The story starts out with the Battle of the Supernatural Powers, a tournament to decide who will be the next God of Heaven (rendered as Kami (天界人) in the Japanese version).
Each candidate (100 in total) is required to choose a junior high school student (middle school) to act as their fighter. Each student is given a unique power and the winning God Candidate will become The New God of Heaven and the winning student will receive the Blank Zai (or talent), a talent that can be anything they choose.
While this leads many students to thoughts of greed and selfishness, Kosuke Ueki has decided to take it upon himself to win this tournament to keep that power away from those that would abuse such a gift.
Kosuke Ueki
(植木 耕助 Ueki Kōsuke?) Voiced by: Romi Paku (Japanese), Cole Howard (English)
- Gender: Male
- Age: 13
- Birth date: 4th July
- Blood type: A
- Ability: Change trash into trees
Kosuke Ueki is the main character in the series. He is in Class 1-C at Hinokuni Junior High School. Ueki's ability was given by Kobayashi (a.k.a. Mr. K), who is also Ueki's homeroom teacher. His level 2 power is to reverse the power of his enemy. He is also seen wearing pinkish-red shoes during his first fight with Robert Haydn.
Ueki is an unusually calm individual, and doesn't care about what happens to him. He can be found snoozing in class, letting children use him as a target for shooting soccer balls (or in one case, a surfboard),and also calling the police without panicking when he faced a gang of rowdy teenagers. However, he cares for people around them, even going as far as saving Robert Haydn from falling debris in the Dogura Mansion.
According to a short profile of the main characters of The Law of Ueki (published in the end of manga vol. 16 by the author), Ueki's hobbies include cleaning up his town. In the first volume of the manga, Ueki is seen planting trees in the town park.
Ueki is a genuinely kind person who is always trying to help people. Ueki is actually a heavenly being sent to Earth by his father in order to take part in this tournament. Being a heavenly being allows him powers beyond his tree-making skills.
It seems he may have a crush on Ai (especially in the manga), but it is not admitted in the anime series.
[edit] Ai Mori
(森 あい Mori Ai?) Voiced by: Tomoko Kawakami (Japanese), Lori Barnes-Smith (English)
- Gender: Female
- Age: 13
- Birth date: 8th August
- Blood type: A
- Ability: Change her opponent into a glasses-lover (any glasses)
Ai Mori is one of Ueki's classmates at Hinokuni Junior High School. When in a casual mood, Ai is usually upbeat and friendly, although she is often shown with a very shallow side, initially believing that all power-users (with the exception of Ueki) were dangerous enemies that couldn't be trusted. Still, Ai cares deeply for her friends, especially Ueki. She discovers Ueki's power early on, coming to a rather unusual conclusion and at first believing him to be an alien. Upon learning of the competition Ueki is in, she decides to back him up, to keep him from losing all his talents and disappearing because of it.
She is strict with Ueki at times, especially when he looks like he is about to do something rash. Ai continuously tries to be his voice of reason, although her shallow antics and outspoken personality often annoys him. Later on in the series, she was given an ability. The ability was given by the King of the Celestial World Candidate, Wanko, during Ueki's fight with Sano. However, her power's condition is that her opponent must perform a goody-two-shoes pose (raising the right leg backwards while putting both of the fists close to the mouth region). Once this power is activated, her opponent falls totally in love with Ai's glasses and will do anything to keep them from harm, even defeat themselves.
The food she cooks tends to look rather odd and off-putting (usually with squirming octopus tentacles), but it still tastes good. It seems she may have a crush on Ueki, but it is not admitted in the series.
[edit] Kobayashi
(小林 Kobayashi?) Voiced by: Katsuji Mori (Japanese), Ben Jeffrey (English)
- Gender: Male
- Nickname: Mr. K (English), (コバセン Kobasen?)
Kobayashi, nicknamed as Mr. K (Kobasen in the Japanese versions), is a teacher at Hinokuni Junior High School. Mr. K is also a King of the Celestial World Candidate who gives Ueki his power. He is Ueki's homeroom teacher and had been carefully studying him in order to judge his worth for the tournament.
Kobayashi is usually a laid-back, forgetful, and friendly man, although he can be quite serious, depending on the situation. He has a very strong sense of justice, actually inspiring Ueki long ago when he saved him from falling off a building, and acts as both his mentor and role model. He was sent to Hell for saving (and thus helping) Ueki in his first fight against Robert Haydn.
It is mentioned in the show that Kobayashi's least favourite food is pickled crickets.
[edit] Seiichiro Sano
(佐野 清一郎 Sano Seiichirō?) Voiced by: Soichiro Hoshi (Japanese), Beau Thompson (English)
- Gender: Male
- Age: 15
- Birth date: 6th February
- Blood type: O
- Ability: Change towels into steel
Sano can change towels into steel by holding his breath, however as of late it now works as if it where voice activated, no longer does it show Sano holding his breath at all but rather giving out commands to the towels.
