List of 7 Seeds characters
The 7 Seeds manga series created by Yumi Tamura features a varied cast of diverse characters, each in different teams. There is no set main character. Instead, the story switches perspectives between each teams and different characters.
Every member of a team has a name containing a kigo, a poetic seasonal word, related to the team name — for example, all of the members of the Spring team have names traditionally associated with spring. Each team consists of seven members plus a guide trained in wilderness survival.
Teams
There are currently five teams living in the world of 7 Seeds. Summer Team B, Spring Team, Winter Team, and Fall Team were placed in cryogenics around the same time. Summer Team A was placed 17 years before them, while Mozu was frozen a few years after Team A. Every team resurfaced at different times. The five teams are listed in order of appearance in the series, which is different from the order in which they were revived from cryonic preservation in the series' chronology.Summer Team B
Summer Team B is created after the other four Japanese teams as a backup and consists of people who are healthy but rebellious or otherwise not well-adjusted to society. They emerge from cryonic preservation at the start of the series near an island in the East China Sea off the coast of Nagasaki Prefecture in western Kyūshū, and travel to the seed cache at the foot of Bungo Fuji in Ōita Prefecture.;Natsu Iwashimizu
;Arashi Aota
;Semimaru Asai
;Matsuri Tendō
;Chimaki Yamori
;Hotaru Kusakuri
;Kaname Mozunoto
;Botan Saotome
Spring Team
The Spring Team emerges from cryonic preservation a few months after Summer Team B near an island off the coast of the Kantō region of central Honshu, and travel to Ogino Fuji in Kanagawa Prefecture, where they find a note from Natsu of Summer Team B. Later, Hana invites Takahiro, the surviving member of Winter Team, to join the Spring Team.;Hana Sugurono
;Mansaku Tsunomata
;Fujiko Amacha
;Haru Yukima
;Momotaro Nobi
;Chisa Taiami
;Hibari Nigusa
;Dosei Yanagi
Winter Team
The Winter Team emerges from cryonic preservation in the Pacific Ocean off the southern coast of Hokkaidō about fifteen years before the start of the series. Three members die during the thawing process; on the way to the cache at Mt. Meakandake, they are attacked by a saber toothed tiger, killing their guide and Mutsuki. The remaining three, Mitsuru, Fubuki, and Takahiro, form a close relationship as they fight for survival.;Takahiro Aramaki
;Fubuki Samejima
;Mitsuru Kagurazaka
;Mutsuki Karezono
;Arare Fushizuke
;Fuka Ayatori
;Toji Murozaki
;Sayuru Kumakawa
Fall Team
The Fall Team emerges from cryonic preservation about three years before the start of the series in the Sea of Japan off the coast of the Kansai region of western Honshu, and travel to Kobe Fuji in Hyogo Prefecture. They are led by Akio and Ran, who overthrew the Team guide Ryoya and keep the rest of the members enslaved with tasks such as raising corn, tending livestock and weaving fabric. Months after they meet Arashi, Natsu, and Semimaru from Summer Team B, the sky starts to rain ashes, which makes their hideout, field and everything they have built useless and unlivable. The Fall Team sets out to visit other Fuji and to find a safe place to live in.;Akiwo Haza
;Ran Shishigaki
;Hazuki Karita
;Kurumi Shikano
;Ryusei Ogiwara
;Akane Nashimoto
;Sakuya Yamaki
;Ryoya Izayoi
Summer Team A
The members of Summer Team A were specially chosen for the Seven Seeds Project by the Japanese government. This project genetically engineered and conceived about 100 babies, born from carefully selected egg cells and sperms. Because of this, none of the members of Summer Team A have a family name. These babies are raised on an island and taught wilderness survival until they reach the age of 17. At that time, a last test is carried out to select the seven that are put in cryonic preservation."Failures" or dropouts from this project are said to have left the island to join the rest of society, but it is revealed that they are actually killed and disposed of. Each child is instructed in seven classes of technologies: water, fire, wind, earth, plant, animal, and medical, and at age 13, they choose two classes to specialize in. In the end, one survivor is selected to represent each class. They emerge from cryonic preservation in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of southern Kyūshū, a little later than Spring Team.
