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Protagonist
Ryouma Takebayashi
Voiced by: Azusa Tadokoro (Young), Hiroki Yasumoto (Adult) (Japanese), Emily Neves (Young), Chris Rager (Adult) (English)
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A 39-year-old Japanese salaryman reincarnated into the body of an 8-year-old boy in a fantasy world. After suffering a lifetime of abuse, misfortune, and countless hardships, he finds himself enjoying his new life, having the childhood he never had, taming and developing his beloved slimes, and bringing massive changes to the world, however unintentionally.
- Adorably Precocious Child: Underaged, skilled in magic, very mature thanks to having his Past-Life Memories, and cute as a button.
- Benevolent Boss:
- Even without the standards of the Medieval Fantasy where even children are expected to act as additional laborers out of necessity, slave-like conditions are commonplace, and worker's rights were a far off-dream, Ryouma is an exceptionally good boss.
- To his slimes, he's the best thing that could have ever happened to them as a species and a collective, being given the opportunities to develop into new and exciting forms that were impossible in the wild, constantly fed their favorite foods, are allowed to exercise and play regularly, and are treated as valued and beloved pets and employees.
- To his human workers, he's created the most luxurious and benevolent workplace there is with his laundry shop. The pay is amazing; room, board, and regular meals (done by a dedicated chef, no less) are all included; Ryouma steps in himself to help a manpower shortage and takes the recruitment of additional heads very gravely and seriously; and there are regular work hours, a day off every week, and holidays to go visit your relatives in the countryside, in a world where most people expect to be working from sun-up to sun-down, day-after-day, till they either become infirm or die.
- To go even one step further, he doesn't just provide health insurance like in the modern world, the premiums still deducted from the paycheck, he provides his employees health-care for free, by generous use of his healing slimes.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Ryouma is a saint, but it's a good idea to refrain from pushing him too far. While he's doing some research with his slimes in the abandoned mines that he re-appropriates into his lab, he stumbles upon a group of adventurer acquaintances being mugged by a higher-level team of known trouble-makers. The muggers turn and attack Ryouma for being a potential witness, Ryouma beats the ever-loving daylights out of the aggressors before turning them over to the Guild Master for punishment.
- Born Unlucky: This is heavily averted in his new life, but Ryouma was definitely this in his previous one. In the books, it's mentioned that his colleagues had a in-house Running Gag about it - to the point where they semi-seriously wondered if he'd been cursed. Among other things, Tabachi (the co-worker who was the closest thing he had to a friend) was warned "Don't ever get on a plane with Takebayashi!". On a good day, the plane would be cancelled or delayed; on a bad day, Ryouma was on five planes in two years that needed to make emergency landings.
- Child Mage: Thanks to having the blessing of the gods, Ryouma has incredible talent for all elemental magic and nearly limitless magic resources.
- Combat Pragmatist: While he has no problems fighting fairly most of the time, he also has no problems fighting dirty when the situation calls for it. During his time as a Minor Living Alone in the mountains, he stumbles on a bandit den. He wipes out all the bandits by having one of his poison slimes sneak into a barrel full of stolen wine in the den. When the bandits were all dead, he went in and collected the loot while having his scavenger slimes deal with the bodies.
- Conditioned to Accept Horror: His previous life was so depressingly bad that when he finally died and his soul went to heaven, he took it in stride. He was only bothered by hearing a mere sneeze was enough to kill him in his sleep.
- Cosmic Plaything: For whatever reason, the guardian deity of Earth kept using the power of trials to interfere with his fate to make his life miserable. Trials are supposed to grant blessings in return for the endured hardship, but the God of Earth kept deliberately picking gifts he would have no use for.
- Crime of Self-Defense: In his backstory, he was arrested, put on trial, and although acquitted, his life was destroyed because he prevented himself and a store clerk from getting gunned down by multiple assailants who were under the effects of illegal drugs. The perpetrators' families were to blame as they went on a media spree, saying that yes, Ryouma had the right to fight back, but he didn't need to beat them up that badly.
