List of Zatch Bell! minor characters

These are minor characters in the anime "Zatch Bell!"

Minor Characters

Owashi

A hawk who flew Zatch all the way from England to Kiyo's house, he only appeared in episode 1 and episode 26 in a flashback.

Kane

Kane, known in Japan as Tsuyoshi Kaneyama (金山剛 "Kaneyama Tsuyoshi"), is a bully at Kiyo's school, though later episodes show that like Kiyo, he is learning to change his ways.He even becomes friends with Kiyo. He appears in Episode 1 of the series. Kane is obsessed with hunting dinosaurs (in the Japanese version, he hunts "tsuchinoko", a mythical kind of snake), he is also quite strong able to get up and walk with three people tied to him with no visible effort.

In the English version of the series, Kane is voiced by Crispin Freeman. In the Japanese version, Kaneyama is voiced by Wataru Takagi.

Hana Takamine and Seitaro Takamine

Hana Takamine (高嶺華 "Takamine Hana") is Kiyo's mother, while Seitaro Takamine (高嶺清太郎 "Takamine Seitarō") is Kiyo's father. Mr. Takamine is a professor of Anthropology (who is currently on a sabbatical in England), while Mrs. Takamine is a Japanese housewife. Both of them are very worried about their son's social ineptness, and both of them want him to become more sociable. Seitaro Takamine is the one who first saved Zatch in England, while in Japan, Hana Takamine is the one who takes care of both Zatch and Kiyo. Hana Takamine appears in the first episode of the series, while Seitaro Takamine appears in episode 20 (although his voice is heard as early as episode one).

In the English version of the series, Hana Takamine is voiced by Leslie Carrara and Seitaro Takamine is voiced by Phil Hayes. In the Japanese version of the series, Hana Takamine is voiced by Wakana Yamazaki and Seitaro Takamine is voiced by Ryotaro Okiayu.

Mr. Nakata and Wife

The main teacher of Kiyo, Kane, Iwashima, Marylou, Suzy and Yamanaka. He has a wife who often appears unexpectedly in his class. Her name is also unknown, but is called "teacher's wife" by Suzy (in the Japanese version, she asks Suzume and Gash to call her "Wife"). Although he seems like a kindly old teacher when Kiyo and his friends were in 8th Grade, he makes a stark transformation when they enter 9th Grade, becoming wrinkled and much grimmer due to the trials of his life; he is later seen resembling his old self during Kiyo's junior-high graduation. In the original version, the teacher's first name is Shuju and the wife's is Sabae.

In the Japanese version, Mr. Nakata is voiced by Ken Yamaguchi, and his wife is voiced by Haruhi Terada.

In the English version, the math teacher is voiced by Wally Wingert, and the math teacher's wife is voiced by Michelle Ruff.

Naomi

Naomi (なおみ) is Zatch's biggest challenger off of the demonic battlefield. Her main goals in life seem to be preventing Zatch from making friends, beating up on Zatch, and basically causing as much emotional and physical pain as possible for the little mamodo. Yet, despite the seemingly endless list of evil qualities, Naomi does seem to have a few redeeming values deep down inside. She always seems to have her teeth clenched all the time, and has a toy car she drives around in. According to Kane, Naomi lives in the same neighborhood as him, as mentioned in Episode 32. She also seems to get along well with Tia, as seen in Episode 40. It seems that both Naomi's parents have clenched teeth, as seen in chapter 257 in the manga.

Naomi first appears in episode 4. In the English version of the series, she is voiced by Michelle Ruff. In the Japanese version, she is voiced by Shihomi Mizowaki.

Hiroshi Yamanaka

Hiroshi Yamanaka (山中浩 "Yamanaka Hiroshi") is one of Kiyo's friends. He plays baseball.

He is voiced by Kazunari Tanaka in the Japanese version and by Dave Wittenberg in the English version.

Marylou Yamada

Japanese name: Mariko Nakamura (仲村マリ子 "Nakamura Mariko")

Marylou is Suzy's best friend. She is part of the choir and is good at table tennis.

