List of Outlaw Star characters
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The following is a list of characters from the Japanese manga and anime Outlaw Star.
[edit] Crew of the Outlaw Star
Gene, Jim and Melfina are the regular crew of the Outlaw Star. Suzuka and Aisha are more independent and only act as crewmembers when it suits them.
[edit] Gene Starwind
- Voiced by: Shigeru Shibuya (Japanese), Robert Buchholz (English)
Born on Earth, Gene Starwind developed a fear of space flight and a hatred of pirates during an incident when he was a pre-teen that resulted in his father's death at the hands of a band of mercenaries led by Ron MacDougall and his stranding on Sentinel III. Gene himself escaped safely to the planet Sentinel III and spent the next several years there. On Sentinel III, he met Jim Hawking, a 11-year old genius hacker. The pair became business partners in Starwind and Hawking Enterprises, primarily as repairmen, but also accepting various odd jobs, as long as they don't break the law. He is a reckless ladies' man and a bit of a pervert. He would rather try to achieve his goals in one fell swoop, with a minimum of effort, a characteristic that frustrates Jim; but he can think on his feet when he needs to. Gene is well armed with a variety of weapons such as a handgun, shotgun, knife, light shield, etc. His special weapon, a Keister gun, fires special Keister shells, which are basically magic bullets that are effective against Tao priests and other things that are protected against normal weaponry. Caster shells are projectile capsules that contain an actual spell cast by a wizard and contained in the shell, which allows non-magic users to fire the spell from a gun. Caster shells are also numbered by power level, the three most powerful being 4, 9, and 13. Caster shells are considered antiques, however, and are difficult to acquire. Some of the effects of the caster shells include opening up small controlled black holes in order to absorb an opponent, as seen by the shell fired against Hamushi (effectively) and Hazanko (ineffectively).
[edit] James "Jim" Hawking
- Voiced by: Rika Matsumoto (Japanese), Brianne Siddall (English)
The 11-year-old James "Jim" Hawking is the business partner and sidekick of Gene Starwind. He is the son of a famous computer hacker known as the "Computer Wizard". How he met Gene is unknown. Jim serves as the team's computer expert, hacker, strategist, and back-up. He is responsible and concerned; he worries about the team's finances and plans, prefers to earn money the hard way rather than to take risks, and is often annoyed by Gene's lazy and cavalier attitude. Jim becomes good friends with fellow Outlaw Star crew member Aisha Clan Clan, who is in some ways his opposite: Jim gets treated like a kid even though he acts like an adult, while Aisha, though an adult, acts like a kid. Jim also looks up to the android Melfina as a mother figure, and gets along well with the Outlaw Star's on-board computer, Gilliam II. Jim has trouble, however, trusting strangers such as Hilda, who first approaches him and Gene under false pretenses, and Suzuka, who tries to kill Gene and whose motives are unclear. Episode 20 of the anime tells the story of Jim's first love, a young girl named Hanmyo who, unknown to the crew, is a combat pilot charged with destroying the Outlaw Star and its crew. His name could be a nod to Jim Hawkins of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island.
[edit] Melfina
- Voiced by: Ayako Kawasumi (Japanese), Emily Brown (English)
Melfina is a synthetic human, a bio-android that was stolen from the Kei Pirates by "Hot Ice" Hilda. She has no recollection of her own creation, and no clues as to the purpose behind that act. She is thoughtful and polite, often caring for the other members of the crew. However, she is greatly insecure about her lack of past, and travels with Gene because he promises to discover where she came from. It is later discovered that she was created from an ancient and unknown genome. The genome, in fact, was that of an emissary, simply referred to as "the maiden", from the Leyline itself. The maiden is the only one capable of finding, and navigating the way to the Galactic Leyline. The maiden is also the only one capable of accessing its great powers.
Melfina navigates the Outlaw Star nude, although she always covers her breasts with her arms while her pubic area is obstructed by some part of her booth. Black underwear was put over her in censored television versions.