- Cuteness Overload: The moment he finds his first slime, his eyes sparkle.
- Emotional Regression: He unknowingly suffers this after reincarnating in his 8-year old body. He loses much of his adult traits like the ability to maintain a poker face; the ability to control his emotions; and much of his maturity. This isn't treated as a bad thing, mind you: it gives him the chance to live the childhood he never could, along with averting any uncomfortable implications with his love interest, the also-11-years-old Eliaria Jamil.
- Exhausted Eye Bags: In flashbacks to his previous life, Ryouma's adult self always has noticeable bags under his eyes, showing how overworked and depressed he was because of being stuck in an exploitative company.
- Face of a Thug: In his past life, he had the looks of a big and scary thug, which made people avoid him a lot. He's happy that his current self has a cute face.
- Fluffy Tamer: Ryouma is very fond of slimes, treating them as beloved pets and becoming ecstatic at the opportunity to learn more about them or induce a new artificial evolution. He even finds the disturbingly-shaped Bloody slime and all its creepy abilities to be more fascinating than repulsive.
- Friendless Background: Between his harsh past life and his choice to seclude in a forest for three years, Ryoma was friendless until he met the Jamil family.
- Happily Adopted: Played with. Whenever Ryouma mentions his grandparents who died when he was eight, he's technically not lying. It's only mentioned in the novels and manga, but when the Gods chose Ryouma as the next Transferee, they asked the souls of a newly deceased pair of former adventurers for permission to use their identities in Ryouma's backstory. They not only gave permission, they designated Ryouma as their heir. As of LN vol 5, Ryouma is on an ongoing mission to raise his stats and skills high enough that he can safely travel through the extremely dangerous forest surrounding his grandparents' home village, in order to claim the inheritance they bequeathed him.
- Heart Is an Awesome Power: Alchemy. The field is frowned upon because it's full of scammers.note Ryouma, with his knowledge of modern chemistry, makes a killing in his new home in a formerly abandoned iron mine because he can turn rust and iron-rich soil into ingots of iron so pure they can easily be mistaken for silver.
- Heroic Safe Mode: Appears to have been stuck in this ever since his mother died, who was the only emotional anchor he had in his adult life, not even being capable of crying due to her passing and showing little to no emotion as an adult. He's finally seemingly broken out of it when he's shown genuine affection from the Jamil family and unable to stop crying for a good while. See Tender Tears below.
- Hidden Depths: Ryouma picked up a lot of odd skills in his previous life, due to cycling through a lot of part-time jobs as a teen and young adult; his Born Unlucky trait meant that companies tended to downsize or even go out of business just when he'd properly learned the job. For example, he worked making figurines, which when combined with Ice or Earth magic, lets him make excellent sculptures. Also, while he didn't really have time for hobbies, he spent several years trying to teach himself the guitar; in the anime OP, he's shown playing one for Eliaria, and he managed to attract his Rimel Bird familiars while playing the guitar he made in Seifall.
- Inventor of the Mundane: Much of his success comes from introducing modern conveniences like washing machines (via the Cleaner slimes), deodorizing liquids, or raincoats.
- I Thought Everyone Could Do That: He was surprised when he discovered that raising a giant slime is something that others did not know how to do. He's also positively stunned at how far behind Slime research is due to the prejudices against the species; when he hears how badly the Tamer's Guild unintentionally destroyed any hope of professional research, and how the scientists involved were directly or indirectly driven to financial ruin by said failures, Ryouma decides not to say anything for fear of shattering their spirits even more.
- Jack of All Trades: Because Ryouma was granted affinity for every type of magical power on his transmigration, he doesn't really specialize in any one thing, but it doesn't hamper him. His power and skill are so high that the basics are more than effective and he easily picks up on advanced techniques with the appropriate guidance.
- Malicious Slander: After opening up his successful laundromat, unidentified individuals take to spreading nasty rumors about his business; one of them even shows up at his store, harasses his employees, and makes a scene demanding the place be shut down for damaging his outfit. When Ryouma goes on to prove without a shadow of the doubt that his claims are impossible, he tries getting violent only to get literally thrown out of the store and then turned over to the city guard.
