Bamboo Blade

Azuma Satori

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Satori Azuma, a first-year high school student (that is, in the anime), is the fifth and the last person to join the Kendo Club. She is very talented in kendo. In fact, Satori is the second strongest in the club, with Tamaki being the strongest; however, ...

Chiba Kirino

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Kirino Chiba is a second-year high school student, and the captain of the kendo club. Energetic and enthusiastic, she dreams of leading the team to the nationals. Her family owns a deli named "Chiba Deli." Kirino is very happy that Kojirou has finally beg...

Eiga Danjuurou

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Danjuurou Eiga is a round and plain-faced first year who joins the Kendo Club with Yuuji. He originally wanted to join the Ping Pong Club, but there was no such club in the school. He shocks Yuuji and Kojirou when he brings his pretty girlfriend Miyako to...

Ishida Toraji

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Otherwise known as "Kojirou," Toraji Ishida is a politics and economics teacher, and also the Kendo Club instructor of Muroe High School. He is perpetually broke and lives from paycheck to paycheck. He often does not have enough left over for food after p...

Kawazoe Tamaki

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Tamaki Kawazoe is a first year high school student who is nicknamed "Tama-chan" for short. Despite being a kendo prodigy, she does not see it as a hobby, but rather just as a household chore honed at her home, which happens to be a kendo dojo led by her f...

Kuwahara Sayako

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Sayako Kuwahara is a second year high school student who is described as being random and spontaneous, often changing her interests and goals. During her first year, she joins the Kendo Club, but would sometimes disappear for short periods of time, claimi...

Miyazaki Miyako

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Miyako Miyazaki is a first year high school student nicknamed "Miya-Miya." She is introduced as a very pretty and friendly girl, and to the surprise of many, the girlfriend of Danjuurou; however, in reality, she possesses a very dark and sadistic personal...

Nakata Yuuji

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Yuuji Nakata is a kind, cheerful, and helpful first year student who joins the Kendo Club. He was a member of his junior high school's kendo club and had also attended the Kawazoe Dojo. He had reached the top eight in the prefectural games during junior h...

Andou Yuuri

Supporting

Yuuri Andou, the first second-year student on the team, is a girl who seems to zone out most of the time and seems not to care much about winning, but her looks can deceive others greatly. She is rather skilled at kendo and is quite sadistic, like Miyako ...

Asakawa Akemi

Supporting

Akemi Asakawa, the second second-year student on the team, is probably the most undedicated out of all the members of her team, as she seems only to care about her boyfriend to the point where she will ditch kendo club over her boyfriend. When she encount...

Chiba Takkun

Supporting

The brother of Kirino. He supports her in her Kendo efforts, although ironically causes her to lose a match inadvertently at one point....

Harada Konatsu

Supporting

Konatsu Harada, the first third-year student on the team, is the shortest of the five members of the team Kenzaburo chose, and also the shyest. She is rather skilled in kendo as Kenzaburo once remarks that she has a 2-dan rank, is "self-motivated," and co...

Hayashi Tadaaki

Supporting

No biography written....

Ishibashi Kenzaburou

Supporting

Kenzaburou Ishibashi is Kojirou's old senpai and the kendo coach from Machido High School. He was beaten by Kojirou during a kendo meet long ago in their high school years and seems to hold a grudge against him for that, even if it does not seem apparent....

Kawazoe Father

Supporting

No biography written....

Konishi

Supporting

No biography written....

Nishiyama Karen

Supporting

Karen Nishiyama, the third third-year student on the team, is incredibly skilled at kendo, but tends to shake when nervous. When she is cornered in a kendo match she instinctively switches to the offensive, thus effectively beating her opponent. Because o...

Odajima Reimi

Supporting

A girl who attended the same middle school as Miyako and became obsessed with her when she beat up a boy who Reimi had a crush on, but who liked Miyako. Since finding out that, Miyako joined the kendo club. She follows her to every tournament, taking coun...

Ogawa Mei

Supporting

Mei goes to Seimei High School and appears in episodes 12 and 13. She joins Seimei's Kendo Club because of her friends, but later on, her friends quit the club because of the strict training. She decidedly wanted to quit after the practice match with Muro...

Sakaki Ura

Supporting

Ura Sakaki is a 16 year old second year student at Touryou Academy. Ura first crosses paths with Tamaki Kawazoe on a shopping trip. Ura saves Danjuro Eiga from flying ramen, a falling billboard sign, and a runaway purse snatcher the same way Tamaki saved ...

Suzuki Rin

Supporting

In the anime, Rin Suzuki is a second-year student at Shugyoku High School. She is Tamaki Kawazoe's friend and rival.By using the ascension stance, she became the first person to beat Tamaki. In their rematch, she was happy to see that Tamaki had gotten st...

Yamada Umeko

Supporting

Yamada Umeko, under the stage name "Sawamiya Erina", is a 16 year old idol, famous for being in commercials and as a new personality on the Hot-Blooded Banish Academy variety show, where she co-hosts a segment on girls who play sports. She is naturally at...

Yoko Maya

Supporting

Maya Yokoo, the second third-year student on the team, is a competitive and tall girl with more team spirit than anyone else in her team. Maya is a bit of a tomboy and tends to speak in a rather aggressive and foul-mouthed manner, calling her teammates "t...

Yoshikawa

Supporting

Satori's homeroom teacher. Yoshikawa becomes involved in Muroe's kendo club out of concern for Satori's well-being. When Satori shows that she is capable of balancing kendo with school work, Yoshikawa continues to support the kendo club. She and Kojirou b...