Aikudo Si

Aikudo Si is a show that is about 5 miscellaneous boys that has a goal to stop the Evil Shadow Dragon, Dark Maud. However, before they can do so, they must learn to be strong enough and how to fight together to stop other opposing forces.

Riley "Yuji" Saknoita
He is the blonde one and is the youngest among them. He is about 12 years old and is very erratic. He is friendly, playful and likes to joke around a lot. He is a good guy at heart and his best friend is Kotai Minzuigi. The two has opposite personalities and actually at first despised one another until they were chosen along with 3 others to be in a 5 man squad to train to stop Dark Maud. Yuji then wanting to make peace, succeeds and the two begin to become friends. Whenever one of them are hurt, the other will usually have tears in their eyes and gains a boost of strength through determination and pride. Yuji is considered most of the time to be an idiot but can actually be really smart too. Out of the 5 boys, he is the third strongest after Ken & Senzo. His love interest is Tia and Matsuki on some occasions. He is usually depicted as the tritagonist.

Kotai Minzugi
He is a blue/silverish haired boy and is 14 years old. He is very serious and determined to get the job done. This usually gets him in an argument with his teammates, especially Yuji, before becoming friends. Yuji and Kotai are best friends but use to hate one another. At first, it seemed like Kotai was an antagonist as Yuji was with the main character at the time. Kotai can get annoyed very easily but can keep his cool for the longest (other than Yuji). He admires Yuji that he is able to successfully get girls without even trying. He even compliments him on getting his sister, Matsuki. He is in a heated rivalry with Ken, the main character. He is the quadratagonist.

Senzo Higari
He is 15 years of age and is the dueteragonist of the show. He is the best friend of Ken and will do anything to support him. He is jealous that Ken has a girl that likes him and he likes the same girl, however, they remain as great friends. He is also the second strongesr amongst the team and is only out-beaten by his own best friend. Ken and Senzo look out for one another until the end. When kids were making fun of Senzo for having fangs and being "weird", Ken steps in and demands them to stop. From that moment, he vowed to return the favor to Ken by helping him out on his quest. When Senzo was picked for the team assigning, Ken was happy and the high-fived.

Toichi Juhary
He is 13 years old and is the shortest member of the team. He does not have a best friend and has been an outcast for the longest. However, Ken befriended him when he was being bullied in the lunchroom. Toichi was the first to befriend Ken and they became good friends. Ken treated Toichi like a little brother and went hard on anyone who would as so much as to say negative things about him. Toichi is really smart and is the smartest on the team with the IQ of 320. However, his friends are considerably stupider than him. He usually devises the plans and the other executes them. However, he has had his time in physical fights like when he had to save his team from the Warlord.

Ken Naesake
The main protagonist and the leader of his team. He was an outcast in his school until he transferred to a new one. Ken transferred to Aikudo Academy to learn and become stronger. However, much like his friends (with the exception of Toichi), he is quite dumb when it comes to formal assessments. However, in terms of physical exams, he is one of the strongest fighters and half the time loses a fight because of something of surprising him or by plain cheating. He is hated by many due to his sarcastic personality, mellow attitude & smart alec comments. He has befriended 4 boys named Toichi, Kotai, Yuji & Senzo and two girls: Matsuki & Tia. He is the love interest of Mihani Gagure but he his oblivious to this and does not reciprocate her feelings. However, he shows to care for her deeply and has kissed her when she was going to die. He was chosen as a bunch of others to be put on the worse team ever. Every kid in school doubted Ken and his team however, when they won the Hunting Challenge and the fight against Agura the Great, they earned more respect but also earned more grudges and enemies. Despite all that, Ken is very honest to everyone and is on good terms with all of his friends. With his best friend being Senzo & then Toichi, he also values Yuji and Kotai (to some extent on rare occasions).

Trivia
1. Senzo
 * On the poll of top 10 favorite characters, the rankings were this:

2. Matsuki

3. Yuji

4. Toichi

5. Adon

6. Tia

7. Kotai

8. Ken

9. Zane

10. Ms. Marowaga