Sano, a 9th grader at Inaho Junior High School, was known as the Genius of Robert's Ten while he was part of it. But he had joined because the leader of Robert's Ten (Karlpaccho) had placed a Death Pentagon on Sano's King of the Celestial World Candidate Inumaru that would kill him by removing all his blood unless he listened to Robert.
Sano can be creative with his power, creating shields, springboards (spring) and even boomerangs which he calls "boomerang cutter".
He has a burn over his left eye which was caused during an accident with a hot spring. Still, he does love those hot springs and hopes to get the blank talent to obtain the talent of discovery in order to find a hot spring of his own.
His Level 2 makes his steel towels into powerful magnets. Seems to possess a ridiculous amount of his necessary towels, pulling them out of his robe in rapid succession. Sano is seen teaming up with Rinko in various episodes.
[edit] Inumaru
(犬丸 Inumaru?) Voiced by: Akira Ishida (Japanese), Scott Roberts (English)
- Gender: Male
- Nicknames: Wanko (ワンコ?)
The King of the Celestial World Candidate who gave Sano his powers. The two officially paired up for the tournament when Sano risked his life to save a child from a burning building, and Inumaru did likewise despite Sano threatening that he would not join if Inumaru did so.
Inumaru had said that he could not ignore people in danger regardless of the reason, which prompted Sano to join, and to think of Inumaru as his friend rather than his Candidate. In Dogura Mansion, after being told that Sano joined Robert's Ten to save him from the Death Pentagon (a small black bug that Karlpacchio attached to Wanko's neck, that would suck all of Wanko's blood out of him on command, thus killing him).
He gave Mori a power, thus breaking the most important rule of the tournament, in order to force himself to go to Hell so that the others would be saved from certain circumstances that threatened the rest of the Ueki Team.
[edit] Rinko Jerrard
(鈴子･ジェラード Rinko Jerādo?) Voiced by: Mamiko Noto (Japanese), Angie Beers (English)
- Gender: Female
- Age: 15
- Birth date: 24th December
- Blood type: AB
- Ability: Change beads into bombs
She creates special accessories in order to use her beads in more constructive ways such as:
- Platform shoes - Made of a special alloy and then filled with beads she can detonate to perform what she calls the Rinko Rocket. She uses this to blast herself up into the air
- Beads Cannon - Special metal tubes that are filled with beads and then go over her fingers so that she can detonate one bead and send the rest of them rapidly at her opponents.
She came from a rich family and many people had pretended to be her friend so that she would buy them things. Rinko has a crush on Robert since he treated her as a real friend, and so she joined Robert's Ten, but she eventually saw that he just wanted to use her as well and joined up with Ueki.
Rinko's Celestial King Candidate is a man named Nikay, one of Margarette's followers whom she hasn't seen since the battle began.
She loves all animals, taking an immediate liking to Tenko (which she tried to change his name into "Tenki"), but her weakness for cute things makes her vulnerable to Ban's power.
Her recent accessory is a special glove hidden with beads inside when used with her power, producing a force impact that claims to be as great as a missile.
Note that it is wise not to insult her no matter what, or another personality of her's will surface that will turn hell for the person who insulted her.
She doesn't seem to realise that she has an "evil" side and fortunately for her that she forgets whatever her "evil" side says or does. This "evil" side seems to be activated whenever someone insults her.
The only example of this is when Ban called her an 'insect' which caused her to become furious and unlock her "evil" side. In the end of the manga series, she confessed her love to Robert, but Robert insults her and bring her "evil" side surface. Robert became her second victim and had to be hospitalized for a fortnight.
In the epilogue at the last episode of the anime, Ai said that Rinko and Robert only dated once but Rinko dumped Robert because she suddenly felt a strange feeling about Sano.
She is seen teaming up with Sano in various episodes.
[edit] Hideyoshi Soya
(宗屋 ヒデヨシ Sōya Hideyoshi?) Voiced by: Kappei Yamaguchi (Japanese), Chris Ippolito (English)
- Gender: Male
- Birth date: 5th May
- Blood type: O
- Ability: Turn voices into portraits
His ability to turn voices into portraits can make voices come out of them. The condition is that he needs to bend his fingers or toes.
He is a power user that Ueki and Mori meet. He is prone to deception, using various novelty gags and tricks in a fight such as soy sauce bomber. He looks out for a group of kids at a place called the Sun House.
His first King of the Celestial World Candidate, Nero, was a kind heavenly being that did not want to become the King of the Celestial World; he simply wanted to help out humans which he did at the Sun House. Soya offered to become gifted so that Nero could stay longer on Earth. Unfortunately, he helped Soya during a fight and was sent to Hell.
