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Major Protagonists

Zatch/Gash Bell

On Kiyo's fourteenth birthday, a naked child crashes through his window, riding an eagle with a tuna on his back. Zatch Bell is an amnesiac child with a red spell book, and one of one hundred contenders in a tournament to decide the king of the demon world for the next thousand years.

Kiyomaro Takamine

The main human protagonist, Kiyo is a brilliant boy, although arrogant and antisocial. When Zatch drops into his life, everything he knows changes, and his life gets a lot more exciting...

  • Awesomeness By Analysis: With an IQ of 180, this is his own special skill. Later on, when he gains the Answer Talker this is only amplified.
  • Badass Bookworm
  • Big Damn Heroes: At the end of the Faudo saga, when he finally comes back.
  • Brilliant but Lazy: At the beginning of the series, he chooses not to go to school, in part due to bullying and in part because he's so smart it's a triviality.
  • Butt Monkey: On a lot of occasions
  • Death Glare: On par with Zatch's. Possibly the true reason they make such good partners.
  • Demon Head: Taken to epic levels in the final fight with Rodeaux.
  • Determinator
  • Death Is Cheap: A subversion, in that he is in fact dead for a short period, only has his heart restarted by an emotionally broken Zatch pounding on his chest, and even that isn't enough. It also takes a lot of Saifogeos and a long dip in restorative Faudo juice before he wakes up, and his allies take a lot of damage by then.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: Performed in the battle against Riou/Leo.
  • Jerkass at first, but truly Jerk with a Heart of Gold. More obvious after character development. By the end of the series, he's a Nice Guy who only gets mean if angry or frustrated.
  • Oblivious to Love: Both Suzume and Megumi have feelings for him. Kiyo has no clue, one of the only areas where his intelligence fails him.
  • Only Sane Man, often when faced with the antics of the rest of the group.
  • Reed Richards Is Useless: Subverted, once he gains the Answer Talker power and has some downtime to ponder it, his first ideas are how he can help the rest of the world with it.
  • Takahiro Sakurai

Tio/Tia

Megumi Oumi

Kanchome

Parco Folgore

Umagon/Ponygon (Schneider)

Kafk Sunbeam

  • Adults Are Useless: A subversion, since he's one of the older contenders in the fight, and holds himself to the ideal of being a "cool adult" (which basically means reliable and trustworthy).
  • Catch Phrase: "GROOVY!"
  • Continuity Nod: In a breather chapter, everyone is trying to learn to ice skate, but all fail spectacularly. Sunbeam is especially livid banging and cursing the ice (as it wasn't that much later from his fight against Sauza and Karudio.
  • Friend to All Living Things: Animals love him, and he can understand their thoughts. The epilogue shows him living on an African animal sanctuary.
  • Gratuitous English: Very fond of in the Japanese version.
  • Ship Tease: With nun Elle Chivas. The end shows they're living together in Africa.

Brago

Sherry Belmont


Supporting Protagonists

Wonrei

A teenage demon who falls in love with his partner, Li-en.

Li-en

Wonrei's partner, the daughter of a crime lord with a considerably kinder nature.

Momon

Elle Chivas

Momon's partner, a nun who travel the world th stop Mamodo from fighting.

Kido

A naive young demon with machines and lasers for his powers.

Professor Riddles

Kido's partner, an older man who likes to lead Kido on and then exclaim "kidding!"

  • Badass Grandpa / Cool Old Guy
  • Big Good: Filled this role in the Zofis arc.
  • Catch Phrase: "Kidding!" or in Japanese, "It's a lie!"
  • Heroic BSOD: When Kido finds him, the doctor is sitting in a mansion, surrounded by shelves of books and doing nothing with his knowledge. Then we find out why...
  • Failure Knight: In his backstory.
  • My Greatest Failure: The reason he was sitting around doing nothing? He used to be a surgeon. Then he failed to save a child, and the guilt drove him into seclusion. In the original, the child's also his grandson.
  • Team Dad: Particularly for Kiyomaro.
  • Troll: See his Catch Phrase.

Vincent Bari & Gustav

Kolulu

Danny

Rein

A large, animal-like mamomdo who is a friend of Zatch's from the mamodo world. Despite his scary exterior, he's a nice guy concerned with helping his partner Kyle overcome his timidity.

  • Gentle Giant
  • Heel Face Turn: In his backstory. He was originally a violent, rampaging demon who was feared and hated. Once, he severely injured himself, and despite his threats, Zatch brought him back from the brink of death. Afterward, Rein reformed.
  • Shapeshifting: Can also take human appearance.

Ted

A young, tough-acting demon with a good heart. He's not interested in fighting so much as finding a certain someone.

