Fushigi Yūgi/Characters

When you're traveling between universes, you're going to encounter lots of characters.

Be warned, this page will contain SPOILERS.

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From the "real" universe

Miaka Yuuki / Suzaku no Miko

Voiced by: Kae Araki (Japanese, TV series), Noriko Hidaka (Japanese, radio dramas), Bridget Hoffman (English)

• Attempted Rape: Frequently a victim of this as rape is supposed to neutralize her priestess powers.
• Badass Damsel: Played with. She's a Nice Girl who won't hesitate to headbutt or pile drive thugs, but apparenly she can't hit them hard enough to make them stay down. This means she still needs rescuing.
• Big Eater: One of the most emblematic female examples. It should be noted that, by Word of God, she's supposed to be pudgy.
• Blue Oni Red Oni: Miaka is the red; Yui is blue.
• Book Dumb: Subverted: she's shown as more or less average in grades and works hard to get good ones. And manages to get in a quite prestigious highschool.
• Bridget Hoffman: Under the pseudonym Ruby Marlowe.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Displayed when she successfully saves her six bodyguards from Soi's lightning attack.
• Curtains Match the Window: Brown eyes and brown hair.
  • Actually, Miaka's eyes are more hazel than truly brown.
• The Ditz:
• Driven to Suicide: More than once.
• Even the Girls Want Her: If you see Yui as her Psycho Lesbian Unlucky Childhood Friend...
• Expository Hairstyle Change: She starts wearing her hair down as she matured.
• Generic Cuteness: Is pretty, but not as beautiful as Yui.
• Good Samaritan
• Hollywood Pudgy: In-universe, she is called fat, but she's got a quite full figure compared with other anime girls.
• Idiot Heroine: Good grades or not, Miaka severely lacks common sense and does not use her brain very much.
• Lethal Chef
• Love Dodecahedron: She's pretty much the center of it.
• Martyr Without a Cause
• The Messiah
• Miko
• Misapplied Phlebotinum: She wastes Tasuki's spell cards to make snacks. To be fair, she wasn't exactly aware of the limits of said spell card's magic.
• Naive Everygirl
• Odango
• Official Couple: With Tamahome.
• Ordinary High School Student
• The Plan: In the 3rd OVA, it turns out she gave her unborn child to a girl who would use her strong feelings for Tamahome to save the Universe of the Four Gods, which was falling apart as the book became old and worn. Nothing is what it seems, and it was something Miaka did subconsciously.) It Makes Sense in Context.
• The Power of Friendship
• The Power of Love
• Say My Name: Ooh, yes...
• Virginity Makes You Stupid: Miaka is a virgin, and she's also a little on the slow side, but clearly well-intentioned.
• Virgin Power
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: In the manga, she constantly tries to get the approval of her well-intentioned but very exigent Education Mama.
• Your Universe or Mine?

Yui Hongo / Seiryuu no Miko

Voiced by: Yumi Touma (Japanese, TV series), Wakana Yamazaki (Japanese, CD Dramas), Wendee Lee (English)

• Belly Dancer: Her priestess outfit is pretty comparable to something a belly-dancer might wear.
• Blondes Are Evil: Or at least easy to drive away from the path of good by manipulating their frail emotions when they're at low points of their lives.
• Blue Oni Red Oni: Blue, with Miaka as the red.
• Clothing Damage: When she gains Seiryuu's divine power.
• Cute Bookworm: Sensible and studious, she cut her hair short in an effort to get boys to stop chasing her.
• Driven to Suicide
• Evil Counterpart: To Miaka.
• Face Heel Turn: Though she pulls a Heel Face Turn in the end.
• Immodest Orgasm: Appears to have one when Seiryuu (in human form) enters her heart.
• Must Make Amends: Successfully does this with her final wish, partly because the wish practically killed her. Miaka saves the day, of course.
• Ordinary High School Student
• Parents as People: Though her parents do care for her, they're shown only once. In the anime, her father doesn't even show up.
• Psycho Lesbian: One interpretation of her character.
• Rape as Drama: Yui is immediately attacked by two men as soon as she enters the book, which sets the stage for much of the ensuing drama.Though, it was found out Nakago saved her before any real damage could occur.
• Redemption Equals Life: Seems like Redemption Equals Death at first.
• Rival Turned Evil
• Unlucky Childhood Friend
• Unwitting Pawn
• Virgin Sacrifice
• Yandere: Over Tamahome and Miaka.

