Also called: Conrad, Lion of Ruttenberg
Titles: Lord, Excellency, Highness (former), Commander (former)
Race: half Mazoku (mother), half Human (father)

Yuuri's protector, second son of Cäcilie von Spitzweg, the previous Maou, and Dan Healy Weller a human swordsman. He has no Majutsu, but is one of the best swordsmen in the realm. He was born in Ruttenberg.

He looks around 19 or 20 (approx. 100 Mazoku years) and has been practicing swordsmanship for 80 years. He has short dark brown hair and light brown eyes with scattered flecks of silver. There are traces of an old scar across his eyebrows, as well as evidence of old injuries on his fingers and the backs of his hands. Yuuri describes him as "someone for whom life is the culmination of having lived every moment until this one: not as a beloved of God or an artist's construct, but rather one who has lived his life his own way."

The 60th emperor of Japan, who ascended to the throne at the age of 12 upon his father Emperor Uda's abdication and reigned for 33 years. He abdicated in 930 due to illness and entered the Buddhist priesthood. He died shortly after.

Race: Human

A wandering swordsman "with not a penny to his name" and second husband of Cäcilie von Spitzweg, father of Conrart Weller.

First-born son of Date Masamune who could not inherit his father's position as head of the Date Clan because his mother was a concubine. Hidemune became the founding lord of Uwajima-han in Iyo Province.

Titles: Echizen no Kami, Mutsu no Kami
Also known as: birth—Bontenmaru (梵天丸), adult—Tojirou (藤次郎), posthumous—Teizan (貞山), self-introduction—Fujiwara no Masamune (藤原政宗), religious—Takeru Hikonomikoto (武振彦命), nickname—One-Eyed Dragon (独眼竜)

Date Masamune was a powerful daimyo in the Northeastern part of Japan during the Sengoku Period. He was the 17th-generation head of the Date Clan and the founding daimyo of Sendai-han. He was the eldest son of Date Terumune and Yoshihime, the daughter of Mogami Yoshimori.

Masamune was born in Yonezawa Castle (modern-day Yamagata Prefecture). He lost the use of his right eye after falling ill of smallpox in his childhood, and would later come to be known as the One-eyed Dragon. However, because of it his mother thought him unfit for rule of the clan, and favored his younger brother. When Date Terumune retired from the position of the clan head in 1584, Masamune killed his brother and became the head of the clan at 18.

Masamune was known as a brilliant tactician. Shortly after he became head of the clan, Oouchi Sadatsuna, a Date vassal, defected to the Ashina Clan in the Aizu region of Mutsu Province. Masamune declared war on the Ashina for the betrayal, but was forced to retreat by the Ashina general, Iwashiro Morikuni. Three months later, Masamune laid seige to Oouchi's stronghold at Otemori. It was said that he put some 800 people to the sword in retaliation for the betrayal. Thereafter the Hatakeyama Clan, the traditional rival of the Date Clan, kidnapped Masamune's father, who was then killed in battle when Masamune and his troops engaged the kidnappers. War ensued between the two clans, and Masamune would ruthlessly subjugate his neighboring clans, even those who were allied by marriage or kinship. He defeated the Ashina Clan in 1589, but was called by Toyotomi Hideyoshi to lay siege to Odawara Castle of the Houjou Clan.

He served both Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu, though neither trusted him completely due to his ambition and aggression. Under Tokugawa Ieyasu Masamune controlled one of the largest fiefdoms in Japan and turned Sendai from a small fishing village to a large and prosperous city. He encouraged foreigners and was largely lenient towards Christanity and its practioners. He funded and backed the first Japanese expedition to sail around the world, which visited such places as the Philippines, Mexico, Spain and Pope Paul V in Rome.

He died in Edo at the age of 70 of esophageal cancer, and was entombed in the Zuihouden according to his last will and testament. His second son (eldest son by his legal wife Megohime) Date Tadamune inherited the position of clan head after him.

The second-generation lord of Sendai-han, 18th head of the Date Clan, second son of Date Masamune. His mother, Megohime, daughter of Tamura Kiyoaki was the legal wife of Date Masamune, making Date Tadamune his father's eldest legitimate son. He became the lord of Sendai-han at 38 after his father's death.

He raised Sendai-han's social status greatly during his governance, and was called 'the wise enterprising lord'. He died at the age of 60 and was entombed in the Kansenden.

Titles: Mutsu no Kami, Mimasaka no Kami

Third-generation lord of Sendai-han, 19th head of the Date Clan, sixth son of Date Tadamune. His mother was the sister of the emperor's mother, making Tsunamune the emperor's cousin. He became the heir after the death of his elder brother, Date Mitsumune.

He was given to dissipation, which later lead to a rebellion to put his two-year-old eldest son, Date Tsunamura, in his position. However, there are theories that it was a pretense for the Shogunate, which was watching him closely. He was a person of refinement who left behind great works of art, poetry, calligraphy, laquer, and sword.

He died in Edo of cancer of the larynx, and was entombed in the Zenouden.

