List of Blue Dragon characters

The characters of Blue Dragon were designed by Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama. The anime version expands the characters' backgrounds as well as provide personalities to the Shadows, making them more than just extensions of the Shadow Wielder.

Protagonists

Shu

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Shu (anime) Voiced by: Keiko Nemoto (Japanese); Yuri Lowenthal (English)
Blue Dragon Voiced by: Masaya Takatsuka (Japanese); Lex Lang (English)

The main protagonist of Blue Dragon. Like many others in Talta Village, Shu's parents died because of the Land Shark when he was a baby. Because of his parents' untimely deaths, he now lives with his grandfather Fushira in Talta Village. Shu's brash and impetuous nature has often gotten him into trouble. But his courage, strength and dogged determination has saved him from certain death many times. He also has a crush on Kluke.

In the anime, Shu is depicted as even more brash and impulsive than in the game.

Shu is the owner of the Shadow Blue Dragon, which often uses magic sword attacks. In the anime, Blue Dragon at first doesn't cooperate with Shu until their fight with Ivanov and Gustav. For most of the anime, he is quite insulting towards him and constantly criticizes everything Shu does.

Kluke

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Kluke (anime) Voiced by: Erino Hazuki (Japanese); Michelle Ruff (English)
Phoenix Voiced by: Konomi Tsuboi (Japanese); Michelle Ruff (English)

Kluke's parents died because of the Land Shark one year before the events of Blue Dragon. Her parents were the doctors of Talta Village, and after their deaths Kluke lives with Shu in the village as the new doctor. Kluke is very mature and serious and has been hardened by the deaths of her parents.

In the anime, Kluke gains her shadow much later than everyone else does. She's also depicted as far more short tempered. She has a crush on Shu, but won't admit it. She is often shown wielding a gun that shoots pink fists.

Kluke is the owner of the Shadow Phoenix, who often uses black magic attacks. In the anime, Kluke does not receive Phoenix until late into the story and therefore stays out of combat. Phoenix has a kind motherly side to her that teaches Kluke how to protect her friends.

Jiro

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Jiro (anime) Voiced by: Daisuke Namikawa (Japanese); Sam Riegel (English)
Minotaur Voiced by: Kouji Ochiai (Japanese); Kirk Thornton (English)

Jiro is an intelligent young man focused on details who has a gift for planning. Jiro's parents and sister died, due to an attack by Nene. Jiro is the best friend of Shu but is his exact opposite. Jiro is in love with Kluke but has trouble expressing his feelings for her.

In the anime, Jiro came from Muffei which was attacked by General Szabo and his parents were killed. He eventually met Zola and traveled with her. He did serve as Shu's rival, but they became friends as the series progressed. When he encountered General Szabo in Gran Kingdom's capital, he managed to destroy him.

Jiro is the owner of the Shadow Minotaur, who uses white magic in the game. In the anime, Minotaur is always chiding Jiro for overusing his energy in battle but generally takes a calm approach to opponents.

Marumaro

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Marumaro (anime) Voiced by: Sakiko Uran (Japanese); R. Martin Klein (English)
Saber Tiger Voiced by: Jin Horikawa (Japanese); Neil Kaplan (English)

A member of the Devee Tribe which are yellow humanoid creatures that wear pots for hats. Nene poisened the entire Devee Tribe except for Marumaro and told him that if he retrieved a special elixir from the Ancient Hospital Ruins, that Nene would supply a cure for the Tribe. Marumaro first appears in a ship on the way to the ruins. When he first encounters Shu, Kluke and Jiro, he is intimidated and fights them. When the ship reaches it's destination, Marumaro runs away to find the cure. Shu later save Marumaro's life in the ruins and then helps him find the cure. As they return to Devee Tribe he gives the tribe the cure and the effects are catastrophic. He soon discovers that Nene tricked him to make himself more powerful and is forced to cure the tribe with a new antidote much more difficult to find and then joins the group afterwards to get revenge on Nene.

In the anime, Marumaro is obsessed with girls (he also acts like a pervert in the original version). He joins up with Shu and Co. after the village he was staying at and its inhabitants were captured by twin Shadow users Ivanov and Gustuv.

He owns the shadow Saber Tiger who uses monk charged attacks. In the anime, Saber Tiger thinks himself of as a defender of justice and encourages Marumaro to feel the same way.