Then, Soya received a new King of the Celestial World Candidate, Zack, whom he hates for turning out to be a jerk and wanting him to join forces with a nasty bunch of power users. He agrees to help Ueki when he hears that they can save Nero. Although sometimes cowardly and weak when Soya performs his sneak attacks in conjunction with his power he can be a formidable foe.
In one occasion, he combined Sano's power with his to make a shock wave made out of sound. In addition, his ability to use his opponent voices as well work with his tricks making it easier to deceive his foes.
At the end of the series, Ai refers him as the useless member of Team Ueki.
[edit] Tenko
(テンコ?) Voiced by: Chiwa Saitō (Japanese), Mariette Sluyter (English) (small) and Voiced by: Takashi Nagasako (Japanese), Jonathan Love (English) (big)
A large tailess yellow fox-like creature with a duiker-like horns on his head, ten blue beady eyes with the main pair three to six times larger than the other pairs, black bat-like wings, brown stripes on his limbs and with no visible ears that helps Ueki awaken his celestial powers.
He can also change his shape to fit onto Ueki's wrist like an arm protector used by goaltenders in ice hockey to give him advice,he seems to be able to communicate with Ueki telepathically. He is a Heavenly Beast that is something of a mutation among his kind (he is born as an ancient version of Heavenly Beast, which is a ferocious-looking Godzilla-sized fox-like creature instead of an adorable cat-sized genetically-engineered house pet).
He was treated very poorly by Heavenly Beings and Ueki was the first to actually treat him with some kindness and respect. He is able to detect the power level of Heavenly Beings (his eyes lights up and changes colour to red depending on which level the Heavenly Being is on) and because of his mutations has a bigger version of what is called the "awakening organ" that can awaken the hidden powers within Ueki.
Unfortunately, He can only use it to train Heavenly Beings up to 7 levels without dying for every Heavenly Being. This means that he can still use it to another Heavenly Being. Has an ability to spit out a large, roundish bunny creature that enveloped Ueki and heals him within 12 hours.
Fairly harsh with Ueki at times, but he is happy to have found someone who actually needs him. He also is very useful at giving advice in a fight (he is not allowed to fight or he will be sent to Hell); in the jump rope fight he told Ueki when the rope was coming and against the Marilyn team he warns Ueki about their location in the smoke.
[edit] Anon
(アノン?) Voiced by: Jun Fukuyama (Japanese), Sean Broadhurst (English)
Hanon in the English dub. He is from a race known as the Hellions, who come from the Protector clan. Anon can swallow and absorb people within himself, thus making their bodies his, as well as gaining whatever abilities they have such as Robert's power to make the ideal thing and his sacred treasures.
With a surprisingly humble nature, he has a hard time understanding humans and tends to experiment on them with reckless curiosity. Although it appears that Margarette is his father it is actually a Hellion who swallowed Margarette using his appearance.
Later in the series, he swallows King of the Celestial World and changes up the rules of round 4. He first told Ueki that his dream is to destroy everything, but in fact, his real dream is to have someone who can beat him.
[edit] Robert Haydn
(ロベルト・ハイドン Roberuto Haidon?) Voiced by: Mitsuki Saiga (Japanese), Sean Broadhurst (English)
- Gender: Male
- Age: 14 (1 year younger than Rinko)
- Ability: The power to turn ideas into reality
- Hate: Nothing
- Hobby: reading a book
Robert Haydn is a frightening person with an equally frightening power. He can boost his own natural sacred treasures by modifying them to a perfect ideal like absolute accuracy or ideal protection. The fault in this is that for every time he creates an ideal, he loses a year of his life, but once he creates this ideal he can use it any time he wants to. His abilites can't be used on living things, however, but his changes change as his ideals change, such as turning an unblockable Kurogane into a rapid-fire version. His level 2 power allows him to change gravity.
That is also why the reason he formed Robert's Ten. They act as his brawn, doing the fighting for him in order to save those precious years. He is a fairly nasty character, not caring who he harms and how badly they are harmed. Like Ueki, he is a Heavenly Being with more power than the gift given by his King of the Celestial World Candidate.
But unlike Ueki, however, Robert has been training in his power for quite a long time. Robert has an unfortunate past in which he was treated as a monster by the people of his town. After being betrayed by his friends, he starts to hate humanity and destroyed the entire village where he lived (1/3 in the manga).
At the end of the series, he becomes a nice person like his childhood self, having been touched by Ueki and his friends.[1]
[edit] Margarette
Voiced by: Shūichi Ikeda (Japanese), Jonathan Love (English)
He is Robert's father and the King of the Celestial World Candidate who gave him his power. Margarette sent his own son to Earth so that he could choose him for the tournament. Not above sneaky tactics to ensure his son's victory.