Keisuke Yuuki, Miaka's older brother

Voiced by: Shinichiro Miki (Japanese), Derek Stephen Prince (English)

• Big Brother Instinct
• Hot Librarian
• Unfazed Everyman

Mrs. Yuuki, Miaka and Keisuke's mother

• Defrosting Ice Queen: Does care for her two kids, but after having to raise them alone for years, she's become quite embittered and overexigent.
• Education Mama: And how!
• Hot Mom
• No Name Given
• Parents as People

Tetsuya Kajiwara, Keisuke's best friend and one of the few real world allies in the manga

• Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends: Yui and Tetsuya eventually get together, although their relationship is humourously one-sided on Tetsuya's part.
• Ken Narita
• Those Two Guys: With Keisuke.
• Sunglasses at Night
  • The Glasses Come Off: And oh my, he's very handsome when we see his full face

Mayo Sakaki

Voiced by: Junko Noda (Japanese), Lynn Fischer (English)

• Apocalypse Maiden
• Evil Redhead: Though she could also be strawberry blonde, making this Blondes Are Evil...gotta love Hair Color Dissonance!
• Clingy Jealous Girl
• Dangerously Genre Savvy: She's the only priestess to enter the book intentionally, with the idea to call Taka back into the book. She also burns her clothing, so that it cannot serve as a link back to her own dimension.
• Driven to Suicide: After she realizes what she's done. Tamahome rescues her, though, even though most audiences wish he hadn't.
• Hot for Teacher: The guy she loves is her PE teacher and coach... Taka Sukunami aka Tamahome.
• I Just Want to Be Special and I Just Want to Be Loved: Deconstructed brutally.
• It's All About Me
• Jerkass: Yui at her worst looks like Tohru Honda compared to her.
• Junko Noda
• Karma Houdini: Even worse than Nakago. At least the guy did go through some pretty horrific shit that explains why he turned out like that.
• Kick the Dog:
• Love Makes You Evil
• Moral Myopia: She tells everyone that Miaka is a selfish bitch who only thinks of her own happiness. Well, this is the girl who is willing to fuck up a whole universe just so she can steal Miaka's * husband* Taka and their unborn child.
• Must Make Amends: After she has her moment of My God, What Have I Done?.
• My God, What Have I Done?
• Nun-Too-Holy: As the Miko, she's supposed to be using her wishes for the benefit of Konan (not herself), and she's supposed to treat her warriors and her attendant with respect. Does she? No. She also spreads vicious rumors about Miaka.
• Parental Abandonment: Supposed to be her Freudian Excuse, as her parents are about to split up very messily. Comes off more as Wangst.
• Shorttank: Short-haired, tomboyish, athletic...
• This Loser Is You: Supposed to be a symbol of human weakness, especially in matters of the heart.
• Unwitting Pawn
• Villain Protagonist: Yeah, she's THAT bad.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Gets this from Tamahome and from Boushin.
• Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Telling everyone that Miaka was a horrible, selfish person.
• Yandere

Suzuno Oosugi / Byakko no Miko

Voiced by: Midori Nakazawa (Japanese)

• Big Fancy House: She lived in an old Japanese home with her grandson, Toki.
• Girlish Pigtails: Had Rapunzel Hair and kept it in twin braids.
• Joshikousei: As a youngster, she was shown wearing a blue sailor uniform.
• Plucky Girl: This girl survived her Miko trials without suffering the downside of being devoured by the God from the inside. Also, as an old woman, Suzuno pretty much kept herself alive out of pure sheer willpower while attended by Tetsuya, Keisuke and her family, refusing to die until she and Tatara could be reunited.
• Snow Means Death
• Star-Crossed Lovers: With Tatara, one of her Seishi. They ended up Together in Death.
• Yamato Nadeshiko: A miko with an iron clad spine lives in a traditional Japanese home.

