Shuriken School/Characters

Shuriken School

Students

Eizan Kaburagi

Adorkable: Very much so.
- Dork Knight
Badass Adorable: He's an adorable, kind-hearted kid who you shouldn't mess with.
Beware the Nice Ones: He's a kind if clumsy kid, but piss him off and he'll show his impressive ninja skills. Naginata is the frequent target of these.
Butt Monkey: Especially in "Eizan’s Shadow" and "Class Photo". Also counts as an Iron Butt Monkey.
Comic Trio: With Okuni and Jimmy B.
Cute Clumsy Guy
Crush Blush: When he’s around Okuni.
Delinquent Hair: He's far from a delinquent, though.
The Heart: He’s the one who keeps Okuni and Jimmy’s quarrels in check. He’s rarely successful at this, but he tries. He's also this towards the Shuriken students in general.
Heterosexual Life Partners: With Jimmy.
Kid Hero
The Klutz: Very. This is even the reason why he doesn't wan't to do the school play in "Phantom of the Kabuki".
Nice Guy
Red Oni, Blue Oni: He's the Blue Oni to both Okuni and Jimmy's Red.
Salt and Pepper: The Salt to Jimmy's Pepper.
Shrinking Violet: Can be quite shy and introverted sometimes.
Silent Snarker
Twice Shy: With Okuni.
Weapon of Choice: His green ruler.

Okuni Dohan

Action Girl
Badass Bookworm
Cannot Spit It Out: She really has trouble coming to terms with her feelings towards Eizan.
Celibate Heroine: The very thought of being in love is her Berserk Button, due to believing that Love Is a Weakness. Unfortunately for her, she's crushing hard on Eizan.
Crush Blush: When around Eizan.
Cry Cute
Farmer's Daughter: She comes from a small village.
Hair-Trigger Temper: Hell yes.
He Is Not My Boyfriend: Regarding Eizan.
Real Women Don't Wear Dresses: She expresses this belief, which is often the cause of her internal conflicts, not to mention it fuels her rivalry with Ami.
She Cleans Up Nicely: Her kimono ensemble in "The Big Illusion" caused many of her male peers to become enamored with her. Those include Choki, Nobunaga, Daisuke, and even one of the Kimura Twins. Eizan even said she looked beautiful.
Surrounded by Idiots: Generally, but most prominent in "Eizan’s Shadow".
The Smart Girl
Tomboyish Sidetails
Tsundere: Undoubtedly the Harsh Type.
Vitriolic Best Buds: With Jimmy and Ami.

Jimmy B.

Black Best Friend
Blood Knight: He just loves getting into fights.
Book Dumb: He's not into books or anything academic, but he's Street Smart and is very competent as a ninja.
Brilliant but Lazy: He has the potential to become a full-blown ninja, but is too much of a partying slob to work into it.
Cool Big Bro: Acts like this towards Eizan, with varying degrees of success.
The Gadfly
Heterosexual Life Partners: With Eizan.
Innocently Insensitive: Sometimes, best shown in "Phantom of the Kabuki".
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's impulsive, hot-headed and likes to break rules, but he cares a lot about his friends and always ends up doing what's right.
Jive Turkey
Narcissist: Not as much as Daisuke, but can be quite vain at times.
Salt and Pepper: The Pepper to Eizan's Salt.
Shipper on Deck: He ships his friends Eizan and Okuni, and teases them about that.
The Slacker
Token Black: The only black student of Shuriken.
Vitriolic Best Buds: With Okuni. They’re practically brother and sister. He also has this with Daisuke and sometimes Eizan.

Ami Saeki

Action Girl: Less shown than Okuni and Kita, but still qualifies.
Genki Girl
Hair of Gold: For the most part.
Heterosexual Life Partners: With Okuni.
Joshikousei
Lovable Alpha Bitch: Bordering on Spoiled Sweet.
Miss Fanservice: A kid-friendly version.
Rich Bitch: Averted. While she can be quite bratty, she rarely (if ever) uses her money against her companions. Quite the contrary, actually.
Sailor Fuku
Shipper on Deck: Like Jimmy, she ships Eizan/Okuni.
Spoiled Brat/Spoiled Sweet: A mix of the two.
Tomboy and Girly Girl: The girly girl to Okuni’s tomboy.
Tsundere: Type B. She’s normally very sweet, unless she gets pissed off. Or you’re Daisuke.
Vitriolic Best Buds: With Okuni. One day they have a Cat Fight, and another day they’re hanging out and talking about "girly" things.