- The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: He died as a man in his later thirties and initially, he acts as an adult in a child's body. Later on, however, Ryouma starts to notice that he's showing signs of behaving more emotional and childlike, as opposed to his emotionally repressed adult former self. Kufo confirms that Ryouma's mind is changing to be more suitable to his new body's young age.
- Mugging the Monster:
- Despite the fact that Ryouma is well-connected with House Jamil, he opens up a very prosperous and popular laundromat business with Cleaner slimes, people still see an independently-wealthy 11-year-old alone and try to mug him. They only end up shocked when he beats them off with ease, yet refuse to stop trying until Ryouma is informed that as long as he doesn't kill them, he can beat them up as much as he wants and then bill them for healing them back up again, before proceeding to do just that. Yet, that only slows down the rate of incidents.
- Even if he doesn't fight back himself, he has a number of shop employees explicitly hired to double as security detail or are dedicated guards and a number of powerful friends in very high places. To their bodies, their reputations, or their freedoms, mess with Ryouma and the perpetrators will face brutal retaliation.
- Never Gets Drunk: While he's very careful about his intake now (given he's eleven years old and all), Ryouma had an impressive capacity for alcohol in his Earth life due to the Japanese workplace tradition of drinking parties (his abusive workplace was toxic in this regard too); in fact, the Seifall God Tekun is so impressed by Ryouma's capacity that he gives Ryouma his blessing, in his aspect of God of Wine, granting Ryouma with an incredible tolerance.
- Nice Guy: Despite all his tremendous suffering, the numerous bad cards dealt to him by life, and all the tragedy he's faced, he takes his second chance at life in the new world to be as kind, compassionate, and caring as possible to everyone he meets while improving the world leaps and bounds. This is especially prominent as the gods frequently lament that many other reincarnates become Drunk with Power, causing near-apocalypses at worst or keeping the gods on edge until they finally die at best.
- Only I Can Kill Him: After finding the calamity class threat in the latrines, he makes an impassioned speech to the adventurer's guild master that he, with his slimes, is the only one equipped to deal with it - anyone else tries, and there goes the neighborhood.
- Pals with Jesus: Ryouma is introduced to just about all the gods of the Fantasy Pantheon; he has the personal blessing of four, gets along well with two more, and is said to have the vague approval of another who doesn't really like people in general.
- Passed in Their Sleep: In his previous life, he died in his sleep because a sneeze caused him to hit his head on the floor.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Despite being reincarnated as a small kid, he retains the great physical strength of the big and muscled adult man he was in his past life.
- Pop Culture Osmosis: Adapted Out of the anime (probably for legal reasons), but Ryouma actually attracts his Rimel/Limour birds by playing a song he learned from watching television. He later mentions that all the songs he plays for other people are from anime.
- Reincarnate in Another World: Ryouma was a 39-year-old salaryman who died in Japan, and gets reincarnated into an 8-year-old boy in a new world.
- Self-Made Man: Instead of leeching off the Jamil family, Ryouma finds a job as an adventurer and the manager of a laundromat to make a living for himself.
- Tears of Joy: When the Gods give him the chance to live a new life in a different world, he breaks down crying in happiness.
- Tender Tears: When he's shown beyond a shadow of doubt genuine kindness by the Jamil family, something he hasn't experienced in years, he breaks down crying and it takes a long time for him to stop.
- Tranquil Fury: Ryouma does not rage when angry, instead prefering to deal with the offender with carefully placed strikes to deal with them immediately.
- Uncertified Expert: Ryouma is well aware that he has made numerous groundbreaking discoveries on the nature of slimes and even artificially created new species that even the God of Creation, Gain, did not realize were possible. This is all through three years' worth of experimentation all by himself, alone in the woods, without the knowledge that the Monster Tamer's Guild even exists, let alone its vast resources, facilities, and experts. When he meets a group of disgraced, impoverished, and jobless Slime Researchers (current or former), he realizes that he was wildly successful without the Tamer's Guild, while they were directly or indirectly driven to ruin by their standards and demands, so he keeps his discoveries to himself to keep from breaking their spirits even further.
