Guren Ichinose 「一瀬グレン, Ichinose Guren」 is the main protagonist of the prequel story light novel series. Furthermore, he plays a crucial role within the sequel story, manga series, that takes place eight years later.
With the death of his father, Guren became head of the Ichinose family, when he was still 16, and remains head of the family as an adult. Guren is a Lieutenant Colonel of the and the leader of the Vampire Extermination Unit's . He is also the squad leader of the Guren Squad, and has been since his teen years.
ContentsAppearance
Guren is a tall, young man with medium length black hair parted in the middle and purple eyes.
Catastrophe
He wore the First Shibuya High Uniform, a black with a standing collar, with red trim which was also around the cuffs. The school emblem was located on the left breast.
Vampire Reign
He sometimes is shown with his hair slicked back during the midst of skirmishes on the battlefield, but more often is seen with slightly tousled hair, with bangs hanging over his forehead. He wears the standard JIDA uniform, which consists of a long-sleeved, double-breasted black coat with two rows of gold buttons down the front, red details including , gores at the bottom, and stripes on sleeves. Other decorations include gold and white fourrageres worn on the right shoulder, attached to a stylized cherry blossom decoration pendant at the center of his collar, and two bars with unit insignia medal below them on the left. He wears a pair of white gloves, a black on white armband on his left arm, and a similarly striped black and white web belt with a frog for his sword on the left, and a gold waist-plate. In addition, he also wears the uniform trousers with two white belts strapped around his left leg and black shoes.
In the manga illustration, he also wore a black cape or overcoat with a red lining, and in the anime's artwork, he is shown wearing a maroon coat with red ornamented sleeves. Anime and manga versions have in common shoulder epaulettes and a gold unit insignia. While the shoulder epaulettes are primarily red in the anime, they are a mixture between black and beige in the manga. The anime version shows extra red markings and gold details. In contrast to the anime, the manga depicted the cloak to have beige for its insignia, and details spread all around the garment, with no markings visible.
ADVERTISEMENTPersonality
Guren was naive in his childhood days and spent most of his time with. His outlook on life was simple while his life was only happy moments. But after he was treated with contempt, due to his family's name as a lowly branch member, he began to feel guilt. He thought that because of his weak physique and power, he couldn't reach out for what he wanted, which was hinted to be Mahiru. She motivated him to become stronger and wiser.
He later became a wise leader who values teamwork and cooperation, determined to ensure the survival of the human race from demons and vampires. When tried to join the Moon Demon Company, Guren refused to allow him to join until he made friends.
Guren sometimes pretends to be lazy, but in truth, he really works hard. He keeps many secrets to himself, and has no difficulty lying about them. He also plans to dethrone the This is shown to be explicitly desired by him upon being possessed by Mahiru-no-Yo. It is made clear when Guren is possessed, and his true desires come to light, that he, along with Shinya, wants to change the status quo and hierarchy.
In addition, he actually cares a lot about his subordinates and friends, considering them to be his family, both before and after the apocalypse. It is the reason for why he hasn't been completely honest with his squad whenever they're around him, especially hiding from them his second personality, which Kureto knew of all along, and later Shinya became aware of. It was another reason for why Guren's original personality had yet to be fully taken over by his second, demonic personality, and continues to exist. Nevertheless, he has since kept his own emotions in check on a daily basis, carefully maintaining a positive image so not to worry them.