Zola

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Zola (anime) Voiced by: Romi Paku (Japanese); Cindy Robinson (English)
Killer Bat Voiced by: Houchu Ohtsuka

Zola was originally a mercenary until she was almost killed. In that experience, she was asked to swallow a light sphere. She received a killer bat shadow and was saved from certain death. She then joined the Jibral Blademasters becoming a powerful warrior and earning the respect of King Jibral and his kingdom. She first appears on the road to Jabral as she saves the traveling Talta Village from Steel-Eating Tigers. Her shadow uses assassin attacks.

In the anime, she is considered a Knight Master and was looking for descendants of the Seven Soldiers. Her shadow, Killer Bat, is quite silent and is unusual from his game version in that he is the only Shadow of the party who is armed with a weapon (specifically a sword).

Bouquet

Bouquet Voiced by: Saki Nakajima (Japanese); Melissa Fahn (English)
Hippopotamus Voiced by: Yūichi Nagashima (Japanese); Michael Sorich (English)

Bouquet is an exclusive character to the anime. Shu and Co. first encountered her in a restaurant as a waitress where she was being abused by two customers that Shu and Zola fended off. After losing her job, she pursues Shu until she joins their group, and quickly develops romantic feelings for Shu, then after asking Shu many questions that he says yes to, she asks him to marry her and he says yes not realizing the question until after he answers. She then teases him and Kluke by saying he is her fiance which gets Shu and Kluke angry but makes Jiro happy thinking it will bring him and Kluke closer together. She is eventually allowed to join the group, though she gets into conflicts with Kluke because they both have feelings for Shu, though Kluke refuses to admit hers. She's for the most part depicted as an airhead. She is hated by Cynthia after some of the soldiers in Gran Kingdom's army called Bouquet the prettiest girl in the world.

Being a member of the Ra Clan, Bouquet has the ability to become invisible, but must strip in order to be completely unseen. On one occasion, she was somehow detected by Delphinium.

Her shadow is Hippopotamus. Hippopotamus may be weak and somewhat cowardly, but he has the ability to shapeshift, sometimes using that ability by wrapping around Bouquet to provide her with a disguise. He also worries for Bouquet's well being whenever a battle begins.

Noi

Voiced by: Hitomi Nabatame

An elf-like character introduced in the second series. He first met Shu, Bouquet, and Marumaro and used his powers to reawaken their shadows.

Noi has a black baby dragon shadow and also has the ability to become a baby black dragon by merging with it.

Gran Kingdom

The antagonist group of the first series. Though some of the characters listed below have shadows, there are some that have artificial shadows due to an invention that Gran Kingdom has. Among the characters that come from Gran Kingdom are:

Nene

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Nene (anime) Voiced by: Shiro Saito (Japanese); David Lodge (voice actor) (English)
Chimera Voiced by: Susumu Akagi

Nene is an alien-like old man who runs Gran Kingdom, flying across the globe causing destruction and despair in a mobile air fortress surrounded by purple clouds. Nene can fight without his shadow and suspend himself into the air, avoid energy blasts, and absorb other's shadow powers to increase his strength tenfold.

In the anime, Nene has been capturing children to power his artificial shadow machine. He overwhelmed Shu and Co. at first until Kluke manifested her Phoenix shadow and got them out of there. By the next encounter, Nene merged with his shadow and was destroyed by Shu and Blue Dragon.

Nene is the owner of the Chimera shadow which resembles a red dragon-like creature with orange hair and orange bird-like wings. In the video game, Nene's shadow was originally a red version of Blue Dragon. But after absorbing the light spheres that Shu and his friends swallowed, the dragon becomes Chimera (adopting features from all of the other shadows). In the anime, it was Deathroy who owns Chimera and Nene manipulates it.

Deathroy

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Deathroy (anime) Voiced by: Tetsu Shiratori (Japanese); Michael P. Greco (English)

Deathroy appears to find great joy in his master's malevolence. He sits dutifully on Nene's shoulder, attached by a small cable. He is also known for repeating anything Nene says, though it's capable of speaking on its own. In the final level of the game, Deathroy steals Nene's sphere and consumes it. He transforms into another boss called Destroy, an ancient biomechanical creature that devoured the civilization of the ancients, and used Nene to bring about his return.

In the anime, Deathroy is actually the owner of the Chimera shadow after Nene is destroyed. He was rescued by Delphinium following Nene's death.

General Szabo

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General Szabo (anime) Voiced by: Akimitsu Takase (Japanese); Kim Strauss (English)

General Szabo is Nene's robotic servant. Szabo is the leader of Nene's robotic army. He eventually turns on Nene because of his abusive nature.

