List of characters in Saint Tail
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This is a list of characters from the Saint Tail manga and anime series.
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[edit] Main characters
[edit] Meimi Haneoka / Saint Tail
(羽丘芽美 Haneoka Meimi; セイント★テール Saint Tail)
Voiced by: Tomo Sakurai (Japanese), Mela Lee (English), the late Aracelli de Leon (Latin American), Erika Araujo (VDI Point)
By day, Meimi is a typical fourteen year old student of St. Paulia's Private School. At school, her strong point is physical education, but she's poor at mathematics.
By night she transforms into the magical thief, Saint Tail. In this guise, she takes back what bad people have stolen. She is given information by her classmate and nun-in-training, Seira, of misdeeds.
Saint Tail is pursued by Meimi's classmate, Asuka Jr. An amateur detective, he's appointed by the mayor to catch the thief. By Asuka Jr.'s request, Saint Tail sends him notices of her crimes in advance, so he may have a fighting chance. As Saint Tail outwits Asuka Jr. in her capers, and he chases after her with his eyes on only her, Saint Tail begins to fall in love with him. But as Meimi Haneoka, she always ends up arguing with Asuka Jr., for all he cares about is catching Saint Tail.
Unlike most other magical girls, Saint Tail does not have actual magic powers, instead she uses stage magic and theatrics to fool and confuse pursuers.
[edit] Seira Mimori
(深森聖良 Mimori Seira)
Voiced by: Inoue Kikuko (Japanese), Anjuli Cain (English), Rosy Aguirre (Latin American), Marcela Bordes (VDI Point)
Seira is Meimi's closest friend, and knows Meimi is Saint Tail. A student of St. Paulia's Private School, Seira is also a sister-in-training. After school each day, she listens to the troubles of those who come to the church to pray. Seira relays these stories to Meimi, who as Saint Tail can return whatever's been stolen. Seira has a gentle, kind-hearted nature.
[edit] Daiki Asuka Jr.
(飛鳥大貴 Asuka Daiki; アスカＪｒ Asuka Jr.)
Voiced by: Kousuke Okano (Japanese), Joshua Seth (English), Carlos Hugo Hidalgo (Latin American)
Daiki Asuka is a fourteen year old at St. Paulia's Private School, and it a top student in his class. His physical strength and motor skills are lacking.
Called Asuka Jr. by his classmates, Daiki Asuka is the son of Detective Tomoki Asuka. Because his father has been unable to catch Saint Tail, and doesn't place any emergency on this thief's capture, Asuka Jr. takes to task. He plans to one-up his father by catching Saint Tail.
After his getting close enough to photograph Saint Tail, Asuka Jr. is awarded a badge from the mayor, which allows him to go anywhere to investigate. With this, he is able to assist the police in Saint Tail's capture. Asuka Jr. is given notice beforehand of Saint Tail's crimes, at his own request. As she slips away from him caper after caper, Saint Tail becomes the object of Asuka Jr.'s thoughts.
Very dense about relationships, Asuka Jr. fails to see Meimi's growing feelings for him. He often argues with Meimi (whom he calls Haneoka), over Saint Tail and his inability to catch her. Asuka Jr. begins to think of Meimi when he sees Saint Tail, and viceversa, and is torn between which of the two he's falling in love with.
[edit] Regular Characters
[edit] Ruby
(ルビー Ruby)
Voiced by: Satomi Koorogi (Japanese), Brianne Siddall (English), Ana Lobo (Latin American)
Ruby is Meimi's pet hedgehog. While Ruby is obtained midway through the manga series, she's introduced early on in the anime series. Ruby knows Meimi is Saint Tail, and has been on a caper with her, inspiring a "hedgehog magic spell".
Ruby wears a black ribbon similar to Saint Tail's, and speaks by saying "Kyuu". Meimi has to keep Ruby hidden from Asuka Jr. so he won't recognize her from a previous caper.
[edit] Rina Takamiya
(高宮リナ Takamiya Rina)
Voiced by: Yūko Nagashima (Japanese), Brianne Siddall (English), Xochtil Ugarte (Latin American)
A transfer student to St. Paulia's Private School is Rina Takamiya. Rina becomes interested in Asuka Jr. and his mission to catch Saint Tail. Because she is related to the mayor, Rina is able to take over Asuka Jr.'s investigations. Because of Rina's strong sense of justice, she places to become a police woman. Catching Saint Tail would assist in her ambitions.
