The following is a list of characters from the anime and manga series, The Law of Ueki.
Main characters
Kosuke Ueki
Romanized as "Kousuke Ueki" in the Animax version"The Law of Ueki." Animax India. March 15, 2007. Retrieved on July 23, 2009. is the main protagonist of the series. He's a student in Class 1-C at Hinokuni Junior High School. Ueki's ability is to change trash into trees which was given to him by his god candidate, Kobayashi (a.k.a. "Mr. K"), who is also Ueki's homeroom teacher. His Level 2 power allows him to nullify an opponent's attack by returning it back to its original form. Later in the story, Ueki's revealed to a Celestial sent to Earth by his father in order to take part in this tournament, granting him access to the Sacred Weapons. Due to his power, he can use more than one Sacred Weapon at the same time.
He's most defining personality trait is his sense of justice (a recurring theme throughout the series); he detests seeing people being oppressed, abused, or manipulated by others. Also, despite being unusually calm and caring little about what happens to himself (often snoozing in class, letting children use him as a target practice as well as a surfboard, and nonchalantly calling the police when faced with a gang of rowdy teenagers), Ueki's a genuinely kind person who's always trying to help people. In fact, his caring personality also extends to the environment (as he's often seen planting trees and picking up trash around the town park) and his enemies (such as when he saved Robert Haydn from falling debris). According to a short profile of the main characters of "The Law of Ueki" (published in the end of manga vol. 16 by the author), Ueki's hobbies include cleaning up his town.
Throughout the series, Ueki's main goal is to win the tournament and keep the Talent of Blank from falling into the hands of those who'd abuse it. Later, he also sets another goal to rescue god candidates (such as Mr. K, Inumaru and Nero) who're unjustly sent to Hell. At the end of the series, Ueki ultimately wins the tournament and the Talent of Blank. This is because he was judged as the strongest Celestial and Power User, having advanced the most in terms of growth.
The sequel "The Law of Ueki Plus" hints that he might in fact have feelings for Mori, as he states himself that if his memories of the most important person to him were to be erased, it most likely would be Mori he would end up forgetting.
Ai Mori
is Kosuke Ueki's girlfriend at Hinokuni Junior High School. When in a relaxed mood, Ai is usually upbeat and friendly, although she is often shown with a very shallow side, initially believing that all Power Users but Ueki were dangerous enemies that can't be trusted. Still, Ai cares deeply for her friends, especially Ueki. She is strict with him at times, especially when he looks like he is about to do something rash. Ai continuously tries to be his voice of reason, although her shallow antics and outspoken personality often annoys him.
She claims him to be her best friend, but it seems she may have a crush on him as she often blushes when she sees him, but it's not made abundantly clear within the series. She has hypermetropia and always carries reading glasses over her forehead. There is a gag within the series where, whenever Mori cooks food it ends up looking incredibly odd and off-putting (usually with squirming octopus tentacles), but in actually tastes really good.
Mori discovers Ueki's power early on, but comes to the rather odd conclusion that he's an alien. Upon learning of the competition Ueki is in, she decides to back him up so that he won't lose all his talents and disappear. Later on in the story, she winds up getting an ability of her own by the god candidate Inumaru during Ueki's fight with Sano. Once this power is activated, her opponent falls totally in love with glasses (usually Ai's) and will do anything to keep them from harm, such as not harming Ai out of fear they'll break the glasses or following her orders to defeat themselves. However, in order to use her power, Mori's opponent must perform a cutesy burikko pose (i.e. raising the right leg backwards while putting both of the fists close to their mouth).
Seiichiro Sano
, a 9th Grader at Inaho Junior High School, whose power allows him to change towels into iron by holding his breath and is highly competent and creative with his power, able to create makeshift shields, springboards, and even boomerangs, which he calls "Boomerang Cutter". Sano is a formidable opponent with a high aptitude for combat and is often considered a genius by others, being very cunning and working extremely well with others to create powerful combination attacks. His level 2 enables him to add magnetic properties to his iron towels to repel or attract metal objects, which he utilizes to great effect throughout the series.
Sano at one point joins the Robert's Ten for unknown reasons, prompting Ueki to confront him in battle. It's later revealed that the leader of the Robert's Ten, Carpaccio had placed a Death Pentagon Insect onto Sano's King Candidate, Inumaru, that would remove all of the blood from his body and kill him instantly should Sano disobey him.
Sano has a burn over his left eye which was caused during an accident in a hot spring. Still, he loves hot springs and hopes to win the Talent of Blank to obtain the talent to discover where he can find the greatest hot spring in the world for everyone to relax and enjoy.
Rinko Jerrard
comes from a rich family, and has many people around her who pretend to be her friend, purely to take advantage of her financially. This causes Rinko to become disillusioned with the apparent cold-heartedness of the world as well as making her vulnerable to Robert's hypnotic charisma, leading her to join Robert's Ten. Initially, Rinko has a crush on Robert since he was the first person to treat her as a real friend, but eventually comes to see Robert for what he really is and joins up with Ueki, indeed becoming his guardian and constant caretaker. She is seen teaming up with Sano in various episodes.