In the anime, General Szabo was the one who attacked Muffei resulting in the death of Jiro's parents. Shu and Co. encountered him within Nene's castle. After Shu and Zola defeated the robot soldiers, Jiro destroyed him. General Szabo is later rebuilt when it came to Nene's attack on Jibral. Sometime later, he attacks Jiro with Szabo-related robots. General Szabo later merges with the robots to form a powerful combination. Jiro and Minotaur manage to destroy General Szabo and his robots. General Szabo was salvaged and rebuilt again, but missing part of his left face. He briefly engaged Shu and Co. at the Hippopotamus Ruins, but fell back when Nene's fortress dropped the Hippopotamus Ruins from the fortress. When Nene's fortress was stormed, General Szabo used robots with nanobot technology on Shu and the others. Bouquet and Hippopotamus confronted him in the control room. In the form of one of those robots, Bouquet managed to copy their attack that sent General Szabo into the air where he exploded.

In Blue Dragon Plus, General Szabo owns a pumpkin-headed spectre shadow.

Silent Ku, Turbulent Mai, Heat-Wave Sai, and Raging Kesu

Four "Demon King Robots" controlled by Szabo. He awakens them when the heroes attack the flying fortress, and the party fights and destroys them one-by-one throughout the dungeon. Later on, they are revived along with their master with enhanced features, and fight the party all at once before fighting Szabo again. In the final dungeon, their parts are used to create the body of "Ultimate Szabo".

General Logi

General Logi Voiced by: Kentarou Itou (Japanese); David Vincent (actor) (English)
Valkyrie Voiced by: Sayaka Kinoshita (Japanese); Karen Strassman (English)
Odin Voiced by: Kentarou Itou

Exclusive to the anime, General Logi is a general of Gran Kingdom who has known Zola for quite some time. He has been defeated by her before. Some time later, General Logi encounters Zola again at a prison fortress. General Logi defeated her, Jiro, and Marumaro when he gained an artificial shadow named Valkyrie. General Logi is given some artificial shadow wielders from Nene to form his Independent Flying Squadron. During that time, he has squared off with Shu and Blue Dragon many times with both times resulting in Valkyrie getting injured. After Nene's destruction, Logi took control of Gran Kingdom and fought Zola again. This time, his true shadow is revealed and she was rescued by Kluke. It is later revealed that General Logi is one of the descendants of one of the Warriors of Light. When Zola goes rogue, he, Delphinium, and Deathroy help to fight her.

General Logi's shadow Valkyrie serves as her master's sword and shield. Following Valkyrie's demise, an Egyptian-themed shadow called Odin is revealed to be his real shadow.

Gilliam

Voiced by: Hiroshi Tsuchida (Japanese); Kyle Hebert (English)

Exclusive to the anime, Gilliam is a member of General Logi's Independant Flying Squadron and served as Marumaro's rival. In his fight with Zola and Marumaro, Gilliam was defeated when they managed to turn the tides against him, Todd, and Bishop. After recouperating, Gilliam went after Zola alongside some flying robots. He is eventually destroyed by Zola.

Gilliam's shadow is the bird-like Euphoria whose speed rivals Saber Tiger's. Euphoria can also shoot an endless stream of feathers from it's wings.

Todd and Bishop

Todd Voiced by: Doug Erholtz
Bishop Voiced by: Johnny Yong Bosch

Exclusive to the anime, Todd and Bishop are two Gran Kingdom soldiers who are good friends with Gilliam. In their battle against Zola and Marumaro, Todd and Bishop fell in battle.

Todd and Bishop's shadows are birdman-like cyborgs that have the same attacks as Euphoria.

Lemaire

Voiced by: Shinichiro Miki (Japanese); Keith Silverstein (English)

Exclusive to the anime, Lemaire is a member of General Logi's Independent Flying Squadron who was interested in fighting Zola. In their first battle, he fought her and lost. He later helped Cynthia fight Shu and Jiro, but were defeated. In the final confrontation, Lemaire fell in battle.

Lemaire's shadow is Deucalion, an armored warrior who uses a shield with a ball-in-chain in it. Deucalion is also shown to wield a variety of weapons ranging from sword, a glaive, a bazooka, a flail, a hook-shaped weapon, and two boomerangs.

