Mansairaku (万歳楽?, Voiced by: Shinichiro Miki)
Mansairaku is a professional feudal Japanese dancer, possibly of the style known as Noh, and he regularly travels through various provinces to perform. It seems that Mansairaku has a generally calm and peace loving personality, but tends to feel lonely at some times. Mansairaku was featured briefly in episode 1 of the anime, but his first prominent role was first shown within episode 4 of Otogi Zoshi. The first time we see Mansairaku he is knelt in front of the ministers and the Emperor. He was apparently summoned to dance for the lord. His humble nature and decorum is obvious as he speaks and shows that he knows his place, compared to other characters, like Sadamitsu. In episode 4 of Otogi Zoshi, we see Mansairaku's dance in a much more complete view, where he begins to dance in a traditional ancient Japanese style to Hikaru's flute. This triggered a certain connection between the two, such as Yin to Yang. Following this, Mansairaku would save Hikaru from warriors of the Capital who had misunderstood who they were. Mansairaku would later meet Hikaru again after she had been attacked by random soldiers under Shutendouji, who had seemed to want to rape her after finding out that she had been a woman, not a man.
Later on when Hikaru had disagreed with her father after receiving a negative petition from Seimei, she ran through the rain amongst sadness and happened to be by Mansairaku. Within this stage, the first scenes of love were taken to surface between Mansairaku and Hikaru, in which he promised to always protect her and be by her side. Her love for Mansairaku also surfaces in her dreams and it is obvious that there is some sort of spiritual relationship between Hikaru and Mansairaku, but it is unknown who fell in love with whom first.
It is also known that Mansairaku is Seimei.
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