Eclipse Effect

  Dmitry Ivanovich Volkov attends the public school in District XIII as part of an exchange program between the People's Republic and the Russian Federation. He doesn't feel very comfortable in this distant land, but he has had no trouble making friends with the kids in his class (the special class for unconventional resource management). The young man is reserved and rarely talks about his life before entering the district. More or less everyone knows he has a strong attachment to his classmate Li Xuanba, who may be hiding feelings deeper than friendship. Spolier Allert: A Russian boy shooting ice beams might be a cliché, but that's exactly what happened to Dimitry, who found himself with this power around the age of 12. Since Russia doesn't have a developed recruitment system for superhumans, who are quite rare there, the boy was sent to China to study in District XIII. Dmitry controls ice and is able to create it from the air without the need for water, lowering the ...

  Sometimes, being human is enough to be more superhuman than superhumans. Sun Jing is a textbook case. Although very young—in fact, she's just over twenty—he's one of the most capable investigators at Institute 750. He's having a secret, but not too secret, relationship with the soldier Ming. Affable and kind, he never raises his voice and tries to be an irreproachable leader. Allert spolier: Jing doesn't actually have any superhuman abilities. He's just highly intelligent and possesses extraordinary powers of observation. He's the head of the Institute 750 operations team. Her family is very ancient. Some legends link her to the story of the monkey Sun Wukong from the novel Journey to the West.

  Ming is the third member of the 750 Institute's Special Squad 99. A skilled hand-to-hand fighter and expert in many martial arts disciplines, although in a more or less open relationship with Jing, she is however very formal and detached at work, managing to open up only with her boyfriend and very few selected friends, including Dmitry. Ming enjoys simple things, like walking under the blooming skies or reading in the shade of a tree on beautiful sunny days. She's also very active in sports, with several medals in swimming, skiing, and track and field. She doesn't like weapons. Spoiler Allert: Ming is an excellent fighter thanks to her training and she also has the ability to generate energy, with which she can shoot energy beams or create a shield to defend herself.

  After the 2020 eclipse, although there was no explosion of superhumans like in Japan, given the high population, numerous cases were also recorded in China. China was turned upside down by these boys and girls with superhuman powers and was one of the first nations to join the UN program for the control of post-eclipse phenomena. At the same time, the government felt the need to launch a domestic program to counter the proliferation of private or illegal superhuman training centers. Institute 750 was founded. After 20 years of development and operation, the Institute has become a hybrid of research center, school, and police force. Its primary purpose is to classify and study cases of superhumans and the increasingly frequent "supernatural" sightings. However, it must also offer training in powers to gifted young people recruited from around the country and conduct protective operations against potential outside agents. The 750 Institute is semi-secret. Officially, it doesn...

  Prince Giovanni Borgia was one of the very first in Italy to realize that something had changed after the Eclipse. The project of a foundation to collect and study young people born after the event was his obsession for over a decade. Finally, thanks to the support of influential Italian and foreign business groups and a partnership with some unclear individuals, Giovanni was able to reveal his most ambitious project to the world: The Borgia Foundation and its group of superheroes: La Guardia. The Foundation is a semi-private institution with strong ties to the Italian government and connections to the American Bureau of Supernatural Affairs and Japanese institutions. Its base of operations is a beautiful villa in the Urbino countryside, a villa said to have belonged to Duke Valentino Borgia, Giovanni's famous ancestor. A few years after the Foundation, Giovanni disappeared during a business trip to America when his personal plane was shot down in what is believed to have been an...

  Real Name - -  Group Affiliation - - None (Vigilante)  Biography - - Agatha Duvaly could have been an ordinary student. But the Duvalys were no ordinary family, and the family's fate, like that of many of her ancestors, eventually took its toll. Agatha had never known why her grandfather had left France. The truth came out when a group of strange Egyptian terrorists wearing a cobra symbol, the Order of the Night Incarnate, attacked the family villa in Missouri, near St. Louis. Their goal was to recover a skull that the elder Duvaly had found with the Nazis on an archaeological mission in the Algerian desert. What happened when they found him is still hazy in Agatha's mind. A black fire, a golden vortex. A chilling laugh. An otherworldly entity had manifested to protect her. Because of the golden smile on his head of black fire, she named him Gilded Grim. Since then, she has used the spirit to hunt down this mystical order of the Night Incarnate and, in the meantime...