Toki Ohsugi

• Cassandra Truth: He never believed his grandmother Suzuno's claims about the Shi Jin Ten Chi Sho.

Suzaku Warriors

Tamahome

Voiced by: Hikaru Midorikawa (Japanese), Toshihiko Seki (Japanese, CD dramas), David Hayter (English)

• All of the Other Reindeer: Was bullied by other kids because of his Facial Markings.
• Anyone Can Die: Taka Sukunami just won't do for the fangirls.
• Badass
• Berserk Button: If you don't want to risk being kicked into the sky, do not call him "Obake-chan". Or threaten Miaka/harm or kill his family.
• Bishie Sparkle: He does this the most often...
• Blue Oni Red Oni: With Tasuki.
• Brainwashed and Crazy
• Bodyguard Crush
• Cannot Spit It Out
• Clothes Make the Maniac: The earring was part of the kodoku spell.
• Country Mouse: Lives in a poor village, works many jobs to provide for his family. As Taka, he's a youth from the Japanese countryside who studies and works in Tokyo.
• Dead Little Sister: One of the most horrible and heartbreaking moments in the series involves the murders of not only his sister, but his whole family.
• Even the Guys Want Him: Loved by Miaka. Desired by Yui and Mayo. Object of Nakago's obsession. Vitriolic Best Friend with Ho Yay hints to Tasuki. Nuriko loved to tease him and once kissed him.
• Evil Costume Switch
• Facial Markings: His Suzaku mark is located on his forehead.
• The Hero
• Heroic BSOD: When he loses his whole family. Complete with Berserker Tears and him being THIS close to cross the Despair Event Horizon.
  • Played for Laughs earlier, when Miaka returns from the real world for the first time. Nuriko tells that Tamahome went into a milder case of this due to depression, showing it in small details - like chewing on an empty dish and not noticing until Nuriko points that out.
• Hey, It's That Voice!: His English voice is Solid Snake. Let your mind wrap around that.
• Hikaru Midorikawa: Lampshaded by the man himself that as Tamahome, he's Playing Against Type.
• Jack of All Stats
• Manly Tears
• Missing Mom: His mother died when he was very young.
• Money Fetish
• Official Couple: With Miaka.
• Out-of-Clothes Experience
• Rescue Romance
• Rich Suitor, Poor Suitor: Despite his Money Fetish, he's competing with the Emperor for Miaka's love. Miaka chooses him anyway.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge
• Say My Name: And how...
• Talk to the Fist
• Toshihiko Seki: In the CD dramas.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Tasuki.
• Word of Gay: Yuu Watase has no problem acknowledging and teasing the Tamahome/Nakago Foe Yay.
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair
• Your Universe or Mine?

Hotohori

Voiced by: Takehito Koyasu (Japanese, TV series), Yasunori Matsumoto (Japanese, radio dramas), Kirk Thornton (English)

• All Love Is Unrequited: Not really, in the case of Houki.
• Anyone Can Die
• Bishie Sparkle
• Bishonen: Even in a universe populated by them, he stands out.
• Badass
• Bodyguard Crush
• Celibate Hero: Has an entire harem, but never really makes use of it (despite pressure to pick an emperess and produce an heir), holding out for the legendary priestess. He eventually selects Houki, after seeing that Miaka is happier with Tamahome.
• Doppelganger Replacement Love Interest: He looks just like his unbeknownst-to-him half-brother Tendou, who once shared a relationship with Hotohori's later wife, Houki.
• Dropped a Bridget On Him: Hotohori pulls this on one of the Mount Reikaku bandits. The bandit is so smitten he doesn't really care. That, and in his first appearance he dropped a Bridget on Miaka herself....
• Dude Looks Like a Lady
• The Emperor
• Even the Guys Want Him: Nuriko, Nuriko, Nuriko...
• King Incognito: Pulls this on Miaka, then later travels with Tasuki and Mitsukake for a few days before letting them know he's the Emperor.
• Lady of War: Fights like one.
• Love Dodecahedron: Hotohori is in love with Miaka, who is in love with Tamahome. Meanwhile, Nuriko is in love with him.
• Loving a Shadow: Was in love with Miaka's image as the Suzaku no Miko, rather than as the person she truly was.
• Relationship Voice Actor: Even though they're allies in this one, Midorikawa and Koyasu STILL manage to be rivals although it's more of Rivals In Love with Miaka.
• Rich Suitor, Poor Suitor: Is the Rich Suitor twice. Miaka picks Tamahome over him first, then Houki picks him over his half-brother.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: The Emperor. A reasonably good politician and administrator. A really badass fighter.
• So Beautiful It's a Curse: "I'm so beautiful, it SCARES ME!"
• Triang Relations
• Warrior Prince
• The Wise Prince

