__Nationality:__ Amestrian

Izumi Curtis, born Izumi Harnet, the teacher of Ed and Alphonse Elric, agreed to train the brothers to hone their alchemical abilities after their mother died. She expands their training with a regimen of philosophy, martial arts, and living off the land. Her methods are derived from her own alchemy training: in the manga and second anime, she was forced to survive in the northern region surrounding Briggs Fortress for a month (although it turns out she succeeded by stealing supplies from the northern fortress), whereas in the first anime she was taught by Dante. She thinks of the Elrics as her own sons, and although she severs her student-teacher ties with them after learning of their attempts with human transmutation (and similarly Ed's joining the State Military), she continues to do all she can to help them. She can be quite violent when punishing or sparring with the Elric brothers, so they tend to be deathly afraid of her. Her claim of "I'm a housewife!" while confronting Greed was a favorite scene of Arakawa's to draw.  Izumi and her husband Sig Curtis (シグ・カーティス, Shigu Kātisu) were expecting a child years before the start of the series; however, their son was stillborn. Izumi tried and failed to revive the child through human transmutation (an act that created Wrath in the first anime). The failed attempt took some of her internal organs, resulting in infertility, and causing her to periodically cough up blood. Izumi gained the ability to use alchemy without a transmutation circle after seeing the "truth."  In the manga, Izumi attracts the attention of the State Military for surviving the failed human transmutation. As she and her husband travel around Amestris in order to avoid the military, they eventually meet Ed and Al's father Hohenheim. He rearranges her insides to ease the blood flow, and persuades her to help collaborate in bringing down the State Military.

__Height:__ 174 cm

Sakaki is a quiet, stylish girl. Looking cool and distant, she's often seem staring out of the window. Being tall and well-endowed in both athletics and body, she's often admired by many girls in the school where Azumanga Daioh takes place. Despite being tall, cool and aloof or distant, deep in her heart she wishes to be small, soft, and cute, like [Chiyo-chan](https://anilist.co/character/247/Mihama-Chiyo), but she perceives that she can't - because of her height. She loves cats and always attempts to be friendly with them, but often gets scratched and bitten in response. Her soft and girly side shows when she's drawing, talking and reading about cats, or when she's holding one.

__Height:__ 177 cm (5'9")
__Affiliation:__ ~!Straw Hat Pirates (current); Momoiro Island (former, temporary); Baratie (former); Germa Kingdom (former)!~
__Bounty:__ ~!1,032,000,000 (previously; 77,000,000, 177,000,000 (Only Alive) and 330,000,000)!~

Sanji is the chain-smoking chef of the Straw Hat Pirate Crew. He has superb fighting skills that only make use of his legs, in an effort to minimize damage to his hands which would impair his cooking skills. Sanji uses an array of powerful and varied kicking moves when he fights. His cooking skills are world class, and he was mentored in both cooking and fighting by Chef "Red Leg" Zeff of the Baratie. He was born in the North Blue, but grew up in the East Blue. Sanji is trash-talking and serious, and usually gruff and impatient, especially around men. This is contrasted by his "love-cook" side, as he is very amorous around women. Sanji is completely devoted to any beautiful woman, usually losing all common sense and composure in front of them, then attempting to comically swoon them. He has sworn to never let insult or injury happen to any woman while he can still stand, even if that woman is trying to kill him. This is often problematic in his fighting as he can't attack female opponents, and would rather die than hurt them. All this is apparently the result of a "strict upbringing".

His goal in life is to find the All Blue, a legendary ocean, which contains all the fish in the world. As such, it would be paradise for any cook with as much love for his work as Sanji, who holds great respect for the tools, ingredients, and art of cooking. So great is his devotion to his calling, that Sanji will not let any person or creature starve, regardless of them being friend or foe.  Being the crew's chef, he looks out for the health of his crew mates. Sanji respects [Luffy](https://anilist.co/character/40) as a captain, but often gets angry at him for eating too much, showing disrespect for the aesthetics of cooking, and generally being daft and irresponsible. He is constantly in petty fights with [Zoro](https://anilist.co/character/62) (sometimes calling him Marimo) over each others' traits and they have developed a rivalry, but have managed to make a devastating team together. He is very protective of the female crew members and [Nami](https://anilist.co/character/723) likes to take advantage of him, exploiting his extreme servility. Sanji originally wanted to cook [Chopper](https://anilist.co/character/309), but has come to respect him as a crew member and friend. He's also good friends with [Usopp](https://anilist.co/character/724); they team up and interact often, and Sanji understands him quite well.