His body was possessed by a Hellion with the intention of taking over Heaven. He later puts Ueki in his awakening organ (It turns out that he also absorbed Heavenly Beasts similar to Tenko), and advances Ueki to his 9 and 10 star treasures.[2]
[edit] Robert's Ten
The secret group of gifted students who fight for Robert Haydn.
[edit] Kageo Kuroki
(黒木影男 Kuroki Kageo?) Voiced by: Yusei Oda (Japanese), Jeffrey Watson (English)
- Gender: Male
- Nickname: Black Shadow
- Ability: Change his shadows into clay men
He can create more than one clay man - even altering their appearance - which can confuse the enemy and thus keep them from finding the real Black Shadow. His favorite technique though is to create a giant clay man. If the sun disappears, so does his power.
He was the captain of his school basketball team, but because of an unfair ruling that disqualified his team from entering a tournament, he became the unemotional person who joined ranks with Robert.
During his fight with Ueki, he was defeated by a fellow member of Robert's Ten. Ueki luckily got through to him (with the help of Kuroki's little brother) and even though he was knocked unconscious he becomes good again.
[edit] Kamui Rosso
Voiced by: Harumi Sakurai (Japanese), Annika Odegard (English)
- Gender: Male
- Nickname: White Shadow
- Ability: Change his shadows into robots
Kamui has little respect for anyone, adhering to the motto “I don’t need any robots that won’t listen to me.” After knocking Kageo, his fellow teammate out, Ueki knocks him out of the tournament with some cunning tree manipulation.
[edit] Alessio Juliano
Voiced by: Ken Narita (Japanese), Charles Heffernan (English)
- Gender: Male
- Ability: Change dirt into a scythe
He is very loyal to Robert and will not stand for just anyone to join the group. He is a very short-tempered individual whom Ueki cannot help but irritate. Upon realizing his heavenly powers, Ueki puts him down for the count with Kurogane.
[edit] Don
Voiced by: Kōji Ishii (Japanese), Ben Jeffery (English)
- Gender: Male
- Ability: Change his ring into a rocket
Don is very proud of his strength and he always has a huge smile on his face even though he has a very large mean streak to him. Don has 320 different talents, all of which have to do with brute strength.
In the manga, Don only has 52 talents, but their strength more than makes up for their number. Don presumably lost his talents by indiscriminately beating up people outside the tournament to show his power. Ueki retires him from the tournament with his newfound ability of Masshu.
[edit] Marco Maldini
Voiced by: Shō Hayami (Japanese), Randy Brososky (English)
- Gender: Male
- Ability: Change tomatoes into magma
An expert chef who is in charge of cooking for Robert's Ten. He gets very angry when anyone insults his cooking (like Ueki did when he dumped the soup on Alessio's head).
Marco is one of the members who considers victory all that matters, nearly killing former teammates Don and Alessio with his magma, and threatening Rinko when she defects. Again, Masshu was the method Ueki used to defeat him.
[edit] Rinko Jerrard
She was one of Robert's Ten, but she changes allegiances to Ueki's group. See above for more information.
[edit] Oni
(鬼?) Voiced by: Chikao Ōtsuka
- Gender: Male
- Ability: Change bamboo swords into hedge clippers
Ogre wears an all black outfit with horns and a forehead protector which is actually a form of chain mail. He doesn't say much, but he is able to defeat most opponents quickly. He is shown defeating an unnamed opponent (Kagura in the anime) with the power to change leaves into blades, but because he defeated him so quickly, it is unknown if he used his sword or his hedge clippers. Usually seen with Becky. Ueki defeats him with Ranma.
[edit] Becky Wolf
Voiced by: Yumiko Kobayashi (Japanese), Suzette Mattar (English)
- Gender: Female
- Ability: Change BB bullets into meteorites
The shortest member of the Ten, she hates to be ignored or being called small or a child. In spite of her tough appearance, in the Japanese version, she ends most of her sentences with the word, desu. Ueki retires her with Masshu.
[edit] Taro Myojin
(明神太郎 Myōjin Tarō?) Voiced by: Mayumi Yamaguchi (Japanese), Mike Thiessen (English)
- Gender: Male
- Abilities: Change his whistle (the sound, not the object) into a laser, change fans/cards (menko) into buzzsaws".
The buzzsaw can only be avoided by jumping. Dodging it will only result in it following the target. This is used in combination with the laser so that when they jump from the buzzsaw, they are easy targets for the laser.
He was given powers by two King of the Celestial World Candidates who were in cahoots with each other, but changed their minds after seeing Robert in action.
In the Japanese version, he has a speech impediment that often causes him to elongate his pronunciation of the consonant "s," but in the American dub he instead appends "like" to nearly each sentence he utters. Neither of these carries over into the English translation of the manga.
Myojin fits the same personality type as most of the other Ten members, seeing friendship as weakness and showing no mercy. This makes for a very hard character shift from his goofy simpleton looks. Myojin was the one who recruited Ueki to join Robert's Ten. Ueki retires him with Masshu.