Nuriko

Voiced by: Chika Sakamoto (Japanese), Minami Takayama (Japanese, CD Drama), Mary Elizabeth McGlynn (English)

• Attractive Bent Gender: he's a guy and yet he was selected to be in the emperor's harem. Though it seems that almost no one knows that he's a boy at first.
• Bi the Way
• The Big Guy Subverted, as Nuriko has the strength of, I dunno, 10 or more grown men, but actually isn't all that tall or muscular.
• Boisterous Bruiser
• Big Brother Mentor: To Houki.
• Characterization Marches On: Nuriko is mostly established as a fun, sensible ally... so it's pretty strange to look back at the early incident where he almost let Miaka drown in a pond out of psychotic jealousy over Hotohori.
  • More than letting her drown, he was hoping to make her look like a fool in front of Hotohori. Miaka proved him wrong and even slapped him for that, then brought him a small, cute pebble she found in the pond anyway.
• Chika Sakamoto
• Cute Bruiser
• Dead Little Sister: Kourin. He also becomes a Dead Little Brother to his older bro, Rokou.
  • My Sibling Will Live Through Me
• Dead Person Impersonation
• A Death in the Limelight
• Dropped A Bridget On Her: How Miaka finds out his gender. Also, a Crowning Moment of Funny.
• Dude Looks Like a Lady
• Half-Identical Twins: Subverted. Kourin was actually a year younger than Nuriko, but they looked so similar that people thought they were twins.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
• Love Makes You Crazy: His earliest behavior towards Miaka.
• Personality Powers: A subversion; Nuriko takes pride in extremely ladylike behavior, but exhibits super strength.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: In series, but especially in the Eikoden OVA, where he isi reincarnated as a Moe little girl with Super Strength.
• Sacrificial Lion: First member of the main cast to bite it
• Stupid Sacrifice: And in the end, it didn't accomplish a lot.
• Suddenly Sexuality: If you don't buy the Bi the Way trope.
• Super Strength
• Wholesome Crossdresser

Chichiri

Voiced by: Tomokazu Seki (Japanese), Stephen Apostolina (English)

• The Atoner
• Attractive Bent Gender: In the manga.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Was involved in a Love Triangle. It ended badly.
• Eyes Always Shut
• Eye Scream: Was subjected to this in the past.
• Hidden Depths
• Holding Back the Phlebotinum: His ability to shapeshift is rarely put to offensive use against Seiryuu.
• Kill Us Both: He attempts this in the second OVA, but survives.
• Kung Fu Wizard
• Let's Get Dangerous: He's almost always easygoing and kind. Pray to the Four Gods if he's not joking.
• Mask Power
• My Greatest Failure: The deal with his old girlfriend and his friend.
• Religious Bruiser
• Right-Hand-Cat: After Mitsukake dies, he keeps the other's kitten.
• Scars Are Forever: One in his left eye.
• The Smart Guy
• Stepford Smiler
• Super-Deformed
• This Is Unforgivable!
• Unstoppable Rage: Occurred in his backstory.
• Verbal Tic
• Voluntary Shapeshifting
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Tasuki

Voiced by: Nobutoshi Canna (Japanese TV series), Kazuki Yao (Japanese, radio dramas), Daran Norris (English)