Ryuuya is a skilled, yet low-ranked samurai in charge of Kanna&#039;s protection. ~!Ryuuya quickly befriended Kanna and eventually they fell in love. Unfortunately, after creating a diversion for Ryuuya and Uraha, Kanna was cursed by Buddhist monks to live an endless cycle of reincarnation, suffering, and death.!~  ~!Ryuuya dedicated the remainder of his life to finding a way to lift the curse, and though he never did, he had a child with Uraha in the hopes that their kin would eventually find a way to break the curse.        In the Air movie Ryuuya is shown to actually be Kanna&#039;s lover and has no apparent romantic relationship with Uraha. He appears physically different from his game counterpart, with darker hair and a generally more reserved personality; changes similar to Yukito&#039;s own movie counterpart. After learning of the punishment imposed on Kanna for falling in love with him, he helps her escape captivity, though he dies from a spear wound from behind soon after she takes flight. He appears to be the source of Yukito&#039;s puppet controlling powers in the film (he is able to mix his powers with his actual swordplay, as he controlled tops to dance on his sword blade during the battle to help Kanna escape) while Uraha was the source in the game. !~    (Source: Wikipedia)

Kouta is one of the main characters of the series and is first introduced in Volume 1 when he arrives in Kanagawa Prefecture to attend college, having previously arranged to stay with his cousin Yuka while at school.

Ayumu is the "den mother" of the Shinsengumi, Ayumu is the cook and housekeeper at the Shinsengumi compound. A pretty woman with a motherly nature, Ayumu is fully cognizant of what the people around her do for a living, and acts as a sort of big-sister figure to Tetsu.  She is Susumu's older sister, and, like him, a shinobi.

Kyoya&#039;s older sister. She clearly cares for her younger brother and tries to help him in life; apparently she is somewhat lacking in the areas of housework and organization, but she appears to be a kind-hearted person

Edel is a puppet made by Drosselmeyer, she acts as a guide to make sure all characters go through the set story as intended. She is merely a doll that cannot feel; ~!however, in an act of kindness to portray human emotions, she acts as a martyr by burning her body to keep Fakir warm &amp; light the way to the surface for Princess Tutu and Prince Mytho. In the end, what's left of her are put back together and Uzura is born as a reincarnation. The song Edel plays on her organ grinder is "Musique des Automates" from the ballet "Coppélia". In the ballet, dolls and puppets created by an old toy maker dance to this song, reminiscent of the fact Edel is a puppet.   In the manga: Edel is not a puppet, but is the owner of a shop that sells tutus. She was the one who gave Ahiru the pendant to transfer into Princess Tutu. Sometimes, Ahiru goes to visit the shop to ask Edel questions. She is a follower of the Raven. She gave Ahiru and Rue their pendants so that they can collect Mytho's heart shards for her (unbeknownst to them).!~

Uzura is a toddler-like doll created by Karon (Mytho and Fakir's adoptive father) from Edel's ashes. She plays a drum and semi-inadvertently helps Duck. However, her tendency to help turn Duck back into a girl with a splash of water often create awkward moments for both Duck and Fakir. Uzura often adds the extension 'zura' to the end of her sentences. She is very curious, and is fixated throughout the series on figuring out what love is. Uzura is absent in the manga.