Marylou is voiced by Michelle Ruff in the English version, and Mariko is voiced by Yukiko Hanioka in the Japanese version.

uzuki

Usually seen around Marylou, Suzuki has a very strange, ghost-like face.

In the Japanese version, Suzuki is voiced by Reiko Nakayama.

Mamoru Iwashima

Mamoru Iwashima (岩島守 "Iwashima Mamoru") is one of Kiyo's friends. Iwashima is obsessed with aliens. Iwashima is voiced by Crispin Freeman in the English version and Yusuke Numata in the Japanese version.

Yuuta Akiyama

Yuuta Akiyama (秋山勇太 "Akiyama Yūta") is a young boy that Kiyo and Zatch meet at the Mochinoki Hospital. He has broken his leg, and it has taken him an abnormal time to heal. When Kiyo makes a rather insensitive remark regarding this fact, Yuuta gets angry, and decides to take revenge by stealing Zatch's book. Yuuta appears in the sixth episode of the series.

Yuuta's name is rendered as "Yuta" in the English anime, and "Yuuta" in the English manga.

In the English version of the series, Yuta is voiced by Mona Marshall. In the Japanese version, Yuuta is voiced by Satsuki Yukino.

Albert

Albert is the name of Sherry's butler who travels with her and Brago in their quest for Brago to become Mamodo King. In the Japanese version, Albert is called "Jii". Not to be confused with the bookeeper of the Millennium Mamodo Laila.

In the English version of the series, Albert is voiced by Crispin Freeman. In the Japanese version, Jii is voiced by Hirokazu Kitamura.

Mrs. Belmont

Sherry's mother who is very disapproving of her. She is only seen in flashbacks of Sherry's past and it's unknown what became of her. She was very hard on Sherry and never showed any sort of affection for her.

In the Japanese version of the series she is voiced by Mayumi Shō.

Ivy Kinoyama

Japanese name: Tsukushi Kinoyama (木山つくし "Kinoyama Tsukushi")

Ivy Kinoyama is the caretaker of Mochinoki's Botanical Gardens. She has known Kiyo ever since Kiyo used her gardens as a refuge from the intense bullying he faced at school. Ivy's biggest regret is that she wasn't a better friend to Kiyo when he needed her. Ivy appears in the seventh episode of the series.

In the English version of the series, Ivy Kinoyama is voiced by Michelle Ruff. In the Japanese version, Tsukushi Kinoyama is voiced by Yuu Asakawa.

Mr. Toyama

Mr. Toyama (富山先生 "Toyama-sensei") is one of Kiyo's teachers who is very biased against him for never showing up to class and tries to make Kiyo get lower grades; in later episodes he starts resorting to inhuman ways of doing this, such as ridiculous questions like "My first love was when and who was that person", "What is Wife's favorite bakery", "What is the name of my beloved pet cat". Kiyo has accused him of being the worst teacher on two occasions, something Mr. Toyama openly admits.

In the Japanese version, Mr. Toyama is voiced by Kazuhiro Nakata.

Kaneko

Kaneko is the number two student in Kiyo's class, and has an interesting hairstyle. At first he has a grudge against Kiyo for always taking the number one spot, but is later seen to be his friend.

In the Japanese version, Kaneko is voiced by Norihisa Mori.

Nana Baba

Nana Baba (Baba Anan in the original) is a very tall and large old lady that Zatch meets one day. She is trying to find her son's fianceé, named Hiromi, and Zatch helps her do so. She gives her a ring that was in her family for generations. It should be noted that the food she makes are quite big, as seen when she was handing out her lunch to Zatch when he lost his to Naomi.

She is voiced in the original Japanese version by Reiko Suzuki and by Michelle Ruff in the English Version.

Professor D'Artagnan

He is a colleague of Seitaro Takamine and assists in various research projects at the university the duo work at, including several connected with the Mamodo Fight. He dresses in fish or insect costumes (Kiyo complains that the reason he never says why he dresses like that is the only question he doesn't answer).