• Boke and Tsukkomi Routine
• Brainwashed and Crazy
• Calling Your Attacks
• Combat Pragmatist: His first line of attack is a fan that shoots fire, and he's not above combining it with a Dynamic Entry. Nor is he above taking hostages, or attacking while his opponent is talking or otherwise distracted. On the rare occasion he's put Honor Before Reason, he explicitly regrets it.
• Cute Little Fangs
• Driven to Suicide: After being Brainwashed and Crazy and attempting to force himself on Miaka.
• Eyes of Gold
• Fiery Redhead
• He-Man Woman Hater: Due to his five very short-tempered older sisters.
• Heterosexual Life Partners: With Kouji... or not, depending on your interpretation.
• The Idiot From Osaka
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold
• Kansai Regional Accent
• Kill It with Fire
• The Lancer
• Loveable Rogue
• Near-Rape Experience: Poor Miaka
• Paper Fan of Doom
• Personality Powers
• The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: Very little actual banditry is seen from the Mount Reikaku thieves. Despite being their leader, Tasuki himself is rarely, if ever, shown actually committing theft.
• Raised by Wolves
• Rebel Leader: In his case, Bandit Leader.
• Talk to the Fist
• Trying to Catch Me Fighting Dirty
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Tamahome.
• Word of Gay: Yuu Watase says that, if she had to make a Suzaku seishi 100% gay, it'd be him.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Or in his case, water.
• You Shall Not Pass

Mitsukake

Voiced by: Kouji Ishii (Japanese), Richard Epcar (English)

• Beautiful All Along: We met him as a man in rags and with Perma-Stubble...
• The Big Guy
• Cast from Hit Points: His powers can only be used once a day, and even then he's left very drained. The time he uses them twice, he dies.
• Deadpan Snarker: "The Emperor is rather popular..."
• Failure Doctor: Failed to save his girlfriend and fellow healer, Shouka. She Came Back Wrong.
• Gentle Giant
• Healing Hands
• Heroic Sacrifice
• Personality Powers
• Right-Hand-Cat: Tama-chan.
• Tall, Dark and Handsome

Chiriko

Voiced by: Tomoko Kawakami (Japanese, Tv series), Minami Takayama (Japanese, radio dramas), Lenore Zann (English)

• Driven to Suicide
  • Heroicsacrifice AND Taking You with Me: Since he couldn't expulse Miboshi from his body, he took a third option and offed himself.
• Little Dude Looks Like A Little Girl
• Innocent Prodigy
• Older Than They Look: Is in fact 13, but looks like about seven.
• Refusal of the Call
• The Sixth Ranger
• Teen Genius
• Tomoko Kawakami: Her debut as a seiyuu.
• Wise Beyond Their Years

Seiryuu Warriors

Nakago

Voiced by: Tohru Furusawa (Japanese, TV series), Ryotaro Okiayu (Japanese, radio dramas), Daran Norris (English)

• Big Bad
• Blond Guys Are Evil
• Blue Eyes
• The Chessmaster
• Coitus Uninterruptus
• Cry for the Devil: If you buy his Freudian Excuse.
  • Karma Houdini: If you don't buy it.
• Dangerously Genre Savvy
• Dark and Troubled Past
• Depraved Bisexual: Has Soi as his lover. Is fixated on Tamahome and even gives him a Forceful Kiss.
• Deus Sex Machina: Having sex with Soi heals his injuries.
• The Dog Bites Back: Although perhaps not in the way you'd think. After serving the Emperor of Kutou for most of the series--the same Emperor who had incidentally wiped out his tribe and sexually abused him as a child--Nakago finally rises up, stages a coup and murders him.
• Even the Guys Want Him: Soi and Tomo.
• Evil Gloating
• Freudian Excuse
• Luke, I Am Your Father: The former general of the Kutou army, Kouyuu Gi, is actually his Disappeared Dad. Of course, Nakago finds this out too late and kills Kouyuu, apparently to get a Klingon Promotion.
• Manipulative Bastard
• Pet the Dog: Soi's flashback.
• Rape as Backstory: Said backstory was shoehorned in at the last minute during the Final Battle, just before Tamahome puts him out of his misery.
• Self-Made Orphan: Accidentally kills his mom when he tries to save her from her rapists. As an adult, he kills the Shogun of Kutou... and later finds out he's his Disappeared Dad.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid

