List of Jormungand characters

This is a list of characters of the manga/anime series Jormungand.

Main Characters

The protagonists of Jormungand. From left to right: Wiley, Lehm, Mao, Valmet, Koko Hekmatyar, Lutz, Tojo, R, Ugo and Jonah (Jonathan Mar).
Kouko Hekmatyar (ココ·ヘクマティアル Koko Hekumatiaru)
Voiced by: Marina Inoue (Drama CD), Shizuka Itō (Anime) (Japanese), Anastasia Munoz (English)
The female protagonist. A young arms dealer and the daughter of Floyd Hekmatyar, a global shipping magnate. Officially she leads the HCLI's European and African Logistics Division. She is physically attractive, with long silver-white hair, pale alabaster skin, striking blue eyes and her trademark smile, which is present even under dire circumstances. She is extremely charismatic and bold, which earned her great success in her business as well as the fierce loyalty of her subordinates. While generally behaving in a bubbly and slightly childish manner, Koko is actually rather ruthless and has been called a 'monster' by various characters. She claims that she sells weapons for world peace, but there seem to be an ulterior motive that she keeps as a secret to everyone except Minami Amada and Chinatsu, who was killed shortly after knowing Koko's secret plan. She considers Jonah a little brother and is very affectionate towards him, wanting him to experience life as a normal boy when not in combat.
Jonathan Mar (ジョナサン・マル Jonasan Maru) / Jonah (ヨナ Yona)
Voiced by: Mie Sonozaki (Drama CD), Mutsumi Tamura (Anime) (Japanese), Micah Solusod (English)
The male protagonist. A child soldier of Arabic origin. After being orphaned, he joined the mountain infantry and was then assigned to a military base along with four other orphans. However, after Malka, his friend, was killed when made to probe for landmines, he annihilated the base single-handedly in order to avenge her and protect the other children. He was disarmed by Chiquita and met Kasper Hekmatyar for the first time. He learnt that the base was actually intended to be destroyed anyway because it was in the way of the construction of a road that would benefit Kasper's arms trading business in Asia, and that in fact Malka had died for nothing but a road. As the punishment of killing his men as well as a test to examine Jonah's character, Kasper locked him up in a container for days with nothing but water. After Jonah was released, Kasper revealed himself to be the one who sold the weapons that destroyed Jonah's village, making him indirectly responsible for the death of Jonah's parents. Kasper made him a deal and promised Jonah that he would ensure the three orphans live a peaceful life in Japan. In return, Jonah would be employed as a bodyguard to protect Koko, his sister. Since the encounter with Kasper, Jonah has harboured a strong hatred for him and arms dealers in general. After joining Koko's crew, his sentiment towards weapons has not changed. However, he finds himself growing a soft spot for Koko, even though Koko always makes him feel that he is being played the fool. He is often portrayed as the straight man of the series, pulling the rest of the crew down to earth during some of their flightier moments.

Koko's Bodyguards

Sofia Velmer / Valmet (バルメ Barume)
Voiced by: Ayumi Fujimura (Drama CD), Sayaka Ohara (Anime) (Japanese), Carli Mosier (English)
An ex-mechanized jäger major of the Finnish Rapid Deployment Force who is skilled with knives. She is in love with Koko, but it is unknown whether Koko returns her feelings. Valmet comes from a military family and served as a UN peacekeeping officer in Africa. Her entire Finnish-led UN squad was annihilated by Chen Guoming and she herself lost an eye in that attack. Since then Valmet feels uneasy and even frightened whenever she sets foot on African soil.
Lehm Brick (レーム Rēmu)
Voiced by: Unshō Ishizuka (Japanese), Chris Smith (English)
The oldest member of Koko's crew and the second in command. A former Delta Force operator who used to be active in Somalia during the 1990s, he is a veteran mercenary with strong leadership skills. He acted as Floyd Hekmatyar's bodyguard together with Chiquita, his ex-wife, before joining Koko's squad. Lehm also does sniper work either alone or together with Lutz.
Mao (マオ Mao)
Voiced by: Hidenori Takahashi (Drama CD), Go Shinomiya (Anime) (Japanese), Patrick Seitz (English)
A former artillery officer from an Asian country, he was discharged from the military after a deadly training accident and was later recruited by Koko. He is the only member on Koko's team that has a family which consists of a wife, and two children. His son and daughter are younger than Jonah and are said to look like their mother. He is put in charge of giving Jonah science lessons.
Renato Socci / R (アール R)
Voiced by: Tomoyuki Higuchi (Drama CD), Katsuyuki Konishi (Anime) (Japanese), Ian Sinclair (English)
A former Italian Army Bersaglieri intelligence officer. He had served in the Bosnian Wars as a UN peacekeeping soldier. Later he is revealed to be a CIA spy infiltrated on Koko's team. He then sacrifices himself to save Koko and Jonathan from Hex's ambush he is shot in the head in episode 15 of the anime.
Ugo (ウゴ Ugo)
Voiced by: Yūki Ono (Drama CD), Kiyoshi Katsunuma (Anime) (Japanese), Cris George (English)
A former mafia driver, Ugo was recruited by Koko after the mafia organization he worked for was wiped out by Koko's team for trying to make their payment with drugs. Ugo was spared as he was the only one disgusted because his brother died from drugs. He serves the group as Koko's personal driver and has excellent defensive driving skills.
Lutz (ルツ Rutsu)
Voiced by: Takuya Eguchi (Drama CD), Wataru Hatano (Anime) (Japanese), Greg Ayres (English)
A former sniper from a SWAT unit. Serves as the team's main sniper.
Akihiko Tojo (東條秋彦 Tōjō Akihiko)
Voiced by: Kazuyuki Okitsu (Drama CD), Hitoshi Yanai (Anime) (Japanese), Christopher Bevins (English)
A former operator of the Japanese Ministry of Defense's secret SR unit. Tojo had seen action in several black ops operations, including Cuba. He left SR and was recruited by Kasper within 20 minutes. He is put in charge of giving Jonah Math lessons.
William Nelson / Wiley (ワイリ Wairi)
Voiced by: Kazuhisa Tanaka (Drama CD), Kenji Nomura (Anime) (Japanese), Akron Watson (English)
An African American explosive expert and ex-lieutenant of the 20th Engineer Brigade of the XVIII Airborne Corps in the US Army. Graduated from University of Virginia School of Architecture. Wiley met Lehm and Echo in the first Gulf War when he was assigned to blow up a chemical factory. After several years, Wiley paid Lehm a visit and met Koko. He is put in charge of giving Jonah English lessons. Usually making use of his demolitions expertise to turn the enemies' bombs against them, he is the only person on the team aside from Koko who is blacklisted by the FBI.

