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Mina Tepeş (ミナ・テペッシュ, Mina Tepesshu?)

Voiced by: Aoi Yūki (Japanese), Monica Rial (English)

The female protagonist and the current ruler of the Vampire world. She usually appears in a young and prepubescent state, though she is not shy enough to feel embarrassed when naked. Mina can act aggressive, cocky, and naughty. However, she actually feels vulnerable and lonely. She cares very much for the welfare of her people and does everything in her power to protect and preserve her species. Mina sympathizes towards the Fangless (vampires who ripped out their own fangs), creating a city underneath the Bund where they can live freely and without persecution. It is revealed that she is in love with Akira since first meeting him or related to him in a close fashion, to the point her secret room is covered from floor to ceiling with nothing but pictures of him. Mina's soul's true form is an adult version of herself with bat wings. She wishes to have this form kept a secret, as that form's body is able to give birth while her 'child' form cannot. If the Three Nobles found out they could force her into marrying one of the Three Nobles and producing a child with the excuse that it's to preserve the Pure Royal Bloodline. She's not suppose to have a child with anyone else as they are the only other "True Bloods" like her. Although the Bloodline is in peril because they not only killed her mother, but all the other vampire clans as well. In the manga it's revealed that their excuse for killing Lucretia was because Mina's father wasn't one of them, and therefore was that of a commoner. Although who the father was is either not known or hasn't been revealed yet.

Mina's name can be derived from the Vlad the Impaler story and Dracula. Her surname, Tepeş, is the Romanian word for Impaler, the reason Vlad the Impaler is called Vlad Tepeş. Her given name, "Mina", is shared by Mina Murray, the woman that Dracula sought to have as his new bride in the original novel.

Mina is a terrible cook, as vampires can't taste anything other than blood and she thus has no experience making food. This results in some humorous mishaps during cooking class, as she can't even tell what some of the cooking utensils are for. During the overnight with Yuki, she made Akira a dish, but used too much spice.

Akira Kaburagi Regendorf (暁・鏑木・レーゲンドルフ, Akira Kaburagi Rēgendorufu?)

Voiced by: Yuichi Nakamura (Japanese), Alpha Lagrange (English)

The male protagonist of the story. A young werewolf who is the son of Wolfgang and thus is well trained. He has undergone training to identify almost all explosives, learning how to sniff them out. He cannot however disarm them, as he only took the canine part of the program. He is a kind person, determined to protect Mina, with whom he is in love. He first met Mina when he was a baby, but doesn't remember. When Akira was 10 years he met Mina in a garden. He promised to he will always be by Mina's side and protect her, even at the cost of his life. When his 17th birhday came he was required to be Mina's servant; thus fullfilling the covenant between werewolfs and the Queen of the vampires. At first he was not really happy about it, but he eventually agreed. Akira and Mina had some problems between them, but they solved it and along the way their love for each other grew. He also cares deeply about Yuki, but rejected her confession due to being a werewolf and his feelings to Mina. Later in the manga, Akira offered his blood to Mina in order to save her. Resulting in him transforming into a stronger werewolf.

In the anime, he lost all of his memories one year ago, and did not even know he was a werewolf until episode 2. It is later revealed he lost his memory due to extreme psychological trauma. Normally werewolves who are mentally unstable are killed (considering how dangerous an insane human can be, even more so a werewolf) but he was allowed to live because of his importance to Mina.

Yuki Saegusa (三枝 由紀, Saegusa Yuki?)

Voiced by: Chiwa Saitō (Japanese), Alexis Tipton (English)

A human student at the school founded by Princess Mina Tepeş. She is Mina's and Akira's classmate as well as a member of the Student Council, for a time being the only member after the vampire attack at the church Kaichou Nanami resulting resignation of all other members shortly thereafter. Nanami returned as Kaichou (respectful Japanese word for Student Council President) after the incident with Hysterica. She gave Akira a silver ring (which he wore in a bag around his neck as werewolves are allergic to silver) as a symbol of their relationship, which later she gave to Mina as a symbol of their new friendship. She was at first frightened by vampires, but grows to accept them after spending time with Mina. Through this Yuki appears to gain a very close friendship with Mina patterned after Anne Shirley and Diana Barry in "Anne of Green Gables", even inviting her to spend the night at her house. Yuki's willing loyalty to Mina is later made absolutely clear when Yuki suffers a closed head injury and is left with aphasia (inability to speak) and paralyzed from the waist down, yet risks her life several times in an effort to tell Akira that Mina is an impostor and that the real one was kidnapped.

As a result of her head injury, Yuki has been infected with 'Pied Piper' nanomachines which are slowly repairing or replacing the damaged areas of her brain. As an accomodation for her aphasia, the nanomachines currently also allow her to emit an infrared beam from her right eye allowing her to communicate via a specially-configured laptap she names "Anne" in honor of Anne Frank having convinced Mina to read it. This clues her into the impostor as she had discussed the name with the real Mina who would've known and not needed to guess about which 'Anne' the computer was named after.

As of the end of Volume 13, Yuki remains the helpless captive of the Mina imposter, forced to witness everything happening in the Bund and unable to affect any of it except through her silent resistance.

Yuki is also an amateur novelist, and has quite a following in the Bund prior to the invasion by Inanovic. It is suggested she writes yaoi with the protagonist based on Akira, much to his horror. She was embarrassed to learn Mina had shared her novel with the bund (the maids are her biggest fans who even faked reasons for having her sign for things to get her autograph) and horrified to learn Mina had translated and shared it with the world. Akira is upset over some of the wild ideas Yuki and Mina came up with in the Chairman's office. After her head injury, the maids make a syllabus to help her write her next novel until she got the computer. Is referred to by the maids as 'Maestro' due to her novels.

Yuki is the narrator of the animated story, in which version it is also revealed that she was once Akira's girlfriend, a relationship clearly not part of the manga. In the anime, the relationship between Mina and Yuki grows through teaming up in cooking class rather than a sleepover.