Amiboshi

Voiced by: Yuji Ueda (Japanese, TV series), Tetsuya Iwanaga (Japanese, radio dramas), Steve Staley (English)

• Heel Face Turn: While one of the least evil enemies, coming in contact with Miaka helps him pull this.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Has some feelings for Miaka when amnesiac, but it goes nowhere.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia
• The Mole
• Morality Chain: With him around, Suboshi was as much a Jerkass. When Suboshi thought he was dead... all he needed was a push from Nakago to fly off the deep end and kill Tamahome's family in revenge.
• Musical Assassin
• Parental Abandonment: His and Suboshi's parents died in the war.
• Promotion to Parent: He was the older twin, so he had to help Suboshi survive.
• Redemption Equals Life
• Sibling Yin-Yang.
• Twin Telepathy
• Twincest: Him and Suboshi give quite the vibes, and it's NOT helped by Suboshi giving him an Intimate Healing.
• Talking to Himself: Both Yuji Ueda and Tetsuya Iwanaga voiced both of the twins.

Suboshi

Voiced by: Yuji Ueda (Japanese, TV series), Tetsuya Iwanaga (Japanese, radio dramas), Steve Staley (English)

• Accidental Pervert: Saw the Deus Sex Machina in action. Whoops.
• Angsty Surviving Twin
• Big Damn Heroes: Despite being a villain, he pulls off a pretty good one.
• Blood Knight
• Bodyguard Crush: On Yui.
• Despair and Moral Event Horizon: Crosses the first when he loses Amiboshi and believes he's dead, which sends him into a mental breakdown. Plows through the second when he kills Tamahome's family as revenge, believing him to be Amiboshi's killer.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Tomo makes the very, very, very stupid mistake of trying to kill Amiboshi. Suboshi proceeds to put the "killer" in Killer Yoyo.
• Freudian Excuse: His parents's deaths, Amiboshi's loss, being repeteadly rejected by Yui, etc.
• Hot-Blooded
• Intimate Healing: His notorious kiss with Amiboshi.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: His brother.
• Karmic Death: Died when hit by his own Killer Yoyo. Even more so if you believe that he truly was held in place by the souls of Tamahome's siblings, whom he killed in his Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
• Parental Abandonment
• Rape and Revenge: Tries to rape Miaka in order to avenge Yui's rape, which Yui blames Miaka for.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: After he believes his beloved older brother is dead, which leads him to cross the MEH horrifically.
• Sibling Yin-Yang
• Talking to Himself: Yuji Ueda and Tetsuya Iwanaga voiced both of the twins.
• Twin Telepathy
• Yandere: For Yui and for his brother.

Ashitare

Voiced by: Ryuzaburo Ohtomo (Japanese), Selece Zan (English)

• Big Badass Wolf
• I'm a Humanitarian: Especially likes beautiful young virgins.
• I Owe You My Life: To Nakago.
• Our Werewolves Are Different
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness

Soi

Voiced by: Atsuko Tanaka (Japanese), Melodee Spevack (English)

• Anti-Villain: One of the most sympathetic Seiyuu Seishi, she specifically says she doesn't have anything against Miaka and Co. but must fight them anyway for Nakago.
• The Baroness
• Broken Bird
• Coitus Uninterruptus
• Dark Action Girl
• Deus Sex Machina
• The Dragon
• Femme Fatale
• Hooker with a Heart of Gold
• Love Makes You Evil: If only Nakago had not been her savior...
• Rescue Romance: She fell in love with Nakago after he saved her, years ago, from being raped.
• Taking the Bullet

Tomo

Voiced by: Nobuo Tobita (Japanese), Dougary Grant (English)

• Badass Long Hair
• Camp Gay
• Depraved Homosexual
• Evil Laugh
• Facial Markings
• Master of Illusion
• Nice Hat
• Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette
• Smug Snake
• Triang Relations: Him, Soi, and Nakago.