[edit] Carl P. Accio
Voiced by: Wataru Takagi (Japanese), Roger Rhodes (English)
- Gender: Male
- Nickname: Carpaccio
- Ability: Copy another person's power
Carl , Robert's second in command, has the power to copy another person's power. The condition is that he has to spend 24 hours within 10 meters of them. He used this to acquire the powers of all of the other members of Robert's Ten.
He has two powers from outside the Ten which are the power to change the opponent's thoughts to a cell phone Text-message and the power to reverse one's position with the opponent's.
He uses all of these powers in combat and may actually have had more, but it is unknown as he was knocked out by Ueki's Masshu. Carl is a very sneaky (yet ironically loud) type who isn't above underhanded tactics to get what he or Robert wants.
In the manga, he is portrayed as somewhat girl-crazy.[3]
[edit] Yunpao
(ユンパオ?) Voiced by: Akiko Yajima (Japanese), Caitlynne Medrek (English)
- Gender: Male
- Ability: Change electricity into sugar
A rotund youth with "the power to " when he keeps his eyes open. A replacement member of Robert's Ten. Utilises his limiting condition, as when he closes his eyes, the sugar turns back into electricity which can make for a devastating attack. This is changed to opening his eyes very wide in the anime.
Also, Yunpao uses strange poses to distract his enemies from his large eyes and appears to be quite acrobatic as well. Loves sweets. Ueki retires him with a Pick. Yunpao seems unsuited to being in Robert's Ten, seemingly possessing no evil. He does, however, become very annoyed when he is interrupted while eating.
[edit] Ancho Kabara
(カバラ?) Voiced by: Noriaki Sugiyama (Japanese), Jordan Schartner (English)
- Gender: Male
- Ability: Change cloaks into wings
He is a replacement member of Robert's Ten. He can also shoot out the feathers on his wings as he turns them into wing shurikens. He is an expert hunter (assassin in the English manga) and is able to shoot pachinko balls with as much power as a bullet (In the manga, he throws kunais instead of pachinko balls).
He is very fond of showing off his marksmanship skills, even to the point where he will shoot any target in front of him. Due to an exploding cossack hat during his battle with Ai at the Dogura Mansion, he is bald the second time he appears. Kabara fits with most of the Robert's Ten because of his cold hunter nature.
He felt no qualms about letting Ai suffocate during the Cossack Dance Battle, and believes that friendship is weakness. Rinko retires him with a combination of her powers with her new made weapons.
[edit] Tournament Teams
There are five teams that made it to the final round of the tournament to choose the next King of the Celestial World. Other than Ueki's team, there is the Caption Team, Gurono Team, Marilyn Team and Barou Team. There is also Anon (disguised as Robert) and Li Ho who made it as teams of one each. Here are the various teams and their respective members.
[edit] Team Capucho
[edit] Capucho
Voiced by: Yu Asakawa (Japanese), Annika Odegard (English)
- Gender: Male
- Ability: Turn his voice into a freezing gas that encases whatever it covers
Leader of Capucho Team. He has a level two power which is a red gas that freezes things and makes them easily shattered by his attack alone. He wants Hideyoshi to join his group so that he could use his own power to send his freezing voice from multiple directions. Tends to get impatient and repeat certain words and phrases. His name is also written as Kapucho and Caption.
[edit] Mario
Voiced by: Hiroshi Kamiya (Japanese), Paul Hudson (English)
- Gender: Male
- Ability: Turn his body into a giant billiard ball
He likes to give his attacks English names that sound absolutely absurd, such as calling his billiard attack Super Dynamic Elegant Ball. This is because the anime states that English is his best subject.
[edit] Ugo
Voiced by: Kouki Miyata (Japanese), Ethan Cole (English)
- Gender: Male
- Ability: Turn rubber balls into acid
One of the power users that is trying to get Soya to join up with them. He is quite gullible and constantly falls for Soya's tricks, even though he claims he won't be fooled. Soya defeats him by stuffing nattō soybeans down his shirt and squirting wasabi sauce up his nose.
[edit] Nico
Voiced by: Masaya Matsukaze (Japanese), Jordan Schartner (English)
- Gender: Male
- Ability: Turn his hair into a high-powered drill
He likes to attack from the ground where he can surprise people. One of the gifted that is trying to get Soya to join up with them.
He is very vain, especially when it comes to his hair, and also tends to use the word beautiful in his sentences. He looks more like a beautiful girl rather than a boy and has a tendency to wear girlish clothes.
[edit] Zack
Voiced by: Osamu Ichikawa (Japanese), James D. Hopkins (English)
- Gender: Male
Soya's current King of the Celestial World Candidate who is actually a malicious individual who wants Soya to join his newly formed group to win the tournament.