;Ango
;Koruri
;Ryō
;Ayu
;Gengoro
;Ban
;Nijiko
;Unami
The Ryugu Shelter
The posthumous characters that get a main focus in the Ash arc. Their story is told primarily from the point of view of Mark Ibaraki, a comedian who recollects his days at the shelter on a diary that Hana and the others find in the underground shelter. The shelter's events lasted a few years after the strike of the meteor, but it halted due to the spread of the Acari X virus.;Mark Ibaraki
;Maria Miki
;Takeru Hino
;Takashi Sugurono
;Miho Sugurono
;The Director
;Norikazu Kagami
;Sadao Saruwatari
;Tokidoki Sakata
Animals
As she did in her other previous works already, Yumi Tamura placed strong emphasis on the deep connection of the protagonists with the nature surrounding them by having them interact with various animals who often play an important role in supporting the characters.Aramaki's pack
Fubuki and Mitsuru-san paired up with others dogs and gave birth to many puppies. The whole dog population consists of almost hundred dogs by now. They're scattered in several smaller packs all over Honshu. Their appearances vary a lot. Still deeply attached to Aramaki although they don't live with him all the time anymore, they come when he calls for them and do various tasks for him like hunting, guarding duty, trailing tracks or searching for water and food sources. Their help was a great support for Aramaki and enabled him to survive in this dangerous new world all alone for 15 years.Adult dogs
; FubukiA male wolf-like dog companion of Aramaki's since he was a puppy, and named after the late Fubuki of Team Winter. He's the Son of the nameless dog from Hokkaido who led Aramaki to safety after his other comrades perished. Fubuki was the Alpha Male of Aramaki's pack consisting of almost a hundred other adults and puppies, scattered in several smaller packs all over Honshu.
Fubuki, together with the rest of the adult dogs of Aramaki's pack, had been “infected” by the spores of mushroom in Chapater 119, resulting in impending death due to said mushroom growing on their body.
Together with the rest of the adult dogs of the pack, they intentionally set themselves ablaze and made a perimeter around the forest overrun with said mushroom to prevent any infected animals from leaving the burning forest, and prevent the humans from entering said forest.
; Mitsuru-san
A female dog named after the late Mitsuru of Team Winter. She has accompanied Aramaki ever since she was a puppy. She's the daughter of the nameless dog from Hokkaido who led Aramaki to safety after his other comrades perished. Mitsuru-san also seems to be the female alpha dog of Aramaki's entire pack consisting of almost hundred dogs by now, scattered in several smaller packs all over Honshu.
She perished with the rest of the adult dogs of the pack in the blaze which engulfs the forest in Chapter 119.
; Derek
An adult male dog from Aramaki's pack. Fubuki and Mitsuru-san paired with other dogs, and each giving birth to a lot of puppies. They're almost a hundred dogs by now, scattered in several smaller packs all over Honshu. Derek leads the search team for Hana. He looks very wolf-alike. His special feature are two white circles around the eyes.
He perished in the blaze that engulfs the forest in Chapter 119.
Juvenile dogs
; KurodaSince he's often being bullied by the other dogs, Ayu adopts him as her own dog as per Aramaki's suggestion. Kuroda loves to tease his mistress and licks her all over whenever he gets the opportunity. His fur is completely black; he looks like a mixture between Tibetan Terrier and Shih-poo.
; Ball
He's hungry all the time and often trails off. But it isn't bad all the time because this way he was able to find Momota and deliver his call for help to Hana's team. Ball resembles a Laekenois, with scrubby light fur and black ears. He's very trusting even to strangers.
Puppies
; DiamondA puppy from the latest litter of Fubuki and Mitsuru-san. The brother of Battery. Very curious and reckless. Looks like a Tibetan Terrier, dark coat, fair muzzle and legs. When he and his brother went astray on an adventure tour, he finds Hana and warns her of a reptile closing in on her.
