Defendant of AJ case 2.

Personality: Wocky is your classic gangster punk. He's loud, easily angered, and lives for the gangster lifestyle. He thinks that being "bad" is cool and manly, and he likes girls that need protecting.

Misc Facts: Wocky's mother gave him a shiv as a birthday gift.

Wocky doesn't get along with his father, who has said lately that he wishes to take the family out of their traditional family trade and pursue an honest lifestyle.

Wocky has a "bad" Blue Badger on his shirt.

Friends and Family: Only son of the Kitaki Family (also known as the Kitakitsune Clan in the Japanese, which means "north fox"). His parents are Winfred and Plum.

Name Origin:
English: Kind of a tongue twister that sounds like "walkie talkie" (walk the walk, talk the talk, maybe?)

Japanese: Kita means "north" (and is repeated 3 times, in the Japanese order of his name). May also come from "kita kita kita!"

Background: Wocky is totally absorbed in the gangster lifestyle, which includes getting involved in the feud between his family and the Rivales Family.

Wocky's fiancé, and witness of AJ-2.
 

Personality: Alita is a quiet, timid woman who is very concerned for the safety of her fiancé, Wocky. She appreciates him for his manliness.

Misc Facts:  None.

Friends and Family:  Wocky's fiancé.

Name Origin:
English:  Probably meant to mirror the repetitive nature of her Japanese name.  Is also an anagram, and in Spanish means "little wing." (-Surskit)

Japanese:  Minami means "south" ("nami" is repeated 3 times in the style of Takita's name).

The staff had a hard time remembering her name, and often mistook it as Nami Minami.

Background:

"Victim" of AJ case 2.
 

Personality: Eldoon is kind of grumpy, but he's a good man who says what he thinks. Since opening his noodle stand he's been searching for the perfect salty broth.

Misc Facts: Eldoon runs the 15th Eldoon noodle stand. It was the 14th Eldoon noodle stand that Phoenix and Maya visited so often after court (in the Japanese version, they always went for ramen instead of burgers). His noodles are supposedly super salty.

His dog is a female named Spoon (jp: Renge).

In the Japanese Eldoon plays a harmonica, but he calls it a charmela (aka a shawm), which is an old vendor's flute. Charumera is the name of a brand of instant ramen. In the American version he just calls it a whistle.

The mascot of Eldoon's noodle stand is Mr. Salty.

Friends and Family: Eldoon is friends with Phoenix and Trucy, as they visit his stand often. He comes from a long line of noodle-stand owners.

Name Origin:
English: "Noodle" spelled backwards.

Japanese: If you squish together the two kanji of his first name, you get "noodle."

Background:

Witness of AJ case 2.

Personality: Plum is a pleasant, friendly woman with a good sense of humor, but she quickly grows serious when her family is involved, and has no problem flashing her hidden katana to make a point.

Misc Facts: She's often called "Little Plum Kitaki."

Friends and Family: Wife of Winfred, and Wocky's mother.

Name Origin:
English: Taken from her Japanese name.

Japanese: Koume means "little plum."

French: Petit Ange means "little angel." (thanks TTH)

Background: Plum is a devoted mother, and that's all we know.

Victim of AJ case 2.
 

Personality: Unknown. But we can assume he's not a very upstanding citizen.

Misc Facts: Ukari was originally going to be Hamigaki, with hair that kind of looked like toothpaste. But then his name got pushed to the reporter in case 4, where the pun was expanded further.

Friends and Family: None.

Name Origin:
English:  A slightly mixed up "malpractice."

Japanese: Comes from the word ukkari meaning "carelessly."

Background: Dr. Ukari runs a a successful surgical clinic, which has some questionable connections to the yakuza.

Fourth head of the Kitakitsune yakuza.
 

Personality: Tsunekatsu is a stern, but level-headed man who is very protective of his family. He and Takita often don't get along.

Misc Facts: Looks an awful lot like Don Vito Corleone, from The Godfather, who was also a mafia boss.

The name of the Katagi Family, long time rivals to the Kitaki, was taken from a dentist office in Takumi's neighborhood.

Friends and Family: Married to Koume, father to Takita.

Name Origin:
English:  "Winfred" is an old fashioned name that probably refers to his "wins" nickname.

Japanese:  Possibly comes from the phrase tsune ni katsu, meaning "always wins."

Background: Tsunekatsu is a strong leader of his clan, but recently his decision to start running a clean business instead of the traditional yakuza dealings has surprised his underlings and family.

Witness of AJ-2.
 

Personality: Kawadzu comes off as haughty, proud, meticulous, and overly-dramatic in his research of life's mysteries.

Misc Facts: Kawadzu was originally intended to have been biseinen (a pretty man). You can kind of see how that worked out for him.

Friends and Family: Unknown. He claims he has friends.

Name Origin:
English:  A "stickler" is someone who pays an almost unnecessary attention to detail.

Japanese:  His name "Kawadzu" is close to the Japanese word kawazu meaning "frog."  It may be a reference to the old Chinese idiom "a frog at the bottom of a well", meaning that he is oblivious to the workings of the outside world.  (-Tuesday)

French: Tatillon is the French equivalente of a stickler. (-Noru-Da)

Background: Kawadzu is a student, and member of the science club.