Rina is taller than Asuka Jr., making the young detective uncomfortable standing beside her. She also has a boyish and bullyish nature.
Because of Meimi's athletic abilities and other circumstances, Rina suspects her to be Saint Tail. She makes a bet with Asuka Jr. that if Meimi is Saint Tail, then Asuka Jr. has to be Rina's boyfriend. The two are disillusioned when Rina caught Saint Tail, but the magical thief uses her magic to switch a guard in her place. The knocked-out guard, dressed as Saint Tail, fools Asuka Jr. and Rina into thinking that Saint Tail is really an older man, and Rina stops stalking Meimi over the issue.
[edit] Manato Sawatari
(佐渡真人 Sawatari Manato)
Voiced by: Toshiyuki Morikawa , the late Enrique Mederos (Latin American)
Manato Sawatari is a student at St. Paulia's Private School, and is a photographer on the school paper. He's popular with the girls on campus, but becomes interested in Meimi after she shows interest in his photograph (rather than in his looks as other girls do). Unknown to Sawatari, Meimi's interest was false, as she was trying to obtain information for a theft.
Asuka Jr. and Rina both call Sawatari by the name "Saruwatari" when mad with him. Saru is the Japanese word for monkey. In the English translation of the manga, it's changed to "So-What-tari."
[edit] Ryoko and Kyoko
(涼子 Ryōko and 恭子 Kyōko)
Ryoko Voiced by: Satomi Koorogi , Leyla Rangel (Latin American)
Kyoko Voiced by: Junko Iwao , Mónica Villaseñor (Latin American)
Ryoko and Kyoko are classmates and friends of Meimi at St. Paulina's Private School.
[edit] Asuka Jr.'s Friends
Asuka Jr. is often found with these two friends, Yasuhiro and Chiba. Asuka Jr. often brags his achievements to them.
[edit] Genichiro and Eimi Haneoka
Genichiro Haneoka (羽丘源一郎 Haneoka Gen'ichirō) is Meimi's father and a first-class magician. He always learns new magic tricks to use in his shows, and hopes that Meimi will follow in his footsteps and go into a magical profession.
Eimi Haneoka (羽丘映美 Haneoka Eimi) is Meimi's mother. She hopes Meimi will follow in her own footsteps and do something athletic. Herself, Eimi used to be a thief. She is now a house wife.
Genichiro and Eimi met when Eimi was the "Mysterious Thief Lucifer" (怪盗ルシファー kaitō rushifā). He was living in an apartment at the time, and assisted a wounded Eimi without questioning her actions. The two fell in love and married. Eimi gave up her life of crime.
While Genichiro appears completely oblivious to his daughter's actions as Saint Tail, Eimi has made various comments to suggest she knows (or suspects) Meimi's night-time activities.
At the last episode, however, they both seemed to realize Meimi was indeed St. Tail as when she was fighting to get Asuka Jr. back.
[edit] Detective Tomoki Asuka
Asuka Jr.'s father, and a detective. While capturing Saint Tail is one of his duties, he focuses on larger criminals.
It was known that he also onced fell in love with St. Venus (Eimi) during his age of pursuing her.
[edit] Rosemary a.k.a. Hippolyta Sendo
Rival of Meimi's mother, she is said to have stolen everything that the Fallen Angel returned. Maju is her adopted daughter. In the 6th manga she captures Asuka Jr., whom Meimi is in love with and fears his reaction knowing that she is Saint Tail.
[edit] Sub-Characters
[edit] Mayor Hideo Morinaka
(森中秀雄 Morinaka Hideo)
Hideo Morinaka is the mayor of the city. He appointed Asuka Jr. to capture Saint Tail.
The mayor is Rina's uncle.
[edit] Maju
Maju is the adopted daughter of thief, Rosemary. Using lavender to hypnotize others, Maju is able to convince her victims to hand over their valuables while believing they were stolen by Saint Tail. She discovers Saint Tail's identity by hypnotizing her.
[edit] References
- List of characters in Saint Tail at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia. Accessed 2006-09-28.