[edit] Team Grano
[edit] Grano Kuwahara
- Gender: Male
- Ability: Turn a toy model into a real life working version
He is the leader of Team Gurano. He has the ability to turn a toy model (even a broken one) into a real life working version but he is required to play the toy model once. His level Two power is that he can control whatever he makes come to life. The condition for this power is that he has to believe whatever he is doing is right. He claims this is easy, because as far as he is concerned, anyone who stands in his way is evil.
He loves toy models and know about everything related to toys. Seems to put up a nice guy front but is actually quite mean. Beaten by Ueki and his model clone created by Gurano himself.
[edit] Pecol
Voiced by: Yui Horie (Japanese), Jordan Henkleman (English)
- Gender: Male
- Ability: Create photos into toy models
He is a very timid individual and has the ability to create photos into toy models. When teamed with Pecol, Grano is unstoppable because he has endless supply of models to use.
Pecol once saw his friend getting beaten up, but did nothing to help him because he was too afraid. He longs to be strong, but ends up being duped by Grano. He is later inspired by Ueki to follow his own path towards finding strength.
[edit] Guitar
Voiced by: Kentaro Ito (Japanese), Lucas Gilbertson (English)
- Gender: Male
- Ability: Turn his clothing into a barrier
He is able to turn his clothing into a barrier. His level Two is to attack within the barrier he makes on his opponent, but he cannot do both at the same time. He lied about his power saying he was invulnerable and that he could send out soundwaves, but that was just to scare his enemies.
He loves music, particularly karaoke, thus his name rhyming with a musical instrument but he is not very good at it.
[edit] Mūnin
Voiced by: Toshio Furukawa (Japanese), Ryan Stockert (English)
- Gender: Male
- Ability: Make bad puns to become real
He enjoys traditional poetry and tends to talk in a haiku pattern. He has the power to make bad puns become real on his opponents once he/she laughs. He is also able to turn the word attack on himself to attack his enemies.
He is seen wearing a ratty scarecrow-style hat.
[edit] Pastello
- Gender: Male
- Ability: Make his drawing into a portal
Pastello likes painting and expresses himself through colors like "lucky purple" and "happy pink". He can make his drawings into a portal and using his large brush, he can tickle the opponent through the portal, thus making them laugh and become exposed to Mūnin's word attacks.
[edit] Team Marilyn
[edit] Marilyn Carrey
(マリリン･キャリー Maririn Kyarī?) Voiced by: Satsuki Yukino (Japanese), Carol-Anne Day (English)
- Gender: Female
- Ability: Turn one second into ten seconds for herself
She uses this power to make her look like she's using super speed. Her Level 2 is the ability to double her attack power, but it's only limited to 10 minutes. When she activates it, a gauge appears on her neck and she will collapse after the gauge empties.
She claims to be proud of her upbringing and how she only feels truly alive when she is fighting, but this is a facade. She holds onto a childhood promise that forces her to keep fighting, despite her actual distaste for the act.
[edit] Memory
(メモリー Memorī?) Voiced by: Miri Kayahara (Japanese), Morgan Partridge (English)
- Gender: Female
- Ability: Creating traps from raw materials by sketching them
She uses her power with Putting's to make a combination attack. She is the first "victim" of Mori's power. A very competent field leader who acts as a spotter from higher ground.
She is also the smartest and the strictest of the team.
[edit] Matthew
(マシュー Mashū?) Voiced by: Shinichiro Miki (Japanese), Ryan Stockert (English)
- Gender: Male
- Ability: Triple his pair of hands
His power is the ability to triple his pair of hands, making him have six arms.
Matthew is something of a flirt when it comes to ladies. Like all the members of the Marilyn team, he just wants to see Marilyn smile.
[edit] Baron
(バロン Baron?) Voiced by: Banjou Ginga (Japanese), Adam Hunter (English)
- Gender: Male
- Ability: Able to move to wherever his knife is when he throws it
Baron is a knife user. He has the ability to move to wherever his knife is when he throws it. His level two is to immobilize himself and his opponent to the ground if he teleports within one meter of the person.
An honest and naive fellow and he always refers to himself in the third person in the Japanese version. He is very loyal to Marilyn and can be quite gullible due to the fact that he is tricked by Ueki repeatedly.
[edit] Putting
(プテｨング Putingu?)
- Gender: Male
- Ability: Changing his mouth into a dimensional portal
He uses his power with Memori's to transport materials above the enemy, while she uses her power to change them into traps.
[edit] Team Barou
[edit] Balo Escarotte
(バロウ･エシャロット Barou Esharotto?) Voiced by: Shihou Kawaragi
- Gender: Male
- Ability: Turn past visions into reality
He used this power in conjunction with his Sacred Treasures to create endless attacks. Largely concerned with achieving his goals, throwing aside anything that gets in the way of said objective.
