# characters-of-the-month

CotM: Bell Cranel

Name: Bell Cranel
Anime: Dungeon ni Deai o Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka?
Voiced By: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka
Family: Hestia
Weapon: Hestia’s Dagger

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Background: Bell was raised by his grandfather in a rural village near the labyrinth city Orario as a farmer. He heard and read many stories about heroes from his grandfather, making him aspire to become one.

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CotM: Decim

Name: Decim
Anime: Death Parade
Voiced By: Tomoaki Maeno
Occupation: Arbiter, Bartender

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Background: Decim is the bartender of Quindecim and an acting arbiter for the dead.

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CotM: Esdeath

Name: Esdeath Anime: Akame ga Kill Voiced By: Satomi Akesaka Faction: Jaegers Imperial Arms: Demon’s Extract Esdeath - 01 Esdeath - 02 Background: Esdeath is a high-ranking general of the Empire, and leader of the Jaegers. She enjoys torturing her enemies slowly, seen when she used her Teigu to put large blocks of ice in a cauldron so that the people inside would die slower and suffer more. Despite her sadistic actions, she is actually shown to have a compassionate heart when it comes to the lives of her men and others close to her. Read more...

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CotM: Akane Tsunemori

Name: Akane Tsunemori Anime: PSYCHO-PASS Voiced By: Kana Hanazawa, Kate Oxley, Maria Letizia Scifoni, Julia Stoepel Occupation: Inspector Age: 20

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Background: The main female protagonist and the newly assigned Inspector of Unit 1. Considered a model citizen due to her ever calm demeanor and for passing the exams with the highest score for employment on several public sectors and private corporations. She decided to join the police due to being the only place where no one obtained a score as high as hers, thus she believes to be able to do something there that no one else can. Read more...

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CotM: Twelve

Name: Twelve Anime: Zankyou no Terror Voice By: Soma Saito Twelve - 02Twelve - 01 Background: Twelve is a young man with a child-like innocence who treats Nine like a big brother. Twelve goes to the same high school as Nine and works alongside him. Read more...

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CotM: Umetarou Nozaki

Name: Umetarou Nozaki Anime: Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun Voice By: Yuuichi Nakamura Occupation: Mangaka

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Background: Umetarou is the high school student that is the object of Chiyo Sakura's affection. He is secretly a manga artist named Sakiko Yumeno, the creator of the shoujo manga "Let's Love~". This manga is published in the magazine called Monthly Shoujo Romance. Despite making a romance-oriented manga, he has no personal experience in love, and his story ideas are often ridiculous and farfetched. He appreciates Chiyo's drawing ability but is oblivious to her feelings. Read more...

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CotM: Touka Kirishima

Name: Touka Kirishima Anime: Tokyo Ghoul Voiced By: Sora Amamiya Species: Ghoul Age: 16 Likes: School life, Rabbits

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Background: Touka is a ghoul successfully posing as a human and working as a waitress at a cafe which serves as a gathering place for other ghouls, as well as a food resource. Read more...

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CotM: Yuzuki Seo

Name: Yuzuki Seo Anime: Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun Voiced By: Miyuki Sawashiro Yuzuki Seo 02 Yuzuki Seo 03 Background: Sakura's classmate who can easily offend people. She is a member of the choir club, and her singing voice is beautiful enough that she is referred to as "Lorelei." Read more...

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CotM: Sora

Name: Sora Age: 18 Anime: No Game No Life Personality: Analytical, NEET Skills: Psychology, Video Games

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Background: Abandoned by his parents, Sora is a brilliant NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training) shut-in gamer along with his step-sister, Shiro which formed 『  』. Read more...

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CotM: Shougo Kiryuu

Name: Shougo Kiryuu Anime: Isshuukan Friends Personality: Blunt Skills: Sleeping

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Background: Shougo is Yuuki's reliable best friend with good grades. He appears as a cold person who's straightforward with words, and often sleeps in class while treating everything else as a bother. Read more...

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CotM: Hakuya Mitsumine

Name: Hakuya Mitsumine Anime: Mikakunin de Shinkoukei Marital Status: Engaged

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Background: Hakuya is Kobeni Yonomori's fiancé who suddenly appears on her 16th birthday with his little sister Mashiro Mitsumine. He and his sister start living in the same house as Kobeni and her own sister, Benio Yonomori. Read more...

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CotM: Yato

Name: Yato Anime: Noragami Occupation: God of War

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Background: Yato is a god who attempts to build his own shrine. He wears a jersey and so-called fluffy scarf and refers to himself as "Yato God" (Yatogami). When his current Shinki (Divine Weapon) quit, he was unarmed until he met Hiyori and Yukine. He calls himself "delivery god" and often puts his own cell number on several common places in case someone needs his help. He usually charges for 5 yen, what Japanese people usually give when praying at a shrine. Read more...

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CotM: Kraft Lawrence and Holo the Wise Wolf

Name: Kraft Lawrence and Holo the Wise Wolf Anime: Spice and Wolf

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Background: Kraft Lawrence, who chiefly goes by his surname, is a twenty-five-year-old traveling peddler who goes from town to town buying and selling various things in order to make a living. When he was twelve, he became an apprentice to a merchant relative, and set out on his own at eighteen. His goal in life is to gather enough money to start his own shop, and he has already been traveling for seven years while gaining experience in the trade. He meets Holo one night and eventually agrees to her traveling with him. She helps him by providing her wisdom which helps to increase his profits and get him out of jams. Holo is a wolf harvest deity originally from a land in the north known as Yoitsu. She made a promise with men from a town called Pasloe where she would ensure the town would have good wheat harvests year after year. However, as time went on, the townspeople slowly started to forsake Holo and did not rely on her as they once did. As such, Holo escapes from town in Lawrence's wagon and started traveling with him to see how much the world has changed since she has been in Pasloe. Holo has chosen the form of a girl younger than Lawrence, though she still retains her large white-tipped wolf tail, and ears. Her true form is that of a very large wolf which many people revered and feared. Read more...

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CotM: Ryuuko Matoi

Name: Ryuuko Matoi Anime: Kill la Kill Gender: Female Age: 17 Weapon: Red Scissor Blade

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Background: Ryuuko Matoi is a 17-year-old who transfers as a second-year student into Honnouji Academy, an Academy ruled by power and authority. She wields a huge single-bladed scissor, and demands to know the owner of the second half. As she remembers, the wielder of the lost half of the scissor blade is the same person who killed her father. Read more...

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CotM: Koto

Name: Koto Anime: Kyousogiga Gender: Female Weapon: Hammer

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Background: An indifferent 14-year-old girl who holds many secrets. Surprisingly, she likes cute things like stuffed animals. Read more...

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CotM: Kuroko Tetsuya

Name: Kuroko Tetsuya Anime: Kuroko's Basketball Gender: Male School: Seirin High Height: 5'6" (168cm) Weight: 125lbs (57kg) Age:16

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Background: The phantom sixth member of the "Generation of Miracles." He has a very weak presence and often seemingly appears out of nowhere as a result. Read more...

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