Characters — Browse every character across the manga and anime catalogue

Mizunokoji Chichi

Mizunokoji Haha

Moroboshi Ataru no Haha

Nagisa no Chichi

A fellow beach afficianado who is determined to make uni into a global delicacy. His dedication to the seafood ends up costing both he and Nagisa their lives.

Nagisa Shiowatari

A marriage between Ryuunosuke and Nagisa was arranged by their two fathers who were longtime friends. Nagisa is deeply in love with Ryuunosuke but Ryuunosuke refuses, at first sayi

Negai Hoshi

Nozomi

A sweet girl who watches Ataru from her hospital window on a daily basis. She soon falls in love with his giddy attitude and energetic spirit. After death, her spirit visits Sakura

Onsen-Mark

One of Ataru's teachers. A sad, middle-aged man, whose only interest is to teach at Tomobiki High, but fails due to the constant interruptions during class, when the classroom itse

Oyuki

Oyuki is the queen of Neptune, which in the series is a frozen, snowy planet populated entirely by women, as most of the men have to go off-planet to find work. As a child she used

Pepper

Pool Youkai

Ran

Lum's best childhood friend. She appears to be a sweet and lovely redhead, but in actuality has a violent split personality. Her special power is the ability to suck the vitality o

Rei

Rei is a very handsome oni, he is unfortunately mainly interested in eating. He has the ability to transform into an "ushitora," a huge creature resembling a cross between a tiger

Rupa

Rupa is the prince of a world of total darkness, giant mushrooms, and flying pigs. It was arranged by Rupa's great-grandfather that he would marry Lum. Rupa never met her but he wa

Ryouko Mendou

The younger sister of Shuutaro, Ryoko is a spoiled girl whose only amusement seems to be the creation and execution of elaborate plans intended to drive her older brother mad. wiki

Ryuunosuke Fujinami

A transfer student at Tomobiki High School, Class 2-4. She is a girl, but because her father says the successor to the Hamachaya must be a man, he raises Ryuunosuke as a boy and in

Ryuunosuke no Chichi

Ryuunosuke's father, is just about the most obnoxious and loud father there has ever been. His personality can be described as unpredictable and intense. He thinks that it's a man'

Sakura

In Japanese "Sakura" means "cherry blossom." She was once a very sickly girl who suffered from a variety of ailments. Many of them were the result of spirits that infested her body

Sakuranbou

Sakura's wandering monk uncle. Cherry's real name is Sakuranbou, which literally means “cherry” in Japanese. But because the word's kanji can be read to mean "deranged monk," a phr

Satoshi

The leader of the Stormtroopers, whose nickname means "eyeglasses", he has a strong personality and generally directs the schemes of the Stormtroopers to gain Lum's attention (thou

Shingo

An illiterate and thick-headed jungle boy who grew up in an artificial jungle where the plants all conduct electricity. Other than his grandfather who's a senile old gardener emplo

Shinobu Miyake

Ataru's childhood friend and classmate. Until Lum showed up she was also Ataru’s girlfriend. She is a neat, clean, sweet, and petite young lady who can be viewed as the archetypica

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Shuutarou Mendou

Shuutaro Mendo is heir to the Mendou Zaibatsu with staggering wealth and its own private army. He commutes to school in a gigantic helicopter that is more like a flying mansion. Sh