This is a list of characters from the manga and anime series Elemental Gelade.
Main characters Coud Van Giruet , Naozumi Takahashi (Drama CD) , better known as , is the protagonist of the story. He is a fifteen-year-old member of the Red Lynx sky pirates who has spiky hair and is always seen wearing his red lynx jacket. He is not allowed to come on raids because he has difficulty flying a plane; despite this, he aspires to become the new captain of the pirates and one of the greatest known sky pirates. Coud was homeless until the age of five, when he was found by the boss of the Red Lynx, who he came to look up to like a father. He takes what his boss tells him seriously, which is why he feels protecting Ren is so important. Since the Red Lynx sky pirates is a male-only ship, Coud never had the chance to interact with females until he met Ren. As a result, he is very shy around her, especially when they are alone together. When he vows to protect her, he also begins to have feelings for her, initially because he thought she was cute but later developing a stronger love for her. Everyone seems to know about his feelings, as when they are in Nad Lezen and he admits that he is in love with her, Kuea and Cisqua state that they already knew. Coud finds Reverie Metherlence sleeping in a coffin-like box that was picked up as loot in a raid and falls in love with her, vowing to protect her on her journey to Edel Garden. Ren sees his sincere thoughts and actions and reacts with him so they could protect each other instead of only Coud protecting her. As the story progresses, Coud realizes that he is unable to fight efficiently with Ren because he drains too much of her power with each attack, becoming a formidable fighter after he is taught what an Edel Raid is and what they are capable of doing. Coud's weapon is a sickle-like tool attached to a long flexible wire called Angel (pronounced "angle") because it is shaped and detachable from the rope like a fish hook. He uses it as a weapon when he is not reacted with Ren or as a means to stop him from falling. After Coud is killed by the three Edel Raids, who seek to make Ren their new queen, he is brought back to life when the previous queen of Edel Garden, Eve, sacrifices herself so that he can be together with Ren. By the end of the anime, Coud returns to Red Lynx with Ren, and they are last seen flying off into the moonlit sky on one of the Red Lynx choppers. A running gag in the show is that Coud, despite being a sky pirate, is an infamously terrible pilot who frightens the rest of the cast whenever he has to control any sort of mechanized vehicle, including cars. However, he is skilled with tools and mechanics and improves as a pilot by the end of the anime. Reverie "Ren" Metherlence , Houko Kuwashima (Drama CD) , better known as , is an Edel Raid and the last direct descendant of the Metherlence bloodline. She is also one of the Seven Glittering Jewels (or Shichiko-hoju) that has not been seen for more than five hundred years. She recharges her powers through sleep, which happens to be fairly often. She also dislikes sweet food. Ren has one true desire - to go to Edel Garden. Ren's Elemental Gelade is above her forehead; she once covered it by wearing a hood, but now covers it with a triangle patterned ribbon given to her as a child by a woman named Sha. In volume three of the manga, the black market broker describes Ren's Elemental Gelade as jade green, but in certain light it has hints of blue. Characters who see it gaze at its beauty in awe, but in envy from some. When Ren reacts, she takes the form of a large blue sword like a "peacock's feather"; in the manga, the color of the sword is the same malachite color as her Elemental Gelade and appears more organic, as opposed to the anime's more angular blade. Like her description, she is light as a feather and can cut even steel with precision and speed like the wind itself, befitting of her attribute of Wind. She first appears after Coud finds her in a coffin-like box that the Red Lynx sky pirates stole in one of their routine raids. She had been sealed away by a sealing charm for an unknown amount of time, later revealed to be five hundred years, and as such is unfamiliar with modern-day objects like "flying machines". Ren at first loathes humans, whom she believes to either use Edel Raids only as tools or hate them because they can be a destructive force. However, she soon realizes that she was wrong as she travels with Coud, Cisqua, Rowen, and Kuea, who fight to protect her and other Edel Raids from danger. Over the course of the series, she shows more emotion and falls in love with Coud; in the anime, their love is able to break the control of the three Edel Raids of Chaos Choir's control over Ren. At the end of the anime, she leaves Edel Garden and joins the Red Lynx sky pirates with Coud and is last seen flying off with Coud, saying that they will go beyond the stars together. Cisqua , Ikue Otani (Drama CD) is the energetic and upbeat leader of one of Arc Aile's Edel Raid Complete Protection Association squads, consisting of Rowen and Kuea. She is honest and passionate about her work, but only because of her desire to be promoted and her love for money. In the manga, she confesses that she wants money only because her poor family with many brothers and sisters needs it and her older sister had left. In Elemental Gelade ~Flag of Bluesky~, it is revealed that Merfond Librodec is Cisqua's older sister, who also shares her drive to make money. Cisqua is modeled from a character the creator drew in middle and high school and B.B. Hood from the Darkstalkers series. Cisqua is not an Edel Raid pleasure, but she is well versed in martial arts and gunmanship. Despite having a small frame, she is