[edit] Aisha Clanclan
- Voiced by: Yuko Miyamura (Japanese), Lenore Zann (English)
Aisha Clanclan is a female Ctarl-Ctarl spacer. She is a dark-skinned catgirl with a drinking problem, a very large appetite, and the strength of ten men, depending on whether there is a full moon on the planet she is on. She has the ability to turn into a large white tiger when she wants to, though in this form it is hard to communicate with her. When she transforms her clothes are destroyed, an example at the Galactic Leyline she lost her clothes but appeared in the Outlaw Star fully clothed; whether or not she has multple outfits is unknown. Aisha was originally in charge of locating the Galactic Leyline for the Ctarl-Ctarl Empire, but after she unknowingly allowed for Hot Ice Hilda to escape, her government ordered her to stay behind on Blue Heaven to look for clues as punishment. Aisha finds out that Gene Starwind is connected to Hilda and tries to pump him for information; however, Gene knows nothing of the Galactic Leyline. Later during the Space Race, after Aisha was able to trick Gene into letting her on board the Outlaw Star, she finds out that the MacDougall Brothers have more information on Hilda than they do. Aisha then decides to join the crew since they are the ones who were indirectly responsible for her demotion in the first place.
[edit] "Twilight" Suzuka
- Voiced by: Sayuri Yamauchi (Japanese), Wendee Lee (English)
"Twilight" Suzuka is a female Ultra Class A Assassin who only kills when the sun is setting. Her preferred weapon of choice is a bokken, which she can swing with enough force to fracture concrete. She first appears when she tries to kill Gene Starwind's friend Fred Luo as part of her contract with a rival weapons seller. Gene is able to outsmart her and force her to consent to come after him first before she kills Fred as part of her pride. However, in her next appearance, Suzuka saves Melfina from a Kei Pirate and decides to help the group against the Kei Pirates mainly to go after a member of the Anten Seven named Hitoriga who killed her family. Surprisingly, Suzuka seems to know more about the Kei Pirates than the rest of the crew. Among the various members on Gene’s ship Suzuka could best be considered the lone wolf, relying very little on outside help to accomplish her goals. She is quiet and pensive, and once tells Gene that she 'sticks around' only because she finds him interesting, much to his chagrin.
[edit] Allies
[edit] "Hot Ice" Hilda
- Voiced by: Toshiko Fujita (Japanese), Mary Elizabeth McGlynn (English)
"Hot Ice" Hilda is an Outlaw who, for unknown reasons, has a problem with the Kei Pirates. Not much is known about Hilda from before she met Gene. She is responsible for taking out one of the Pirate Guild's leaders at the cost of an arm and an eye. In retaliation, she stole the XGP. After being pursued by pirates, she came to Sentinel III, where she met Gene and Jim under the name Rachel Sweet. When the pirates caught up with them, her true identity was revealed. She tried to kill Gene, but he was able to overpower her, and at gunpoint she revealed the existence of Melfina. Escaping with Gene, Jim, and Melfina, they made their way to Blue Heaven where, while resting, they were attacked by outlaws sent by the MacDougall Brothers. They escaped to the Farfallas system's sun, where the XGP was being held in an orbiting asteroid. The pirates used a Tao Spell to track them down and, thanks to the MacDougall brothers, Hilda's ship Horus was destroyed. Hilda escaped and tried to reach the XGP by climbing the pirate's grappling cable. However, the cable snapped, sending Hilda, the Tao Master, and her ship into the sun. Hilda stopped the Tao Master from attacking the XGP by detonating a bomb hidden in her tooth. Her final words to Gene were that "Outlaws never go down easy." Possibly in memory of her, Gene named the ship the Outlaw Star.
[edit] Fred Luo
- Voiced by: Toshihiko Seki (Japanese), Ezra Weisz (English)
Fred Luo is a camp weapons merchant and an old friend of Gene Starwind. Gene goes to him to supply weapons for the Outlaw Star, although it costs a lot of money for Grappler Ship weapons. Although Gene works hard to pay Fred back all the money he owes him, Fred offers discounts for doing favors for him and is willing to help Gene, so Gene is eventually able to pay him back. Fred is also obviously gay and is most likely in love with Gene Starwind. Fred appears briefly with his two bodyguards in Angel Links. Fred Luo's homosexuality is an accepted fact among many fans, and was cause for little controversy in Japan, where many anime are more intense and in depth in their portryal of homosexual characters. Still, Cartoon Network edited some sequences and dialogue so that Fred wasn't perceived as "too gay" for its first American television broadcast run.
[edit] Swanzo
- Voiced by: Takeshi Aono (Japanese), Doug Stone (voice actor) (English)
Swanzo is a Corbanite and the chief mechanic at Blue Heaven. He was saved by Hilda when his ship was attacked by Ban pirates. His translator has been known to glitch, and will occasionally speak in Corbanese.
[edit] Mikey
- Voiced by: Katsuyuki Konishi (Japanese), Chip Nickey (English)
Mikey is Swanzo's partner at Blue Heaven. He doesn't like to work for free.