She loves all animals, taking an immediate liking to Tenko (whom she calls "Tenko-chan"), but her weakness for cute things makes her vulnerable to Ban's power (which just so happens to give things cute faces). It's wise not to insult her no matter what, for she has an evil alternate personality that violently attacks the person who insults her. She doesn't seem to realize that she has this evil side and forgets whatever her evil side says or does.
Rinko has the power to change beads into bombs and creates special accessories in order to use her beads in more constructive ways such as: "Rinko Rocket", a pair of shoes made of a special alloy and filled with beads that Rinko can use to blast herself up into the air for more advantageous attacks; "Beads Cannon", metallic tubes filled with beads that go over her fingers that she uses by detonating one bead in order to send the rest flying at her opponents; and "Explosive Glove", a special glove with beads hidden inside that (according to Rinko) allows her to produce a force as strong as a missile.
Rinko's Celestial god candidate is a man named Nike, one of Margarette's followers whom she hasn't seen since the battle began.
Hideyoshi Soya
has the ability to turn voices into portraits which produce sound, but only if he bends either his fingers or toes. Being prone to deception, Soya uses various novelty gags and tricks in a fight, such as soy sauce bombs. Although sometimes cowardly and weak, when Soya performs his sneak attacks in conjunction with his power, he can be a formidable opponent. During one fight, he put his portraits on Sano's towels, then turned them back to voices in order to launch a sonic attack on Team Marilyn. In addition, he can use his ability on the voices of his opponents, making it easier to deceive them.
He first appears as a Power User that Ueki and Mori try to recruit as a fifth member for their team. He looks out for a group of kids at a place called the "House of the Sun". His first King Candidate, Nero, was a kind-hearted Celestial that didn't actually want to become the King of the Celestial World; instead, he simply wanted to help out humans, which he did at the House of the Sun. Hideyoshi offered to become his Power User so that Nero could stay on Earth longer. Unfortunately, Nero ended up helping Soya during a fight and was sent to Hell as punishment. Soya then received a new King Candidate, Zack, whom he hates for being jerk and wanting him to join forces with a bunch of nasty Power Users. He agrees to help Ueki when he hears they can save Nero.
At the end of the series, Ai refers to him as the useless member of Team Ueki while also being the secret savior because he accidentally gave Ueki one last talent to save him from disappearing.
Kobayashi
, nicknamed as Mr. K (Kobasen in the Japanese versions), is a teacher at Hinokuni Junior High School. Mr. K is a king candidate who gives Ueki his power. He is Ueki's homeroom teacher and had been carefully studying him in order to judge his worth for the tournament.
Kobayashi is usually a laid-back, forgetful, and friendly man, although he can be quite serious, depending on the situation. He has a very strong sense of justice, actually inspiring Ueki long ago when he saved him from falling off a building, and acts as both his mentor and role model.
He is sent to Hell for saving (and thus helping) Ueki in his first fight against Robert Haydn. He then becomes Mori's king candidate, and returns to his old life due to Ueki winning the Talent of Blank and choosing the Talent to Reunite.
Inumaru
is the king candidate who gave Sano his powers. The two officially pair up for the tournament when Sano risks his life to save a child from a burning building, and Inumaru does likewise despite Sano's threats. Inumaru's credo is that he can not ignore people in danger regardless of the reason, which prompts Sano to join, and to think of Inumaru as his friend rather than his Candidate.
After being told that Sano joined the Robert's Ten to save him from the Death Pentagon (a small black bug that Carpaccio attaches to Wanko's neck, that would suck all of Wanko's blood out of him on command, thus killing him), he contrives to destroy himself, so that Sano can be freed from his obligation. He gives Mori his power, thus breaking the most important rule of the tournament, in order to force himself to go to Hell so that the others would be saved. He was chosen as the King of the Celestial World at the end of the series.
Tenko (small) and (big) is a large tailless yellow fox-like creature with duiker-like horns on his head, ten blue beady eyes (with the main pair three to six times larger than the other pairs), black bat-like wings, brown stripes on his limbs and with no visible ears that helps Ueki awaken his celestial powers. He can also change his shape to fit onto Ueki's wrist like an arm protector to give him advice, and seems to be able to communicate with Ueki telepathically.
He is a celestial beast who is something of a mutation among his kind (he is born as an ancient version of a celestial beast, which is a ferocious-looking Godzilla-sized creature instead of an adorable cat-sized genetically-engineered house pet). Because of this he was treated very poorly by celestials and condemned for a crime he did not commit, but Ueki is the first to actually treat him with some kindness and respect. Fairly harsh with Ueki at times, he is nevertheless happy to have found someone who actually needs him. He also is very useful at giving advice in a fight.