Daisuke Togakame

All Love Is Unrequited
Butt Monkey
Casanova Wannabe: He thinks he’s a pro at flirting, whereas he's actually a cringeworthy fool.
Crazy Jealous Guy
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Once he stops being a cowardly Casanova Wannabe, he's actually competent as a ninja.
The Friend Nobody Likes: He's frequently the least liked of the group, due to his general attitude.
Handsome Lech
Hopeless Suitor: To Ami.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He’s an arrogant coward, but he isn't a bad person. He can be brave whenever things are tough, and his feelings for Ami are shown to be genuine.
Ladykiller in Love: Although the "ladykiller" part is debatable.
Lovable Coward
Love Hurts: Best shown in "An XXL Lie" and "The Old Master".
Narcissist: He’s concerned about his appearance (especially his hair) more than anything else.
Small Name, Big Ego
Vitriolic Best Buds: Has this with Jimmy.

Nobunaga

Badass Adorable
Beware the Nice Ones: He’s a very kind and sweet guy, but he isn’t someone to trifle with.
Big Brother Mentor: Seems to be this, as most of the class look up to him.
Big Eater: He’s almost always seen eating.
Butt Monkey
The Cutie: He's a very sweet, lovable oaf who inspires tenderness around him. His classmates clearly love and respect him very much.
Fat Idiot: Downplayed, as he's not so much of an idiot as being a bit slow-witted.
Gentle Giant
Ironic Name: He's named after the famous brutal warlord Oda Nobunaga. As seen in this page, he isn't anything like that.
Kindhearted Simpleton: He may not be the sharpest on the bunch, but he’s definitely a sweetheart.
Nice Guy
Stout Strength: He’s a sumo wrestler, what do you expect?
- Mighty Glacier

Marcos Gonzalez

The Comically Serious: He’s a Large Ham with a straight face most of the time.
Conspiracy Theorist
Cool Shades
Dark and Troubled Past: He seems to have one. Subverted in a Not What It Looks Like sense.
Funny Foreigner: He's latin-american.
Large Ham
Runaway Hideaway: The reason why he went to Shuriken. He’s running because a strange group, "Los Tres Santos", are pursuing him for unexplained reasons. It turns out to be a misunderstanding on his part, though.
The Stoic: He has the appearance of one. Then comes his Large Ham tendencies, and the stoicism goes out of the window.

Jacques Morimura

Adorkable
Cloudcuckoolander
Cute Clumsy Guy
Face of a Thug: He's often portrayed as a Perpetual Frowner, but his personality is anything but.
French Jerk: Subverted. He’s French, but he’s actually pretty nice.
Funny Foreigner
Genius Ditz: He’s a ditz most of the time, but no one can beat him in subaquatic combat.
New Transfer Student: He’s a foreign student from France. He thought Shuriken was a diving school due to similar uniforms.
Nice Guy
Reed Snorkel

Choki

Beware the Quiet Ones: Jimmy even lampshades it.
Brilliant but Lazy: He's too busy sleeping to actually put his powers into practice, at least on the offensive.
Delayed Reaction
Eyes Always Shut
Hidden Depths: He turns out to be quite the trickster in "Okuni for President", judging by him rigging the votes.
Mind Over Matter: He has telekinetic powers.
Power Floats: He prefers floating over walking.
The Quiet One
Sleepyhead: He’s usually found sleeping.
Warrior Monk
Wise Beyond His Years: Justified (somewhat), since he’s a monk.

Pork

All Drummers Are Animals: He’s the only one who uses a drum. Or any other instrument, really.
Ambiguously Gay: He seems pleased when Coco the monkey kisses him in "Super Ninja".
Cry Cute: In "Phantom of the Kabuki", shedding Tears of Remorse.
Cute Mute
Driven by Envy: The reason why he's the antagonist in "Phantom of the Kabuki". He wanted to play Eizan's character, and was resentful for that. He gets over it.
Petting Zoo People
The Silent Bob
The Slacker: Alongside Jimmy.
Team Pet
Villain Ball: In "Phantom of the Kabuki". It doesn't last, obviously.
The Voiceless: Compared to everyone else. Not that he needs to speak, mind you.

