This is a list of unnamed characters found in the Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan series. These characters played minor but varying roles throughout the storyline.
Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan
Anime Debut: Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan Episode 16 (OVA): At a Confessional
Voice Actor: Shō Okumura
Roberto Palermo and Matteo De Mojana (Italian dub)
Anime Debut: Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan Episode 16 (OVA): At a Confessional
A supermodel who marries The Confessor. They have a child and an assumedly happy life.
Anime Debut: Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan Episode 16 (OVA): At a Confessional
Voice Actor: Hina Kino (Japanese), Skyler Davenport (English)
Geneviève Doang (French dub)
Camilla Villani (Italian dub)
The man at the confessional's daughter. She becomes possessed by the spirit of the Asian vagrant. Its face appears on her tongue and gives her abnormal strength. The ghost leaves her body after killing her dad's servant.
Anime Debut: Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan Episode 2 (OVA): Mutsu-kabe Hill (Mentioned only)
Anime Debut: Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan Episode 5 (OVA): Millionaire Village
Anime Debut: Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan Episode 5 (OVA): Millionaire Village
Anime Debut: Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan Episode 5 (OVA): Millionaire Village
Anime Debut: Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan Episode 5 (OVA): Millionaire Village
Anime Debut: Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan Episode 5 (OVA): Millionaire Village
Anime Debut: Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan Episode 5 (OVA): Millionaire Village (Mentioned only)
During the additional ending scene at the cafe in the Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan Episode 5 (OVA): Millionaire Village, Koichi asks Rohan what happened to Kyoka's mom and fiancé. He clarified they were fine and how her relatives panicked and mistakenly thought they had died in the crash.
In the TV Drama, her role in the story is replaced by Maron.
Anime Debut: Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan Episode 5 (OVA): Millionaire Village (Mentioned only)
During the additional ending scene at the cafe in the Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan Episode 5 (OVA): Millionaire Village, Koichi asks Rohan what happened to Kyoka's mom and fiancé. He clarified they were fine and how her relatives panicked and mistakenly thought they had died in the crash.
In the TV Drama, his role in the story is replaced by Taro Hirai.
Anime Debut: Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan Episode 9 (OVA): The Run
Voice Actor: Saori Terai (Japanese), Faye Mata (English)
Daniela Trapelli (Italian Dub)
A woman working at a model production agency who scouts Yoma Hashimoto while he is at Harajuku. She admires his features and becomes his manager after he accepts her offer. She convinces him that he needs to train his body, as beautiful poses matter more than talent.
Anime Debut: Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan Episode 9 (OVA): The Run
Voice Actor: Ryota Takeuchi (Japanese), Kane Jungbluth-Murry (English)
Maxime Hoareau (French dub)
Matteo De Mojana (Italian Dub)
A fitness trainer at Yoma Hashimoto and Rohan Kishibe's gym. He has an odd training style where he lies about the number of reps left while his clients are training. He can say they have three reps left but then end up counting below zero onto negative numbers. However, he praises his clients' progress and Yoma looks to him for advice.
Anime Debut: Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan Episode 9 (OVA): The Run
Voice Actor: Roberto Palermo (Italian Dub)
Live Action Actor: Yoshi Sako, Keisuke Yamamoto
OVA/Short Stories/TV Drama/Film
Voice Actor: Satoru Murakami (Japanese), Andrew Russel (English)
Pino Pirovano (Italian Dub)
Live Action Actor: Makoto Nakamura, Tomoya Masuda
A pair of burglars who break into Rohan Kishibe's house, unaware that it is his house. The younger burglar is actually a fan of Pink Dark Boy. He used to faithfully buy the first issue of Shonen Jumbo every week to read Rohan's manga, but when it was confiscated, the young boy became frustrated with studying, failed his exams, became a dropout and turned to crime. Rohan had actually baited them inside his house to get a look at their lives and quickly neutralized them by turning them into books and writing his "safety lock" on them, making them placid and peaceful. He then sends them to the police. The younger burglar gets to enjoy Pink Dark Boy in jail as Rohan sends him volumes of the manga.
Debut: Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan Episode 2 (TV Drama): Kushagara
Live Action Actor: Ryo Yoshida
In the TV Drama, the editor nearly falls victim to "kushagara". He was affected by the word but couldn't find its meaning. To relieve himself of his nagging curiosity, he passed on the word to Jugo in a list of forbidden words and then secluded himself from the world in a warehouse near where he lived, telling his parents not to tell anyone. However, Kyoka Izumi finds him. Although he's not overtaken by "kushagara", he's become somewhat unstable in his efforts to forget the word.
Debut: Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan Episode 2 (TV Drama): Kushagara
Live Action Actor: Taro Suwa
Live Action Actor: Yuri Kawakami
Live Action Actor: Makoto Nakamura, Tomoya Masuda
Live Action Actor: Komizu Taiga, Shogo Hama
Live Action Actor: Makoto Nakamura, Tomoya Masuda
Rohan has no intention of reporting the criminals since he wasn't a policeman nor someone who cared for justice. However, as a manga artist, he could not overlook them disrespecting art. With Heaven's Door, he writes an order that they treat all works with the utmost respect. Some things he read in their books made him angry, but he feels it was valuable information for drawing a realistic criminal character, as he learned their methods and how they strayed from a proper life.[3]
Kyoka's father loves traveling. At some point, he visits Paris, France and takes a photo in front of the Louvre Pyramid.[3] At age 5, he passes away after battling cancer.[4] Kyoka keeps that photo of him with her and asks Emma Noguchi to take a similar photo of her in front of the Louvre Pyramid. She strikes a similar pose as him so she can connect the two photos side by side.[3]
Live Action Actor: Kei Kagaya, Masaki Kanou, Yuta Ishitobi, Shun Oonuma, Hiroki Takano
Live Action Actor: Makoto Nakamura (Man A), Tomoya Masuda (Man B)
Rohan is angry at them for scaring away a rare Japanese mitten crab he was waiting to see for his research. Learning that Rohan is a manga artist, the older man suggests that he should just look up images of the crab on the internet. After Rohan angrily explains how he needs realism for his manga, the men attempt to take their leave. However, Rohan stops them, using Heaven's Door to read their biographies. He writes a command in them saying to "watch the sea for Rohan", so that he won't be disturbed by them in the future.
Live Action Actor: Denden