  REAL NAME: Nicolas Canales GROUP AFFILIATION: The lesser Ennead. BIOGRAPHY:  When Nicolas Canales was a child, he often dreamt of pyramids, tombs and ancient Egypt. Even before he had any real knowledge of it by studying it at school. All this would have remained simply a curiosity if the Canales family had not decided to take a trip to Egypt. The boy was ecstatic, finally his dreams were physical reality that he could see and touch. Unfortunately, the holiday turned into a nightmare, when members of the secret necromantic sect 'The Openers' decided to violate the Valley of the Kings in search of a new tomb that would give them a powerful talisman of ancient Egypt: The Mask of Anubis. Hostage to the cultists, whose purpose seemed to be to open the doors to the afterlife, Nicolas heard a voice. A voice that called him to his role, that of gatekeeper, and ordered him to put on the mask of Anubis. He had become the Gatekeeper, the enemy of necromancers and the guardian of the ...

  Not everyone can be a Cyber-samurai; most never make it past the early stages of the NH+ Project. For some, failure means death; the Machine Ghost is too powerful, the mind breaks, and the body responds only to madness. Many others manage to progress to intermediate stages, managing to withstand some cybernetic modifications. These soldiers are called Breaker Ashigaru, but they are rarely deployed in battle, except alongside Cyber-samurai, serving as auxiliaries.

  Japan's cybernetic progress has been sudden and rapid. In just two years, from 2020 to 2022, what were only theoretical projects became operational, with the first prototypes mounted on human volunteers. Like many events related to the Black Incident, the initial development of cybertechnology is shrouded in mystery. It's unclear what allowed this type of technology to develop so rapidly, fueling speculation and conspiracy theories. Whatever lies behind the cyber-technology, after more than ten years of development, it has become efficient and quite safe, although too many implants can drive the human mind to madness (the so-called Machine Ghost). Cybersamurai are soldiers selected by the army for a special program, called Project NH+ (Neo-human Plus). Those who make it to the end are more machine than man, with total and unwavering loyalty to the Imperial Army. They are not ordinary soldiers and are used against robotic threats or superhuman beings.

  Technically, Matt isn't a member of the Imperial Military Academy. However, as a close friend of Daigo, he's often found in the military school buildings. A highly skilled hand-to-hand combatant, an accident has given him state-of-the-art mechanical arms. His father is Japanese, but his mother is of American descent, either Hawaiian or Native American. Matt is totally loyal to the Emperor and, it is said, hopelessly in love with Nana. For her, he would do anything crazy. Spolier Allert: The truth is that Matt is a secret experiment by the Shogunate to create a new type of cyborg. His fists are very powerful, and he can fire a high-energy laser beam when needed. However, Matt prefers to fight with his fists whenever possible.

REAL NAME: Gino Li GROUP AFFILIATION: La guardia BIOGRAPHY:  Gino is a Chinese boy from the Prato community, the second bigger Chinese community in Italy. He recently turned 17 and was born into a second-generation Chinese family. Unfortunately for Gino, his father, Simo Li, had taken over his maternal grandfather's business and taken over the family game room, which instead concealed a gambling den of the powerful Prato triad. When the situation Simo had got himself into became too complicated, he sent his son to China, where he was to study martial arts with his paternal grandfather. But Gino was totally denied any physical activity, and to his great regret, his old grandfather sent him back to Italy. But before embarking on the journey, his grandfather's old gymnasium fell victim to a fire. Without a second thought, Gino threw himself into the fire to save the youngest boys who were trapped there. Impressed by his grandson's gesture, his grandfather gave him an antique...

