The Shy manga and anime series features various characters created by Bukimi Miki. The series takes place in a fictional world where each country on Earth has its own superhero who is responsible for keeping peace in their respective homeland, while working together with the other heroes of the world to ward off the threat of the supervillain group, Amarariruku.
Heroes
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Country: Teru is the main protagonist of the story. After her sister's passing, she inherited her Heart-Shift Bracelets and became Japan's hero while still attending middle school. As her hero name implies, she is very shy to a near crippling degree. She is a compassionate and pure-hearted girl who exudes more of her power when she is helping others. On the other hand, she is also easily held back by her low self-esteem and her own feelings of helplessness. Despite this, she works tirelessly as her country's representative. As the hero Shy, she wears a white bodysuit with exposed thighs with a white eye visor, twin-tailed hood, and gas mask. Teru usually wears glasses while in civilian form, but not as a hero. Also, as her hair is normally brown, it turns white when she transforms into Shy. She quickly becomes skilled in close combat and is able to withstand tremendous amounts of pain. She has the ability to turn the Heart Power from her Heart-Shift Bracelets into flames, which she can unleash a powerful heat wave, dubbed the "One Stroke". She also has an exhaust vent on her back which she uses her flames to ascend to tall heights and land safely. /
Country: Pepesha is Teru's best friend and mentor who is very close with her. In the beginning of the story, she gives advice that helps Teru regain her hero confidence after being shut-in for months due to the backlash she received from a roller coaster accident. Pepesha lost her mother at a very young age, and like her, grew up as an orphan. It was the desire to share the love her mother bestowed upon her that motivated her to become a hero. They were both raised in Yuri Orphanage, a local orphanage. A habit that she picked up from her mother is her love of drinking excessive amounts of vodka. She is always seen drunk, with flushed cheeks and a relaxed expression. However, regardless of being a heavy drinker, she is still seen by others as a very dependable person who is not afraid to speak her mind when necessary. As the hero Spirit, she wears a black bodysuit under a turtlenecked blue shirt and massive white jacket, and has a utility belt at her waist. Her Heart-Shift Bracelets allow her to manipulate gasses and turn her own body into smoke. She can also release a mass of super-compressed air from her palm, a move she dubs the "Airy Blast". She naturally has the ability to fly. Her first name is derived from the World War II-era PPSh-41 submachine gun. /
Country: In addition to being a rock star and philanthropist, Davie is the founder of Black Cross, an international aid organization. Even though he comes across as charitable, he is known by his hero peers as a heartless and apathetic person who has been known to use drastic and unethical means while going about his heroism. He has an inborn lack of empathy, which he struggled with from an early age, but continued to seek what he lacked and became one of the world's top heroes. He is responsible for helping to unlock Shy's Heart Power after he was requested to fight against her when the two first met at Space HQ. As the hero Stardust, he wears a full black bodysuit with a star in the middle, he has slicked back blonde hair, and he wears a pair of red-framed glasses. With his Heart-Shift Bracelets, he has the ability to control the flow of whatever is around him, which he can use to redirect incoming attacks. He is exceptionally skilled in hand-to-hand combat. He has a accelerated high kick, dubbed the "Ashes to Stardust". His character is modeled after rock star David Bowie. /
Country: Piltz is a fellow member of Black Cross and a nursing student, who utilizes healing powers. She uses prosthetic legs due to losing both of them in a past accident. She also possesses incredible stamina from growing up and training in the mountains. Although she tends to have a bit of a sharp tongue and a bad temper, she cares about those that she helps. She is very stern with Teru in order to help spurn her on to being a better hero. As the hero Lady Black, she wears a black dress with a white sleeveless buttoned top with black framed-shades and a small frilly black tie. She wears her hair in twin tails, which is normally short as a civilian, but grows longer after she transforms into her hero form. She can produce long black bandages, syringes, and twin pistols, which she uses to fight. Her last name comes from Red Cross co-founder Henry Dunant. /
Country: Ming Ming is a slender teenage boy with an androgynous appearance. Because of his look, most people sometimes confuse him for a girl, as Teru did when she first met him. While he may be efficient at fighting, he is insecure about not looking as intimidating as other men. He aspires to get stronger, but also wishes he could save those in need without having to fight. He and Teru connect greatly due to their low self-esteem and nervousness, and it is implied he harbors feelings for her. As the hero Mian Long, he wears a white and black traditional Chinese chiffon-style top. He is skilled in kenpō, a martial art passed down in his family. His Heart-Shift Bracelets have the ability to brandish claws from his own Heart Power to put his enemies to sleep for a short while, which he calls his "Slumbering Claws". He also finds himself falling asleep at odd times. In Chinese, his hero name translates to "mighty dragon". /
