List of Kamichama Karin characters

This article is a list of characters in Kamichama Karin.

Major characters

Karin Hanazono (花園 花鈴, Hanazono Karin)Voiced by: Mai Nakahara

Karin is the protagonist of the series, orphaned at a young age. She was brought up by her aunt, but having no talent in studies and sports. She was frequently scolded by her aunt due to her lackluster grades. During those times, her cat, Shi-chan, was her only real emotional support, however, a few months prior to the beginning of the story, Shi-chan, died, leaving Karin feeling very sad and alone. During one of her visits to Shi-chan's grave, she meets Kazune and Himeka, and the former cryptically asks if she is a "god." When she learns that her mother's ring allows her to borrow the powers of a goddess; she becomes a target by those after the rings, later revealed to be the Karasuma's, and thus is given an offer from Kazune and Himeka to stay with them at their home.

She is an outgoing person, and fiercely sticks up for her friends. Her mother's ring allows her to borrow godly power. Her ring is pink and has the power of the goddess Athena. Later on in the series, she realizes she had started developing feelings for Kazune, but as she was aware that Himeka loved him and Kazune cared very strongly about her, she is convinced that her feelings are only one sided. Near the end of the series, she realizes that Kazune is indeed in love with her, however the circumstances surrounding it cause her to have doubt. Karin's suspicions began when Himeka showed her a photograph of her parents, only to realize it is the same picture that Karin had of her parents. Things are further complicated when it is realized that the man in the photograph is Professor Kujyou, Kazune's father. It is later revealed that Kazune is Kazuto Kujyou and that the woman in the photo that Karin assumed to be her mother is actually Suzuka Kuyjou, her past self. Later on, her ring is destroyed by Kirihiko Karasuma.

In Chu, her and Kazune's son, Suzune comes from the future and gives her a new ring, that the future Kazune made. Her new ring has the power of the goddess Aphrodite. Along with the three noble gods, Karin tries to change the future to prevent Kazune and Micchi from dying and Jin from losing his memories. Eventually, in a special edition chapter, she, Kazune, and Jin regain their memories of each other.

She and Kazune get married at the end of Kamichama Karin Chu. ^[1]

Her name literally means "The Flower Bell of the Flower Garden," with the "Flower Garden" as her family name and "Flower Bell" as her first name.

Kazune Kujyou (九条 和音, Kujō Kazune)Voiced by: Miyuki Sawashiro

The main male protagonist. Kazune enters the series as Himeka's cousin, and son of Professor Kazuto Kujyou. Kazune is at first glance, a bad tempered, blunt, sexist, and condescending young boy, who ironically displays some very effeminate characteristics, such as being deathly afraid of bugs to the point that he hates the season of spring simply because it is when the bugs come out after winter. He gets really drunk and even smelling alcohol will make him drunk. Regardless of his personality quirks, he is very dedicated to protecting those he cares about, especially if they are Himeka and Karin. He is a good archer, and had once been a member of the school's Archery Club when he'd been in elementary school. Whenever he feels stressed or his mood is down, he sometimes still goes down to the archery club to practice, as it relaxes him. He draws power from the God (Apollo), and is very powerful in god form, unfortunately, he is also easily weakened by the transformations and often collapses after using his powers because since he's an artificial human, his body isn't complete.

It is later revealed that Kazune is in fact actually not Kazuto Kujyou's son, but rather his clone, and because of this fact, Kazune has been in love with Karin long before he even met her. Even though Kazune didn't retain much of Kazuto's memories, he retained some, specifically those of his wife Suzuka, as well as the feelings of love that he held for her. Those feelings translated over to Karin since she is essentially Suzuka.As prove to that, whenever he is drunk, he tends to act perverted towards Karin. It is also because of these memories that he cares so strongly for Himeka, as she is Kazuto Kujyou's real daughter, which in essence, makes her his daughter as well.

He dies shortly after Suzune is born in the future, which is one of the things the protagonists are trying to change. In Kamichama Karin Chu, the group changes the future and everyone lives. The only thing that stays the same is that Jin Kuga does lose his memory of what happened. Eventually, in a special edition chapter, he, Karin, and Jin regain their memories of each other.

