Main characters ; : : The hot-headed, perverted protagonist, sent by his uncle, King Enma, to arrest yokai that have infiltrated the human world, though most often then not he ends up going overboard and killing them instead. He had long eyebrows that can detect a yokai's presence called the Yokai Antenna, wields a magic cape called the Yokai Cloak (also translated as Night Cape), and a magic staff which can transform into a variety of weapons called the Burning Akuma Power Pole. His other powers include teleportation, flight, x-ray vision, reviving himself at the cost of mana, yelling hard enough to produce hurricane force winds, turning into fox fire, lava resistance, can carry a harpoon separate from his regular gear, and enough strength to stop a rhinoceros. Among the Yokai Cloak's powers include turning into a kunai, grapple hook, or mace attached to a chain strong enough to lift cars, wrapping himself in it to form a tornado, turning it into scissors, turning it into a net, forming a bag with it that emits suction, turning it into a whip, forming a Cape Barrier around himself and others by drawing an Enma Circle on the ground, turning into a chain, forming disguises, turning into a circular saw, turning into a spear, and turning into a key. Among the Burning Akuma Power Pole's powers include emitting fire called the Flame Hose, telekinesis including returning to his hands if separated, extending short distances, spinning the cane into a wheel while enflamed in a technique called the Burning Akuma Fire Wheel, turning into a gladius, turning into a trident, being malleable enough to bend if needed, turning into a baseball bat, turning into a giant shovel, and turning into Mazinger Z's Rocket Punch. ; : : A young
Yuki-onna princess who is in love with Enma, but often has to put up with his pervertedness. She has powerful ice powers, though more often than not gets captured in a fanserviceable manner. Her powers include teleportation, wall walking, freezing lasers from the left index finger, freezing breath, transmogrifying objects by blowing on them, forming ice skates around her feet, and a flute that nullifies hypnosis. ; : : Half
kappa, half water sprite. He is the third member of the Yokai Patrol. He doesn't have a lot of attacks, but still provides some help in battle. He's often confused for a frog, which makes him very angry. His name is a portmanteau of '
kappa' and 'kaeru' ("frog" in Japanese). His powers include teleportation, wall walking, body stretching, swimming, frog hopping, toxin resistance, and spraying water from the scalp. ; : : An "old man" yokai who looks like a hat and guides Enma-kun. His name is a portmanteau of '
chapeau' and 'ouji' ("old man" in Japanese). His only power is levitation. ; : : A human boy that befriends the Yokai Patrol. He attends the local elementary school, and always gets attacked by demons. He is a side character in the 2011 anime. ; : : Tsutomu's teacher. He's merely a comic relief, and always yelling at Tsutomu-kun. ; : : A homeless deadbeat, Daracura was originally an officer for Great King Enma. After losing his position of officer, Daracura tried throughout the series to kill Enma-kun. However, as the series progressed Daracura became less important. ; : : Tsutomu's girlfriend. Her mother has passed on, and lives with her father in an apartment complex. She replaces Tsutomu as one of the main protagonists in the 2011 anime. ; : : The Judge of Hell and Enma's uncle who only appears in episodes 8, 12, 15, 21, and 25. He sends Enma-kun and his friends to arrest demons on Earth. In the last five episodes of the original series he grants the Yokai Patrol his boat called the Dororon (Ghastly) Boat which was capable of super sonic flight and had a bow horn capable of piercing diamond. His powers include dual lightning staffs, energy bolts from the fingers, capture bubbles from the right palm, hurricane force winds from the mouth, and red energy rays from the right index fingers that can revive dead yokai. ; : : Enma's sister; the protagonist of the spin-off manga,
Dororon Enbi-chan, and an antagonist in the 2011 anime. She has her own versions of Yukiko-Hime and Kapaeru named Yukiko-Hige and Kapaku.