Country: Adam is a hero as well as an active military colonel. He is currently enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. He has a serious personality and a high sense of pride as a hero. He has a muscular build, is always training or working out, and is someone who seems to be sensitive about his health. He loves children and has a young daughter that he loves highly affectionately. As the hero Leader Century, he wears a white and red bodysuit with horns on his mask. With his Heart-Shift Bracelets, he has the ability to manipulate gravity. Like Spirit, he can fly. His first name comes from comic book artist Adam Hughes and his surname is taken from painter Norman Rockwell. / Credits from Country: Gelm is the director of the medical department of Black Cross. He works alongside Lady Black. He is a mature, experienced man with a gentle and easygoing personality who is the opposite to Plitz's steadfast and stern demeanor. As the hero Doctor Schwartz, he wears a cape with a gas mask tied around his neck over a white shirt, cargo pants, boots, and gloves. He also sports a belt with a pouch on the left side. In German, his hero name can translate to "Doctor Black", which is similar to his partner Piltz's name of Lady Black. / Country: L'Arc is a skilled up-and-coming artist hero who has been making a name for themselves through social media, which has nicknamed him "The Artist of Space". They enjoy playing pranks on people. As the hero La Voile, they wear a white, padded jacket and have white hair with a red streak in the front, and carry art tools. With their "Fakeup" ability, they can change a person or object's appearance using their art. L'Arc is androgynous and the series does not specify their sex or gender; their character file states that their response to being asked about their gender is . Their last name comes from French Impressionist artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. / Country: Ananda is a member of a misfit group of superheroes known as the Shining Six, that were formed by Teru's late sister, whom he was madly in love with while she was still alive. The Shining Six carry on after her death, as she originally helped to bring the group together. He has a well-developed, muscular physique and is considered to be one of the strongest heroes in the world. Personality-wise, he is incredibly tone-deaf, something he doesn't realize himself. As the hero Nirvana, he wears white pants and a white top with the arms exposed. He can use his "Disappearance" ability to reduce certain things to zero, such as the distance between objects and the power of some abilities. / Country: Seva is a member of the Shining Six. He is a skilled martial artist. As the hero Indra, he fights barefoot and bare-chested, with spiky hair, a horned visor, and lightning bolt patterns visible on the shoulders and legs of his hero costume. He also wears tape on his forearms and calves. He fights with a stick art that is covered with electric shocks. His hero name is taken from Indra, the Hindu god of weather. / Country: Rosalia is a member of the Shining Six. She is Spain's best assassin who is married to fellow Shining Six member Omega Rodriguez. She can be seen as overly sexual, as she uses her looks to get close to her assassination targets. / Country: Nyerko is a member of the Shining Six. She is fickle like a cat, speaks with a cat-like "nya" at the end of her words, and hates to be disturbed. She is very stubborn and retaliatory, and is quick to use violence to solve problems . As the hero Rampage, she wears a black tank top under a leather jacket and fingerless gloves, as well as cat ears and a tail. She uses cat-like gestures to deliver powerful blows. With her "Death Metal Fist", she has the ability to manipulate and wear metal around her. She can also take any metal around her and use it for a powerful strike, an ability named the "Super Cat Hammer". / Country: Omega is a member of the Shining Six. He has a big, burly, wrestler-type build with a scar across his chest as well as his right eye. Despite his imposing presence, he is known as a kind, gentle, and easygoing person. Formerly a guard for mafia officials, he was at odds with Rosalia's organization, but they later became husband and wife. As the hero Juggernaut, he wears a yellow wrestling outfit with a lucha mask. / Country: Weibu is a member of the Shining Six. He is skilled at using technology and enjoys tinkering with machines. With his high level of intelligence, he can hack devices, create gadgets, and build robots. He normally has a withdrawn demeanor, but he is not good with girls and gets flustered when they approach him. As the hero Pulse, he sports headphones, cuffed gloves, boots, knee pads, and a tactical vest. He uses special tools to assist him in battle, such as drones with guns and electric riot control wires. He also has a special "Fatal Wave" move that allows him to manipulate electric fields to control various electronic devices or to be used as a stun gun when his wires are affixed to a human body. / Country: Roman is the current hero of Nigeria who was first seen in the story during Piltz's goodwill trip to the country on behalf of Black Cross. / Country: Kanon is a girl who is always happy, even going so far to nickname herself "Happy-chan". She loves flowers and works at a flower shop. She is deathly afraid of insects and struggles every day to remove them from the flowers. She dreams to make flowers of happiness bloom all over the world. Much like Mian Long, she wants to be a hero that can save people without having to resort to fighting. As the hero Haltia, she wears a sleeveless royal blue dress with golden accents and a white collar with sky blue flaps. The right side of her hair is adorned with a bright blue flower and two red beads. She uses her "Gardening" Heart Power to produce flowers to decorate the hearts of those she encounters. When forced to fight, she uses her "Red Hand" ability that turns her hands red, make her more hostile, and can make weapons stronger. Like Teru, she wears glasses as a civilian, but not as a hero. /