The reason is in fact that his secret identity is the Fairy of the local forest so he could investigate the electric explosion in it (which is caused by Zeno), and actually rescues Zatch from a hoard of rampaging snakes at one point.

He is voiced by Tessho Genda in the Japanese version and by Wally Wingert in the English version.

Kory

A boy of Cockney accent that Zatch and Kiyo meet in England. His parents were kidnapped by Steng for confronting him about his terrorization of their town. He gets injured escaping from one of Steng's "Ghost Knights". Later on, Kory steals Kiyo's luggage and he gets chased across London by Zatch. Seitaro, Kiyo's father, was also kidnapped by Steng, although he was hired by Zeno to do so. When Kiyo defeated Steng's mamodo, Baltro, and frees all the kidnapped villagers, he also rescued Kory's parents who had been taken to the lowest part of the castle. In Japanese, his name is Sekkoro. He apparently runs extremely fast, as fast as mamodos.

He is voiced by Yuko Mita in the Japanese version, and by Yuri Lowenthal in the English version.

Naomi's friends

Naomi has a group of friends. They are Hideaki (ヒデアキ), Kogoro (コゴロウ "Kogorō"), Kazue (かずえ), and Yoshiko (よし子). Their names never come up in the English version.

In the English Version, Hirofume is voiced by Mona Marshall, Kogoro is voiced by Michelle Ruff, and Hideaki is voiced by Debi Mae West.

Princess Marie and Oram

Princess Marie is a princess of Karnoir who is weary of the royal lifestyle and often runs away; Oram is her hapless bodyguard. She has a striking resemblance to Megumi Oumi, and exchanges dresses with her in order to run away while visiting Japan. But the Princess has a hit out on her from those who don't want a woman ruling their country. Known as Princess Maryl and Calam in the Japanese version.

In the Japanese version, Princess Maryl is voiced by Megumi Toyoguchi and Calam is voiced by Masaaki Tsukada. In the English version of this series, Princess Marie is voiced by Michelle Ruff while Oram is voiced by Crispin Freeman.

Rushka and Lilly

Rushka is a young girl whose parents have died. She lives with an old lady named Lilly. Kanchomé had encountered her and been her "big brother." When it came to the part where Fredo and his mamodo Bago were stealing their sheep, Kanchomé decides to fight them after an embarrassing defeat from them. With Folgore's help, Kanchomé rescues the sheep and returns them to Rushka.

In the Japanese version, Rushka is voiced by Taeko Kawada and Lili is voiced by Atsuko Mine. In the English version of the series, Rushka is voiced by Rebecca Forstadt while Lilly is voiced by Mona Marshall.

Praying Mantis Joe

Praying Mantis Joe (or "Kamakiri Joe") is the hero of a TV show, whom Zatch idolizes. It's actually a bald headed man in a mask named Yabuki.

Praying Mantis Joe is voiced by Kazunari Kojima in the Japanese version (who also voices Brago) and by Wally Wingert in the English version (ditto).

Kotaro Doronma

Kotaro Doronma is a horse-faced con-man who's also known as Phantom Thief Doronma. Ponygon encountered him in his search for his book's owner thinking he's his book keeper. He and Zatch help him pull off multiple robberies under the pretence that it was to help the poor as charitable and then head off to a millionaire's mansion. After Zatch and Ponygon set off every alarm in the mansion, the police were there on the scene and Kotaro Doronma is arrested. When asked about Ponygon's book, Doronma didn't know what language it is and there was a fly squished on its page. An OVA was later made about this character.

In the English version of this series, Kotaro Doronma is voiced by Richard Epcar. In the Japanese version, he is voiced by Yoshito Yasuhara.

Jeff and Jeff's Grandfather

Jeff is a boy that Sherry and Brago rescue from a large bear alongside his grandpa. Brago says some things to encourage Jeff to be brave. When it came to a land developer (voiced by Joe Ochman) and his men and Jeff being the bravest he can, Sherry and Brago rescue them and fend off the developers (and an avalanche they caused).

