Anime Fantasy Encyclopedia

Galatea
Japanese VA : Ai Orikasa
Rank : #3
Type : Defensive
Character Description
Galatea is Claymore #3 and a defensive fighter. She is one of the more kind-hearted Claymores. She is a master at sensing Yoki, being able to sense other Claymores from a long distance, read their emotions, and see their actions as if she were close by. [...]

Clare
Japanese VA : Houko Kuwashima
Rank : #47
Type : Offensive
Character Description
Clare is the series’ protagonist. When she was a little girl, her family was killed and eaten by a yoma impersonating her brother. After being chased out of her village, another captured her and made her part of its disguise and its toy, often torturing her. [...]

Chizuru Aizawa
Japanese VA : Mamiko Noto
English VA : Dorothy Elias-Fahn
Character Description
One of Chika’s good friends in high school, who took swimming lessons from Tina along with her schoolmates. She’s very afraid of the water, but managed to overcome her fear and learned how to swim. She is the shy one of Chika’s group, often overwhelmed [...]

Kaoru Hanabishi
Japanese VA : Soichiro Hoshi
English VA : Dave Wittenberg
Character Description
The primary male protagonist of the series. He’s a fairly average person and he doesn’t fit the mold of the stereotypical male hero in most harem anime series. For the most part, he’s shown to be a fairly good student, and isn’t prone to emotional [...]

Okinawa Locals
Kaori Kinjo
Japanese VA : Mai Kadowaki
English VA : Amber Hood
Character Description
Saya’s best friend at Koza Commerce High School. Later to be reunited with Saya. Although she does not know what Saya is, nor the burden she has to carry, Kaori knows something is up and cheers Saya on.
Prof. Hirohisa Sukegawa
Japanese VA : Tamio Sobami
English [...]

The Schiff are an unstable balance between Chevaliers & Chiroptera. They are prototypes for the Corpse Corps, pseudo-Chevalier soldiers created by a group of scientists led by Boris, under the sponsorship of Amshel Goldsmith. The Schiff differ from the Chevalier and Chiroptera in certain ways. For instance, they cannot be in sunlight without being crystallized [...]

The Goldsmiths are a branch of the Goldschmidt family. The family crest of five arrows (Cinq Fleches) and the names of the five brothers are modeled after Mayer Amschel Rothschild’s family.
Diva
Japanese VA : Akiko Yajima
English VA : Kari Wahlgren
Character Description
Saya’s younger twin sister and main antagonist; she’s the greatest sworn enemy of the Red Shield. [...]

Red Shield is a group or an organization that is solely dedicated to killing Diva and exterminating Chiropterans from the face of the Earth. Many or most of its members are actually ex-soldiers who have encountered Chiropterans out in the field and were also the sole survivors of the subsequent attack on their unit.
David
Japanese VA [...]

Saya Otonashi
Japanese VA : Eri Kitamura
English VA : Kari Wahlgren
Character Description
At the start of the series, Saya appears to be a high school girl living a normal life on the island of Okinawa. She is adopted by George Miyagusuku and has no memory of her life earlier than one year ago.
She is able to heal [...]

Old Blood : Refers to vampires who have lived at least 100 years or more. Their abilities are far greater than any regular vampire.
Black Blood : Refers to vampires. Vampires of the series have a variety of strengths and weaknesses varying from vampire to vampire. The common ones are agelessness, extreme strength, turning humans into [...]