Karakter & Staf — Inukami!

Keita Kawahira

Utama

Male · Umur 17

Keita is the male lead of the show. He was considered a failure by his family due to his attitude towards their ancient duty to vanquish evil, treating it like a parttime job, and his initial inability to find an Inukami to bond with. Even though Youko becomes his inukami and is fully interested in him, he has a bad habit of flirting with other girls; it is later revealed that Keita is mortified by the thought that, if he should develop a relationship with Yôko, he might become the father of a litter of puppies, rather than of a human baby. He is frequently punished for his transgressions by Yôko, to whom he had to promise that he would be loyal to her, that he would be hers and that he would be her toy, to do with whatever she wanted, before she would contract with him. He wears a dog's collar as a symbol of this pact - an item he originally intended as his 'vow gift' to Yôko. Yôko has frequently landed him in jail by teleporting him into a public place without his clothes, causing him to be mistaken for a streaker and arrested for indecent exposure. Due to this, he has been named Ra-ou (Naked King) by the city's perverts (male and female alike). Keita possesses considerable athletic skills, can make frog-shaped talismans up to around the size of his fist from rubber which he can use to make ranged attacks and is a practitioner of xingyiquan. However, a shinigami named 'Sea of Violence' commented his martial arts skill lack style. Despite his many flaws, Keita has considerable redeeming qualities; he is determined, usually fearless and loyal to his friends and to people under his protection.

Jun Fukuyama

Youko

Utama

Female

Youko is the female lead of the series. She has two main abilities. The first is jaen where she shoots a coiling strand of fire out of her fingertips. There is also dai-jaen which is just a larger, more powerful variation. The second ability is shukichi, an ability which allows her to teleport objects. Strangely enough, although she is generally fearless in the face of evil spirits, she is terrified of normal dogs. During an escape from Hake, she met the child Keita, who was with her for three days and shared his chocolate cake with her, which became one of her favorite things. Due to this incident, she wanted to become Keita's inukami to make a contract with him. Youko has feelings for Keita and she gets angry whenever he flirts with other girls.

Yui Horie

Hake

Pendukung

Male

Hake is the Inukami of the head of the family who gives out most of the missions for the other members of the Kawahira family. He made a contract with the head of the family when she was near Keita's age on a Non-contract day (coincidently her birthday fifty years before the start of the series), which he claims was because he was bored with his eternal, uneventful life. The contract item he was given are the decorative beads he wears. Also, there is evidence that his weakness are fleas.

Toshihiro Nakamura

Kaoru Kawahira

Pendukung

Male · Umur 16

Kaoru is Keita's cousin. Contrary to Keita, Kaoru has a pack of 10 Inukami and he is generally well-thought of, being more restrained and respectable of demeanor, although he is no less kind at heart. All Kaoru's inukami care deeply for him and he seems to return the sentiment, although his connection with Nadeshiko is strongest of all and is probably romantic in nature. Like Keita, Kaoru is quite athletic and a powerful magic-user; his signature move is to command the wind to deliver destructive blasts with the medium of an orchestra conductor's baton.

Yuki Kaida

Nadeshiko

Pendukung

Female

Nadeshiko is an Inukami from the same area as Yōko, who has contracted with Keita's cousin, Kaoru. In sharp contrast to all other Inukami on the show, she initially appears to be pacifistic and to regret the vanquishing of spirits and monsters. She constantly wears maid attire, and it is worth noting that Nadeshiko sees Keita's positive qualities from the start and may once have considered contracting with him. She and Kaoru seem to share a special bond that causes some jealousy from her pack-mates at times. Nadeshiko's senses are apparently keener than those of the other Inukami and Yōko has said that Nadeshiko has an ability the rest of her pack lacks.

Kaori Nazuka

Tomohane

Pendukung

Female · Umur 11

Tomohane is the youngest of the pack of Inukami that has contracted with Kaoru. She has the special ability to track the path of otherworldly entities and apparently has some skill with chemistry. As the youngest and weakest member of her pack, Tomohane fears that she will hold her allies back and so she tries very hard to keep up with the rest of the Inukami. After an adventure involving Keita and a minor spirit-creature - a mujina - which she later adopted as a pet and named Maron, Tomohane was the second of Kaoru's Inukami to recognize Keita's good side.

Shizuka Hasegawa

Sendan

Pendukung

Female · Umur 124

Sendan is the leader of Kaoru's pack of Inukami. She seems strict and demanding, but appears so because she seems to have the wellbeing of her contractor and master at heart at all times. Only perfect service is good enough for 'Kaoru-sama'. Sendan is the younger sister of Hake, the male Inukami that serves the head of the Kawahira family. Like her older brother, she always carries around a fan.

Yuki Matsuoka

Igusa

Pendukung

Female · Umur 124

Igusa is another member of the pack that serves Kaoru. She has green hair, which she wears in two braids and she wears spectacles. Igusa secretly writes shōnen manga under the pseudonym 'Ruriko Saffron' and is extremely shy, causing her to be nervous when around Keita when he's in a perverted mood or when she perceives him to be thus. Despite her fear of perversion in men, she appears to be a closet fan of shōnen-ai situations herself - a fact she apparently hides from her fellow pack members.

