Jourai High School’s first year General (Taishou), Subaru Ooki. His first appearance was in the rookies’ tournament where he and the other two first years competed. He fights exactly like Hiroto, being a counter-swordsman himself. However unlike Hiroto, he never initiates an attack. This is due to an injury he received training in middle school that caused him to damage the Achilles tendon on his left foot. As such he made the decision that he would win without moving forward - through counters.
She is the neighbor of Kawishima who just moved in, and she likes to drink beer.
Kaede is a Jyorogumo, a golden orb-web spider that serves Hikaru.
Sunakake Babaa is an old y�kai woman who carries sand which she throws into the eyes of enemies to blind them. She serves as an advisor to Kitaro and his companions, and manages a y�kai apartment building. The original sunakake-baba is an invisible sand-throwing spirit from the folklore of Nara Prefecture.
Ittan Momen is a flying y�kai resembling a strip of white cloth. Kitaro and friends often ride on him when traveling. The original ittan-momen is a spirit from Kagoshima Prefecture myth which wraps itself around the faces of humans in an attempt to smother them. Ittan Momen first appears in the story The Great Y�kai War (Sh�nen Magazine version).
Nurikabe is a large, sleepy-eyed wall-shaped y�kai, who uses his massive size to protect Kitaro and his friends. The original Nurikabe is a spirit which blocks the passage of people walking at night. Nurikabe first appears in a cameo as one of many y�kai attending a sukiyaki party in the story A Walk to Hell (Rental version) before making a more prominent appearance in The Great Y�kai War (Sh�nen Magazine version). In the 2002 Kodansha International Bilingual Comics edition, he is referred to as Wally Wall.