physically strong and capable on taking down well trained pleasures such as the Edel Raid hunter, Wolx Hound. Underneath her robes and hat, she keeps an arsenal of firearms, missiles, knives, and other weapons she uses to complete her missions. Cisqua's gun can be adjusted to become a launcher, shotgun, or machine gun. In the manga, Cisqua admitted that she once thought of Edel Raids as tools, but began to think otherwise once she started to hang around Edel Raids like Kuea and Challo and realized that Edel Raids are just like her - living beings with emotions. She makes a promise to Ren that she will safely bring her to Edel Garden; upon their arrival at Edel Garden, Cisqua is allowed to take her into custody. In the anime, Cisqua befriended one of the young Edel Raids living in Arc Aile's protection facilities while training to become a guardian. Believing that Edel Raids should not be used as tools, Cisqua refused to react with her friend and left with the memory of her Edel Raid friend crying. She follows Coud and Ren, believing that she will figure out the reason why her friend was crying by observing their relationship. Cisqua is often worried about the amount of money that her team has. She even asks the Arc Aile general for a one-month vacation in order to fulfill her promise to Ren; the General denies her the vacation, but Lieutenant Cruz allows them permission for the vacation due to his kind nature. Despite the age difference between them, Cisqua seems to fantasize often about Lieutenant Cruz; in the manga, she describes him to Coud as what her dream guy would be like. Her older sister is Merfond Librodec from Flag of Blue Sky.Chapter 53 Rowen , Shoutarou Morikubo (Drama CD) , also known as Ro by his friends, is a guardian of Arc Aile and Kuea's pleasure. He is occasionally tasked to assist with his senior in rank, Cisqua. He is a young blond-haired man that tends to dislike conflict. In contrast to the impulsive and somewhat outrageous Cisqua, Rowen is logical, polite, and considerate of others. His friends believe he is perfect in everything he does, but he realizes there are flaws for trying to perfect everything while training at Arc Aile. Rowen appears to be the most ordinary member of the group and is skilled at cooking. Since they are always low on money, Rowen usually ends up performing odd jobs to make ends meet. He was born into a wealthy family living in comfort, but, for an unknown reason, joined Arc Aile. He is seen unused to hard work and the outdoor life, like being afraid of bugs. In the manga, Rowen shows genuine concern and romantic feelings for Viro; this allows him to relate to Greyarts later on, when Greyarts attempts to take revenge on him for the death of his Edel Raid partner. Kuea / Kullweet Envatilia , Akemi Okamura (Drama CD) , better known as , is a first class Edel Raid from Arc Aile and Rowen's partner. Her garnet red Elemental Gelades are on the back of her hands, which she covers with arm-length gloves. Out of the five main characters, Kuea has the most sex appeal due to wearing revealing clothes, with the creator modeling her character after a male character she once drew in the past. Unlike the other main characters in the anime, besides Coud, Kuea does not change her outfit. When Kuea gets hungry, she is unable to React, so she eats enormous amounts of food at a time. It is an ongoing gag that she will eat anything and anyone, nibbling on Cisqua or Rowen when she is extremely hungry. Kuea loves to battle and is hasty to fight. When reacted, she increases Rowen's fighting speed. Her weapon form are double blades that Rowen wields on each hand and six chained sickles on his back which can detach and attack opponents from a distance. Rather than slicing, her attacks are designed to pierce.
Minor characters
Beazon is the self-proclaimed lord of El Blanca. He suppresses the villagers by forcing them to pay for his steam power with their own daughters after he blocked the path of the wind blowing their windmill. He then sells the girls to a black market dealer for large sums of money. Beazon kidnaps Ren at night after he is tipped off by a villager who allowed Coud and Ren to rest at his house. He seeks power and only sees Parl as a mere tool to be used. After he discovers that Ren is the Shichiko-Hoju, he battles Coud in an attempt to gain more power, but is defeated after Coud discovers the Song, Euros Loop, which destroys his manor. He was assumed dead until later volumes reveal that he has survived, albeit injured and driven insane, as he now harbors a pathological fear of all Edel Raids. In the anime, he is the lord of an unnamed village, whose only appearance is during the first five episodes of the series. Due to this, he appears to have died after Coud's final battle with him inside his castle.
Parl is a weak Edel Raid, compared to Kuea and Ren, and Beazon's partner. In the anime, Parl is a Sting Raid instead. When reacting with Beazon, Parl creates a large lion head cannon on his left hand and a giant sword on his other arm. She becomes a Sting Raid because Beazon wanted power and she wanted to be that power to show him her love. However, Beazon thinks of her as just a tool, completely obsessed with obtaining Ren's power after discovering her. After Parl's Elemental Gelade (Sting Raid crest in the anime) is shattered by Coud's attack, she becomes a normal human again. In the anime, after Beazon's final battle with Coud, she manages to survive and seemingly reforms, as she smiles at Cou and Ren as they flee the crumbling castle. By the end of the episode, she is later shown bandaging her arm sitting atop the rubble at the episode's end. Towards the end of the anime, she later joins the Red Lynx sky pirates and seems to be paired with Boss.