Tetsuo Matsura and Yota Sugimura

The Bully: Tetsuo, with Yota as his Bumbling Sidekick.
Jerkass: Tetsuo, to a T.
Satellite Character: Yota has no personality besides being Tetsuo's sidekick.
Smug Snakes
Those Two Guys: Also count as Those Two Bad Guys, considering their antagonistic roles.
Token Evil Teammates: Of Shuriken.

Teachers and Staff

Vladimir Keitawa

The Ace
Adorkable: When dealing with women.
Badass Teacher
The Comically Serious
The Grotesque: Especially when he yells.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Mother Russia Makes You Strong
Sadist Teacher: At worst. Then again...
Sergeant Rock: Bordering on Drill Sergeant Nasty sometimes.
Team Dad: Shares this role with Kubo.
Tough Love: His training in a nutshell.
Why Did It Have to Be Tests?: He has a crippling case of test panic, which he had to overcome to stay in Shuriken.

Kubo Utamaro

Apathetic Teacher: Not apathetic per se, but his calm and unenthusiastic demeanor usually bores his students.
Beware the Quiet Ones
Cannot Spit It Out: His feelings towards Kita-sensei.
The Eeyore
Extreme Doormat: Unless he's pushed enough.
Love At First Sight: As seen in "Kubo's Secret", he fell for Kita the moment he saw her.
Sibling Yin-Yang: With his more outgoing sister Nika.
The Stoic: No matter what mood he's in, he'll always talk in the same tone of voice and a straight face.
- Not So Stoic: That said, he can get excited or frustrated, which is treated as a big deal. Kita-sensei also breaks his stoicism.
- Stoic Spectacles
Sugar and Ice Personality: He’s normally stoic and apathetic, but he becomes nicer and even sweet when Kita-sensei is around.
Team Dad: Alongside Vlad.

Kita Shunai

Action Girl
Badass Teacher
Boobs of Steel: Very noticeable.
Hair-Trigger Temper
Hello, Nurse!: She manages to attract many suitors due to her beauty, which she's oblivious to.
Lady of War
Nice Girl: Hair-Trigger Temper aside, she's normally a kind and pleasant young woman.
Oblivious to Love: She’s completely unaware of Kubo's affection for her.
Stern Teacher: Unlike Vlad-sensei, she believes in fairness despite her arduous trainings.
Team Mom
Tsundere: She has an overall temper and is quick to get pissed, but is also kind, responsible and nurturing, switching moods according to the situation.
Walking Armory: She’s skilled in using every weapon.

Shuriken’s Principal

A Father to His Men: A variant. He's Shuriken School's principal, and he definitely cares for his students and the other teachers, considering the entire school family. He's perfectly willing to throw opportunities to gain money (not without pain) all for their sake.
Badass Grandpa: He's aged, sure, but he can and will kick ass if pushed.
Big Good
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: He’s a goofball who is mostly concerned about money, but there’s a reason why he's the principal.
Expy: He's pretty much the Good Counterpart of Mr. Krabs.
Genre Savvy
Money Fetish: Justified to an extent, since he normally needs the money to maintain the school, although he seems to have a fixation with money in general.
Mr. Vice Guy: He's very obsessed with money, but he still has his heart in the right place.
The Napoleon: Downplayed. He's short and can be quite mood-swinging, but he's nowhere near as unpleasant as other examples.
Screw the Money, I Have Rules: Though it pains him to do so.

Zumichito

Almighty Janitor: See this seemingly meek groundskeeper? He's a former Shuriken student, and prepare to get your ass kicked if you piss him off.
Badass Grandpa: He was a former Shuriken student, after all.
Beware the Nice Ones
Cool Old Guy
The Obi-Wan: He usually has this role.
Retired Badass

Michiyo aka Mrs. Clean

Almighty Janitor: A literal example.
Berserk Button: Never, EVER, mess with her cleaning.
Cool Old Lady
Never Mess with Granny
Super-Powered Evil Side: She literally transforms into a demon when pissed off.

