Bamboo Blade/Characters

Here are the characters of Bamboo Blade.

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Toraji Ishida ("Kojiro")

Voiced by: Katsuyuki Konishi (JP), Ian Sinclair (EN)

Muroe High school's kendo instructor.

Tamaki Kawazoe

Voiced by: Ryou Hirohashi (JP), Cherami Leigh (EN)

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The star member of Muroe's kendo team, hand-picked by Kojiro and Kirino to help them turn their fortunes around.

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• Badass Adorable
• Beware the Nice Ones:
• Curtains Match the Window: Purple hair and eyes.
• Cute Bruiser
• Fan Girl: Of Blade Braver
• The Hero
• The Quiet One
  • Playing Against Type: Cherami Leigh normally plays far more energetic and less humble roles.
• Skilled but Naive: Despite being a prodigy in kendo, she is pretty naive in other situations.
• Tareme Eyes
• Tomboyish Sidetails
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Has purple hair.

Kirino Chiba

Voiced by: Megumi Toyoguchi (JP), Luci Christian (EN)

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• Cat Smile: Her usual expression.
• Cool Big Sis: Has been described to be like a older sister to the rest of the members of the club.
• Ditzy Genius: Despite being a ditz, she ranked 20th in her year at school.
• Genki Girl
• Kendo Team Captain
• The Lancer

Miyako Miyazaki ("Miya-miya")

Voiced by: Houko Kuwashima (JP), Leah Clark (EN)

A relative newbie to the kendo team. Has great power, but lacks discipline compared to the other girls.

• Alliterative Name
• Bishie Sparkle: Before she goes in Yandere mode.
• Blood Knight: Joined the Kendo club because she discovered that she likes hurting people and it gives her a socially acceptable outlet for those feelings.
• Iron Butt Monkey: The plot seems to exist to make her suffer as much humiliation as possible.
• Can't Catch Up: Mainly because she was the last to join the team, and has lost every match she was in.
• Curb Stomp Battle: This happened to her TWICE against her matches with Carrie. The first time, however, was rather justified, seeing Miya was going against Carrie when Carrie was duel-wielding, and is much stronger than her. The second time was a lesser example, seeing that Miya does improve, but only to lose again.
• Unskilled but Strong: She has great speed and power, but only resorts to head strikes. She does, however, pull off a throat strike during a sparring match with Saya and nearly knocks her out.
• Yandere: To her boyfriend Danjiro.
• Yank the Dog's Chain: Oh, BOY...Her first match with Carrie was pretty much a Curb Stomp Battle, but Miya tries to pull off a throat strike on Carrie, it leaves Carrie for a body strike that Miya goes for...until Miya is then struck with a head strike. The second match against Carrie has Miya showing some improvement, only for her to lose again. The biggest example would be her match against one of Konishi's teammate and loses the first round due to being distracted by Reimi, leaving herself open for a head strike.. Before the second round, Miya practically unleashes a pink aura and is ready to kick some ass...only for the events of the first round to repeat.
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Her hair looks like a weird mix between grayish purple and pink.

Sayaka Kuwahara

Voiced by: Sachiko Kojima (JP), Brina Palencia (EN)

• Genki Girl
• Huge Schoolgirl: The tallest and physically strongest member of the team, though generally not all that self conscious about it.

Satori Azuma

Voiced by: Rina Sato (JP), Carrie Savage (EN)

• Book Dumb: The reason why she wears glasses.
• Dojikko: She seems to trip a lot.
• Meganekko: Her glasses are fake however.
• Purely Aesthetic Glasses: She wears fake glasses because she thinks that they would make her smarter.

Yuji Nakata

Voiced by: Daisuke Sakaguchi (JP), Chris Burnett (EN)

• Overshadowed by Awesome: While he seems pretty competent in Kendo and school, he takes a backseat along with Dan-kun since the story focuses more on the girls.
• The One Guy: Pretty much his only role in the series. He gets a little screentime, but it's not much compared to the girls.

Danjiro Eiga

Voiced by: Akira Ishida (JP), Sean Michael Teague (EN)

• Beware the Nice Ones: His 'black' aura is both better hidden and more subtle than Miya's but just as, if not more, fearsome when unleashed
• Gonk: Permanently super-deformed with a head that is often compared to an acorn in shape.

Rin Suzuki

Voiced by: Maaya Sakamoto (JP), Caitlin Glass (EN)

• The Rival: To Tamaki in the anime.