[edit] Clyde
- Voiced by: Toshihiko Nakajima (Japanese), Richard Plantagenet (English)
Clyde is the owner of Gene's favorite bar on Sentinal III. He and the waitress are friends of Gene and like to check in from time to time.
[edit] Iris
- Voiced by: Akiko Kimura (Japanese), Reba West (English)
Iris is the waitress at Clyde's bar with unrealized romantic interests in Gene. Their relationship is comically unconsummated, very similar to that between Moneypenny and James Bond: although he is never involved with her, Gene is not above flirting with Iris and occasionally rubbing her rear end. A version of Iris can be seen in Cowboy Bebop right down to her ditzyness.
[edit] Foes
[edit] Ronald MacDougall
- Voiced by: Kazuhiro Nakata (Japanese), John Snyder (English)
Ronald MacDougall is the elder MacDougall Brother. Always calm, he is the brains of the MacDougall's entire operation. Ron has a past with Hilda. He uses a caster gun like Gene, but it is basically the barrel of a Caster fashioned in the style of a Shakujo, the staff often carried by Buddhist monks. At the Leyline, Gene used a #9 shell to badly injure Ron. He and Harry, as the Shangri La's Main Computer, departed. It is unknown what has happened to both brothers.
[edit] Harry MacDougall
- Voiced by: Tsutomu Kashiwakura (Japanese), Steve Staley (English)
Harry MacDougall is the younger MacDougall Brother (19 years old). Like Melfina, he too is a synthetic human. Though he is usually calm, he is prone to fits of extreme rage and hate. Throughout the series he is in love with Melfina and tries numerous times to get her to return the affection. His body also gradually breaks down throughout the series; he first loses his arm to a gunshot from Gene which he replaces with a mechanical prosthetic, then loses most of his body when Gene destroys a mech suit he is wearing. Gwen Khan finally constructs a complete android body for Harry capable of moving at inhuman speeds, firing missles and shooting bullets. Despite these battle upgrades, Harry still meets his end at the hands of Hazanko while attempting to defend Melfina at the gates of the Galactic Leyline: all of his limbs are snapped in two. His mind lives on within he and his brother's ship, however, as the Shangri La's main computer, where a backup of his memories and personality were stored before his physical body was destroyed. However, this "backup" does not include the memories of the last moments of his life, and was told of how his "original" died when Ronald returned to the ship, saying it was "something too horrible to mention."
[edit] Professor Gwen Khan
- Voiced by: Takeshi Aono (Japanese), Richard Barnes(voice actor) (English)
Professor Gwen Khan was one of the lead scientists on the Leyline Project and has an eternal quest for all of the knowledge of the universe and its many problems. He first appears during the Space Race when he recognizes the XGP, and afterwards somewhat stalks Gene and his crew, usually questioning Melfina and Gene about finding the Leyline, among other things. Although he might be considered an ally at first, Khan is on no one's side but his own, and by the show's conclusion has backstabbed nearly every party in play in order to reach the Leyline. Ultimately, it is revealed that he constructed Melfina as well as the Outlaw Star, and at one point he utilizes his knowledge over Melfina to shut her down through a verbal recognition device, forcing Gene to comply with his demands. He is one of only three people to reach the Leyline alive, and at the end of the series his goal for ultimate knowledge is fulfilled when the Leyline transforms him into the very concept of information itself.
[edit] Hazanko
- Voiced by: Seizo Katou (Japanese), Tom Wyner (English)
Hazanko is the leader of the Anten Seven and a high ranking member of the 108 Stars. Wanting absolute power, he began searching for the Galactic Leyline to gain enough power to defeat the Tendo King. A ruthless tyrant, he was willing to do anything, even sacrifice his own people. A skilled and powerful Tao Master, he can deflect virtually any attack directed at him and use devastating Tao magic with very little effort. Though the Leyline gave him the power he wanted, he was nevertheless defeated by Gene and the Outlaw Star.
[edit] Kei Pirates
The Kei Pirates are a collection of users of Tao magic. The group most often mentioned in the series is the 108 Stars, led by the mysterious Tendo King. Those in Outlaw Star are mostly lead by Hazanko and his elite Anten Seven.