He has a very sad past because he accidentally used Kurogane on his adoptive mother when he mistakes her as a burglar breaking into their home. She fell into a coma for several years and wakes up terrified when he actually does use his Kurogane on several burglars.
At that point, he ran out of their house thinking that he is a monster and joined Robert along with the rest of the team. He is a talented artist.
[edit] Ban Dicoot
(バン･ディクート Ban Dikūto?) Voiced by: Eiji Takamoto
- Gender: Male
- Ability: To animate and make things come alive
He has the ability to animate and make things come alive, usually with adorable faces attached to them. Likes to use the phrase To the max a lot.
He sports a green ducktail hairdo. Like Rinko, he adores all things cute, but he is the first person to fall victim to Rinko's "evil" side for calling her an insect and a small fry. He resembles Inuyama as a Rez-Boa-Dogz team leader in Air Gear
[edit] Diegostar
(デｨエゴスター Diegosutā?) Voiced by: Toru Ohkawa
- Gender: Male
- Ability: Turn all things invisible and colorless
He has the ability to turn all things invisible and colorless. He is prone to talks of manliness and wisdom.
[edit] Kilnorton
(キルノートン Kirunōton?) Voiced by: Susumu Chiba
- Gender: Male
- Ability: Unknown
He has an I.Q. of 179, but strangely, even though he has a high I.Q., he is constantly outsmarted by Ai. He also has the talent of calculating. He named his glasses Bianca.
Mori suspects he is a pervert, but he denies these claims and states that he has an I.Q of 179 as a counter.
Mori defeated Kilnorton using her I.Q. Kilnorton's ability was not revealed during the series.
[edit] Heavenly Beings and God Candidates
[edit] God
(神様 Kami-sama?) Voiced by: Juurouta Kosugi (Japanese), Roger Rhodes (English)
He is the current King of the Celestial World who sets up this whole tournament. As shown in the anime, God is a pervert who likes women and drinking. In a flashback, he was inspired to start the tournament, due to the actions of Ueki's adoptive mother, Haruko Ueki, who at the time was a high school student just before she was deceased.
He started the tournament to give all beings, whether human or heavenly being, a chance to create their own futures. Although his front is a mindless idiot who likes to slack off, he actually very wise and powerful.
He's considered the best King of the Celestial World in history, which is a fact that he is very proud of.
[edit] Yodogawa
(淀川 Yodogawa?) Voiced by: Katsumi Toriumi (Japanese), Brendan Hunter (English)
- Nickname: (よっちゃん Yo-chan?)
Yodogawa replaces Kobayashi as Ueki’s King of the Celestial World candidate. Yo-chan had a deal with another more promising King of the Celestial World Candidate, Margarette, to get Ueki to lose as soon as possible in order to take a cushy job as his assistant advisor.
He does his best to persuade Ueki to quit the tournament, but never succeeds. He rejoins to help Ueki later and apologizes for his previous behavior when Ueki is forming his team. He is at least a level 6 Heavenly Being, since in one episode, he used Raika.
[edit] Ueki's Father (Pag)
Voiced by: Kouji Tsujitani (Japanese), Paul Cowling (English)
A heavenly being who sent his son, Kosuke, to Earth as a baby with the same selfish intents as Margarette; to choose his son for the tournament so that he himself could benefit.
Unfortunately for him, he was not chosen as a King of the Celestial World Candidate, as Margarette was. He does, however, seem to express regret when he meets up with Ueki and company later in the anime, not revealing his true identity to Ueki due to his shame.
Pag also teaches Ueki a way to advance to his Level 2 power stating that it would be "the first and last time" he would aid Ueki. It is to be known in a later episode that he is Ueki's real father.
[edit] Rafati
Voiced by: Etsuko Kozakura (Japanese), Suzette Mattar (English)
The King of the Celestial World Candidate who gave Taira his powers. He tried to cheat during a fight by giving Taira more water and was sent to Hell for it.
[edit] Ganju
The King of the Celestial World Candidate who gave Li Ho his powers. He is also Li Ho's coach.
[edit] Other power users
[edit] Maruo Taira
(平丸男 Taira Maruo?) Voiced by: Kenta Miyake (Japanese), Jonathan Love (English)
- Gender: Male
- Ability: Change water that he gargles in his mouth into fire
Usually likes to just blast fire, but he can manipulate it by gargling, sometimes making it into an explosive fireball. He wants the talent of manipulation if he wins. He was Ueki's first fight, and he lost after being hit by one tree.
[edit] Hayao Adachi
(足立駿夫 Adachi Hayao?) Voiced by: Motoki Takagi (Japanese), Brett Bauer (English)
- Gender: Male
- Ability: Change cotton into stakes
Adachi wants to obtain the talent of running because he absolutely loves track but he is not a very good runner. He loses when he meets Ueki, who Adachi is envious of for his talent to run, but promises to keep running and maybe even beat him someday.
