Magical Knight Rayearth (Shin Anime)

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Zagato was the High Priest to Princess Emeraude and Clef's right-hand man. When Hikaru, Umi and Fuu arrive at Cephiro, they're told that Zagato has captured Princess Emeraude and now their world is crumbling without its pillar. Zagato acts like a cold hearted man who will do anything to achieve his goal, indifferent to the chaos in Cephiro. However, his…

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Emeraude is the pillar and princess of Cephiro.

He helps the Magic Knights travel Cephiro by showing them the directions. His red gem on his forehead can give the Magic Knights food, tents, and ships to go underwater or to go in the air. His personality is hyper and cheerful, wearing a smile on his face. The Mokonas in XXXholic and Tsubasa Chronicles are entirely separate beings, but they are based on…

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Ferio is a warrior whom the Magic Knights first meet in the Forest of Silence. A tough young man wielding a sword taller than he is, he quickly develops a soft spot for Fuu, which by the second season has evolved into love. Never completely honest with others, he made himself difficult for our heroines to trust.

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Presea is the top blacksmith in Cephiro, known there as a Pharle or "artisan". She is one of Clef's students She aided the Magic Knights by making their legendary swords of escudo. Presea's favorite food is listed as V-tek, a kind of candy from Cephiro (though she enjoys the candy from Earth that Hikaru gave her almost as much).

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Master Mage Clef is the man appointed by the Pillar of Cephiro to lead the Legendary Magic Knights to help finish the legend. However, on the very first time Clef and the Magic Knights met, he was turned into stone by High Priest Zagato. Even so, he still helps them out. He has a very good and nice personality. In the second series, Clef is helping to guard…

Ascot is a Palu, a young child with the unusual ability to summon monsters, whom he considers to be his friends. Although hideous, they have no ill will, but villagers still fear them. Thus, Ascot was driven away until Zagato offered to give him and his friends a home in exchange for serving under him. In the anime, he destroys Presea's house with his…

Alcyone is an ice sorceress who tutored under Clef and was brought up to attend to the Pillar. However, she fell in love with the high priest, Zagato, and for this love became his servant, although the affection is entirely one-sided. Her name is occasionally misromanized as "Alcione"--this was featured in the first run of the English-language manga. Her…

Lafarga is the Captain of the Guard and charged with protecting the Pillar. Although Cephiro is mostly peaceful, he kept himself busy slaying the occasional monsters that would appear. In his takeover of the country, Zagato hypnotized him into trying to kill the Magic Knights as a last-ditch effort to stop them before they challenged him personally, but the…

Caldina is a dancer who speaks with an Osaka accent (which is translated as a deep Southern accent in the English dub, due to the translations including words like "y'all"), wears extremely skimpy clothing, and has an endless passion for money (several notable similarities to Naga from Slayers). Zagato hires her as an assassin after his other minions fail…