; Battery
A puppy from the latest litter of Fubuki and Mitsuru-san. The brother of Diamond. Very curious and reckless. Looks like a Maltese, with fair coat, curled tail and snapped off ears. When he and his brother went astray on an adventure tour, he is being chased by a large reptile, but Hana rescues him just in time.
Summer B's animals
; Macadamia NutsA tabby cat who was Natsu's pet in the past, before she was sent to the future. She deeply misses him.
; Peanuts
A baby flesh eating rabbit. Natsu wanted to keep it as her pet and Arashi suggested its name. However, it was killed by Mozu in order to prevent it from attracting the rest of its pack.
; Carol
A llama-alike animal with a very keen sense for edible and dangerous food. She was given as a present from Izayoi to Team Summer B as they parted from Team Autumn. Ever since then, her delicious milk and her sharp instincts have been a great help to Team Summer B. She's also strong and can carry heavy luggage, even persons. Not even travelling on a ship does pose a problem to her.
; Moron Birds
Arashi, Semimaru and Natsu at some point of the story discovered a flightless kind of birds and decided to take in some of them as a supply of eggs and bird meat. Because they're so trusting to humans, the cynical Semimaru decides to call them Moron Birds.
; Ice Turtles
During their adventure in the ghost ship Fuji, Arashi picked up a pair of turtles which had been preserved in a hibernation state. Which kind of turtles they are, whether they're actually alive is still unknown, though.
Team Spring's animals
; Cheeky FoalA still nameless, cheeky young foal which got attached to Hana and sticks close to her after its mother's death. White, curly fur, very beautiful and cute, but an extremely stubborn child, too.
; Boar Family
A little family of boars, consisting of the mother and four baby boars. They befriend Hana and protect her as she just woke up from her fall into the whirlpool. But they have to painfully separate again because Chisa unknowingly killed and cooked one of the young boars, resulting in Hana accidentally eating her little friend.
Team Autumn's animals
; Guri and GuraTwo llama-alike animals with a very keen sense for edible and dangerous food. They live with Team Autumn. The llamas' delicious milk and their sharp instincts have been a great help to Team Autumn. They are also strong and can carry and pull heavy luggage, even persons.
Gengorou's animals
Gengorou took care of many different animal species since he was part of the animal class during Summer A's time of education. He loved them deeply and built up a strong relationship especially to Tango and Aoba, but during Summer A's test he had to kill most of them with his own hands because they became dangerous to his comrades. It broke his heart.; Aoba
A tame large male brown bear which was reared by Gengorou ever since he was a cub. He was very trusting towards humans and got quite attached to Gengorou. But during Team Summer A's test he was probably deliberately infected with rabies and tossed out in the middle of the mountains. Pained and puzzled, he attacked Koruri's team and took away one of Ukai's eyes. Ukai shot him several times in return and Aoba died slowly, suffering great pains.
; Tango
A tame large male tiger which was reared by Gengorou ever since he was a cub. He was very trusting towards humans and got quite attached to Gengorou. But during Team Summer A's test he was probably deliberately infected with rabies and tossed out in the middle of the mountains. Pained and puzzled, he attacked and killed several Summer A candidates. Gengorou took responsibility and strangled him to death.
Other animals
; Saber-toothed tigerA large saber-toothed tiger alike cat who killed several members of Team Winter. But after being killed by Aramaki, it turned out that the tiger also was just a mother who did her best to feed her cub. The cub ran away from Aramaki and was probably killed in the flame of the bushfire.
; Ten-ten
A cute little dog owned by Maria. She brought it along with her into Ryugu Shelter, but Takashi took it away and quarantined it because he thought Ten-ten might be the "hidden carrier" of Acari X - a seemingly healthy parasite host showing no symptoms of illness, but infecting those around him. The dog was never seen again; he probably got disposed of. This entire thing caused Maria great grief. Ten-ten's fur was completely black; his appearance resembled a Shih-poo.