Ryouma's Monsters
Slimes
Ryouma's first, most well-known, versatile, and beloved monsters, his slimes are an ever-growing army that helps him in his adventuring, businesses, and world-changing inventions. In General
- Adaptational Badass: In the original novel, the goblin king was taken down by an advanced adventurer party. In the anime, the slimes swarm it like a tidal wave and beat it to death off-screen.
- Crippling Overspecialization: Slimes can only do one special ability and nothing else, except run away. It takes Ryoma teaching them various useful abilities like how to club monsters death with sticks. This is the primary reason why Healing slimes are rare in the wild, but among Ryouma's batch, there are hundreds of them that all have a very high affinity with healing magic.
- Cute Slime Mook: They're an entire army of them, blessed with multiple types of useful abilities, intelligence, and coordination skills. About the only exception is his rare Bloody slime, which aside from resembling a flat red blood cell and the "face" on its nucleus being hidden, feeds by entering fresh corpses, squeezing itself into its blood vessels, and sucking them completely dry before coming back out of the now deflated and dehydrated corpse.
- Extreme Omnivore: Slimes evolve depending on their diet. Individual slimes that have evolved or are ready to evolve will have more specific tastes that suit their strain of evolution, but as a whole, slimes are capable of consuming just about anything; certain categories like scavenger slimes or cleaner slimes have a lot they'll consider food, and if Ryouma notices a slime chowing down on something unexpected like charcoal or medicine, chances are he's about to get a new slime type.
- Happiness in Slavery: Ryouma's slimes may well be able to pass a Turing test. They're intelligent enough to solve problems on their own, can learn martial arts and coordinate themselves for large-scale battle, and occasionally show emotion like fear and joy, yet by being tamed they are compelled to obey Ryouma's orders. (Not forced, as that would be Summoning Magic.) Still, all of his thousands of slimes are ecstatic to do so because their "orders" involve eating their favorite foods, playing around as much as they want, and they never have to worry about being preyed upon or harmed because Ryouma dotes on them like crazy.
- It Can Think: Once they're given enough time to grow, develop, and be educated, Ryouma's slimes start gaining the ability to problem solve on their own and display signs of sentience.
- Magikarp Power: Slimes are oftentimes seen as useless monsters or beginner's practice because it takes so much time, investment, and care to get them to evolve and become far more useful. As Ryouma unwittingly discovers, slimes can become a very powerful force of change indeed.
- Mundane Utility: If the anime's eye-swipes can be believed, all slimes are very comfortable and supportive to sit on or lean against. Even the Sticky and Acid slimes are safe considering their exterior membranes seal their dangerous fluids inside until consciously released.
- Took a Level in Badass: All the slimes, except for the healing and cleaner slimes, learn to use weapons and practice martial arts to protect their cores. As such, by the time Ryouma takes them to help deal with a monster outbreak in the local iron mine, they have become skilled enough in battle that they can take on an army of goblins outnumbering them three to one, and in the anime, they even swarm and annihilate the goblin commander and his hobgoblin entourage. The metal and iron slimes go on to learn how to take the forms of weapons and become literal Living Weapons.
Acid Slimes
- Hollywood Acid: Their body fluids are highly corrosive and can eat through a number of substances, metals especially.
Cleaner and Deodorizer Slimes
- Closest Thing We Got: Ryouma uses them as a hazmat helmet at one point, allowing him to clean the latrines that were infested with a disease so powerful, dying to it would be a mercy (manga and novel) or were emitting a deadly miasma (anime).
- Helpful Mook: Since they easily subsist on grime and sweat, they're completely harmless to living beings — Ryouma even stick his whole hand inside one to prove it. This is what inspires Eliaria to pick a Cleaner Slime as her first tamer target since it's practically impossible to mishandle.
- Mundane Made Awesome: In a medieval, pre-industrial world like this, the ability to get rid of even the most stubborn stains keeps you from tossing and having to replace valuable equipment, spending hours of hard work scrubbing, and causing serious wear and tear to your regular clothes and linens. Ryouma makes a killing with his laundromat and associated products.Welanna: "It's weird something so slimy makes something so clean!"
