Vampire Princess Miyu/Characters

Main Characters

Miyu

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• Anime Hair: Come on, she can make that half-odango only with a red ribbon?
• Broken Bird
• Brown Eyes: Before becoming a vampire. She still can turn her Eyes of Gold into this to not be caught.
  • Eyes of Gold
• Dark Magical Girl: Toyed with. She's not only the main character, but she's the one who seeks out friendship instead of being lured out by others.
• Does Not Like Shoes / Foot Focus
• Friendly Neighborhood Vampire
• Good Is Not Nice: She does what she can, and occasionally feels regret for those she can't help, but in the end her job is to banish Shinma, not to protect or save people. She's not above using mortals as bait, if necessary.
• Japanese Vampire
• Kiss of the Vampire: The blood exchanges
• Kuudere: In the TV series.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: At first.
• I Know Your True Name: In the OAV, she must first learn the Shinma's name before sealing them.
• Lady of Black Magic: Extremely elegant and aloof as she uses her ruby-red flames
• Limited Wardrobe: In the anime series, we only see her in school uniform or her white dress. In the OAV's, however, she changes her kimonos much more regularly.
• Memetic Outfit: Her white short kimonos.
• Miki Nagasawa: TV series.
• Older Than They Look: Justified Trope, since she was granted eternal youth by the Shinma so she could take all the time she needed in catching the runaways.
• Playing with Fire: Her signature attacks
• Tender Tears: In the manga, she's much more emotional than in other media. Justified Trope, as some parts depict Miyu's early days as a Shinma hunter so she still was a Naive Newcomer to the whole deal.
• Uncanny Valley Girl
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: Do not ever harm Larva, goddamn it!

Miyu: I won't return you to the Darkness. You, I will burn to ashes!

• What Have I Become?: She says this word by word after biting and accidentally killing one of her classmates in the fourht OAV.
• Woman in White

Larva

• Badass
  • Badass in Distress: Third OAV.
• Battle Butler
• Becoming the Mask: Became Miyu's servant after losing to her, but developed empathy towards her plight.
• Bodyguard Crush: On Miyu.
• Facial Markings: Tear drop shaped ones on his cheeks.
• Femme Fatalons: Rare male example
• Kaneto Shiozawa: OAV and CD dramas
  • Shinichiro Miki: TV serrie
• Mask Power
• Tall, Dark and Handsome
• White-Haired Pretty Boy

Characters from all continuities

Miyu's parents

• Broken Bird: Miyu's mother
• Empty Shell: Miyu's dad, since Miyu's mom drank his blood before marrying him.
• Mama Bear: Miyu's mother tried to save her from becoming the Guardian by force. By either trying to kill her (manga) or giving her her own blood (OAV). It didn't work, obviously.
• Parents in Distress: They're now hostages of the Japanese Shinma, placed in eternal sleep in an alternate dimension between the Darkness and Earth, and Miyu has to catch all the runaways to get them free.
• Yamato Nadeshiko: Miyu's mom.

Reiha and Matsukaze

• Affably Evil: Reiha is soft-spoken, calm, always has a cold smile on her lips... and is a frightening opponent.
• An Ice Person
  • Harmless Freezing: Averted. It looks harmless, but it's just as deadly.
• Creepy Doll: Matsukaze, who seems to be a mouthpiece for Reiha's hate for Miyu.
• Dark Action Girl and Lady of Black Magic: Reiha, who's even more aloof than Miyu and attacks using ice
• Good Is Not Nice: Reiha fights the runaway Shinmas and all, but she's not concerned with the bystanders and openly antagonises Miyu.
• Megumi Ogata: TV series
• Off with His Head: Reiha is killed like this.
  • Losing Your Head: She calmly picks up her own head and swears revenge as she returns to the Darkness.
• Uncanny Valley Girl
• The Unfavorite: Reiha hates Miyu to death because her father, one of her collaborators, died protecting Miyu and called out to her in his last breathe instead of recalling his own daughter.
• Winter Royal Lady: In the manga.

Lemures

• Adaptation Dye Job: Was a Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette in the manga, then became a Dark-Skinned Blond in the OAV.
• Giggling Villain
• Manipulative Bastard
• Smug Snake
• Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Tells this to Larva in the manga, in regards to Miyu.
• Yandere: For Larva
• Yuji Mitsuya

Ranka

• And I Must Scream: What she does to her victims.
• Becoming the Mask: OAV. She pretended to like Kei to make him her prey. But then, she fell for real for him.
• Creepy Doll: Her true form.
• Dark Action Girl
• Enemy Mine: With Miyu, in the Shin manga.
• Lady of War
• Razor Floss
• Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette
• Puppet Master
• Star-Crossed Lovers: She and Kei. But they find a way to get together.
• Tall, Dark and Bishoujo
• Uncanny Valley Girl
• Yamato Nadeshiko

Characters from the OAV

Himiko Se

• Audience Surrogate
• Beauty Mark
• Canon Foreigner: Created specially for the OAV's, though Mami Koyama also is the narrator of the CD dramas.
• Inspector Javert
• Mami Koyama
• Plucky Girl:

My happiness isn't so trivial that it can be found in a dream!

