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OVA Characters
Listed below are some of the Characters in the OVAs. Though some of them appear repeatedly in each OVA, their descriptions will just appear once.
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| OVA I | OVA II | OVA III |
OVA I
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Emperor Gyoushuku
Gyoshuku is Hotohori's great-grandson, and Boushin's grandson. He also is a child emperor surrounded with advisors instead of family members and greatly pressed upon by his responsiblities. Meeting Tamahome of the Suzaku seishi tale is seen as a highlight to the young emperor. In the OAV, it turns out that Gyoshuku was only part of an elaborate illusion made up by Tomo on behalf of Tenkou so as to slowly make Tamahome go crazy.
Kaen
In the first OVA series, Kaen is the girl who meets Tamahome in Koutu country. She apparently has sexual abilites akin to Soi's and even refers to her when speaking of the ability. In the OAV, it turns out that Kaen is really acting as a vessel (like the Nyan Nyans do) for Tomo's spirit, who Tenkou has called back to serve him. But, alas, all does not bode well for the Painted One again, and he is killed by Tenkou when Tomo's illusion is seen through yet again.
OVA II
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Empress Houki
Houki is Emperor Hotohori's wife and Empress. Hotohori married her sometime between Miaka and the others leaving for Hokkan and them returning from Sairou. Upon the end of the tv episodes, she was pregnant with the next Emperor of Konan country, Boushin. When Miaka first sees Houki, she mistakes her for Nuriko and immediately hugs her. In the 2nd OVA series, Houki is overcome with sadness over the death of Hotohori and refuses to leave her bed or care for her son. It has already been two years since Hotohori died, yet she still grieves and does not leave her room. It is only through Hotohori's undying love, when he enters Taka's body so that he can hold his son, that she leaves her mourning and re-enters the world as Empress and mother.
Boushin
Hotohori's son from his Empress Houki, and future emperor of Konan country. Since his birth, Boushin has been isolated from his mother due to her mourning for Hotohori. It is because of this isolation that Boushin has never spoken to anyone, it is only through his father's love and Taka's kindness that Boushin learns of his father's love for him and begins to talk.
Tenkou
Tenkou is the main bad guy in the OVA series. He, if you can believe it, was Nakago's boss and is even more evil and more powerful than Nakago. Tenkou apparently was a prince in ancient Japan who learned of the Four Gods book and of the power to be found within as one of the four gods. To figure a way into the book, etc Tenkou began practicing the "dark arts" for which he was beheaded. His spirit became enraged and became stronger until the four gods had to seal him away from the world. apparently it didn't work. He also went a little nuts thinking himself a god when he really wasn't. Tenkou's plan to use the four gods power laid in the ability to gain negative energy released during the beating down of people who loved each other. His plan... use the Suzaku seishi and their Miko to produce this energy and he'd just have to sit back and watch it accumulate. It almost works, until Miaka and Taka make the ultimate sacrifices to call the Four Gods to banish him.
Shigyou Ren
Ren is a new student at Miaka and Yui's school in the second OVA series. He is extremely popular and has plans for the direction of the school and its students. Also, he is leader of a bunch of kids who threaten Miaka and Taka. Ren, apparently, can make people follow his every whim... like making them try to kill Miaka. He does all this for Tenkou who saved him and his sister from a horrible death. "His sister??" you ask. yup, Miiru is Ren's sister. she's also his lover. "Lover?...sister?" yup, they had an incestuous relationship which they were ran out of their town for, and summarily killed because of. This all happened in the past, where Ren was known as Renhou. well, Ren and Miiru don't get a happy ending this time either, as Ren is killed by Tenkou for failing in his mission.