Rika is the eldest of the Noyamano sisters. She acts like a typical older sister and takes care of the family. To support her sisters and Ikki, she works as Destler Bartlett, a female pro-wrestler. During the time when Ikki discovers AT, she is out on a national tour with her wrestling promotion. Unknown to Ikki at first, she is the former Thorn Queen of the original Sleeping Forest, which required her to utilizes her hip joints as the base of her moves. The disadvantage of her Sonia Road was that it took quite a toll on her body, making her tire easily. She is one of two members of the original Sleeping Forest that is not a Gravity Child, the other being Ine. Throughout her entire stay in Sleeping Forest and afterwards, she was unaware of the significance of the Sky Regalia and the true intentions of Sora. She was initially Sora&#039;s girlfriend, though they fell apart after Kilik&#039;s betrayal. She also quits using AT, and she initially fears that Ikki will suffer the same fate as Sora if he continues to be a Storm Rider, although she is finally convinced of his talent after a strange battle with him and a team consisting of Sora and his dogs. She and Sora talk often afterward and eventually reconnect.    In her youth Rika was displayed as a lone ranger who achieved the right to use the Thorn Regalia in her early teens by herself, even though she was not a Gravity Child. She battled off opposing enemies aiming for her title as the Thorn Queen and aimed to take down all the teams in the area alone. In addition, she found the means to support her large family by herself, though they were bordering poverty. On one of her fights she met Sora, who she christened as the &#039;120 Yen&#039;, for the iced coffee he bought her. Sora appeared as one of her fans, and later became her companion and friend. On one occasion, she revealed to Sora that she had caught wind of a group who was reputedly composed of the strongest Kings of the era, and wanted to take them down. Only upon arrival of the battlefield did she find out that the team was none other than Sora&#039;s Sleeping Forest, and that he was the leader, the man closest to becoming Sky King at that time. Sora extended his offer to include her on the team, and because she desired to remain at Sora&#039;s side, she complied.    After joining, Rika was romantically involved with Sora, and also a major cause for Kilik&#039;s jealousy. When Kilik declared betrayal upon Sora, she was not present for the battle on any of the sides, presumably uniforned by neither Sora nor Kilik, who had only recently confessed to her the perivous night. She arrived too late to find the battle alreadly over, Kilik the winning party, Sora and his supporters beaten and robbed of their Regalia. Sora, grievously injured by the battle in both legs, lost hope and broke up with Rika, leaving her the Sleeping Forest emblem, which she passed down to her sister Ringo later.    Afraid of such a repeat of the same incidence, present-day Rika attempted to stop Ikki from going down the same road as Sora, who she already recognized bearing many similar traits to Sora since young. This is further encouraged by Ikki&#039;s climbing of Tokyo Tower when he was a child, which resulted in him falling off and getting carried away by the eight-winged crow. Having already seen the signs in Ikki, she often approached Sora to talk about him, in fact Sora has commented before that she has only ever come to look for him to talk about Ikki since the day they parted. Rika tries to stop Ikki from AT-ing by challenging him in a match, but is defeated when Ikki exceeds her expectations. She then recognizes Ikki&#039;s strength, and supports his goal from that day on, though she still takes care to limit Ikki by locking his body with Heavy weights, which Ikki grows accustomed to quickly.    Rika has sworn off ATs, though she still retains her skills from that her prime. She does not play a role in the current power struggle in the AT world, though she is shown to be aware of it. Some evidence are that she guessed Kanon&#039;s motives in aggravating Ringo and Ikki into a fight, and that she advised Ringo to make up her mind about Ikki, who would surely become an enemy to Sleeping Forest in the future. However, there are no signs that she knows about Sora retaking his place as Wind King and making use of Ikki. Whether this is because Sora is keeping this from her or if she does not want to talk about it is unknown.    Just before the battle against Genesis, Sora reveals a captive Rika and is trying to force the current Sleeping Forest to give up their advantage in the forest. Mikan is the only one to choose to save Rika and also reveals that their sister is pregnant which is all the more reason to rescue her.

Priscilla "Priss" S. Asagiri is the moody and defiant 19-year-old member of the Knight Sabers and lead singer of her band, Priss and the Repliocants. She fights boomers with ferocious abandon in her slick dark blue Hard Suit, which features a railgun in the right hand as well as a laser gun in the original series and her signature knuckle bombers (explosive charges in both hands of her hard suit) in both series; in the Bubblegum Crash series the suit becomes a modular core system to which a variety of selective heavy weapons can be attached. In the Crisis series, her Hard Suit also combines with her Motoslave (a motorcycle that transforms into an automated mecha or an exosuit) to combat more-advanced Boomers. In both Crisis and Crash, Priss is a rock singer as well as a motorcyclist with a love/hate relationship with AD Policeman Leon McNichol.    ~!She is an orphan of the 2025 Kantō earthquake, who joined a biker gang. After her boyfriend was killed and his death declared insignificant by the police (hence her dislike for the law enforcement), she attempted to hunt down the killers, but she was recruited into the Sabers instead.!~ Priss' rebellious streak is tempered by a good heart and sense of humor, which may explain her ability to function in Sylia Stingray's demanding and disciplined operation. She essentially serves as the hammer of the outfit—as opposed to Sylia's leadership and genius, Nene's tech wizardry, and Linna's sleek athletic precision.  (Source: Wikipedia)