He loves the way she is now and then. In the anime the last episode is went he tried to save Karin (Karin memories had fully regained)he risked his life for Suzuka (Karin's).

His ring has the power of the god Apollo. But in Chu, he has the power of Uranus.

Himeka Kujyou (九条姫香, Kujō Himeka)Voiced by: Noriko Shitaya

Himeka is Karin's friend and Kazune's "cousin". She is very important, and she is one half of a goddess, of which the other half is Kirio's younger sister, who's also named Himeka. When one Himeka becomes stronger, the other becomes weaker. Ever since she had been young, she had always defended Kazune, who had been a bit of a crybaby. Strangely, the only adult at hers and Kazune's house is the butler. She loves Kazune very dearly, though she has admitted that the love she feels for him is a bit ambiguous, as she feels like it's as if he's an "older brother", a "younger brother", and a "dad" all in one. She is a very kind girl who has an odd love for bugs (which Kazune hates) and is a great cook.

In chapter 0 of "Chu", she went to England to study abroad, and comes back at the end of Volume 3 in "Chu". But later in "Chu", she gets kidnapped by Rika and Kirio.

She is the daughter of Kazuto and Suzuka Kujyou- which makes her Kazune and Karin's "daughter" and Suzune's "sister."

Kirio Karasuma (烏丸 キリオ, Karasuma Kirio), Voiced by: Shintaro Asanuma

The main antagonist and Kirika's brother. He and Kirika were adopted by Kirihiko as children. He is the student body president of Sakurakaoka Academy, the most prestigious school in Japan, where Karin, Himeka, and Kazune happen to attend. While still a student, he tests the protagonists and fights them off of the campus. Karin refers to him as "Mr. Glasses Man." or "Four eyes." (眼鏡男 Meganekko) and Karin is referred by him as "Amateur Goddess"(anime only)/ "Novice Goddess"(manga only).

In the anime, he is made into the running gag who tries to attack Karin and the gang every chance he gets, though in the manga he also displays strange, behaviors when he's trying to achieve something. Contrary to his serious demeanor, his mind tends to wander in strange directions when he sees something odd and he gets easily flustered and/or embarrassed. He is also easily pulled into childish or immature conflict with Kazune if for any reason he feels an inferiority to the younger boy. He is sometimes slightly condescending towards his sister Kirika for trying to be male, especially when it seems like she's getting in his way. Kirika, however, is often Kirio's voice of reasoning.

His only true relative is his twin Kirika, but he does have another ‘sister’ by the name of Himeka. His ring has the powers of the god Ares.

Kirika Karasuma (烏丸 霧火, Karasuma Kirika) Voiced by: Yuki Kaida

Kirika is Kirio's fraternal twin sister, but for most of the series poses as a young man and Kirio's twin brother. With slightly masculine features to go along with her natural feminine beauty, as well as a kind personality, Kirika came across to many as a princely figure, which caused Karin to instantly develop a crush on her. At first, she does not believe that Karin is a goddess, but comes to believe in it. Kirika is unwillingly forced to fight Karin because of the other Himeka and her brother Kirio. Later on the manga in Volumes 4 and 5, it is revealed to the protagonists that she is actually female. Kirika explains that after the deaths of their parents, Kirio was all she had, but when he started becoming interested in the God rings, she felt as if he were slipping away from her. She at some point chopped off her hair and started pretending she was male in an attempt to in a way emotionally follow Kirio in his footsteps and prevent him from straying too far away. When Karin reveals to Kirika that she had had a crush on her, Kirika replies that in her own, strange way, she had a crush on Karin too, stating that she admired Karin for being able to be powerful without having to hide her gender. She gives help to Karin and Kazune when her father revives through her brother, Kirio.

In Goddess form, she is Nyx, the goddess that Kirio sent out in the first book to see if Karin was actually a goddess.

Michiru Nishikiori (錦織 みちる, Nishikiori Michiru)Voiced by: Akira Ishida

Michiru, also known as Micchi, is an exchange student from England. He is an orphan; his parents were killed in a car accident. That's how he met Kazune's father who saved him and gave him the ring. He is in the same grade as Karin but is older than his other classmates because he spent a year in the hospital. He was given much inside information on the God rings, the divine power, and the family relationship between Karin and Kazune from Kazuto, and was made well aware that Kazune is Kazuto's clone.

