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 then in the game.

Shu is the owner of the Shadow Blue Dragon, which often uses magic sword attacks.

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 then everyone else does. She's also depicted as far more short tempered. She has a crush on Shu, but won't admit it.

Kluke is the owner of the Shadow Phoenix, who often uses black magic attacks.

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. 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.

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. 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 his village and it's inhabitants were captured by twin Shadow users Ivanov and Gustuv.

He owns the shadow Saber Tiger who uses monk charged attacks.

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.

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. 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 her's. She's for the most part depicted as an airhead.

Bouquet has the ability to become invisible, but must strip in order to be completely unseen (this is removed in the dub). On one occasion, she was somehow detected by Delphinium of Gran Kingdom.

Her shadow is Hippopotamus. Hippopotamus may be weak, but he has the ability to shapeshift, sometimes using that ability by wrapping around Bouquet to provide her with a disguise.

Gran Kingdom

Nene

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

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 is artificial shadow machine. He overwhelmed Shu and Co. at first until Kluke manifested her Phoenix spirit 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 rival of the Blue Dragon called the Red Dragon which is a master in all classes of battle. For some reason, Red Dragon is known as Chimera in the American Toyline. In the anime, it was Deathroy who owns Red Dragon 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 Red Dragon 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.

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

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 Independant 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 shadow "evolves" and she was rescued by Kluke. When Zola goes rogue, he, Delphinium, and Deathroy help to fight her.

General Logi's shadow Valkyrie serves as his master's sword and shield. Later on, she "evolves" into an Egyptian-themed shadow called Odin.

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.

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 work for Gilliam.

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, a sword-wielding armored warrior who uses a shield with a ball-in-chain in it.

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.

Cynthia's shadow is Yarovit, a pink monster who can stretch it's 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.

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 and 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. In his first appearance, he attacked Bouquet, but she used her invisibility to escape. 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 to ice arrows.

Lt. Dragnov

Voiced by: Susumu Akagi (Japanese); J. B. Blanc (English)
Exclusive to the anime, Dragnov is a lieutenant in Gran Kingdom's army. Though he befriended Shu, Dragnov show no restraint for fighting him on honorable terms. But it was that idea that got him sniped and killed 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 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. While Shu and Kluke were busy fighting General Logi, Delphinium detected Bouquet's invisibility 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/bug-like creature that Delphinium can partially bring out on some occasions.

Monsters

This section lists the monsters that appear in the game:

Poo Snake

A Poo Snake is a coiled snake monster in the shape of poop that has a mouth on it's 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 like the King Poo Snake.

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.