  Real Name -- Mattia Ricciardi Group Affiliation -- La Guardia  Biography --  Asso is a child of the new age. One of the first superheroes of the times after the "Black Event" He was born in Milano in an abusive family, which refuse to recognize the sexual orientation of the young one. Asso, in fact, whose true name is Mattia Ricciardi, is a gay teenager born and rise in the worst Milano periphery. When he was 15, his father saw him kissing with a boy, and with other thugs decided to beat the kid "to teach how to be a man". Unfortunately for them, in that precise moment Mattia's superhuman abilities showed up. Asso's abilities allow him to be battle proficient with every object he has in hand. Instinctively he knows where to hit to do more damage and how to be more hard to avoid. After beating his father's and his thugs, he decided to become an hero and defend the periphery against all sort of criminals and wrong-doers. In one of his expades was saw by ...

  One of the most loyal followers of His Imperial Majesty Daigo III, Tsukanjiro is a mystery to many. Little is known about his life before entering the academy. Always quiet and generally unsociable, Tsukanjiro is often uncomfortable in social situations. Daigo, however, considers Tsukanjiro his best friend and his greatest warrior. Unnatural reflexes and superhuman strength make him a dangerous opponent to face head-on. His loyalty to the emperor cannot be questioned...at least not if you don't want to end up dueling him. Spoilers - Read at your own risk: Tsukanjiro is a tiger spirit. Found an orphan, he was raised by the Imperial Army as a weapon, and has developed a total attachment to the emperor. The boy is gifted with all the abilities a tiger would possess: strength, agility, and night vision. The downside is that he also possesses the fury and bloodlust of tiger spirits. The military believes he is loyal to them, but obviously that is not the case.

  Saburo is a good boy, well-mannered and educated who obeys Uncle Sōjōbō. Sōjōbō ordered Saburo to serve the young emperor of Japan. Saburo therefore placed himself at His Majesty's service without any hesitation. He doesn't know why his uncle, one of the greatest Tengu in Japan, wants the young ruler. But in his time his uncle trained one of the greatest warriors who ever existed in the archipelago, so, Saburo says, he will have his reasons. Although he appears as a boy slightly older than the members of the Ise Imperial Military Academy, he is actually almost two centuries old, which in any case is not very many for a tengu. His powers are typical of tengu. Flight, control of the weather and crows, and the ability to transform into various people. His feather fan is a terrible and very strong weapon, which is very heavy and which only a tengu, or another Yōkai with similar powers can lift. Saburo serves Emperor Daigo not only because he was ordered by his uncle, but also bec...

  Nana is a cheerful and friendly girl, but she tends to literally catch fire when she gets angry. Adept at all logic games, she wants to be friends with Kimi and doesn't quite understand why the other girl is a bit jealous of her and so cold. Although she's attracted to Tsukangiro's bad-boy persona, she's actually in love with Shinryaku from Golden Oaks Private School. She's very charismatic, as well as a good swordswoman, and usually tends to take on leadership and planning roles. Spoiler - Reat at your risk: Nana is a fiery girl, in every sense of the word. Her power, whose origins are unclear, is based on fire and light. Secretly, a fact known only to the principal, this could be due to the fact that she is a scion of the imperial dynasty. Easily transportable, she often goes along with Shinriaku, especially when he wants to fight Harada.

  The Morikawa family has always been loyal to the empire. Since the Middle Ages, the Morikawa family has sided with the Chrysanthemum Throne, even at the expense of its own security, as occurred during the Meiji Revolution and the Boshin War. Even during this era, the Morikawa clan chose to be loyal to the Tennō, and while they could not prevent the exile of the main branch of the Yamato family, his eldest daughter sided with Daigo. Kimi is intelligent and brilliant, agile and fast. She is a master of karate and aikido. She is the first daughter of lord Morikawa, but tradionalist as they are the titles will go to the first male son. Spoilers - Read at yoour own risk. It's not true that Kimi is in love with Daigo, but her loyalty goes deeper than simple obedience. In addition to a natural aptitude for martial arts, Kimi demonstrates an analytical mind and remarkable agility.