Dama

Dama is introduced as an old woman who runs a barbershop in the neighboring village.

She has a habit of mistaking white-haired men for her late husband and chasing them relentlessly.

What begins as a strange romantic fixation steadily escalates into full berserker behavior.

Her outbursts become so intense that even Haré and the others are left terrified.

She is especially fixated on Clive, and her relentless stalking leaves him deeply traumatized.

In the anime, this obsession is played up even further, including a scene where she uses night-vision equipment to hunt him through the school at night.

In her earliest appearances, Dama was said to possess spiritual sensitivity.

This detail was part of her initial setup, though it did not remain the focus of her later appearances.

At first, Clive became her primary target because of his white hair.

Haré proposed dyeing Clive’s hair black, which succeeded in taking him out of her sights.

However, this did not solve the real problem.

Dama simply shifted her attention to other white-haired men instead.

Haré then helped stage a fake final message from her deceased husband telling her to “live for a new love.”

After accepting this supposed last wish, she stopped limiting herself to white-haired men and began pursuing men indiscriminately.

Dama’s defining joke is how absurdly far her emotions can go.

A lonely widow’s fixation mutates into outright horror-comedy, with her becoming a terrifying berserker whenever romance enters the picture.

Depending on the scene, even her voice seems to change dramatically.

The anime especially emphasizes this for maximum impact, turning her berserker moments into some of the most memorable and frightening comic scenes.

She is often treated as an over-the-top character, but that extremity is exactly what makes her stand out.

Her presence can instantly shift a scene from silly to chaotic to genuinely intimidating.

Later, Dama undergoes a surprising change when she asks Guu to train her because she wants to become stronger.

This leads into one of the strangest turns in her story.

She becomes involved in a fierce battle against Tom, a bank robber who had taken Haré hostage and attacked Weda.

Their clash is portrayed as a deadly struggle, and afterward the people of the jungle treat Dama like a hero.

In an even more unexpected development, Dama later marries Tom.

The woman who began as a comic stalker thus turns into a battle-hardened figure and then into a newlywed.

At a later point, Dama reappears in an even more transformed state.

For reasons that initially seem unbelievable, she has become an assassin.

During this phase, she appears as a blonde, blue-eyed beauty.

According to Guu, this transformation was the result of the power of her own conviction.

The backstory given is that she met a male assassin through a certain incident and fell in love with him because he was the complete opposite of her late husband.

He taught her the techniques of killing, and she went on to earn fame in the underworld as a well-known assassin.

She eventually accepts a contract to kill Weda.

This brings her into direct conflict with Haré and the others.

Her awakening comes through persuasion from Robert, who had arrived to protect Weda.

He reveals that the man Dama loved merely treated women as disposable tools, picking them up, training them as pawns, and discarding them like garbage once they were no longer useful.

Faced with this truth, Dama finally comes to her senses.

She then leaves Haré and the others in order to settle matters with that man herself.

Dama has a twin younger sister named Tama.

Tama works as a cleaning lady at a school in the city.

The two can be told apart by the presence or absence of skin tone shading.

This visual distinction is given as the way to identify which sister is which.

In the present stage of her story, Dama runs a jazz bar.

Tama, Tom, and Mei work there.

This career shift adds yet another layer to her already unpredictable life.

From village barber to berserker widow, to fighter, wife, assassin, and finally bar owner, Dama becomes one of the most dramatically altered characters in the series.

The anime staff appear to have been especially fond of Dama.

Her berserker scenes are portrayed as even more terrifying than in the original work.

The production goes so far as to change her voice in some episodes for added effect.

This extra attention makes her feel unusually vivid and memorable.

One of the best-known anime-specific examples is her nighttime pursuit of Clive through the school while equipped with night vision gear.

Moments like this helped cement her as both a comedy menace and a nightmare figure.

Dama has been voiced by Chie Koujiro, Kazuko Yanaga, and Mami Koyama.