Cynthia

Cynthia Voiced by: Yukiko Takaguchi (Japanese); Tara Platt (English)
Yarovit Voiced by: Susumu Akagi

Exclusive to the anime, Cynthia is a member of General Logi's Independent Flying Squadron who served as Jiro's rival. She considers herself the beautiful girl in the world and hates being called old. Cynthia developed a jealousy for Bouquet's beauty after she heard of bunch of soldiers say SHE was the most beautiful girl in the world. In the final encounter, Cynthia was defeated by Jiro.

Cynthia's shadow is Yarovit, a pink monster who can stretch its arms out and turn it into tentacles. It can also sprout tentacles from it's back.

Andropov

Voiced by: Kappei Yamaguchi (Japanese); Brian Beacock (English)

Exclusive to the anime, Andropov is a member of General Logi's Independent Flying Squadron. He serves as the reconnaissance of the group. Near the end of the first series, he starts to develop a crush on Kluke.

Andropov's shadow is Alubujem, a four-armed crystalline creature who helps Andropov with his reconnaissance by launching out the crystals required for it. Alubujem can also launch an endless stream of crystal shards for an attack.

Schneider

Voiced by: Shinji Kawada (Japanese); Steve Staley (English)

Exclusive to the anime, Schneider is a member of General Logi's Independent Flying Squadron. He first appeared to attack Bouquet where his attacks damaged Bouquet's outfit. Bouquet used her invisibility to escape from Schneider. Schneider is also the one responsible for killing Lt. Dragnov.

Schneider's shadow is Isabel, an armored archer who uses a variety of arrows ranging from multiplying arrows, explosive arrows, and ice arrows. Isabel can also turn its bow into swords.

Lt. Dragnov

Voiced by: Susumu Akagi (Japanese); J. B. Blanc (English)
Exclusive to the anime, Dragnov is a lieutenant in Gran Kingdom's army. He was first seen leading a Gran Kingdom fleet for a sea attack upon Jibral. Though he befriended Shu later on, Dragnov shows no restraint on fighting him honorably. It was that idea that got him sniped by Schneider during his battle with Shu.

Lt. Dragnov's shadow is Berserker.

Delphinium

Voiced by: Akiko Kimura (Japanese); Dorothy Elias-Fahn (English)

Exclusive to the anime, Delphinium is a spy from Gran Kingdom who serves General Logi. She had the spy Salinas steal the Extra Seven from the Book of Beginning in Jibral's library and later kills him. She has had some run-ins with Homeron. In the final confrontation, Delphinium uses her shadow to kill him in front of Shu's eyes and even repelled Blue Dragon. While Shu and Kluke were busy fighting General Logi, Delphinium detected Bouquet's invisibility (as Delphinium is familiar with the Ra Clan's abilities) and used her shadow to prevent her from making off with the Extra Seven. Following Nene's destruction, she rescues Deathroy and later helps to fight the Demon Zola.

Her shadow is a three-headed hydra/beetle-like creature that Delphinium can partially bring out on some occasions.

Unnamed Gran Kingdom General

Gran Kingdom General Voiced by: J. B. Blanc
Goblin Voiced by: Kyle Hebert

This unnamed general of Gran Kingdom's army attacked Talta Village to steal the children there. He ran afoul of Zola and engaged her in battle. When Shu unleashed Blue Dragon for the first time, the general targeted Shu. He was easily defeated by Blue Dragon.

The Gran Kingdom General later appeared in a flashback leading the attack on Tonto's village.

The unnamed Gran Kingdom General owns a Goblin shadow who wields a mace.

Dolsk

Voiced by: Hirofumi Nojima (Japanese); Wally Wingert (English)

Exclusive to the anime, Dolsk is a red-haired Shadow User from Gran Kingdom. Under the orders from Nene, a general he was working for dispatched him to attack Zola's group. He ended up engaging Jiro in battle with Zola providing back-up. After points of making himself wide open, Jiro managed to defeat him while Zola subdued Blue Dragon.

Dolsk owns a powerful Ogre shadow.

Ivanov and Gustav

Ivanov Voiced by: Tadashi Mutou (Japanese); Steve Staley (English)
Gustav Voiced by: Wataru Hatano

Exclusive to the anime, Ivanov and Gustav are twin Shadow Users from Gran Kingdom. They were the ones responsible for attacking the village Marumaro was at and capturing its inhabitants. They fought Marumaro, Zola, and Jiro outside the village, but retreated when they got their prisoners onboard. They were visited by General Logi at the prison they ran. After General Logi defeated Zola, Jiro, and Marumaro, he left the rest to Ivanov and Gustav. Around this time, Shu managed to gain control of Blue Dragon and defeated them. Ivanov and Gustav made a cameo where they attack Tonto's village for tribute to Nene.