Miboshi

Voiced by: Midori Nakazawa (Japanese), Barbara Goodson (English)

• Bald of Evil
• Creepy Child
• Demonic Possession
• Grand Theft Me

Genbu Warriors (Fushigi Yuugi Only)

This place only lists the warriors and tropes shown in this part of the story. For those who want to understand them further, please visit Fushigi Yuugi Genbu Kaiden.

Hikitsu

Voiced by: Nobuyuki Hiyama (Japanese)

• An Ice Person
• Sugar and Ice Personality

Tomite

Voiced by: Tetsuya Iwanaga (Japanese)

• An Ice Person
• The Archer

Byakko Warriors

Subaru

• Action Girl: In her prime and when she reverts her own age and Tokaki's during the Suzaku-Seiryuu Era.
  • Never Mess with Granny: In her elder years.
• Battle Couple: With Tokaki.
• I Was Quite a Looker: Subverted, she was a very cute-looking old lady. And since her power revolves about time, she can temporarily revert to the White-Haired Pretty Girl she was when young!
• Mika Doi
• Time Master: Her Seishi power.
• What Does She See in Him?: She and Tokaki. It's stated that he actually met little Tamahome when Subaru kicked him out of home and he had to become a traveller by force.
• White-Haired Pretty Girl
• Yamato Nadeshiko: A sweet and miko and loving wife, she can still kept her lecherous husband in line.

Tokaki

• Badass Grandpa: In his elder years.
• Battle Couple: With Subaru.
• Dark Skinned White-Haired Pretty Boy: When young
  • I Was Quite a Looker: Until Subaru uses her magic on him too.
• Dirty Old Man: Played for Laughs mostly, except in the backstory.
• Old Master
• Shipper on Deck: Subverted, as he did not support Tamahome and Miaka's love and made it clear. It was a Jerkass Facade, as he and Subaru knew well what happened to Suzuno and Tatara and tried to prevent it from happening again.
• Teleporters and Transporters: His Seishi power.

Tatara

• Bodyguard Crush: On Suzuno.
• Dark Skinned Dark Haired Bishonen
• Died in Your Arms Tonight: In those of his old friend and fellow Seishi Tokaki.
• Green Thumb: His Seishi power.
  • Combat Tentacles: Can use roots and vines this way.
• Jin Yamanoi
• Peek-a-Bangs
• Snow Means Death, Star-Crossed Lovers and Together in Death: With Suzuno. Snifff.

From the Book

Taiitsukun

• Big Good
• Cool Old Lady
• Hisako Kyoda
• Physical God
• Old Master

The Nyan-Nyan

• A Twinkle in the Sky: "Aiyaaaaa!"
• Butt Monkeys
• Grand Theft Me: Can be used as temporary vessels for disembodied souls with unfinished business.
• Healing Hands
• Kawaiiko
• Kyoko Hikami
• Physical God
• Really Seven Hundred Years Old: As goddesses, they don't age, but they usually look like little girls
• Saying Too Much: The main reason why they get hit (mostly by Taiitsukun) is because they can't seem to keep their mouths shut.

Nyanyan (to Nuriko): Let me heal you!
Nuriko: Than you, but I'm not hurt...
Nyanyan: I'll heal your perversion!
Nuriko: [punches the offending Nyanyan into the stratosphere]
Nyanyan: AIYAAAAAA!

• She's All Grown Up: Normally appear as cute little girls, but make a brief appearance as beautiful women towards the end.
  • Also, in the second OVA, one appears as a young teenager rather than a young child.

Tamahome's family (Tamahome's father and siblings: Chuuei, Shinkei, Gyokuran and Yuiren)

• Cross-Dressing Voices: The two boys, Chuuei and Shinkei, are voiced by women.
• The Cutie: Yuiren.
  • Kill the Cutie: She dies along with her father, older sister and her two brothers.
• Dead Little Sister: All of them die at the hands of the maddened Suboshi.
• Died in Your Arms Tonight: Yuiren.
• Ill Boy: Tamahome's kind-hearted widowed father is severely ill, which is why Tamahome works so hard to mantain them.
• Sacrificial Lamb and Stuffed Into the Fridge: All of them).
• Strong Family Resemblance: If Chuuei lets his hair down, he looks like a younger Tamahome.