HCLI Corporation

Also known as H&C Logistics Incorporated, HCLI is an American-based shipping company that secretly deals in weapons trade.

Floyd Hekmatyar (フロイド·ヘクマティアル Furoido Hekumatiaru)
Koko and Kasper's father. Head of the HCLI and a global shipping magnate.
Kasper Hekmatyar (キャスパー·ヘクマティアル Kyasupā Hekumatiaru)
Voiced by: Masaya Matsukaze (Japanese), Eric Vale (English)
Koko's elder brother. Belongs to HCLI's Asian Logistics Division. He is the one who sold the weapons responsible for the deaths of Jonah's parents, and also the reason Jonah joined up with Koko. He and Koko were born on a container ship at sea so they had no real nationality or homeland despite owning numerous fake passports. He is noted for his strong physical resemblance with Koko, with the same silver-white hair, pale skin and blue eyes, even though they are not twins. Personality-wise, his resourcefulness and craftiness seems to be on par, if not superior to, that of Koko's. He is quite affectionate towards and protective over Koko, but when doing business, he puts on a more professional air.
Chiquita (チェキータ Chekīta)
Voiced by: Yumi Tōma (Japanese), Clarine Harp (English)
Kasper's ruthless head of security and Lehm's ex-wife. Both Chiquita and Lehm used to serve as Floyd Hekmatyar's bodyguards. Near the end Chiquita grows a soft spot for Jonah.

CCAT

The personnel of CCAT. From left to right: Curry, Lu and Mildo.

Currie's Company Aerial Transport is a British corporation and Koko's rival weapons dealer.

Curry (カリー Karē)

Voiced by: Katsuhisa Hōki (Japanese), Kent Williams (English)

A weapons dealer and head of CCAT. Ex-RAF. He has a short fuse and enjoys manipulating situations to Koko's disadvantage.
Mildo (ミルド Mirudo)

Voiced by: Ayumi Tsunematsu (Japanese), Caitlin Glass (English)

One of Curry's bodyguards. She has an obsessive crush on Valmet, who she admires as a fellow warrior. She is amazed by Valmet's skills, especially because of the fact that she only has one eye but can easily defeat her in the dark. They have fought many times, but Mildo has never won. Mildo is a knife-trained mercenary and as such, prefers using combat knives and machetes as her main weapon. She has a short temper and will kill anyone who annoys her, even if it messes up her boss's plans. However even though she seems to be heartless, she once told Valmet that she believes warriors are hollow and she hopes that if she can become as strong as Valmet she might find something to fill the void.
Lu (ルー Rū)

Voiced by: Manabu Sakamaki (Japanese), Jeremy Inman (English)

Curry's other bodyguard. Unlike Mildo, Lu is much calmer and doesn't really say much.