  • Good Old Fisticuffs: His weapon of choice. Unlike many other demons, Ted has no true attack spells. Instead, he gets . . .
  • Super Mode/Shonen Upgrade: Ted's gears. They can only be used in sequence, one at a time, and each raises his speed and strength to formidable heights.

Earth & Elly

Riya & Aleshie

Karudio & Sauza

Initially presented as opponents to Ponygon, they later join the heroes to fight the Faudo cultists.

  • An Ice Person: Karudio has ice powers, in contrast to Ponygon's fire.
  • Harmless Freezing: Surprisingly, a subversion. Karudio's final spell produces such sheer cold that it's even dangerous for himself.

Ashuron & Riin Vise

Ashuron first makes his appearance as one of the final ten demons in the fight, an incredibly powerful dragon. After testing Zatch in battle, he reveals that he is seeking to defeat Clear Note, an evil demon with considerable strength of his own.

Cherish & Nicole

The demon girl who Ted is looking for, and the one who inspired him to defend people who are too weak to defend themselves. Her spell consists in creating crystals.

  • Broken Pedestal: Albeit subverted.
  • Gemstone Assault: The Kofaru spell family.
  • Little Miss Badass
  • Magic Mirror / Cool Gate: Two of these were apparently summoned by the Gurādo Ma Kofaru spell in the manga. Cherish uses them for exit portals for the projectiles of the aforementioned spell. Basically allows her to fire from three different locations without moving.
  • Samus Is a Girl: Ted actually believed that Nicole was a boy when he met her by the first time, due of the clothes she was using.
  • Small Girl, Big Gun / Sniper Rifle: The Gurādo Ma Kofaru spell in the manga. Still fires diamonds.

Suzume Mizuno/Suzy Mizuno

Kiyomaro's friend from school, she's ditzy and cheerful and has a huge crush on him. One of the first friend Kiyomaru has.

Major Villains

Zofis


Koko

Actually not a villain herself, but manipulated by Zofis. Sherry's oldest and most trusted friend.

  • Affably Evil: Rarely loses her cute, smiling demeanor even when she's being evil.
  • Break the Cutie: Her backstory. Zofis is able to use this to his advantage. Then she attempts to do this to Sherry...
  • Broken Pedestal: It seems this way at first, when Koko, under Zofis' control, tries to break Sherry's spirit by revealing that she actually hates Sherry and is a truly evil person all on her own. Subverted in that, in the end, this really is all a trick of Zofis', and Koko really is the good friend Sherry remembered her being.
  • Cuddle Bug: She sure likes to hug Zofis from behind. Considering she's been brainwashed, it's really creepy and squicky.
  • Hey, It's That Voice!: English voice actress, Lara Jill Miller, is also well-known for her role as Kari from Digimon.
  • Laser-Guided Amnesia: Zofis removes all memories of her actions while evil. He refuses to do so until Brago tells him that if he doesn't, he will personally make Zofis' life in the demon world a living hell.
  • Mind Control Eyes
  • More Than Mind Control: Zofis attempts to convince Sherry it's this. It almost works.
    • In some ways it is. Unlike other people whose minds Zofis simply controlled, Zofis created an entirely different personality out of the dark feelings in Koko's heart so that she would be his bookkeeper. Zofis restores her heart to normal after he gets beaten.
  • Put on a Bus: Despite her being Sherry's initial reason for fighting, she totally disappears after Zofis is sent back. Justified, in that she goes off to college and Sherry wouldn't want to remind her of the battle anyway.

Riou/Leo

A four-legged beastlike demon who seeks to resurrect the giant demon Faudo for his own goals.

Zeon/Zeno Bell

A demon with strong electrical powers who looks uncannily like Zatch. He's tied to the loss of Zatch's memories.

  • Arch Enemy: To Zatch
  • Big Bad: For the last half of the Faudo arc, and for most of the series seeing as he's the one who removed Zatch's memories.
  • Evil Albino
  • Cain and Abel
  • Creepy Child
  • Evil Twin: Of Zatch, natch. Literally.
  • Flanderization: His anime counterpart. In the manga, Zeon does start out rather dickish but as the battle goes on we start to see he does have a noble side and that his actions were purely driven by jealously which he eventually overcomes once he sees Zatch's past. In the anime, no such development exists, he's evil through and through and has nothing but contempt for Zatch to the bitter end, even when he's beaten. This was because the author had broken his hand as he was in the midst of the story arc and the anime rapidly caught up before he could do the battle between Zatch and Zeno. So the animation staff just had to go with anything and just ran with what they had.
  • Freudian Excuse: His grudge against Zatch? He believed that, since Zatch got the incredible power of Bao, and he himself had to go through Training from Hell, that his parents favored Zatch. Once he sees Zatch's memories for himself, he has a moment of Heel Realization and repents.
  • The Heavy
  • Heel Face Turn
  • Shock and Awe
  • Slasher Smile: Very fond of these.
  • You Cannot Grasp the True Form of Baou Zakeruga. Not until he sees Gash and Kiyomaro nearly devoured by its power, he doesn't.