Micchi is eccentric, showing off a happy-go-lucky and slightly airheaded personality that contrasts with the almost sinister seriousness he can display depending on the circumstances. Despite any of his shady characteristics, he can be genuinely kind, and is sensitive to the feelings of others. He is very amorous and flirts often with the people around him regardless of gender. He most notably makes numerous romantic advances towards Kazune and Karin, and has kissed each of them on the lips at least once; in fact he stole both Karin and Kazune's first kisses! He also relatively often kisses them both on their cheeks. Much of the affection Micchi holds towards Kazune stems from the deep, almost borderline obsessive, admiration he held towards Kazuto Kujyou after the Professor looked after him and cared for him when he was injured and helpless and had no one left in his family to be there for him.

He had received a ring from Professor Kujyou. But, the ring Professor Kujyou gave Michiru had the power to seal any amount of evil, rather than allowing for transformation into a god.

In Chu, his ring has the power of Neptune. While conversing with her future self Karin finds out that Micchi dies in the future. After hearing this Micchi falls into a state of deep depression. He later pulls out of it realizing that his devotion to Professor Kujyou doesn't mean staying alive as a tribute to his memory but protecting him (Kazune) and the one he cares about (Karin). In the anime his ring has tremendous amount of power that is as great as the ring of Zeus. In the manga he isn't the one with the power which Karasuma Kirio is sensing. Yuuki Sakurai is the one. When Micchi and Karin go to the future for the final battle in the future Micchi's destiny of dying is accomplished when he is killed by Kirihiko Karasuma possessing Jin. Kirihiko revealed that he always thought Micchi to be the most powerful of all the children shortly before Micchi dies. In the epilogue it is shown that Micchi was revived and is a happy man in his twenties as seen at Karin and Kazune's wedding.

Minor characters

Miyon Yi (李 美永, Japanese: I Miyon, Korean Hangul: 이미영, RR: I Mi-yeong, M-R: Yi Mi-yŏng)Voiced by: Kazusa Murai

Himeka's best friend from elementary school. Although she lives in Japan with her mother, she's actually from Korea. She has a crush on Yuuki and hopes that he would get to music school. She also enjoys writing plays, which are very unusual and no one understands. The only one who appears to understand them are Kirio, who greatly admires Miyon's work.

In Chu, she is said to be in critical condition due the house fire in the Sakurai's home. However, she appears at Kazune and Karin's wedding. This suggests that, by rewinding time, Kazune and Karin were able to prevent the fire from killing Miyon, which had been caused by a seed of chaos.

Yuuki Sakurai (桜井 優生, Sakurai Yūki)Voiced by: Hiroyuki Yoshino

Miyon's friend from elementary school. Plays the violin and the piano, although he's embarrassed to admit it. He thinks Karin tested into their school and thinks she's very intelligent. He has a power which can make a forbidden ring (at last known as Zeus's Ring) shine and he is able to use that ring, in the manga series only. In the Anime he is just a normal classmate of Karin and Kazune's. He has a crush on Miyon.

He has a less important role in the anime, although he has much more importance in the manga. In the manga, he holds the hidden power of Zeus, which Kazune thought Michiru had that hidden power.

In Chu he is manipulated by Rika into helping her by using the Zeus's Ring.

Nike (ニャケ, Nyake)Voiced by: Nanae Katō

Karin's cat, also known as Shii-chan, that was Karin's pillar of support when she was often scolded by her aunt but had died. She is later resurrected by the goddess, Nike, who lived inside her. "Shii-Chan" initially scares Karin when she returns because she is supposedly dead, and Karin believes her to be a ghost or a zombie. She helps Karin now by giving advice and by turning into a shield. In one instance, Karin uses her as a projectile.

Himeka Karasuma (烏丸 妃路, Karasuma Himeka)Voiced by: Kozue Yoshizumi

A girl living with Kirio. The other half to Himeka Kujyou. In the beginning of the series she is unhealthy, and spends most of her time in bed asleep. She is portrayed as evil for splitting some of her life with the other Himeka, but she is only a container for Kirihiko Karasuma's research and therefore highly protected by the Karasumas.