CIA

The CIA agents Schokolade (left) and Scarecrow (right).
Scarecrow (スケアクロウ Sukeakurō)

Voiced by: Yūki Ono (Drama CD), Tōru Nara (Anime) (Japanese), Robert McCollum (English)

A CIA agent targeting Koko and other arms dealers. With good instincts on shady deals, he is attempting to track down and seize the dirty money from arms trade for the CIA. Unfortunately, due to his clumsiness or unexpected factors, not everything works as he plans, which is why Koko is able to escape from him many times.
Schokolade (ショコラーデ Shokorāde)

Voiced by: Ami Koshimizu (Japanese), Brittney Karbowski (English)

A CIA asset in South Africa assigned to work with Scarecrow. She's more sympathetic to Koko and secretly works as Koko's informant.
George Black (ジョージ·ブラック Jōji Burakku)

Voiced by: Tsutomu Isobe (Japanese), Mark Stoddard (English)

Creator of "Operation Undershaft", a plan to 'tame Koko Hekmatyar' and gain access to HCLI's enormous logistics network. R and Hex's superior. He is a man with many aliases and is most commonly known as "Bookman". He was addressed as "Burattinaio" (puppeteer) during his time in Bosnia. R calls him "Saw", but George refuses to be called that after R's death.
Hex (へックス Hekkusu)

Voiced by: Aya Hisakawa (Japanese), Jamie Marchi (English)

A radical patriot. Ex-member of the female Wide Range Communications Platoon and a CIA Special Activities Division operative. Stationed in Afghanistan after her fiance was killed in the September 11 attacks, but was discharged for her radical methods that violated International Law. Hex was later recruited by Bookman to crack down on arms dealers. Koko bears a grudge against her because she killed Echo, one of Koko's subordinates, a few years ago. She later goes against Bookman's order and repeatedly attempts to kill Koko, killing R when he buys time for Koko to escape. It is implied that she commits suicide when she sees the B-52 sent by Koko coming for her in the mountainous region of Iraq, though her ultimate fate is left somewhat ambiguous.

Daxinghai Company

Officially, the Daxinghai Company (大星海公司) is a Hong Kong registered company that handles shipping and trading of machine parts and natural resources. In reality, the company is a front for China to develop oil and gas resources in third world countries as well as handling illegal arms trade and providing securities. All security personnel were officially discharged from the People's Liberation Army first before "joining" the company as civilian security contractors.

Guoming Chen (陳国明 Chen Guomen)
Voiced by: Takaya Hashi (Japanese), Jerry Russell (English)
The Head of Daxinghai who is always seen with a cane. Under his polite and well mannered appearance is a ruthless man willing to do anything for the interest of China. Held a rank of major general in the PLA. He is the target of Valmet's revenge as her unit was killed by Chen and his men during a UN peacekeeping mission. Eventually Valmet gets her revenge and kills him after finding the main Daxinghai headquarters in northern Africa.
Karen Low (カレン・ロウ Karen Rō)
Voiced by: Saori Kato (Japanese), Shelley Calene-Black (English)
A former lieutenant in the People's Liberation Army. Officially she is Chen's secretary but actually she serves as his bodyguard as well as the commander of his soldiers. She tries to avenge Chen after his death, but is injured by Jonah. Homeless in South Africa, she is later recruited by Minami Amada and becomes her assistant.

Others

Minami "Miami" Amada (天田 南 Amada Minami)
Voiced by: Megumi Toyoguchi (Japanese), Gwendolyn Lau (English)
Koko's best friend and a Japanese expert of robotics. She is a butterfly fanatic. When she decided to chase after butterflies in the mountains she cried and begged Koko for her forgiveness since she was going to end up missing their meeting which Miami had been looking forward to for a year. There is a secret plot between her and Koko, codenamed "Jormungand". Like Koko, Miami also has a habit of rolling around on nearby surfaces when she's upset.
Elena Baburin (エレナ·バブーリン Erena Babūrin)
Voiced by: Reina Ueda (Japanese), Kristi Kang (English)
An expert of quantum optics that is held custody by a military body in an unnamed Caucasian country. She is later abducted by Koko and assigned to work on "Jormungand" along with Minami Amada.
Leila Ibrahim Faiza / Chatty Rabitsfoot
Voiced by: Aki Kanada (Japanese), Martha Harms (English)
Labeled as the second coming of Julian Assange, Leila is a Quantum Physicist, hacker and online activist, illegally detained in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp with her true name and sex kept in secret. She is later rescued by Koko and recruited to work on "Jormungand" along with Minami and Elena.
Amalia Trohovski (アマーリア Amāria)
Voiced by: Gara Takashima (Japanese), Lydia Mackay (English)
A Russian arms dealer and former actress stationed in France. She started her own arms dealing business with her late husband's connections. She is on friendly terms with the DGSE.
Malka (マルカ Maruka)
Voiced by: Mayu Iino (Japanese), Leah Clark (English)
A young orphan girl whose death galvanized Jonah to rebel against the deputy commander in order to kill Yusuf Gasud.