List of Xam'd: Lost Memories characters
This is a list of characters from the anime series Xam'd: Lost Memories.
Main Characters
- Akiyuki Takehara (竹原 アキユキ, Takehara Akiyuki)
- Voiced by: Atsushi Abe
A high school student with a charismatic and helpful nature, he lives with his mother who has separated from his father due to marriage problems. He has two close friends, Haru and Furuichi. After a suicide bomber from the Hiruken religious cult detonates her explosives on his school bus, a blue gem-like object materialises upon his arm and later his forehead. As the bomber is dying, she presses the gem on his forehead, whereupon Akiyuki transforms into an exotic white creature and engages in battle with a humanform weapon which attacked the area around the bus shortly after the bombing. Following his successful defeat of the humanform weapon, Akiyuki is subdued by a mysterious woman named Nakiami, who threatens to let him turn to stone if he does not go with her. She later takes him to the airship Zanbani where he must learn to coexist with his hiruko. The gem-like objects on Akiyuki's body are later discovered to be manifested appendages of an endoymbiotic organism referred to within the show as a "hiruko". The force of the explosion on the school bus caused the hiruko to be implanted into Akiyuki's right forearm. When a hiruko endosymbiont is combined with a human, the resulting combined life form is referred to as a "Xam'd".
- Haru Nishimura (西村 ハル, Nishimura Haru)
- Voiced by: Fumiko Orikasa
Haru is a fellow high school student and a friend of Akiyuki's, and fairly skilled in martial arts. She is the first to encounter Xam'd on the destroyed bus, and later realises the connection between Xam'd and Akiyuki. After Akiyuki is taken to the Zanbani, Haru corresponds with him via written letters. She later joins the Mainsoul military section in the hopes that it will grant her an opportunity to rendezvous with Akiyuki. Her strong desire to be with Akiyuki places a strain on her friendship with Furuichi.
- Nakiami (ナキアミ)
- Voiced by: Yuko Sanpei
A mysterious and fairly unemotional woman, Nakiami makes her first entrance when she jumps in and subdues the enraged Xam'd, turning him to stone and demanding that he come with her and live, or die. Akiyuki accepts, and she knocks him and Haru unconscious with a few small movements. She then takes Akiyuki back to the ship with her, and starts operating on Akiyuki and working with his condition. Nakiami is a fairly serious and skilled person, who bears similar face marks to other mysterious characters related to the Xam'd and seems to have a lot of knowledge and expertise about it. She is a member of International Postal Ship Zanbani's crew and flies a small jet-like vehicle called a Beat Kayak. It has been noted that her character design and vehicle both share large resemblances to Nausicaa, and it may have been an inspiration for her character.
Sentan Island
- Furuichi Teraoka (寺岡 フルイチ, Teraoka Furuichi)
- Voiced by: Shinnosuke Tachibana
Furuichi is a friend of Akiyuki, and like Haru, practices martial arts, although it seems that she is much better than him. Unlike Akiyuki, Furuichi is slightly more cynical and serious, although he is playful enough to bet with Haru on whether Akiyuki will be late or not. Furuichi joins the Mainsoul military, and demonstrates great skill in fighting Xam'd, whilst his relationship with Haru drifts apart. As a result, the reunion of Akiyuki and Haru is interrupted by him and he declares his intentions of killing Akiyuki, due to his cold indifference over the idendities of Xam'd. Furuichi later volunteers to undergo an 'enhancement' program to make himself a better Mainsoul pilot, the result of which, ironically, causes Furuichi to turn into one of the opponents he was training to fight, a Xam'd. Furuichi's hiruko resides within his right thigh.
- Midori Nishimura (西村 ミドリ, Nishimura Midori)
- Voiced by: Ayumi Fujimura
Haru's younger sister who, as a result of being struck in an automobile accident two years before, requires a crutch to walk. The car accident also took her mother's life.
- Fusa Takehara (竹原 フサ, Takehara Fusa)
- Voiced by: Risa Hayamizu
Akiyuki's Mother. A strong-willed woman who cares deeply about her son and her, typically, overworking husband. Although the relationship between husband and wife is strained because of his frequent absence from the household, she continues to at least speak with him for the sake of their child. Upon discovering that her son Akiyuki had gone missing, she strongly resolved to try and find him, regardless of whether or not her husband was compassionate enough to abandon his work to help her. She has a very familiar relationship with Haru, and seems to be able to entrust his well-being to her, when later she was able to confirm that her son is indeed alive.