Kamishiro Miiru
She’s a student at Keisuke, Tetsuya, and Taka's college in the OAV. She has an interest in ancient chinese mythology and joins Keisuke's ancient chinese mythology club. She also believes Keisuke's story about his sister entering a book and becoming a miko. Miiru, as it turns out, has special powers over blood and can make "blood dolls" through which she can control a person. Very vampire-esque. She also turns out to be Ren's sister and lover. Back in their real time, they were persecuted for their incestuous relationship and thrown off a cliff to die. I think it was then that Tenkou found them and convinced them to work for him. Again, Miiru and Ren do not get their happy ending and are destroyed by Tenkou for failing, although, both of them do get redeemed when Tenkou is destroyed by the Four Gods.
Cho Rokou
Apparently Rokou thinks that he isn't worthy of the family and thinks he's weak compared to his siblings Nuriko and Korin. So he has this inferiority complex going, and when Miaka and Taka arrived to get Nuriko's orb, he refuses to give it to them. His main problem is that he shuts out the Suzaku seishis because he thinks that they left Nuriko up in the mountain in Hokkan. Until Rokou accepts that Nuriko died up there and that he has strength within him, he can't open himself up to people again.
Hikou
Hikou was Chichiri's best friend who assaulted Chichiri's fiancée, Kouran. She then refused to marry Chichiri saying she was dirty and had betrayed him. Chichiri, of course, went to confront his "friend" and they got into a major fight. Hikou died as a result of this. He is back as a minion of Tenkou to get revenge on the man who killed him. All Hikou did was steal a kiss and an embrace from Kouran, but she was a very proper girl, so she felt she had to break off her engagement to Chichiri. All Chichiri knew was that his fiance broke thir engagement after an "incident" with his best friend Hikou. Naturally, a fight insued, but so did a flood which ravaged Chichiri's town of Sohryu. Kouran and Chichiri's family died in the flood, while Chichiri faced off with Hikou. Due to the high velocity waters of the flood, a situation occured during their faceoff: Hikou was going to be washed off the edge of a cliff, but Chichiri caught his hand and tried to hold on. While struggling to save his friend, a log came rushing towards Chichiri threatening to hit him in the face....so, Chichiri reflexively let go of his friend's hand to guard his face from the high-speed log and failed. As a result, he lost his friend and his eye in the same moment.
Now, Hikou returned due to Tenkou's magic to pay revenge upon Chichiri by taking those he cares about...starting with Miaka. Hikou is granted a type of water magic which brings out peoples' latent darker sides. Tasuki is affected by this water and almost rapes Miaka and attempts to kill Taka. But, due to Chichiri's strength of character, emotions, and devotion, Hikou is not only defeated, but his soul is saved and allowed peace at last.
Yosui
Yosui is the last of the Shi Ten Ou (Four Kings of Heaven). It turns out that the Tamahome that returned in the end of OVA2:5 was really Yosui who had received the memory orbs ripped from Taka by Tenkou. So, in a way, Yosui is the real Tamahome. Of course, no one knows that Tamahome is really Yosui until Miaka already starts to realize that the one she loves now is Taka not Tamahome...so then Yosui must resort to physical means to make Miaka his, so a fight ensues between Yosui and the now returned Taka. Yosui has all of Tamahome's old powers, while Taka has only his love of Miaka to get him through. So, Yosui fires a MAJOR ki ball at Taka which Miaka takes full-on and dies in front of Taka. Taka then realizes that they shouldn't be fighting and that Yosui is just another part of himself... a part he lost, so he confronts Yosui and through his accepting of Yosui as a part of himself, absorbs Yosui and becomes the true Tamahome reincarnation. Taka then surrenders his body to be with Miaka, and it is through this surrender and the love between Miaka and Taka that the two of them are able to call Suzaku and set things right. It is then that Taiitsukun grants them the ability to be placed back into their physical bodies (they are spirits), but they are given the choice of going to the book world or the real world. They choose the real world with the seishi's blessings. Then they get married, have a kid (a boy), and that’s it.
OVA III
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Unfortunately, we have no other characters as of now in this section besides Sakaki Mayo, the 5th Miko - See her description in the Mikos Section.
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