Part of the AX personnel, her power is the ability to read minds and what appears similar to clairvoyance as well the ability to track where people have gone (as shown through her eyes glowing and being able to see illuminated foot prints in a room). She has expressed romantic feelings toward Abel, and although he receives her confession gracefully, he gently lets her down by telling her he is truly blessed to have such a &quot;special friend&quot;. (from Wikipedia)

Teresa is known for effortlessly slaying enemies with a faint smile on her face, is the strongest of her generation and considered to be the most powerful Claymore of all time. She is much faster, stronger, and more agile than those below her, but her real strength is considered to be her &quot;unparalleled ability to sense Yoma aura.&quot; She can sense it to the point where she can accurately predict her opponent&#039;s moves in battle. Despite facing an awakened former number one, Rosemary, she has never used more than ten percent of her full power, which is only enough to change her eye color. Before becoming a Claymore, she was referred to as a &quot;problem child&quot; by her handlers during her training. Teresa initially does her job without caring about who she is helping, and she takes pleasure in scaring humans. She eventually meets [Clare](https://anilist.co/character/2188/Clare), who decides to start following Teresa after being abandoned by her village. Teresa is initially irritated, but soon grows fond of her. 

~!After leaving Clare in a village in an attempt to give her a normal life, bandits raid the village. Teresa kills all of them, which causes her to be hunted by the Organization for breaking the rule of never killing humans. She doesn&#039;t kill any of the Claymores after her because of her time with Clare, but she is slain by Priscilla off guard when Priscilla begs to be slain before awakening. Clare takes her severed head and convinces a member of the Organization to use it in place of a Yoma to turn her into a Claymore.!~  (Source: Wikipedia)

__Relations:__ Kirishima Kano (Younger Sister)
__Job:__ Nurse

Kirishima Hijiri is the town&rsquo;s local nurse and the sister of Kirishima Kano. Hijiri has looked after Kano ever since their mother&rsquo;s death when they were younger.     ~!Hijiri&rsquo;s first major role in the anime is where she offers Kunisaki Yukito a job at her clinic after seeing him perform with his puppet outside. Her role continues to be insignificant until Kano is revealed to have an unknown disease which results in her almost committing suicide by slitting her wrists. This leads to Hijiri tying a yellow scarf on Kano&rsquo;s arm, telling her that if she leaves it on till she turns 18, she would be able to use magic.!~

A second lieutenant of the Gazth-Sonikan Royal Guard and the most prolific sniper in the country with the exception of Madlax. After the latter has assassinated the Commander-in-Chief of the Royalist Army, whom Limelda was assigned to protect, she has made it her duty to hunt down Madlax. Despite multiple chances to kill Limelda, Madlax has always let her go and eventually shared with her the data she discovered on Enfant's involvement with Gazth-Sonikan war. This revelation shattered Limelda's world view and made her quit the Army and renew the attempts to kill Madlax in a crazy hope that once she is dead, everything will return to "normal". Limelda initially enlisted after her relatives were killed by Galza.

Elvy Hadhiyat is an ace pilot for TERRA, and participated in the operation to extract Ayato from Tokyo Jupiter in episode 1. She serves as the leader of TERRA's Alpha Squadron whom all pilot futuristic fighter craft and backup the Rahxephon in battle. She is Indonesian by birth and is Haruka's drinking buddy.

Her nickname is "Bunga Mawar", meaning "Rose Blossom" in Indonesian. She has a handkerchief monogrammed with her nickname and a rose emblem. In the scene where this appears she can also be seen wearing a baseball cap with a rose design on the crown. Elvy parallels Lydia Litvyak, a World War II female fighter ace nicknamed the "White Rose of Stalingrad" and the namesake of the ship in the series.