Ivanov's shadow is a red armored, sword-wielding warrior that is good at offense. Gustav's shadow is a blue armored, shield-wielding warrior that's good at defense. The two shadows can combine their attacks to form the Soul Matter attack.

Salinas

Voiced by: Keiji Okuda (Japanese); Terrence Stone (English)

Salinas is a spy who works for Gran Kingdom. Delphinium had him infiltrate Jibral in a plot to obtain the Extra Seven from the Book of the Beginning. He used his shadow to cause ghost-like havoc. Shu, Marumaro, and the guards confronted him at the armory. Shu and Marumaro unleash Blue Dragon and Saber Tiger to fight him. With help from Zola, Shu and Marumaro defeat Salinas who is then remanded to the dungeon. He is later interrogated as Gran Kingdom attacks Jibral which is when he manages to make his escape. After he made off with the Extra Seven, he gave them to Delphinium who then killed Salinas. His body is later found outside Jibral by the guards.

Salinas' shadow is Jikonda, a noblewoman-resembling monster who posed as the ghost of a noblewoman. She attacks with an umbrella-like weapon that emits laser beams. It also can emit blades and smokescreen from it's dress. It's true form under that disguise is a zombie-like creature.

Monsters

This section lists the monsters that appear in the game:

Poo Snake

A Poo Snake is a pile of lizard poop that is brought to life when a parasite starts living in it. It has a mouth on its stomach. They come in different varieties:

• Normal - A purple Poo Snake.
• Stone - A gray Poo Snake.
• Iron - A dark gray Poo Snake.
• Copper - A copper Poo Snake.
• Platinum - A platinum Poo Snake.
• Golden - A golden Poo Snake.
• Compost - A green Poo Snake with leaves stuck to it.
• Pungent - A dark turquoise Poo Snake with feathers stuck to it.
• Zebra - A light gray Poo Snake with black stripes.
• Dark - A dark purple Poo Snake with leaves stuck to it.

Some Poo Snakes come in giant size, including the Jumbo Poo, Corrosive Poo, and King Poo.

In the anime, Bouquet used Hippopotamus' shapeshifting ability to become a Poo Snake two times.

In Blue Dragon Plus, a Poo Snake is a playable character with a King Poo Snake shadow.

Kelolon

Kelolons are very weak creatures who are encountered en mass. A stronger version exists, called Kelolon Defenders, but they are still comparatively weak compared to most other monsters at the point in the game at which they are encountered. One of the status effects in the game turns the afflicted character into a Kelolon, which decreases their stats greatly. However, critical hits do more damage while in this state.

Other Characters

Marufini

A member of the Devee Tribe and one of Marumaro's siblings.

Marunini

A member of the Devee Tribe and one of Marumaro's siblings.

Marumira

A member of the Devee Tribe and one of Marumaro's siblings.

In Blue Dragon Plus, Marumira is playable and wielding a Cerberus shadow.

Marupino

A member of the Devee Tribe and one of Marumaro's siblings.

Maruponi

A member of the Devee Tribe and one of Marumaro's siblings.

Marutora

A member of the Devee Tribe and one of Marumaro's siblings.

In Blue Dragon Plus, Marutora is playable and wielding a Tentacled Dolphin shadow

Toripo

A strange-looking world-traveller wearing a green jumpsiut and what appears to be a gasmask. He is encountered by the party at various points in the game, where he sells them stat-enhancing items in exchange for the "medals" found throughout the game.

Yasato

One of the ancient robots who lives in Baroy Town, he saves Shu and friends from the moon lasers in the laser field and befriends them. His actual "name" is Number 61, but Shu invents the name "Yasato" for him because he thinks that they deserve to have real names, and that names are easier to remember. Later on in the game, when Nene reveals himself to the robots as their new master, Yasato and the other robots are forced to do his bidding as their purpose is to await and serve their master. In Nene's fortress, Yasato and a number of other robots attack Shu and the party, but they are able to free him and the rest of the robots from Nene's control by destroying the vaccum-like device which is controlling him. Later on in the game, Yasato and the other robots are encountered on the "Mecha Robo Cube", where they are now living free from having to serve a master.