Youko Honda

Tayune

Pendukung

Female · Umur 17

Tayune is the sporty-looking, short-haired member of the pack that serves Kaoru. Tayune is a physical person, quick to beat Keita when she feels he is being perverted towards her, quite loud and prideful. Oddly, she is apparently also deathly afraid of ghost stories and scary things. In combat, she sometimes wields a short staff as a blunt weapon. She is often teased by her fellow Inukami for being scared, and for supposedly getting all "Lovey-dovey" when Keita is mentioned. Tayune is brutally powerful in combat, possibly second only to Nadeshiko when the latter is fully empowered among Kaoru's inukami

Rika Morinaga

Gokyouya

Pendukung

Female

A grey-haired Inukami who near-constantly wears a white lab coat and may be the oldest of Kaoru's Inukami. Gokyouya is studying seriously to become a doctor at some point and is close friends with two other of Kaoru's Inukami, Furano and Tensou. Before she became Kaoru's inukami, she was linked by contract to Keita's father, Souta; she still has warm feelings for him, which she has in part transferred to Keita, although she does not appear to have any romantic affections towards him. Gokyouya may be the oldest of Kaoru's inukami, as she displays greater maturity than many of her pack members.

Eriko Kigawa

Imari

Pendukung

Female

One of the twin sister's, Inukami xontracted to Kaoru. Her hair is a light purple tied into one ponytail, on the right of her head. Her hobby is growing weird vegetables and plants and testing out their effects, mainly on Keita.

Aya Endou

Sayoka

Pendukung

Female

One of the twin sisters Inukami, contracted to Kaoru. Her hair is a light purple tied into one ponytail, on the left, held by a giant bead. In combat, she typically teams up with Imari, on enemies, attacking from opposing sides and sometimes taking items from their target as they strike.

Ryouko Shintani

Furano

Pendukung

Female

An Inukami in Kaoru's pack who wears miko attire and has short yellow hair. She has a limited ability to predict the future, though this seems to be a random chance. Furano is one of the least bashful and shy of the inukami in service to Kaoru, as she showed willingness to strip for Keita so that she could obtain the Number One ranking in Kaoru's household. She responded positively to Karina having his hand on her breast and is also of age, as she confirmed when she said that she could "Perform a little extra fan service" since she was "An 18+ character". She is closest to Gokyouya and Tensou among her fellow inukami.

Shion Hirota

Tensou

Pendukung

Female

An Inukami in Kaoru's pack. She wears overalls and has long brown hair that falls down to cover her eyes. Tensou rarely talks, instead opting to draw on her sketch pad a picture of what the person just described. The drawings are done fast and with much detail and accuracy. When Tensou does speak, it is in a low, quiet voice, normally only supplementing what others say. She is perhaps the most reclusive of the Inukami, but is close friends with Gokyouya and Furano.

Akiko Kobayashi

Dai Yoko

Pendukung

Dai Yōko is a great monster that manipulates the dark side, petrifies his opponents, specializes in fire based spells shakes the universe with a single leap and can do anything with his breath. He is strong and arrogant. When he feels irritated, he will destroy a whole mountain. Dai Yōko is an elder kitsune who was sealed under a large stone by the founding patriarch of the Kawahira family and is also the father of Yōko. Dai Yōko is also a doting father. He is apparently incapable of being angry with his daughter, although she twice aided in sealing him to prevent him from doing damage. A bit of an embarrassing parent, Dai Yōko revealed he has been keeping a picture diary of every moment in his daughter's life, no matter how private. He is initially dead-set against his daughter being together with Keita. In past times, Dai Yōko apparently defeated the evil wizard Sekidousai in single combat. The reason he came up against the Kawahira family is that he wanted to conquer their mountain ... so his daughter would have a place to nap.

Nobutoshi Kanna

Shirou Karina

Pendukung

Male

Karina is a police official who frequently calls on Keita and Yōko for help with cases that have a spirit, monster or magical event at its core. He has stated that he is collecting the "devil's toys" created by an ancient wizard named Sekidōsai. He has more than once gotten Keita off the hook when the latter is once again arrested for indecent exposure after angering Yōko. Karina wields an enchanted weapon he calls Angel Blade in combat. One of its signature attacks is the Holy Crush. It is later revealed that Sekidōsai is his ancestor; the two men look very much alike, except for their different hair colours. Their characters are very different as well; whereas Karina is a morally upstanding person, Sekidōsai is a pervert. However, it is later hinted at that, subconsciously, Karina may be a pervert, although definitely not to the same extent as his ancestor. He is frequently shown in a variety of fetishes, some granted by misinterpreted wishes and others the products of his subconscious desires.

Shou Hayami

Sekidousai

Pendukung

Male

Norio Wakamoto

Kei Shindou

Pendukung

Nana Mizuki

Tomekichi

Pendukung

Umur 4

Tomekichi is 'the traveling cat', a two-tailed nekomata (a feline spirit-being capable of walking upright and speech, said to grow to about the size of a dog) who is traveling around to search for missing statues. The kindly feline is doing so in honor of a priest who once took care of it, even though the priest is now presumably deceased. Even though his main duty is to search for missing statues, he is also seen taking various jobs, such as being a referee for a medium's tournament. Tomekichi apparently holds considerable esteem among his own people; on one occasion, he lead several other felines in the performing of a barrier spell-chant, which was cast in his name.