The list of characters from the manga, Dragon Half. Dragon Half has a colorful cast with several of the characters named after famous RPG game mascots.Mita Ryusuke English page 2 March 2008 However, only the main cast are shown in the anime adaption.
Characters
Daughter of Ruth, a dragonslayer, and Mana, a dragon, and the star of Dragon Half. She is like a typical teenager except for the fact that she is half-dragon. She has dragon-red hair and eyes as well as horns and a tail, can fly with dragon-wings that appear when needed, can breathe fire, and is overall very strong and resistant to most forms of damage, including poisons. She also seems to be jinxed, bringing all sorts of misfortunes to herself and anyone around her and also inadvertently making herself a lot of enemies. In the manga, her main enemies are King Siva, Princess Vena, and Azatodeth. Mink is also infatuated with Dick Saucer, the handsome dragonslayer and popstar. However, because of her half-human/half-dragon heritage, she is actively seeking out the legendary , which would make her fully human. As a part-dragon, she undergoes ecdysis, in which she sheds her skin and becomes more powerful. Her power continuously grows each day after her first ecdysis. She also experiences wild mood and personality swings around the time her ecdysis is supposed to occur. While the first ecdysis just made her stronger with minimal physical alterations (six horns instead of two), the second ecdysis would supposedly turn her irrevocably into a giant disfigured monster of terrifying strength. According to a prophecy, one who shed their skin twice would gain power surpassing that of the demon gods (including Azatodeth) but would turn into a large black monster with ten legs and four eyes. This is prevented by an arm bracelet gotten from Mink's great-grandfather. The bracelet monitors and suppresses Mink's power. When it's turned off, the counter on the bracelet rises, showing Mink's rise in strength. If the counter ever reaches 999, the second ecdysis would occur. However, when the Demon Lord was released from the Gourd of Saints by one of his minions soon after he was sealed, he overpowered everyone until Mink turned off her bracelet, allowing the counter to reach 999. The foretold ten-armed, four-eyed monster did indeed appear, but it was in the form of a mark on Mink's backside. With her new power, she easily killed Azatodeth with the holy sword her mother made to combat the Demon Lord. Notably, in order to eat during the quest, anything that is slain by her or the group, except Damaramu, is cooked and eaten shortly after the battle ends. At the end of the manga, she and Dick have a daughter named together.
Mink's best friend. Being a physically weak elf, she relies on using (equally weak) magic. Her magical ineptitude also extends to the use of the Lightning Staff; she usually hits everything but the target. Lufa has an extremely sadistic personality and is quite amoral and untactful, often making fun of the misfortune of others and receiving pleasure from causing it (in the OAV these traits are non-existent). Lufa has also a high sex drive, making advances onto nearly every visually attractive person she comes across, including Mink and other females. She becomes a human at the end of the manga, having been turned into a toad by Azatodeth and then drinking the "People Potion". The original romaji of her name was "Rufa" but this was not revealed until much later in the manga, so the spelling "Lufa" was used. In the manga, she has a father named Link. She never mentions her mother, although later on, Link is seen with a female elf who is either Lufa's mother or a girlfriend.
A human girl (who can be mistaken for a dwarf due to her short and stocky body) who is friends with Mink and Lufa, as well as a small fairy-mouse named Mappy. She constantly wears body armor, even forgetting to take it off before swimming, due to her overly-protective parents.
Pia's pet . Mappy acts as Pia's bodyguard whilst traveling, able to transform to the size of a grizzly bear at will. This tends to deter Lufa from whacking Pia when she gets on her nerves, as Mappy often whacks Lufa straight back. He also reflects his mistress' moods; in the anime episode two he becomes dreamy-eyed just like the girls when Dick Saucer happens to come upon them, while as a mouse he shouldn't have any interest in him. In the anime Mappy is present from the beginning, whereas the manga has him enter at the end of Volume 1. The name "Mappy" is a reference to the video game of the same name.
Dick Saucer is a famous adventurer, having replaced Ruth as King Siva's official dragonslayer, as well as a pop idol. He is the epitome of a pretty-boy, walking around singing his own theme song, and is admired by many girls, especially Mink, Lufa, and Princess Vena. However, because King Siva tricked Saucer into thinking that Mink is a red dragon in disguise, he tries to kill her, much to Mink's disconcertion. In the manga, the reason he slays dragons is because his parents were killed by a dragon fifteen years ago. Also he was born into royalty with his parents being the Sea King and Mermaid Queen. In the end, he learns the truth about his parents' murder and is about to marry Mink when Lufa interrupts with news about a new Demon Lord. But either way, this reveals that he now has a love interest in Mink. At the end of the manga, he and Mink have a daughter named Pink together.