Dufort

Zeon's partner, a mysterious, quiet young man of initially unclear origin.

  • Evil Albino
  • Awesomeness By Analysis
  • Freudian Excuse: Dufort was raised in a lab environment from childhood, treated cruelly and anyone kind to him was removed. After years of torment and testing, he was given one final battery of tests that opened the path to his release, all while taunted by the scientist who had ruled his life. Turns out that A)His Answer Talker was being used for military application, B) He was being released into the Arctic to die rather than being freed, and, oh, C) His mother sold him for ten thousand dollars. Teaming up with Zeon doesn't seem so far-fetched, considering...
  • Nietzsche Wannabe: Justified with his past.
  • Not Good with People
  • The Mentor: During the Clear Note arc, he helps the remaining protagonists bring out their greatest potential via his use of the Answer Talker.
  • The Stoic
  • Walking the Earth

Clear Note

The final villain of the series, an incredibly powerful demon who lives for destruction.


Supporting/Minor Villains

Papipurio & Lupa

Patty/Penny & Uri/Ururu

Gash self proclaimed lover who chase after him for long times. Partner with Uri, a poor man who Patty promised to help take of his hungry family in exchange for helping her find Gash.

  • Big Eater with a Sweet Tooth.
  • Distaff Counterpart:To Zatch. When she cut off her hair she look almost exactly like him. Their spell mirror each other and notibly "So Giaku" and "Baou Zakeruga".
  • Evil Is Petty: She joins in with Zofis simply because Zatch doesn't remember her in the demon world despite the fact he lost his memory. They did try to explain this to her but Kiyo flubbed the explanation making Penny think she was being taken advantage of.
  • Goofy Print Underwear
  • Heel Face Turn
  • Important Haircut: Cuts it off to use in distracting Demolt, cementing her Heel Face Turn. The grand finale shows she keeps the shorter hairstyle.
  • Making a Splash
  • Our Dragons Are Different: So Giaku, the dragon of water and Shin So Giaku.
  • Pet the Dog: Though she was totally selfish and committed illegal acts in order to do this, her helping provide for Uri's family was pretty nice of her.
  • Tsundere: Towards Byonko.
  • Yandere - Towards Gash. Hoo boy. Finally stops being one with her Heel Face Turn, though.

Byonko & Alvin

Rodeaux & Chita

Rodeaux is a powerful winged demon that allies with Riou to wake up Faudo.

  • Emotionless Girl: Chita. until Rodeaux tells her to stand up for her true feelings before he vanishes.
  • Pet the Dog: The speech that Rodeaux gives to Chita before Zeon burns his book, telling her to find her own willpower.
  • Winged Humanoid: Rodeaux.

Zaruchim

Keith

One of the demon kids who team up with Riou to wake up Faudo, Keith's reason for doing so is mainly to take Faudo's power for himself. He holds a personal rivalrly with Bari.

Goomu & Mir


Thousand-Year Old Demons

Goren

Although not one of the demons Zatch and company fight, Goren is important because his spell is the one that sealed so many demons into stone in the first place. Did not become king, ultimately, as that honor went to Zatch and Zeon's father.

Laila & Albert

A young female demon who was trapped in stone for 1000 years. She is the only one who disagrees with Zofi's plans, and helps Gash's group upon their arrival in the Devolo Ruins.

Victoream

A melon-obsessed demon whose head looks like the letter V. Appears for only a short time, but remains one of the most popular characters of the series.

Tsao-lon

  • Trick Boss: The real threat is his human partner Genzo!

Belgim E.O.

Pamoon

  • Anti-Villain: Unlike the other 4, all he wants is to not be turned to stone again by Zophis.
  • Brick Joke: Remember that stone Kiyo found and did all those weird things to...? He remembers it all.
  • Star Power
  • Redemption Equals Book Burning: After he loses and decides to fight with Zatch, Zophis appears and burns his book.

Demolt

Minor Characters

Naomi

Zatch's number one nemesis who bullies him throughout the story and is the only one that he can't defeat.

Wife(Sabae)

The math teaher's wife.

  • Gag Boobs
  • Gonk: Her face and limbs makes her look nothing like any normal human in the show.

Ms.Wriggle/Monmon-sensei

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  1. ↑ At the cost of not being able to use any other spells. Thankfully Kiyo figured this out pretty quickly.
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