- Mundane Utility: Their only use is cleaning, disinfecting, and deodorizing things, from plates, fabrics, and even fur and skin. Though Ryouma's main business is explicitly for cleaning clothes and equipment, many beastmen come to have themselves cleaned off by the slimes; as one of them says, "My fur has never been cleaner."Miya: "They make us look great, they make us smell great, and they make us feel great while they're in the process of doing the other two!"
Metal and Iron Slimes
- Lightning Bruiser: They're Ryouma's hardiest slimes by default, but their significant weight made them very slow... that is, until they learned to turn into balls and roll around. Not only did that turn them into Ryoma's fastest slimes when moving downhill or even just on flat ground, but they can also do a lot of damage just by crashing into things.
- Logical Weakness: They fear acid and other corrosive substances like dark magic fumes. The Big Iron Slime however is resistant to them as they're pure iron and don't have as many impurities that can chemically react.
- Morph Weapon: Ryouma eventually teaches them how to form themselves into numerous types of weapons. The most iconic of them is a Big Iron Slime transforming into a very sharp, very powerful, very pure katana.
- Mundane Utility: As dangerous and effective as they are as weapons and at attacking even while untransformed, the Metal and Iron Slimes more commonly work as clothing irons for Ryouma's laundromat, flattening any creases and wrinkles from sheer weight and the water-less process of the Cleaner Slimes. During the opening party of said laundromat, one of them has been transformed into a pot for serving fruit punch and is clearly stirring the contents itself.
- Reality Is Unrealistic: Rapidly-rusting metal is a common sight in modern media, but a fact it often overlooks is that it's not iron itself that rapidly rusts, but impurities within the iron. Pure iron is actually very difficult to corrode, as an evil treant learns to its detriment when trying to rust the Big Iron Slime.
- Throwing Your Sword Always Works: If needed, they can serve as throwing weapons for Ryoma. Since there are so many of them, he can throw them by the dozen without leaving himself unarmed, and because they're his fastest slimes, they can just roll back to him afterwards.
Poison and Medicine Slimes
- Combat Pragmatist: Ryouma's used them for some pretty nasty tricks. Not only can their poisons be used to coat weapons, he also once killed a famous bandit by sending a poison slime into the man's wine.
- Exact Words: Poison slimes prefer poisonous diets. Technically speaking, medicines are also a type of poison, especially when used incorrectly, which is why it's a poison slime that ends up taking a liking to the taste of medicine and evolving.
Bloody Slime
- Admiring the Abomination: Definitely one of the more unsettling slimes in the series, both in form and in function. Ryouma nevertheless finds it fascinating.
- Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: Rather than be roughly ball-shaped like typical slimes, the Bloody Slime takes the shape of a pancake-shaped, oversized red blood cell. You are what you eat, after all.
- Bad Powers, Good People: Bloodsucking certainly isn't the first choice on a list of "good powers". But under Ryouma's command, the Bloody Slime uses its talents on monsters rather than people, and it has no issues feeding off of monster corpses to make them easier to dispose of.
- Vampiric Draining: It needs an open wound in the target to feed on blood, of course — but once it has one, it forcibly enters their bloodstream and drains them dry.
Rimel Birds
Nightmare Rimel Bird. They are very vocal, highly intelligent monsters, infamous for their discerning tastes in music and the danger they can pose to the ignorant and unprepared. In General
- Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Eins, the Nightmare Limour bird, has the most offensive capability of the flock. He's also their leader, and always the first in when the birds are hunting for food.
- The Beautiful Elite: The birds are really lovely, and highly sought after by Monster Tamers; they're hard to find note and harder to attract to form a contract.
- Blow You Away: All Rimel birds can use wind magic, even attack spells like Wind Cutter. They also use it to fly further and faster than almost any other monster, which is why they're prized as messengers.