In Chu, she goes by the name Rika and appears to be the main antagonist instead of Kirio.

Ami (愛美) (manga only)

A childhood friend of Michiru who appears in volume 6. She appears to hate the professor for the change in Michiru after the accident.

Ami, in someone's request, came to Japan to deliver a mysterious notebook to the Kujyou house. The notebook contains information of god transformation and Himeka. She witnessed the kissing of Kazune and Karin and called Karin a "Scandalous Maid" or "Immoral Maid". (Karin was in an apron at that time.). Ami only appears in the manga. In the manga, she gives this important book to the Kujyou residence, but in the anime, it is the future Kazune who does this.

She has a poor sense of direction. Her name's meaning is "Friend".

Kazuto Kujyou (九条 和人, Kujō Kazuto)

Kazune's and Kazusa's "father" and Himeka's real father. Married to Suzuka (Karin). He is a professor at a university, he created the rings with Kirihiko Karasuma, but later hid the research information within Himeka due to the power of the Gods. He had cleared Suzuka's memories and turned her into a child in order to protect her from Karasuma Kirihiko. The ring he gave Michiru had the power to seal any amount of evil, rather than allowing for transformation into a god.

Suzuka Hanazono

Kazuto's wife and mother of Himeka. She knew Kirihiko before Kazuto. When Kirihiko introduced her to Kazuto, the two fell in love at first sight. Later they married. When Kirihiko heard this, he wanted to become so strong like the god, Zeus. This caused Kazuto to turn Suzuka back into a child and rename her Karin to protected her from Kirihiko.

Kirihiko Karasuma (烏丸 桐彦, Karasuma Kirihiko)

The person who had adopted Kirika and Kirio. He used to be best friends with Professor Kujyou, but now hates him for hiding the research data from him, which he had sealed within Himeka, and for marrying Suzuka, who he was in love with. He later possesses his son, Kirio, but Karin and Kazune stop him. He is actually Jin's "pastlife," much like how Suzuka is to Karin. In chapter 7 of Chu, with the help of Rika Karasuma, he manages to possess Jin's body for a short time.

Kazusa Kujyou (九条 和佐, Kujō Kazusa)Voiced by: Ui Miyazaki

Kazune's sister. She assumes the form of a bird using the power of god transformation, and she dresses in a traditional Japanese costume with bunny ears when she is in her human form. She has the power of the goddess Artemis and helps Karin in place of Kazune. Kazuto created her like what he did to Kazune. Her first appearance is in volume 3 of the manga, but is fully introduced in volume 4. Her god transformation looks similar to Kazune's, probably due to he fact that they both appear like twins or the fact that Artemis and Apollo were twins.

Q-chan (キューちゃん, Kyū-chan)

The old butler serving the Kujyou family. He seems to know a lot about Karin, however, his true identity is still unknown.

In Kamichama Karin Chu

Suzune Kujyou (九条 鈴音, Kujō Suzune)Voiced by: Kimiko Koyama

Came from the future. The son of Kazune and Karin and also somewhat "brother" of Himeka, he has Kazune's looks and Karin's eyes and is a little boy. He calls Karin "mama" and Kazune "papa". Suzune's name is written with the second kanji in Karin and Kazune's first names. His name literally means "bell sound". In Vol. 5 of Kamichama Karin Chu, Suzune transformed into a cupid by a "Family Love Evolution" with Karin and Kazune.

In the Kamichama Karin anime, He briefly appears twice in episodes 8 and 22.