• Tall, Dark and Bishoujo
• Unlimited Wardrobe: Changes her clothes in every OAV.

Miyahito

• Broken Bird: Male example
• Break the Cutie
• Failure Knight
• Empty Shell: After receiving Miyu's Kiss of the Vampire.
• I Let Gwen Stacy Die: His girlfriend Ryoko was Ra-en's first victim.
• Katsumi Suzuki
• The Woobie

Ryoko

• The Cutie: Was a very sweet young girl, planning a date with her boyfriend as they walked home...
  • Kill the Cutie: And of course, she was the first one to go.
• The Gwen Stacy

Aiko

• Big Fancy House: Where she lives
• Convenient Coma: Is in this state in the OAV.
  • Cute Mute: When she "wakes up", she doesn't say a single word.
• Creepy Child
• Deal with the Devil: She let Ra-en possess her body and use her for his plans, in exchange for creating an illusion in which her parents are still alive.
• Despair Event Horizon: Her parents's deaths. Since they died after giving her their blood so she'd survive, poor Aiko blamed herself and called herself a vampire, biting the neck of her doll in the orphanage she was placed in much to the horror of the other kids. Then Ra-En came in...
• Green Eyed Red Head
• Ill Girl Horrible, heartbreaking subversion. Shr was thought to be in a Convenient Coma, but she actually was under Demonic Possession and a Deal with the Devil

Aiko's parents

• Creepy Monotone: They speak like this. Brrrrrr!
• Dead All Along: They actually died in a car crash a while before the OAV's take place.
• Good Parents. Or so they seem. They were this when alive, see the trope below to know more.
• Heroic Sacrifice: They knew that their injuries from the fatal accident would eventually kill them, so they begged their doctor to let them give their own blood (of a pretty rare type) to Aiko so she'd survive. He couldn't refuse such a request, since they had no blood of said type left, and did so: Aiko survived, but Dad and mom died.

Kei Yuzuki

• The Ace: Except for being Book Dumb, he acts completely perfect at school. He's polite, handsome, popular...
  • Broken Ace: As well as selfish, indifferent, and disenchanted with life.
• Anguished Declaration of Love and Forceful Kiss: On Ranka.
• Chick Magnet: Possesses a practically unearthly beauty, and even Himiko can't help but comment on how hot he is.
• Nightmare Fetishist: He falls in love with an Uncanny Valley Girl, that's all.
• Ryo Horikawa
  • Playing Against Type: Quite the jump in regards to Vegeta or Shun, huh?
• Star-Crossed Lovers: With Ranka. They find a way to stay together.
• Stepford Smiler: He hides his boredom with life in general, his feelings of inferiority towards his more academically-succesful siblings and his apathy towards his Education Mama's constant pressure under a polite, soft-spoken, beautiful mask.
• The White Prince

The Shinma Armor

• Ax Crazy
• Came Back Wrong.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia.
• Giant Mook
• Tessho Genda

Akiko

• The Cutie
• I Just Want to Be Special
• Immortality Seeker: Asks Miyu to make her a vampire so she can be young and pretty forever. Miyu's mom stops them and sends her back home.
• Red Herring: We're led to believe that Miyu's mom drained her of blood to feed Miyu her first blood "meal". It wasn't like that.
• Secret Keeper: Knows what her best friend Miyu is because she saw her bite one of their classmates and accidentally kill her by draining her of blood.
• Yumi Takada

Characters from the TV series

The Otaku

• I Just Want to Be Special
• Secret Keeper: Finds out who Miyu is by accident.
• Ubermensch: Believes vampires to be this, so he tries forcing Miyu to make him one. She's so offended by such claims that she tricks him into falling to his death.

Shiina

• Mika Kanai
• Ridiculously Cute Critter

Chisato Inoue

• Apocalypse Maiden
• Knife Nut: Her Weapon of Choice is the dagger that Tokiya gave her as a Tragic Keepsake.
• Off with His Head
• Ordinary High School Student
• Uncanny Valley Girl
• Yandere: Over her dead older brother, Tokiya, whose death triggers her transformation into a Shinma

Yukari Kashima

• Bokukko
• Chiharu Tezuka
• Kill the Cutie - Stuffed Into the Fridge: Chisato kills her and Hisae as soon as her powers awaken.
  • SHe Knows Too Much: The exact reason. She and Hisae find out about Miyu and Chisato, then after Hisae's death she confronts Chisato and then Miyu, and soon It Gets Worse.
• Ordinary High School Student
• Plucky Girl