- Brown Note: The Nightmare Rimel Bird can use dark magic, sending out waves of energy that cause severe psychological distress in anyone that can hear it. If you're incredibly resistant to mental pain like Ryouma, it just sounds like an awful racket.
- Head Pet: Eins, the Nightmare Rimel Bird, likes to perch on Ryouma's head whenever he gets the chance, rather than on a tree branch.
- Inconsistent Spelling: They're also known as Limour birds in the English translations.
- Numerical Theme Naming: Ryouma names all his birds after German numerals.
Ryouma's Employees
Carla and Callum Norad
Carla is voiced by: Risa Kubota (Japanese), Dani Chambers (English)
Callum is voiced by: Sakura Nakamura (Japanese), Lee George (English)
Fraternal twins, with Carla being the older and Callum the younger. They act as Ryouma's first managers and employees for his laundry business when it starts in Gimul and continues working in that branch once he expands.
- Coordinated Clothes: They wear nearly identical clothes to each other. Aside from the distribution of light and dark hues, Callum wears waistcoats and pants while Carla has blouses and dresses.
- Half-Identical Twins: Carla and Callum Norad are fraternal twins that look almost entirely the same except for gender, hairstyles, and clothes. Carla is the older and they refer to each other as their older sister and younger brother, respectively, but they otherwise respond and act almost as if they were one person with two bodies.
- Identical Twin ID Tag: While they're already different genders with the appropriately styled-clothing, Callum's hair is spikier and messier with his bangs swept and clipped to the left side of the audience, while Carla's hair is neatly styled into a ponytail and her bangs are swept and clipped to the right side of the audience.
- Shared Unusual Trait: Both twins have a white streak in their otherwise light orange hair.
- Single-Minded Twins: They oftentimes speak simultaneously, especially emphasized in the anime when they say "Understood." to Ryouma.
Fei and Li Ling
Fei is voiced by: Tsuyoshi Aoki (Japanese), Oscar Seung (English)
Li is voiced by: Hisako Tōjō (Japanese), Emi Lo (English)
- Anime Chinese Girl: Li Ling, especially emphasized with her Qipao dress. Justified as they spent all their money fleeing Gilmar, so these are the only clothes she owns.
- Becoming the Mask: In LN vol 7, Fay reveals to Ryouma that the reason his daughter looks very little like him is because they're not actually blood-related. Lilyn was one of several orphan children taken in by the family Fay served to be trained as agents and soldiers. After more than ten years constantly posing as father and daughter, Fay and Lilyn have long since informally adopted each other.
- Beware the Nice Ones: They're genuinely friendly and cheerful to Ryouma, but they're still highly trained and experienced assassins and were hired to serve as security guards alongside the clerks.
- Combat Haircomb: Li Ling's hairpin is a razor-sharp pick.
- Dark and Troubled Past: They were former assassins in a war-torn land. After their master died, they were surrounded by vengeful warmongers and families everywhere, spent all the money they had escaping the border, and suffered through all manner of dangerous and demeaning jobs as they were foreigners from dubious backgrounds.
- A Day in the Limelight: Fay gets a much bigger role in LN vol 7, as he serves as Ryouma's bodyguard during his visit to the Jamil family.
- Handicapped Badass: After Fei breaks his leg in a mining accident, he decides to hide a sword inside his walking cane. He no longer needs it to walk after Ryouma heals his leg with a healing slime, but he keeps the tool to help guard Ryouma's laundromat.
- Hidden Weapons: The both of them are constantly armed with concealed weapons.
- Inconsistent Spelling: They're called "Fay" and "Lilyn" in the English translations of the novels.
- Shell-Shocked Veteran: Downplayed but most certainly there, with how Fei explicitly says neither of them can feel comfortable without a weapon in easy reach. Considering they were assassins and their home country, Gilmar, is currently plunged in constant chaos and war, it was a necessity.
- Sword Cane: Fei's walking cane conceals a sword.