Jin Kuga (久我 神, Kuga Jin)Voiced by: Tatsuhisa Suzuki

A popular idol, he has the power of Hades. His missing mother has a blood relationship with Kirihiko Karasuma. He has a crush on Karin and calls her "his goddess" or "megami" (which is goddess in Japanese) because she looks like the woman who appeared in his dreams and gave him advice. Although he is an idol, he lives in a very poor house in the garden of that mansion, which he had cleaned since he was young. He has never been able to set foot inside the mansion. He also entered the "World of Showbiz" and became an idol in order to make his father proud of him. In Chapter 15, it has been revealed that he is the clone of Professor Karasuma, while Rika is trying to revive Kirihiko through Jin. In Chapter 24 to save Micchi, Jin, Kazune, and Karin combine their powers to go back in time but at the cost of never meeting Jin. Although in the final pages, Jin is seen at Karin and Kazune's wedding. In the extra, both Kazune and Karin feel like they have forgotten something very important (or as Kazune says, something had been sealed away). At the same time, Kazune transfers schools in order to become like his father and says if he can't grow up, he would never be able to face the person on the other side of his memory, who is most likely Jin. Most likely, everybody will and have meet Jin again some time in the future. Also, it has been revealed in a special edition chapter, that he, Karin, and Kazune regain their memories of each other. This is shown when he says (after he loses his memories)- "To my goddess and rival, wherever you are, whenever we meet again, I hope that you will be proud to look at me right now!"

In the anime, he has made six appearances so far. The first was in the first episode, where he transforms into the god Hades and battles with Micchiru and Kazune against the seed of chaos. Next is in episode 7, when Karin was running away from being seen by Kikira, Jin was performing. Next is in episode 8 when he and Micchi save Karin after she tries to destroy a seed of chaos. Next is in episode 14, this episode is related to chapter 7 in Kamichama Karin chu, concerning the cooking battle and that alone. In episode 24, Jin is shown momentarily in Micchi's flashback. The last episode he does not make a speaking appearance, but does appear, He is standing at Kazune's left side with Micchi and Suzune, before Karin transforms into her goddess form to fight again.

Rika Karasuma (烏丸 リカ, Karasuma Rika)Voiced by: Kozue Yoshizumi

She is a mysterious girl who sets the Seed of Chaos. The seed caused Karin's Chronos Clock to reverse.

She calls Kirio her brother. In Chapter 14 of Chu, she finally reveals that she is Karasuma Himeka from the future; with Kirio, they kidnap the other Himeka. She also has her own Chronos Clock.

It is stated in Vol 6 of Chu that Rika is attempting to revive Kirihiko to help prevent Kirio & Kirika's death due to the experiments that Kirihiko has done on them. Also revealed is that the main reason for trying to save the twins is that she fears being alone and unloved. Rika is a nickname mimicked from Kirika.

She appears once in the anime in the beginning of the first episode, but for a very brief moment, and her face is only partially if not at all seen.

Shingen Tsutsumi (堤 信玄, Tsutsumi Shingen)

He is Kirio's friend and helps him and Rika with their plans. He has a crush on Rika, but, she doesn't mind whatever he does or thinks.

Fan clubs

Kazune-Z (和音ーズ, Kazune-Zu)

Voiced by: Chigusa Ikeda, Minako Kotobuki, Noriko Obata, Natsuki Sakamoto

Kazune's fan club. Their goal is to "preserve" and help Kazune in any way possible. For example, when Kazune was tired out from helping Karin and fell asleep in class, the girls all raised their hands so the teacher wouldn't call on Kazune. They also got all jealous when Karin got close near Kazune, afterward when they've questioned what exactly is Karin to Kazune, she lied that she is a distant relative, for her own safety. In Kamichama Karin chu, they had worked in a cafe with Karin and were jealous Kazune was paying so much attention to her. Rika had noticed this and had implanted a seed of chaos in the cafe, which made them leave her to work the cafe alone. Once the seed was destroyed, with the help of Micchi, they returned and began to think a little better of her ("for the night" they say) until she becomes close to Kazune again.

Michirian (ミッチリアン, Micchirian)

Voiced by: Aki Toyosaki, Miyuki Kawasho, Satomi Satou, Akiko Tanaka

Michiru's fan club. One of the members is a male student named Ren. They want to protect Michiru everyway as possible just like the Kazune fan club did to Kazune.

Ji~n's (ジンズ, Jin's)

Jin's fan club. It is made up of his idol fans. They had once been affected by a seed of chaos after they had become jealous seeing Karin with Jin and threaten to "punish" Suzune if she didn't stay away from Jin. Jin comes to her rescue and helps cure them. They run off to find Jin right afterwards, without remembering anything. Also, when Karin had hit Jin in the face, she wishes to apologize to him and dresses up as one of his fans to get closer to him. Because of this, she is able to see his house for the first time and illegally trespasses, which is when she learns about Jin's living conditions.

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