This is a list of characters from the manga/anime Bamboo Blade. The show aired from October 2, 2007, to April 2, 2008, with 26 episodes being released. It has had many spin-offs and comic/manga stories created. A large amount of the surnames are taken from various winners of the All Japan Kendo Championships.

Muroe Private High School

Toraji Ishida

Tamaki Kawazoe

Kirino Chiba

Miyako Miyazaki

Sayako Kuwahara

Satori Azuma

Yuji Nakata

Danjuro Eiga

Akira Toyama

Masaru Iwasa

Shinobu Toyama

Makoto Iwasa

Yoshikawa

Other characters

Machido High School

Seimei High School

Tozyo High School

Eishin High

The school's kendo team uniform consists of blue shirt, dark blue trousers, blue armour with red torso plate.

Shugyoku High

The school's kendo team uniform consists of white shirt, white trousers, white armour with yellow torso plate.

Kamazaki High School

Touryuu High School

Sakaki is Tamaki's rival in the manga. Although they have barely met (and that Sakaki quit kendo), it is thought to have been "fate" and therefore everyone is hoping for a match between them and consider her Tamaki's only match. She is more or less a replacement for Rin Suzuki in the manga (although Rin has been mentioned), as she takes the role of the one to defeat Tamaki so that Tamaki becomes stronger. In the end, the one to defeat Tamaki first, was Sawamiya Erina, a 16-year-old TV idol (whose real name is Yamada Umeko, a former national-level kendoka, rival of Sakaki, that dropped kendo due to frustration over not being able to defeat Ura even once) in a special television event of kendo beauties (Muroe was invited because Odajima Reimi sent footage of Miya-Miya to the TV station). After that, Ura appeared and challenged Erina, leading to a long all-out fight, that left an impression on Tamaki (making her gain conviction and the will to become even stronger). Months later, a special tournament is held on TV. The first match of Muroe is against a team composed of Ura and other skilled kendo girls (including Erina), and after two wins and two losses, the decisive fight between Tamaki and Ura leads to the end of the history. In the anime, she is only seen at the ending credits of episode 26, first talking to Suzuki Rin and then when she and Tamaki cross each other at the tournament's entrance.

Main characters' family

Kawazoe dojo pupil

Ozawa Kenyuukai

A team consists of actors that has consulted Kawazoe dojo's instrutor for kendo moves to be used in movies.

Battle Hero Series

Blade Braver

It is a Battle Hero Series programme that was broadcast 10 years prior to the Cosmo 13 stage show featuring the resurrected Death Armor. The Bravers have face masks resembling kendo masks.

Cosmo 13

It is a Battle Hero Series programme, successor to Blade Braver. The protagonists have face masks based on traffic signs.

Material Puzzle/Mat-Puz

It is a 46-episode television series within Bamboo Blade.

From Bamboo Blade derivative media

From Bamboo Blade novel

From Bamboo Blade drama CD

Others