 147cm and her measurements are; bust 71, waist 56 and her hip 77. Her signature panties are bear print panties. In the english version of the anime, her measurements are reported as 4'9, 28-22-30 in (71-56-76 cm).

Mio is rather happy-go-lucky and ditzy, even when attacking or having a killing intent. She has never been seen angry during the series, and doesn't mind associating with her enemies or turning against members of the Simeon faction. She has an affection for Blade , and is one of the few people in the series who refers to Cruz by his name rather than as Yamada.