The slime-half daughter of King Siva (human) and Venus (a transformed slime), her mother's true nature was exposed when Vena was born a slime herself, the shock causing her father losing the last hair on his head and her mother to die of heartbreak. It was only by constantly studying black magic since birth that she was able to finally able to achieve a human form, but this form can be undone if she gets hurt sufficiently. Her non-human heritage is, however, one of the biggest advantages over Mink that she has in battle due to being a slime despite her magically-effected human appearance, having a slime's oozing-gelatinous nature beneath and therefore no "vital organs" to suffer mortal damage from conventionally lethal physical attack (she was not harmed by Mink accidentally stabbing her through her torso) while being very proficient in magic at the same time. Vena is Mink's rival for the affections of Dick Saucer. She will stop at nothing to achieve her goals, and goes out her way to make Mink's life miserable. She is also very defensive about her father, who has spoiled her rotten (most likely because her human form resembles her late mother's). In the manga, Vena has studied magic since early childhood and can summon creatures. She plays an important role, but after an incident involving Mink and her father occurring midway through the manga, her role slowly fades away to nothingness. She has violet hair and eyes (as well as a violet slime-body) with a tiara in the OVA but in the manga, her hair and eyes (and slime-body) are pink (just like her mother) and the tiara doesn't come until chapter 37. At the end of the manga, she gives up on Dick and becomes Migu's girlfriend.
The ultimate dumb muscle. He constantly brags about his (next to non-existent) greatness as a fighter, talking of himself in the third person, usually as "The Mighty Damaramu". On the DVD commentary for the anime, voice actor Brett Weaver states that the reason Damaramu talks in the third person is "not out of ego, it's just that he has to say it over and over so that he doesn't forget his own name". He is sent by King Siva to hunt Mink, but due to his considerable lack of intelligence — and Mink's jinx — it is a doomed prospect. The first time he battled Mink, he ended up with his own laser sword running through his skull. However, during the Brutal Killer Martial Arts Tournament, it was revealed that Damaramu had in fact survived, mostly because of what he refers to as his "compact brain". Because his brain is much smaller than normal, his brain was only slightly scratched by the sword. Also, with a little help from Blacksmith Tony, he was resurrected as a cyborg. But before he and Mink went to battle, he stupidly wasted energy showing off his new abilities and was knocked by Mink into the lava pit below the fighting floor. In the ending credits, we see his next form as a head with little arms and legs. This is shown a lot more in the manga, as he starts to get dumber and works with Dug-Finn.
Also simply known as "The King". His daughter, Princess Vena once described him as "balder than a baboon's ass with a face like a squashed frog". He is probably the least intelligent character of them all, save for Damaramu, and would go out of his way to please his spoiled daughter. He also has a desire to kill Ruth for betraying his duty as the kingdom's dragonslayer, and then to take Mana for himself. His favorite method of punishing insubordinates is a stone block alternately called "Super Crushing Press" or "The King's Anger".
A priest-like figure, and probably the royal magician, Rosario is King Siva's right-hand man in dealing with Mink. Fortunately for her, he tends to use outdated or even downright silly methods, which (partly due to Mink's jinx) occasionally backfire, such as an attempt to feed Mink a laxative which is consumed by Dick Saucer instead. He fancies himself to be a great and powerful magician, but has absolutely no powers and often resorts to using cheesy special effects (such as the hot water and dry ice fog bit) to impress others.
Damaramu's wyvern/dinosaur/bird-type thing which acts as Damaramu's mount, as it is large enough to carry him. It participates in Damaramu's first battle with Mink and company but is eaten after Damaramu's defeat. It's later resurrected as a cyborg like him.
Mink's human father. He was once King Siva's dragonslayer known as , his nickname coming from his moving at speed in his bright-red armor, which allowed him to look like red lightning when fighting. Originally, King Siva had sent Ruth to slay the imperial red dragon (Mana) who had invaded the land but, instead, he fell in love with her at first sight and married her, running away with her to live in obscurity. Ruth retired from the dragonslaying business, the couple living in a quiet valley where they raised their daughter, Mink. However, the human-dragon couple have long-since devolved into constant domestic strife as the unemployed adventurer has exposed himself to have also been a skirt-chasing layabout; Lufa misremembers his fame as . He disapproves of Mink's crush on Dick Saucer, mostly because of his ego as a fabled swordsman. Although he is excessively perverted and lazy, he will jump in to save his wife and daughter if they are in immediate danger. His special attack (the "Ruth Crush") carves the letter "R" into his opponents. Although retired, he is still a great swordsman, once defeating a large group of monsters attacking Mana and Mink in the woods. When asked about it, he denies having done anything, to which Mana says that he is a good liar. He also still lives up to his nickname, being able to move faster than even Saucer when attacking a monster that had taken Mana hostage.
Mink's mother. As an , Mana has the ability to change into human form (in the manga, she turns back into a dragon when she is angry). As a result, she can change her form into a beautiful blonde woman; the only evidence that she is a dragon are her small fin-like projections behind her ears. She also puts Ruth in his place whenever he freaks out or acts like a pervert. Mana created the holy sword "Azatodeth-Buster" to combat the Demon Lord. It has the ability to make anyone thinking evil/perverted thoughts feel sick just by being in its presence.