~!At first she pilots a high-tech jet fighter equipped with a booster that enables her to pass through the Tokyo Jupiter barrier. Later on in the series TERRA replaces them with the Vermillions, mecha that still move at the speeds of a fighter, but now have a machine gun and a laser-like weapon strong enough to allow passage into Tokyo Jupiter or to vaporize a small island.!~

Another Chinese-born assassin raised by Gauron and the &quot;eldest&quot; with the Xia siblings. She and Xia Yu Lan were given the last orders by Gauron to finish off Kaname after being crippled by Sousuke&#039;s Arbalest. Yu Fan is a proficient Arm Slave pilot, using a Zy-98 Shadow Arm Slave before using a stolen Chodarl in central Hong Kong. However, she is also good in using small arms and is an expert in unarmed combat. She wears a trench coat with green linings on.    In the last episode, Yu Fan reveals that the Xia siblings were at odds with Amalgam, mostly for wiping out their town in China during the Second Chinese Civil War. She is sixteen years old.

Keiichirou is Satsuki&#039;s young brother. He is easily frightened by many things and is seen crying sometimes, but he shows courage where it counts to help in defeating the ghosts. He creates a special friendship with the ghost Amanojaku.

Chief maid of the royal family of Valhalla, the planet Valkyrie original comes from; Sanada, a catgirl, is a faithful and very loyal servant. Upon learning of the princess&rsquo;s disappearance she tracked her down to Kazuto&#039;s house where she settled at once considering Kazuto to be Valkyrie&#039;s official fianc&eacute;. Even seeing how Valkyrie becomes a smaller version of herself doesn&#039;t seem to trouble Sanada at all as she finds the smaller Valkyrie to be very cute. In fact, Rika describes her as a &#039;Valkyrie fundamentalist&#039;. In order to ensure her main goal of keeping Valkyrie safe, she sometimes causes more trouble then good. One of these instances is when she uses her &quot;Cat Ear Gun&quot; (Nekomata, or Cat-Girl Ray Gun in the English version) to turn half of the city&#039;s girls into an army of brainwashed catgirl maids for the crime of just being near Kazuto. In later episodes, these maids are summoned to aid her by a whistle. (When not serving her, they act pretty much like normal, but wearing maid outfits... and Sanada never sees fit to remove their brainwashing, vexing some fans.) During the third series, Sanada takes on a kind of &#039;superhero identity&#039; to help Valkyrie and Kazuto.

Mesousa is a parody of the &quot;cute mascot&quot; type characters often seen in anime, with one huge difference: Mesousa has a severe case of depression. His lack of thumbs makes everyday tasks almost impossible, further deepening his depression. Practically useless in every way, Mesousa serves as the slapstick of the series, being blown up in one episode and having his legs broken in another, all without complaint. He also appears to be somewhat infatuated with Ichijou. His &quot;tastiness&quot; stat is a reference to the mascot character Menchi from the parody anime Excel Saga. Mesousa is not Becky&#039;s pet, but, rather, her companion who tries to help her in class such as getting and holding the footstool for her while she stands on it to write on the blackboard. His name derives from the combination of &quot;meso meso,&quot; a Japanese psychomime for whimpering, and &quot;usagi&quot; (兎, &quot;usagi&quot;?), which is Japanese for &quot;rabbit&quot;.     (Source: Wikipedia)

Shadow is the pilot of Geneshadow, one half of the American Super Robot Genesister. Despite her masculine appearance she is actually somewhat feminine. She is secretly in love with her female co-pilot, Luna.

The superheroine protector of Sparta Academy's students who fights in the nude, covering only her face, arms and legs. 
Her signature finishing move is the "Oppiroge Jump" (おっぴろげジャンプ), which involves her jumping on her opponent's face groin-first.

~!Her real identity isn't a single person, but a group of six different women - anytime one of them gets exposed, the rest provide each other with an alibi.!~

<i>Note: Initially created by Go Nagai as a joke pitched to his editor, being a parody of the first Japanese tokusastsu superhero, [Gekkou Kamen](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9C%88%E5%85%89%E4%BB%AE%E9%9D%A2).</i>

A private investigator from the Federation Bureau, Angelica is well aware of the government&#039;s corruption by the Criminal Guild. She has been chasing Mister for the past four years and has been fascinated with him since her early days as a traffic cop. Angelica is a notorious glutton with an apparently superhuman metabolic rate, although she may just be hypoglycemic.    [Wikipedia]    Though her fixation on Mister appears to be for romantic reasons, she claims that isn&#039;t the case. Even though her goal is to catch Mister, she&#039;ll always prioritize saving him from the 12 sisters first, in order to catch him herself.     ~!After tracking down Mister on planet Graceland and hearing his motivations for being there, she decides to help him out by attempting to stop the federation&#039;s plan to destroy Graceland.!~

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