The Jamil Duchy
Family Members
The family who run Gimul and other territories all throughout the kingdom. They are descended from the creator of Taming Magic and are powerful monster tamers as well. In General
- Badass Family: The Jamil family descend from a previous person blessed by the gods who invented and mastered Taming Magic and her descendants certainly haven't slacked off in that respect. Eliaria is especially powerful since she also has another Earthling ancestor on her mother's side.
- Benevolent Boss: As seen during Ryouma's visit in LN vol 7 & 8, all the Jamil servants are proud of the family they serve. It also goes both ways - Reinback and Elize not only help plan Hughes and Lulunese's wedding, but hold it on the grounds of the Jamil estate, even allowing considerable renovations in the gardens for the wedding pavilion.
- Happily Married: Reinhart and Elize clearly love each other very much.
- Hero of Another Story: It's implied that Reinback, Reinhart, and Elize would all have made good light novel story fodder themselves in their pre-family days - Ryouma's story is possibly a crossover with their Earn Your Happy Ending. They off-handedly mention and brag about the extremely powerful monsters they have formed contracts with, from rare Fenrirs to a horde of loyal dragons.
- Interclass Friendship: They're a rich and privileged family of aristocrats, but they don't look down on Ryouma for being an orphan they found living in the woods. They all take in Ryouma with open arms and treat him as a member of their family, although Ryouma still refuses to rely too much on them because he wants to make a living by himself.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something: The Jamil Duchy are very proud of their legacy of good governance, frequently getting personally involved in matters when Ryouma points them out. Former Duke Rheinback takes it very badly when he learns that his communal toilet project has not only been ransacked by the corrupt administration for money, it has become a biological time-bomb of disease that Ryouma narrowly defuses.
Eliaria Jamil
Voiced by: Yuuki Kuwahara (Japanese), Suzie Yeung (English)
- Blessed with Suck: She's got incredible stores of mana, but like many other kids, she struggles to keep it under control and actually use it properly. In her early years, this ended with her accidentally freezing a playmate. He was fine but her reputation was forever tainted.
- Cheerful Child: Despite her Friendless Background, she's a very happy and well-adjusted child who enjoys Ryouma's company.
- Commuting on a Bus: Eliaria leaves the main narration after LN vol 3, when she goes to the Academy, but she gets background mentions (Ryouma mentions getting letters from her, though not the contents) and side story chapters often enough to make sure the readership knows she's still an important part of Ryouma's life and the story in general.
- Crush Blush: She blushes around Ryouma a lot, with varying degrees of luminescent.
- Don't Call Me "Sir": Before they part ways, she asks Ryoma to start calling her "Elia" instead of "Milady".
- Elegant Classical Musician: In order to attract Rimel Birds as familiars, Eliaria learns to play the violin and is very good at it, especially for an eleven year old. She's also very good on the flute.
- First-Name Basis: During her farewell with Ryouma when leaving Gimul, Eliaria gently demands that he address her by her first name instead of 'My Lady' from now on, because they're friends.
- Friendless Background: She lacked friends because of her vast magical powers and some nasty rumors after she accidentally froze a boy during training. She's slowly averting this at school, with her newly-assembled (as of LN vol 5) girl squad. Even this is partly due to Ryouma; students at the academy are meant to form groups of four to six for training purposes, but Eliaria's starts when she's approached by Miyabi, a beastman girl who made friends with Ryouma previously and he suggested she look up Eliaria when she got to the academy.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She's got blonde hair and is an absolute sweetheart.
- Head Pet: Her first ever Cleaner slime is always resting atop her head or her hat.
- Hidden Depths: As the heir of a noble family that strongly believes in being Royals Who Actually Do Something, Eliaria has already had a lot of education about things that children normally don't, like economics.
- Innocent Blue Eyes: She's an innocent young girl with bright blue eyes.
- The Lady's Favour: Before she leaves to study at the Imperial Academy, Eliaria and Ryoma exchange precious possessions and make a promise to return them to each other when they meet again in a few years. Eliaria gives Ryoma a priceless necklace and Ryoma gives her two of his slimes.
- Puppy Love: She's eleven years old like Ryouma's current self and is obviously crushing on him. Although, she doesn't know he's mentally an adult because of his Past-Life Memories.