Hisae Aoki

• Cute Bookworm
• Kill the Cutie and Stuffed Into the Fridge: Chisato kills her and Yukari as soon as her powers awaken. In Hisae's case, Chisato does it under the effects of the Shinma Shidon's More Than Mind Control, then wakes up next to the dead Hisae.
• Meganekko
• Ordinary High School Student

Miho Arisawa

• Fat Girl: She was noticeably chubbier than the other girls
• Hiroko Kasahara
• Magic Feather: Cruel subversion: the red shoes she was given as lucky charms... were actually a MacGuffin that absorbed her life energy.
• Shrinking Violet
• Ordinary High School Student

Yui Lee

• Action Girl
• Akemi Okamura
• Anime Chinese Girl
• Badass Normal: Manages to live through her episode despite not being a Shinma.
• Bare-Fisted Monk
• Boobs of Steel
• Broken Bird
• Hong Kong: Where she comes from. Her episode begind there, too.
• Paper Talisman
• She's Got Legs: And her Qipao allows her to show them off nicely.

Shidon

• Animal Motifs: Birds
• Eldritch Abomination
• Chekhov's Gunman: Under the disguise of an artist, he sells trinkets to Miyu and Chisato. Said trinkets actually are magical charms that keep Miyu from sensing Chisato's growing powers.

Characters from the manga and/or the Drama CD's

Aya

• Dead Little Sister: Her parents (dead in an accident) and her sister Yui (killed by Shinma)

Sho Kiryuu

• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
• The Collector: One who collects girls

Chiaki

• The Ingenue

Manami

• The Ingenue
• Ordinary High School Student
• You Go, Girl!

Fumiya /Kaoru

• The Gwen Stacy: It's not exactly clear who Kaoru was for Miyu, but she clearly feels bad when she meets him as "Fumiya".
• Demonic Possession.
• Waif Fu: Male example, as the human body he possessed was one of a highly-trained gym practitioner.

Rima Minami

• Interspecies Romance and Sibling Triangle: Rima, Kyo and Mari. Sorta.
• Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter
• Our Mermaids Are Different

Mari Minami

• Becoming the Mask.
• Girlish Pigtails
• Honey Trap: Dr. Minami, being a Shinma, used Mari to kidnap boys and feed on their blood.
• Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter
• Mysterious Waif: Sort of.
• Twin Telepathy: Sorta, as Rima (a full mermaid who is kept in a tank by their father) can see the outer world through Mari's eyes.

Dr. Minami

• Hot Dad: Of Rima and Mari
• Graceful Loser: Escaped years ago from Miyu, so when she finds him again, he at first tries to cover for his girls and help them escape, but once he loses he doesn't put up much of a fight and lets Miyu vanish him.
• Interspecies Romance: With the twins's mom, a mermaid.

Kyou Kitami

• Chick Magnet
• Missing Mom
• New Transfer Student

Takumi

• Chick Magnet
• Cry Cute: He can finally cry as he dies and is sent to the Darkness.
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: And he's bullied because of that. It goes as well as expected.
• People Puppets: A Shinma transformed a Christmas Cake lady and Miyu's school friends into traditional dolls... and re-created him and his dad, resurrecting them. Sorta..
• Tomato in the Mirror: Takumi didn't know that he had died in the fire that killed his mother (which Miyu caused, at his mom's own request), and both of them were revived as dolls by another Shinma.
• Tall, Dark and Handsome

Ruri and her family

• Animals Hate Her: Ruri the bird reacts strongly to Miyu's presence.
• Brother-Sister Incest: Implied between the real Ruri and her brother, Little Ruri's "father".
• Half Human Hybrids: The real Ruri and her brother.
• Happily Adopted: After her "Papa" is banished to the Darkness, Little Ruri is adopted by the Hiyama family.
• Hot Dad: Ruri's "father", also a Parental Substitute.
• Name's the Same: Ruri is the name of both a little girl and her pet bird, given to her by her "papa". And of "Papa"'s Dead Little Sister.
• Sole Survivor: In an odd incident, Little Ruri was left all alone in her hometown. A handsome stranger saw her and took her in
• Wife Husbandry: Miyu believes this is what Ruri's "dad" want to do to her. It's more of a Replacement Goldfish deal, tho.
• You Killed My Dead Little Sister: Ruri's "dad" accuses Miyu of letting the real Ruri die by not biting her and thus not giving her eternal life.

Mamoru Hiyama

• Adorkable
• Dogged Nice Guy: For Miyu
• Shrinking Violet

Characters from the Shin VPM manga

Pasuzu

Karlua

Amy

Water Lipper

Caith Sith

Caith Sith's mother

Aoi

Vampire Princess Yui characters

Yui

Nagi

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