In the Japanese version, Jeff is voiced by Kokoro Kikuchi while his grandfather was voiced by Fumio Matsuoka. In the English version of the series, Jeff is voiced by Brian Beacock while his grandfather was voiced by Ralph Votrian.

Miss Wriggle

Miss Wriggle, known in the Japanese version as Retsusai Monmon (モンモン先生 "Monmon-sensei"), is the well-endowed, youthful and sadistic language teacher that Mr. Toyama hires to throw Kiyo off his studies. She likes to sing and dance and constantly quizzes the class on haiku; Kiyo's haiku gets a 30% score from her.

In the Japanese version, Mrs. Monmon is voiced by Mari Adachi.

Minor/Other Mamodo (Manga)

Ponygon's Mother

One of the very few parent Mamodo seen in the series, Ponygon's mother is a reference character used in relation to the young horse Mamodo. Many of her actions end up affecting Ponygon during his trials in the human world. She is first revealed as Ponygon tries to explain (in his own horse talk) how she had created the rope he used like a backpack while in the human world searching for his bookkeeper. Another memory has her suggesting to look for a bookkeeper similar to someone he knew, leading Ponygon on a mischievous adventure involving the horse-faced thief Daruma. But mostly, Ponygon's mother appears whenever Ponygon tries to bleat out that his name is "Schneider", which usually leads to whoever he's talking to call him "Ponygon" instead.

Rajin

A leader working alongside the king of the mamodo, his main duties are watching over Zeno and training him to prepare for the eventual mamodo king fight. He possessed the rank of Lieutenant at the time.

Yuno

Not much is know about this individual, except that she looked after Zatch while he was in the Mamodo world. It seems that she tended to mistreat Zatch

Zatch's Mother

The queen of the Mamodo world and Zatch and Zeno's mother.

Riou's Father

Riou's father offers his son words of encouragement and the gem to control Faudo as Riou leaves for Earth. He looks exactly like Riou's transformed state given by his final spell, implying that this is the form that Mamodo like Riou grow up into.

Unnamed Winged Ancient Mamodo

The mamodo from a thousand years ago that defied Zofis's orders. Zofis threated to turn him into stone, but only did it half-way. According to Pamoon, he was an example of Zofis's cruelity and what happens if they defied him and this is the reason why he fights.

Minor/Other Mamodo (Anime)

Black Knight

The Black Knight's duty is to protect the 101st book and to capture the one that stole it.

Principal of the Mamodo School

The Principal of the Mamodo School is the one who decides which 100 mamodo can go to the human world. He is one of the oldest mamodo in existence, and sleeps constantly. When Kiyo and Zatch return to the mamodo world in the first movie, the Principal tells the Zatch how he, such an unlikely candidate for the mamodo battle, ended up in the fight. A ball that Zatch was playing with crashed through his window, and the wind from the open window blew away Wiseman's acceptance form, which was just about to be stamped for entering the battle. The principal saw that only Zatch Bell's had stayed on the desk, and decided that he would do. During the events of the movie, the principal trusts in fate that Zatch was MEANT to be a contestant in the battle for king, and that he had made the right choice.

Okame

Okame is a friend of Mopu and acts as a taxi-service for Zatch and company.

Owl

Owl is the Black Knight's companion and like most of the other mamodo he can speak.

Mopu

Mopu, the talking mop, lives in the mamodo school.

Dr. M2

Dr. M2, the mamodo scientist that created the Mecha Vulcans. He based them on a mechanical Vulcan prototype made by a future Kiyo. Impressed with Kiyo's intelligence, Dr. M2 travles back in time to when Kiyo was partners with Zatch, to make Kiyo HIS partner and teach him his "magic science," of which the doctor is the only user of in the mamodo world. After his capture, and after M2's explanation of his mission and where he came from, on of Kiyo's first questions for the doctor is who the current mamodo King is, hoping for Zatch to have made it in his kind king quest. Dr. M2 only answers that he is uninterested in the "outdated battle," and does not elaborate any further.

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