[edit] Li Ho
(李崩 Ri Hō?) Voiced by: Koyasu Takehito (Japanese), Roger Rhodes (English)
- Gender: Male
- Ability: Put his fighting spirit into a punch.
While he has the ability to put his fighting spirit into a punch, he prefers to fight with his own Taijutsu skills rather than his power (he never uses his power in the anime).
Li Ho considers Ueki his rival and wants to become a strong fighter in honor of his father, who fell victim to the plague. Originally, he fights Ueki using a move he calls the Secret of the Count of Monte Cristo (秘鍵巌窟王 hiken gankutsuou?) but succumbs to its weakness when Ueki grabs hold of his shoulders.
During the third round, Li Ho displays a distinct growth in power, utilizing his inner power to perform powerful attacks. Channeling his power into his feet, for instance, allows him rapid movement.
Li Ho has developed a defense called Tai Chi Chuan which is a circular strike used to repel any attack.
[edit] Junichi Baba
(馬場淳一 Baba Jun'ichi?) Voiced by: Kisho Taniyama (Japanese), Jason Booker (English)
- Gender: Male
- Nickname: B・J
- Ability: Change coins into whirlwinds
B.J. loves hip-hop music. He has a tendency to lie a lot, particularly about who he is when fighting other power users.
When we first meet him he convinces another power user that he is Robert Haydn. His defeat at the real Robert Haydn's hands spurs Ueki to challenge him the first time.
He is somewhat a pervert especially towards Ai. During Ueki's first battle with him, he maximizes the speed of his whirlwinds to see her underwear and during their second meeting, he rubbed her body which resulted with a punch his face.
[edit] Bolo T
Voiced by: Yasuyuki Kase (Japanese), Scott Roberts (English)
- Gender: Male
- Ability: Turn his forehead into diamond whenever he puts his hands in his pockets
He tends to just headbutt his opponents. Has many talents which he uses quite skillfully in battle. He often incorporates the word “jyan” at the end of his sentences. This is changed to "yo" in the English anime.
[edit] Monjiro Oniyama
(鬼山紋次郎 Oniyama Monjirō?)Voiced by: Katsuyuki Konishi (Japanese), Randy Brososky (English)
- Gender: Male
- Ability: Change dirt into cannonballs
- Nickname: Onimon
He believes in fair and square fights. He has a tendency to shorten words and phrases, and he has 299 talents.
He loves his home village and wants the village building talent if he wins in order to build his own village back up.
He teaches Ueki some basic fighting techniques to help win the fight against the Black Shadow, (Kurokage) the first person Ueki meets of Robert's 10.
[edit] Manga only
[edit] Fukusuke Hibiki
Appeared exclusively in the manga. Ueki is pursued by a boy named Fukusuke Hibiki, who is convinced that Ueki is a "tree demon king" from a children's book.
When Myojin holds up his card the first time he uses his power in the manga, it is a card with the title "The Tree Demon King and The Hero".
[edit] Ueki's family
[edit] Gengoro Ueki
(植木 減頃 Ueki Gengoro?) Voiced by: Shigeru Chiba (Japanese), Jonathan Love (English)
- Gender: Male
Ueki's adoptive father. He is a writer and likes anything weird or unusual. Rather than being shocked or scared at peculiar things, he shouts in excitement. He also enjoys sports very much. Extremely energetic. He often says, Reality is Stranger than Fiction!
[edit] Shoko Ueki
(植木 諸子 Ueki Shoko?) Voiced by: Akira Kosaka (Japanese), Morgan Partridge (English)
- Gender: Female
Ueki's stunningly beautiful adoptive sister, she is a student in a nursing school. She is extremely protective of Ueki, and when she first hears that he has taken part in the battle game, she reacts by complaining about all the bruises and scraped knees he will get, and that she could not bare the thought of him getting hurt.
In the series, she likes to play video games, owning a myriad of games along with the Playstation 2, a Dreamcast and a Game Cube consoles. She is very enthusiastic about playing video games with Ai.
[edit] Haruko Ueki
(植木 晴子 Ueki Haruko?) Voiced by: Megumi Hayashibara
- Gender: Female
Ueki's adoptive mother. She died in a car accident the same day in which Ueki arrived on Earth. She is the first person God meets while on a trip on Earth twenty years before when he is a newly elected god, when she was but a high school student.
Oddly enough, her surname is Ueki and she mentions that she has a boyfriend who is a writer (possibly referring to Gengoro). This could mean that either she's related to her husband, that they have the same surname by coincidence, that she lied and they were already married, or Gengoro took on her surname after their marriage, which is not all that uncommon in Japan. Her daughter is her spitting image with the exception that Haruko wears her hair in a ponytail.
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