Katana School

Naginata

Arch Enemy: He's pretty much Eizan's.
Black Magic: His character bio states that he's highly skilled at the dark arts, although this is more of an Informed Ability than anything else.
Dragon-in-Chief/Dragon with an Agenda: While he's Katana's Principal's loyal subordinate, he's the one who directly antagonizes the Shurikens, regardless whether they work together or not.
Faux Affably Evil
For the Evulz: While some of his actions are done on Katana's principal's orders, most of the time he's annoying the protagonists for the hell of it.
The Heavy
Jerkass: No shit.
Loners Are Freaks
Sleeves Are for Wimps
Smug Snake: He’s arrogant and smug to a fault, which bites him in the ass more than once.
They Call Him "Sword"
Troll: Pissing people off is his raison d'être.
Undying Loyalty: To Katana's principal.

Bruce Chang

Arch Enemy: To Jimmy.
Blood Knight: Bordering on Axe Crazy.
Character Tic: Bruce can be spotted hunched over and grinding his teeth in anticipation of the fight in "Kubo's Secret".
The Dragon: To Naginata.
Evil Counterpart: To Jimmy.
Jerk Jock/Dumb Jock
Not So Different: As he's Jimmy's Evil Counterpart, Bruce is more reckless and mischievous than his teammates. Unlike him, his intentions are not so harmless.
Pet the Dog: He sleeps with a teddy bear, according to "Super Ninja". See also Undying Loyalty.
Smug Snake: Even moreso than Naginata. If someone puts Katana into trouble, chances are it's going to be him.
Undying Loyalty: He sticks with Naginata, no matter what.

The Kimura Twins

Arch Enemy: To Okuni.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: As jerkish as they are, they do care about each other despite their Sibling Rivalry. See Living Emotional Crutch.
Finishing Each Other's Sentences
Living Emotional Crutch: They become extremely weak when separated, and are stated to be dependent on one another.
Pet the Dog: They are visibly moved to tears by Pig's violin-playing, as seen in "The Big Illusion".
Single-Minded Twins: To the point where their first names are never mentioned.
Smug Snakes
Sneaky Guys
Stay in the Kitchen: The reason for their rivalry with Okuni.
Trickster Twins: Very much so.
Undying Loyalty: To each other and Naginata.
Villainous Crush: Hinted to have this for their arch-rival Okuni.
Vitriolic Twins

Doku

The Brute
Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: According to his bio, his mom still brings him lunch every day.
The Quiet One: He rarely speaks.
Satellite Character

Katana's Principal

Arch Enemy: He's one to Shuriken's principal, as well as his Foil.
Big Bad: Or so he’s supposed to be.
The Dreaded: Everyone seems to fear him, even his own students (save Naginata).
Drill Sergeant Nasty: To the Katana students. Unlike Vlad, his methods are more abusive than comedic.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: See Pet the Dog.
Glowing Eyes of Doom
Hair-Trigger Temper: He has such a temper he scares the hell out of the Katana students (sans Naginata).
Knight of Cerebus: Averted. Despite his scary appearance, he's just as propense to comedy as the other characters, and his appearances don't darken the series in any way.
Non-Action Big Bad: To the point that if not for his cruel personality, he would be a Designated Villain.
Pet the Dog: He truly does care for his pet baby chick, and is about the only living being he doesn't treat like shit.
The Man Behind The Man: To Naginata.

Other Characters

Kazumi

0% Approval Rating: Nobody likes this annoying prick, and with good reason.
Bratty Half-Pint
Evil Redhead: Oh, yes. Combined with Fiery Redhead.
Hate Sink: He's rude, loud, bratty, annoying, and only exists to cause problems to Shuriken. In-Universe, he's so despised the teachers threatened the principal to quit if he entered the school. It goes to the point not even Katana School can stand him.
Jerkass
Karma Houdini: Played with. He constantly gets away with his awful behavior, but since being him is actually a punishment in itself, him leaving is such a victory for everyone that it ultimately doesn't matter if he gets any comeuppance or not.
Motor Mouth: Holy shit.
One-Shot Character: He only appears in “Eizan’s Shadow”.
The Napoleon
Screw the Rules, I Have Money

Torrence

Alpha Bitch: At first. She gets better.
All Guys Want Cheerleaders
Blondes Are Evil: Not evil, but kind of a bitch, and she mellows out.
The Cheerleader
Genki Girl: Moreso than Ami.
Parody Sue
Took a Level In Kindness
Valley Girl

Missy and Casey