A horse with golden mane and a chestnut coat the color of Japanese pampas grass which broke its leg in the Japan Derby twelve years ago and was put down. It was called the horse with the 'miraculously powerful legs' because it was a powerful backstretch runner which would come up from behind to win races during the last 500 meters. It was the favorite to win during the Japan Derby, its last race. Its jockey was Ohara, who fell during the race and was partially paralyzed.

Race: Mazoku

A neurologist at a prefectural hospital in Kouchi who treated Ushio after he was found in the Iya mountains without his memories. He is from Tosa and gave Ushio his name, and treats him like a son.

Edoya Nekohachi III was an actor and comedian, well known for his imitations of animal sounds such as chickens and crickets. His father, Edoya Nekohachi I, was also a master imitator.

A monk of Kurama Temple to whom Agi entrusts the corpse-hair mandala of Araki Murashige's clan. He is described as being in his early 30's with the physique of a warrior-monk and a tonsure that suited his face well. He is appears to be an attendant of the head monk.

Shimozuma Rairyuu performs kanshou on him.

One of Takaya's classmates at Old Castle High School in junior class B who is the first person to try to make friends with him. He shows Takaya around the school and later the city and tells him a little about the situation. He is described as having a narrow face and slightly dyed brown hair. Takaya thinks of him as the ordinary kind of student who wants to keep his head down and avoid trouble, but also as a kind person.

He knows a lot about the game centers downtown. His father is a taxi driver.

Asaoka Shinya's girlfriend, who was in the car with him when he crashed it. She also dreams of him, and passes a message from him to Asaoka Maiko and Naoe: 'Break the mirror. Kill the Crimson Beast.'

Shiohara Nagi's great-aunt (younger sister of her mother's father), a woman who seems very concerned with her family's image and whom Nagi dislikes.

Fukuzawa Yukichi was a Japanese author, writer, teacher, translator, entrepreneur and political theorist who is regarded as one of the founders of modern Japan and a leader of the Meiji Restoration.

He learned Dutch, then English after Commodore Perry arrived in Japan and traveled to the US and Europe as envoy for the Tokugawa Shogunate. His writings about these travels, Seiyou Jijou (Things Western), became best-sellers, and he was regarded as Japan's foremost expert on the West. His works were preeminent during the Meiji Period, and in them he emphasized the importance of understanding the principle of equality of opportunity, study as the key to greatness, and individual strength. These works greatly aided the pro-modernization forces of Japan during the period of unrest in the last days of the Tokugawa Shogunate and motived the Japanese people to embrace change.

Fukuzawa's portrait appears on the 10,000-yen note and was the only figure to remain after the banknotes redesign in the early 2000s.

Also called: Hube
Title: Lord
Race: Mazoku

Gwendal's cousin on his father's side who married into the Grisela family.

The 96th emperor of Japan, whose reign from 1318 to 1339 was a rocky one; he became emperor at the age of 29, tried to overthrow the Kamakura Shogunate, was exiled, became emperor again after capturing the Kamakura Shogunate with the support of Ashikaga Takauji (destroying the Houjou Clan in the process), began a restoration aimed at making him the most powerful ruler in the East, was chased out of Kyoto by Ashikaga Takauji, and established the Southern Court in Yoshino in 1336 in opposition to the Northern Court established by Ashikaga in Kyoto. He died of illness in 1339.

Also known as: Josa
Race: half Human (mother), half Mazoku (father)

Josak is Conrad's childhood friend and comrade-in-arms. He has blue eyes, orange hair, and a muscular upper body that Yuuri describes as being perfect for a baseball outfielder. He has a husky, jazzy voice and dresses up as a woman when required by his duties. He can be ruthless when the situation demands it. His weapon is the axe.

Titles: Lord, Excellency
Race: Mazoku

Adviser/tutor to the king (and entirely devoted to Yuuri), an outstanding swordsman as well as sorcerer. Conrad's teacher. Günter is descended from the Lake Shore People, from whom he gets his lilac-colored eyes. He has long, thick gray hair and looks around 30 (150 Mazoku years). Scion of one of the Ten Aristocratic Houses.

One of the Meikai Uesugi Army and leader of the «Nokizaru», described as a man in his mid-thirties with a square, expressionless face and piercing, somewhat gloomy eyes. He operates under Kagetora's direct command.

One of the three bird-people who remains with Yasuo after Enoki's murder. He sustains serious injuries in an earlier fight against Katou Kiyomasa and later dies when Yasuo tries to use Kihachi's head and loses control.

Possessed by: Mori Ranmaru

A first-year junior high student at Takaya's school who appears to look up to Yuzuru. He is in the same band as Yuzuru. He is described as having a short, delicate figure with fine chestnut hair and hazel eyes so light they appear gold. He is half-Japanese and half-British.

He disappears after the fight at Jouhoku High.

A trusted vassal of Oda Nobunaga, son of Hayashi Hidesada. The spear was his forte. He fought in various battles such as the Battle of Anegawa (1570). He died fighting in the rear guard covering Oda's retreat in one of the Sieges of Nagashima (probably second).