Kamichu! - Main Characters

Main Characters

Yurie Hitotsubashi (一橋 ゆりえ, Hitotsubashi Yurie?)

Voiced by: MAKO (Japanese), Megan Harvey (English)

Yurie is the protagonist of the series. In the first episode, she tells her best friend Mitsue that overnight she has become a goddess; this is never further explained. She is remarkably naive and simple-minded but always has the best intentions. She has had a crush on Kenji Ninomiya for a long time, and gets very nervous and red-faced around him. Whenever she performs magic, her hair grows very long and she often falls asleep afterward, due to the effort involved. At the end of the anime she becomes Kenji's girlfriend.

Matsuri Saegusa (三枝 祀, Saegusa Matsuri?)

Voiced by: Rika Morinaga (Japanese), Stephanie Sheh (English)

Matsuri is the person in charge of the Raifuku Shrine in Onomichi. She runs the shrine with her sister, Miko, and is always thinking of schemes to earn money for or bring more visitors to the shrine- usually by exploiting Yurie. Unlike Miko, she cannot see spirits without the charms that Yurie usually writes (though it is stated in the manga and anime by Miko that she too could see spirits when she was little). Her name means "worship".

Mitsue Shijo (四条 光恵, Shijō Mitsue?)

Voiced by: Kaori Mine (Japanese), Erika Weinstein (English)

Mitsue is Yurie's best friend. She's very down-to-earth, and serves as the "straight man" for her friends, but wishes that her life were more exciting. Yurie often goes to her for advice and although her advice is simple, and usually is just common sense, she is always right. She is usually possessed by Yashima when he needs to communicate with people or when he wants to play the guitar.

Miko Saegusa (三枝 みこ, Saegusa Miko?)

Voiced by: Ai Nonaka (Japanese), Rachel Hirschfeld (English)

Miko is Matsuri's shy younger sister. She does the cooking in the house, and is very polite and respectful to everyone. She helps out in the shrine and has the ability to see spirits. She has a crush on Yashima. Her name, Miko, is also the term for a Shinto shrine attendant.

Kenji Ninomiya (二宮 健児, Ninomiya Kenji?)

Voiced by: Issei Miyazaki (Japanese), Johnny Yong Bosch (English)

Kenji is the president and only member of his school's calligraphy club. He is quite aloof and a bit slow on the uptake. He loves his brushes, and he often does calligraphy for the Raifuku shrine. He only does calligraphy when he is 'inspired', yet it takes him a while to realize that most of his sources of inspiration revolve around Yurie. At the end of the anime he becomes Yurie's boyfriend.

Yashima-sama (八島様, Yashima-sama?)

Voiced by: Kousuke Okano (Japanese), Yuri Lowenthal (English)

Yashima is the local god of the Raifuku shrine. He wishes to be a rock star, resulting in him often possessing Mitsue in order to rock out (who is totally against this). He is also often seen with an Akita Inu that talks. He seems to be close friends with Miko Saegusa, but it is implied that he is more interested in Matsuri.

Shoukichi Hitotsubashi (一橋 章吉, Hitotsubashi Shoukichi?)

Voiced by: Makoto Tsumura (Japanese), J.D. Stone (English)

Shoukichi is Yurie's younger brother, who like Miko attends the same school as his older sister, one grade below. Often he acts more mature than his sister, and he often teases her, but he does love her. He has a crush on Miko, and acts differently and blushes whenever he's around her.

Bin-chan (貧乏神(貧ちゃん), Binbou-gami?)

A poverty god Yurie takes in after he saves Tama's life. He shares Tama's body.

Tama (一橋 タマ, Hitotsubashi Tama?)

Voiced by: Chiwa Saito (Japanese), Carrie Savage (English)

Yurie's pet cat. After she began to share her body with Bin-chan, she exhibits a number of human traits which make Shoukichi suspicious.

Ino, Shika, Chou

Ino Voiced by: Sam Riegel

Shika Voiced by: Liam O'Brien

Chou Voiced by: Hunter MacKenzie Austin

The three tiny spirits that the God Association sends as Yurie's assistants. Their names are puns, as they were given by Yurie for unrelated reasons but correspond to the animals that they resemble. Chou is a butterfly, Ino is a boar and Shika is a deer. "Ino-Shika-Chou" is a winning hand in Hanafuda.