You Houki

• Ascended Extra: Didn't have much development in the series or manga, but Suzaku Hi Den gave more insight into her past and personality.
• Chika Sakamoto
• Country Mouse and Rags to Riches: She actually was from a very poor family, but was taken into the court due to her extreme beauty. She wasn't too keen on it, but accepted to help her family out.
• Doppelganger Replacement Love Interest: Looks suspiciously like Nuriko and later marries Hotohori. (YMMV on that one, seeing as Hotohori and Nuriko were never an Official Couple, but does raise a few eyebrows in the fandom.)
  • Also, she marries Hotohori, who looks just like her former boyfriend, Tendou Hotohori's half-brother
• God Save Us From the Queen: Averted! She was a pretty decent empress dowager and regent.
• Go Through Me: She stands in between Hotohori and her Unlucky Childhood Friend Shuu Tendou to keep them from duelling.
• Hot Consort: Of Hotohori.
  • Hot Mom: When she gives birth to Boushin... after Hoto's death.
• Identical Stranger: To her Big Brother Mentor, Nuriko
• Nice Girl: A very kind and soft-spoken person.
• Shrinking Violet
• Yamato Nadeshiko: She looks the part of a Japanese lady; beautiful, soft-spoken, traditional clothing etc. She's not lacking for inner iron either, specially as the Empress Dowager.

Shuu Tendo

• Bishounen: It runs in the family.
• Crazy Jealous Guy:
• Green-Eyed Monster: Envied Hotohori like Hell for Houki. It became his Fatal Flaw.
• Heroic Bastard: Hotohori's half-brother.
• Hot-Blooded: Also his Fatal Flaw.
• Posthumous Character
• Prince In Rags
• Rikiya Koyama
• Unlucky Childhood Friend For Houki.

Chou Kourin

• Chika Sakamoto
• The Cutie
  • Kill the Cutie
• Dead Little Sister

Chou Rokou

• Big Brother Mentor: Subverted. Rokou was sickly and cowardly as a kid, so Nuriko protected him instead.
• Broken Bird: Male example.
• Ill Boy
• Kazuhiko Inoue
• Shrinking Violet
• The White Prince
• Tragic Keepsake: A jewel ball belonging to Nuriko. He refuses to give it away to Miaka and Co. in the OAV since it's the only real memento he has of Nuriko, but with some help of Chiriko's and Nuriko's spirits they manage to convince him.

The Emperor of Kutou

• The Caligula
• Coitus Uninterruptus: Has no qualms about talking to Nakago while in bed with two or three concubines
• Depraved Bisexual
• Dirty Old Man
• The Emperor
• Foil: To Hotohori; where Hotohori is handsome, young, chaste, and rules with kindness and fairness, the Emperor of Kutou is Hollywood Homely, old (relatively), lecherous, and rules with an iron fist.
• Shotacon: Kept Nakago as an eleven-year-old Sex Slave
• The Dog Bites Back: Is killed by Nakago
• Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Compare his looks to those of his concubines.

Kouji

• Bash Brothers and Heterosexual Life Partners: With Tasuki
• Hot-Blooded
• Running Gag: "Knock knock!"
• Tomokazu Seki

Lady Motaiko

• Evil Matriarch
• Gold Digger
• Stage Mom: She did everything to ensure that Hotohori, her son, would be appointed as heir.

Boushin Aka Emperor Reizeitei.

• Akiko Yajima
• A Child Shall Lead Them.
• The Cutie
• Cute Mute: His first words? "Papa!".
• Cheerful Child
• He Is All Grown Up: Sorta. We meet Boushin as a baby, then see him as a pre-teen.
• Wise Beyond Their Years
• What the Hell, Hero?: Gains a Crowning Moment of Awesome by telling Mayo to shut it and stop lying about Miaka.
• The White Prince: Son of Hotohori and Houki.
  • The Wise Prince