[edit] 108 Stars
The 108 Stars are a group of Tao magic users from the Hoppo system, and members of the Kei Pirates. The name may come from the legend of the 108 Stars of Destiny, of the classic Chinese novel Shui Hu Zhuan. Centered around the Tendo King, their leader, the 108 Stars operate in smaller groups of 10 or 20, with the leaders of these groups acting as independents, pursuing their own interests. In the series, the group that pursues Gene Starwind and the rest of the crew of the Outlaw Star is led by a man called Hazanko. The members of this group supposedly possess a great power known as Sunjutsu (pronounced soon-joot-su), which is based on feng shui. They hunt Gene and his companions relentlessly, eventually setting the Anten Seven after them. The Seven and Hazanko are eventually defeated, yet the 108 Stars live on.
[edit] The Anten Seven
The Anten Seven, led by Hazanko, are an elite group of assassins sent after Gene and the crew of the Outlaw Star.
[edit] Shimi
- Voiced by: Yuusaku Yara (Japanese), Steve Bulen (English)
Shimi, whose real name is Leilong, is the first assassin sent after Gene. He carries an immense backpack around with him, which is full of an assortment of weapons, including a sword, pistol, rockets, and a top of the line Space Forces light shield. He is a very skilled dueler and is yet to be defeated. During their duel, he easily defeats Gene. After witnessing this, Jim, Aisha, and Suzuka make a hasty attack for vengeance and are also thoroughly defeated. Surviving with a wound to his ribs, Gene is then challenged to a one-shot duel by Shimi. Gene wins the duel due to Shimi having a faulty gun. Believed to be dead, he is buried by Gene and the others, but eventually digs himself out of his grave muttering: "They should have buried me deeper". Instead of continuing his life as an assassin, Shimi chooses to start his life anew as a wandering outlaw, having orchestrated his defeat and "death" for the exact purpose of removing himself from the Kei Pirates.
[edit] Iraga
- Voiced by: Chiyako Shibahara (Japanese), Barbara Goodson (English)
Iraga is the second assassin encountered. She is met in an intergalactic fighting tournament known to decide the strongest woman in the universe. Rumors circulate that a werewolf has entered the competition. Iraga is a member of the Hoke Shadow Boxing team and wears a pair of goggles to hide her wolf eyes. She has the ability, similar to Aisha, to transform into a large wolf. It is unknown whether she is a Ctarl-Ctarl race because as Aisha put it "The Ctarl-Ctarl don't hang out with low level wolves like her. That's an insult!" She was defeated by Aisha in the final round of the Strongest Woman in the Universe tournament.
[edit] Hanmyo
- Voiced by: Tomoko Kawakami (Japanese), Rebecca Forstadt (English)
Hanmyo is the youngest member of the Seven and is an expert on space combat using her cats. Through a mental link she can communicate with her cats and allows them to pilot their sections of the ship, each section a mobile grappler arm that can separate from the main fuselage. She had a romantic involvement with Jim, but was brought to a tragic end when the Outlaw Star unknowingly destroyed their ship. A rose could be seen floating in space from the flowers Jim gave to her.
[edit] Hamushi
- Voiced by: Mako Hyoudou (Japanese), Dorothy Elias-Fahn (English)
Hamushi fought Gene at the Leyline. She is a temptress who uses her sex appeal to send her enemies in to a false sense of security, and then uses her fan to send out powerful shock waves. She is also immune to most Caster Shells. She is defeated when Gene uses the number #4 shell to kill her.
[edit] Tobigera
- Voiced by: Hikaru Midorikawa (Japanese), Michael Lindsay (English)
Tobigera is a master of disguise. Mainly used for comic relief in the Hot Springs Planet episode, he is nevertheless the last member of the Anten Seven to be defeated, having been absorbed into the Geomancer along with Hazanko and granted ultimate power by the Leyline in the show's final episode. He has a claw with four long blades on his right arm, and meets his death when a similar clawed arm growing from the Outlaw Star impales him through the face.
[edit] Jukai
- Voiced by: Masashi Ebara (Japanese), Doug Stone (English)
Jukai is an old man with a very raspy voice, and little is known about him. He is wrapped from the neck down in a straitjacket with spikes on the back and wears a mask with the number six on it. He attacks by turning into a giant whirlwind, appearing to be made of water, and ramming into his opponents. He was defeated by Aisha at the Leyline.
[edit] Hitoriga
- Voiced by: Kiyonobu Suzuki (Japanese), Barry Stigler (English)
Hitoriga is an assassin much like Suzuka, not much is known except for the fact that he is the one who killed Suzuka's family. A sword fighter himself, in his first battle with Suzuka (which he won, making him the only person who ever defeated her in a swordfight) he changed his face and body to look like Suzuka. He did that because he was in love with her and wanted to see her face since he knew he could never have her. He was defeated by Suzuka's Crimson technque, a sword technique she devised specifically to kill him.
