List of Bamboo Blade characters
This is a list of characters from the manga/anime Bamboo Blade. The show aired from October 2, 2007, to April 2, 2008, with 26 episodes being released. It has had many spin-offs and comic/manga stories created.
A large amount of the surnames are taken from various winners of the All Japan Kendo Championships.
Muroe Private High School
Toraji Ishida
;Toraji Ishida / KojiroTamaki Kawazoe
;Tamaki KawazoeKirino Chiba
;Kirino ChibaMiyako Miyazaki
;Miyako MiyazakiSayako Kuwahara
;Sayako KuwaharaSatori Azuma
;Satori AzumaYuji Nakata
;Yūji NakataDanjuro Eiga
;Danjūrō EigaAkira Toyama
;Akira ToyamaMasaru Iwasa
;Masaru IwasaShinobu Toyama
;Shinobu ToyamaMakoto Iwasa
;Makoto IwasaYoshikawa
;YoshikawaOther characters
;Principal;Vice Principal
;Shima
;Muscular Girl
;Yuriko Yamase
;Yano
Machido High School
;Kenzaburō Ishibashi;Konatsu Harada
;Maya Yokoo
;Yūri Andō
;Karen Nishiyama
;Akemi Asakawa
Seimei High School
;Tadaaki Hayashi;Mei Ogawa
;Reimi Odajima
;Nozomi
;Suzushiro
;Kawaguchi
;Nomura
;Takahashi
Tozyo High School
;Konishi;Aoki
;Terachi
;Satou
;Iguchi
Eishin High
The school's kendo team uniform consists of blue shirt, dark blue trousers, blue armour with red torso plate.;Carrie Nishikawa
Shugyoku High
The school's kendo team uniform consists of white shirt, white trousers, white armour with yellow torso plate.;Rin Suzuki
Kamazaki High School
;Takeshi Iwahori;Narumi Chikamoto
;Takano
;Hazamada
;Nagashima
;Sugiyama
;Etou
Touryuu High School
;Sakaki UraSakaki is Tamaki's rival in the manga. Although they have barely met, it is thought to have been "fate" and therefore everyone is hoping for a match between them and consider her Tamaki's only match. She is more or less a replacement for Rin Suzuki in the manga, as she takes the role of the one to defeat Tamaki so that Tamaki becomes stronger. In the end, the one to defeat Tamaki first, was Sawamiya Erina, a 16-year-old TV idol in a special television event of kendo beauties. After that, Ura appeared and challenged Erina, leading to a long all-out fight, that left an impression on Tamaki. Months later, a special tournament is held on TV. The first match of Muroe is against a team composed of Ura and other skilled kendo girls, and after two wins and two losses, the decisive fight between Tamaki and Ura leads to the end of the history. In the anime, she is only seen at the ending credits of episode 26, first talking to Suzuki Rin and then when she and Tamaki cross each other at the tournament's entrance.
Main characters' family
;Toraji's father;Toraji's mother
;Tamaki's father/Sanjuro Tamaki
;Tsubaki Kawazoe
;Kirino's mother
;Kirino's younger brother
;Kirino's younger sister
;Kirino's father
;Miyako's older sister
;Sayako's mother
;Saya's father
;Saya's younger brother/Kazuhiko Kuwabara
Kawazoe dojo pupil
;Sakaguchi;Uchimura
Ozawa Kenyuukai
A team consists of actors that has consulted Kawazoe dojo's instructor for kendo moves to be used in movies.;Ozawa
Battle Hero Series
Blade Braver
It is a Battle Hero Series programme that was broadcast 10 years prior to the Cosmo 13 stage show featuring the resurrected Death Armor. The Bravers have face masks resembling kendo masks.;Red Braver/Juji
;Blue Braver
;Yellow Braver
;Death Armor
;Shinaider
;Braver Robo
;Death Friend
;Cobrazaurus Death Friend
;Shinaigirl
;high school girl
;Silver Braver
Cosmo 13
It is a Battle Hero Series programme, successor to Blade Braver. The protagonists have face masks based on traffic signs.;Cosmo 1
Material Puzzle/Mat-Puz
It is a 46-episode television series within Bamboo Blade.;Donchil/Donchill
From Bamboo Blade derivative media
;Hidaka;Sakurai
From Bamboo Blade novel
;Yuriko YamaseFrom Bamboo Blade drama CD
;YanoOthers
;Reimi's mother;MuMu House Manager
;Koutarou Miyazato
;Nobu-chan
;Matsuki
;Cat
;Ano Kiyomura
;Takachiho Suginokouji
;Hiroshi Narita
;Goro Taniguchi