Rogue Yokai •
Shibireyanagi: Appears in episode 1. Powers include intangibility and constricting vines. •
Hebitsubo: Appears in episode 1. Powers include intangibility and eight gray snakes in his head. •
Denkianma: Appears in episode 1. Powers include intangibility, four arms, emitting electric shocks, and summoning a cyclone. •
Burarijii: Appears in episode 2. Powers include intangibility, a constricting tongue that ages organisms, ceiling hanging •
Mukadegarami: Appears in episode 2. Powers include venomous fans from the mouths in both centipede heads, turning into a shadow, intangibility, and a pincer on the centipede tail. •
Magonote: Appears in episode 3. Powers include shadow manipulation, a human disguise, sharp nails with venom that causes animals to jump constantly, flight, a second pair of arms capable of extending and with a red eye in the palms, regeneration, and controlling severed body parts. •
Kusarigama: Appears in episode 3. Powers include swimming, green toxic gas from the mouth, a kama for the left arm, a chained wrecking ball, a long tongue, and water spouts in the back. •
Tatamigaeshi: Appears in episode 4. Powers include teleportation, controlling flat objects and floors, spawning illusions of himself, turning humans into vampires just by being near him long enough, and water manipulation. •
Barbara: Appears in episode 5. Powers include thorny vines from the head, burrowing, red thorns for the fingers, gray thorns on the arms, telekinesis, spawning killer nurses, and storing body parts into a subspace. •
Jigokuokuri: Appears in episode 6. Powers include a human disguise and immunity to yokai senses •
Oyamari: Appears in episode 6. Powers include a taxi cab disguise induces sleep, turns the chairs into clay, and emit intense heat, teleportation, levitation, emitting fire from the body, and possessing discarded cars and motorcycles upon death until they are hit with sunlight. •
Asunarokozou: Appears in episode 7. Powers include a human disguise, a low body temperature, hypnosis, and turning into smoke if frozen and emitting smoke from the mouth. •
Mimizuki: Appears in episode 8. Powers include flight, a staff that emits hypnotic waves to induce fear and can become intangible, teleportation, hurricane-force winds from the wings, talons for the fingers and toes, and spawning an ear-like subspace in the sky. •
Kobanzame: Appears in episode 9. Powers include high jumping, blood draining fangs that can turn animals violent and rapidly decay upon death, teleportation, disaster prediction, and intangibility. •
Dokuro: Appears in episode 9. Powers include a long tongue, a pendulum bladed staff, eating souls, invisibility, turning into smoke, flight, and emitting a barrier of smoke from the mouth. •
Kyuusuichou: Powers include flight, turning organisms to stone via draining their moisture through her tongue, growth, spawning clones of herself, and exploding into water upon death. •
Amejyorou: Appears in episode 11. Powers include a human disguise, spewing brown toxic sludge from the mouth that causes lethal fevers, and flight. •
Kaminarijishi: Appears in episode 11. Powers include flight and emitting lightning from the mane. •
Hihijii: Appears in episode 12. Powers include a human disguise, a fire based body capable of dividing into pieces and stretching, swimming, and flight. •
Kamaitachi: Appears in episode 13. Powers include a scythe blade for each arm, flight, and dividing into three bodies. •
Obaba: Her only known power is a staff that emits lightning and ropes. •
Nenrikibou: Appears in episode 14. Powers include telekinesis, summoning cyclones and thunder storms, communicating with birds, chest hairs that can wrap around smaller enemies, and causing volcanoes to erupt upon command. •
Chinbotsunamazu: Appears in episode 15. Powers include swimming, a pair of constricting whiskers that can spawn extra eyes, burrowing •
Kamenbou: Appears in episode 15. Powers include swimming and face alteration. •
Zouwashi: Appears in episode 16. Powers include a constricting trunk that can release lava and fire, flight, talons, twin tusks, hurricane winds from the wings, camouflage, lava immunity, and regeneration. •
Yukinyudou: Appears in episode 17. Powers include summoning blizzards, freezing mist from the fingers on the right hand, and icy winds from the mouth. •
Yamamori: Appears in episode 17. Powers include manipulating the earth around him to cause fissures and rock slides, summoning crows, a rocky body with rotating limb sockets, lava immunity, levitation, and rotating fast enough to form a tornado. •
Iyomanto: Appears in episode 18. Powers include a shapeshifting bear cloak capable of flight, fire resistance, teleportation, and emitting lightning from the body. •
Madoromin: Appears in episode 19. Powers include a flying boat that emits pink sleeping gas, summoning a large purple snake, and summoning Omezame. •
Hiyakute: Appears in episode 19. His only known power is twelve extendable hands from the neck. •
Kogarashikozou: Appears in episode 20. Powers include turning into a whirlwind, hypnotic whistling that controls animals, wind manipulation, spewing needles from the mouth, dividing his body into four pieces, telekinesis, and turning wind into spears. •
Ghoship: Appears in episode 21. Powers include flight, spewing demonic bats and spiders from the mouth, mouth fog that nullifies bat goo and dowse fire, a bow horn in the forehead that fires demonic spiders and can extend short distances, and turning his hull into diamond. •
Sunekozou: Appears in episode 22. Powers include turning into clay and possessing organisms. •
Amanojyaku: Appears in episode 22. Powers include flight, wind gusts from the hands and mouth, and emitting lightning from his black cloud. •
Ororon: Appears in episode 23. Powers include a human disguise, strength that can flip a bulldozer, a pair of dynamite sticks, levitation, size changing, and fire resistance. •
Ryuugyo: Appears in episode 24.Power include swimming, sharp teeth, an extendable tail with a fan-like fin at the end that can summon heavy rain just by spinning capable of flooding places the size of Tokyo, regenerative scales, and high jumping. •
Takotsunami: Appears in episode 24. Powers include Powers include swimming, water manipulation to create giant waves, a giant left hand for the upper half of his body, and eight stubby tentacles that allow for high jumping. •
Daikinkai: Appears in episode 25. Powers include granting midas curses to animals that transmute matter into gold upon physical contact, emitting a light that turns organisms into gold, breaking his body down to form different shapes, flight, three stalagmites on the head that can detach to be used as daggers, and body energy beams. •
Toragozen: Appears in episode 25. Powers include hypnotic eyes, agility, and high jumping. •
Detayou: Appears in episode 25. His only power is a third hand on the scalp. •
Harinezumikozou: Appears in episode 25. His only known power is a constricting tail. •
Hachinosunyuudou: Appears in episode 25. She has no known powers. •
Shishishimai: Appears in episode 25. They have no known powers. •
Saijyou: Appears in episode 25. She has no known powers. •
Onioshidaishi: Appears in episode 25.He has no known powers. ==Media==