- Ryuuzou Takehara (竹原 リュウゾウ, Takehara Ryūzō)
- Voiced by: Unshou Ishizuka
Akiyuki's father and Fusa's estranged husband. He's a local doctor for his community and appears to specialize in geriatrics, as he often treats the elderly of the area. He appears to be an unkempt man as he often shows little concern for the cleanliness and appearance of both himself and his clinic. His family often comes to his office to take care of him, such as by doing his cooking and laundry. He cares more about his work than his wife and son, and was one of the last people to know about the disappearance of his son after the island was attacked, and acts rather despondent vis-à-vis his impotence in keeping his family together. It seems that he has a troubled past as a military researcher who worked on Northern Continent humanform weaponisation projects and now deeply regrets his involvement. He also still has ututu seeds with him that he has not parted with, even after the end of his involvement with the military. The full extent of his involvement in humanform research is not yet known. Using life support, he has been keeping alive the attempted suicide bomber whom was responsible for his son being implanted with a hiruko.
Zanbani Postal Airship
- Ishuu Benikawa (紅皮 伊舟, Benikawa Ishū)
- Voiced by: Yumi Tamai
The captain of the International Postal ship Zanbani, she always wears a crop top with diaphanous sleeves and usually ties her hair in a ponytail with a yellow ribbon. She also wears glasses, which she at one point blames on age, and is tall. She is described as being the "sweet, raven haired beauty with glasses" by Ahm. She is the one who calls the shots with the ship, after all she is the captain. She's strong willed, independent and usually ends up spending her spare money on weapons and ammo; half of the time shes seen drinking or smoking. When around her crew she usually hits or beats them up depending on how stupid she thinks their acts are. Although she may have a tough exterior she does occasionally have a soft spot for her crew.
- Raigyo Tsunomata (角股 雷魚, Tsunomata Raigyo)
- Voiced by: Keiji Fujiwara
Raigyo recently returned to the ship Zanbani after a two year journey wandering the world as a photographer and a vagrant. During his two-year journey, he had carried his possessions upon his back covered with a sheet, giving him an almost turtle-like appearance. Like Akiyuki, Raigyo is also a Xam'd, except Raigyo's hiruko resides within his left shoulder. Unlike Akiyuki, Raigyo appears to have greater control over his ability to change between human and Xam'd form and thus, seems to have a better relationship with his own hiruko. He also seems to have enough control that he can prevent himself from turning to stone, a common side-affect that occurs in people imbued with hiruko. His Xam'd powers seem to be related with water, as water covers his body during his transformation, giving him the ability to swim fast and create water blades sharp enough to easily cut a humanform in two. His Xam'd form also has amphibian characteristics, like webbed hands. Tenshin-sama has given him the nickname "Wind That Stirs the Water".
- Akushiba (アクシバ)
- Voiced by: Katsuyuki Konishi
Akiyuki's roommate aboard the Zanbani, he is proud of the speed he can physically run as a courier. He has a collection of pin-up girl magazines and centerfolds and also has a crush on the only female close to his age on the ship, Nakiami.
- Yunbo (ユンボ)
- Voiced by: Houko Kuwashima
Responsible for the galley of the Zanbani, she is the mother of two children, Hinokimaru (ヒノキ丸) and Kobako (コバコ), who also live on the ship. Ishuu talks with her at times to either vent her feelings or just ask for another's opinion.
- Ahm (アーム, Āmu)
- Voiced by: Kenji Hamada
The pilot of the Zanbani who also operates the main cannon. He tries to act as a father figure for Hinokimaru whose real father died in "the Northern Sector".
- Kisel (キセル爺, Kiseru Jii)
- Voiced by: Rokuro Naya
Mechanic of the Zanbani who rarely leaves the engine room.
- Tenshin-Sama (天心様)
- Voiced by: Junko Hori
An old sage living aboard the Zanbani, who acts as a guide for Nakiami, Raigyo, and Akiyuki. She rarely leaves her quarters and often keeps both of her eyes closed, occasionally opening one eye when speaking. Her closed eyes are perhaps a medical condition as Raigyo, upon his return, gives her "Eye medicine, carefully prepared, taken from the Shitogi Grassland.".