- Uptown Girl: She's the daughter of a Duchy, while her crush Ryouma starts his new life as a hermit in the woods to then make a living through humble jobs like opening a laundromat.
Reinhart Jamil
Voiced by: Daisuke Ono (Japanese), Anthony Bowling (English)
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: He's got blonde hair and is a stalwart, honest, and principled man.
- Strong Family Resemblance: He's a striking image of his father in his prime, especially with his facial features. His daughter Eliaria is also the exact same shade of blonde as him.
Elize Jamil
Voiced by: Saori Hayami (Japanese), Caitlin Glass (English)
- Fiery Redhead: She's got brilliant red hair and when she wants something, she can be very insistent about it.
- Inconsistent Spelling: In the English translations, Elize's name is spelled 'Elise'.
- Marshmallow Hell: While her chest is not impressively sized and she dresses modestly, she nonetheless accidentally does this to Ryouma once while giving him a motherly hug.
- Nightmare Face: Played for Laughs when she insists Ryouma to stay in the inn.
- Parental Substitute: She's the closest thing to a mother Ryouma has in the new world.
- Significant Green-Eyed Redhead: She has red hair and green eyes, and besides being the wife of a duke, she's descended from an Earthling who was sent to the other world by the gods.
Rheinback Jamil
Voiced by: Takehito Koyasu (Japanese), Kent Williams (English)
- Awesome, but Impractical: He has an ongoing Monster Contract with a large group of all-powerful dragons. They're excellent for securing the mountains under his House's control but he can't show them off for fun as their mere appearance will cause distress and panic in the surrounding areas.
- Cool Old Guy: He looks like a man enjoying his retirement with his family (and he is) but he still has active Taming Contracts with a group of dragons so large, powerful, and potentially destructive he uses them to guard and protect the mountains under the Duchy's control.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: He had blonde hair, which you can see in his son and granddaughter, but remains a virtuous man and politician all the same.
- Retired Badass: He was quite the adventurer, magician, politician, and monster tamer back in his time. One of his greatest achievements was subduing the leader of a group of powerful wild dragons, securing their loyalty even decades later. These days he only uses them as guard animals for a mountain range his family owns, has gladly stepped down for his son, Reinhart, and is enjoying his retirement with his family and his odd-friendship with Ryouma.
- Too Awesome to Use: He has control over a large group of dragons, some of the most powerful monster types in existence. They're so large, destructive, and intimidating that he can't summon them even just to show them off, and they mostly live and guard a mountain range under his House's control. Just their presence alone can easily cause panic in the people, or the nation's enemies' thinking that something more insidious is afoot, akin to suddenly flying out your largest, most powerful, and intimidating warplanes on an otherwise normal day.
Household Staff
Sebas
Voiced by: Tomomichi Nishimura (Japanese), Francis Henry (English)
- Cool Old Guy: Though he's no retired warrior like his employer, he's still a highly skilled Space Magician, singlehandedly solving many of the Duchy's logistics problems like transportation.
- Mundane Utility: He has the ability to create pockets in space-time on a whim and uses it to carry luggage and vehicles for his employer.
- Space Master: His specialty is space magic. He can use Warp and most prominently, Dimension Home to store carriages plus horses and luggage. It's implied in the novels that he's actually one of the strongest, or at least most respected, Space magicians in the country.
Guards
Hughes
Voiced by: Keisuke Koumoto (Japanese), Jeremy Inman (English)
- Dumb Muscle: He's an excellent soldier and bodyguard, but don't trust him for anything past that, like telling ladies the disgusting truths behind the Cleaner slimes' evolution.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Inverted. Lulunese is very highly thought of among the Jamil employees, and there was more than a handful of men dying to ask her out but didn't have the nerve. When Hughes, of all men, won her affections, he became the subject of a great deal of envy... and more than a few 'shovel talks'.
- The Power of Love: When he falls in love with Lulunese, Hughes starts to put a lot more effort into his career, in an effort to be worthy of her. It works.
- Taking the Bullet: Ryouma first meets him when he suffered a serious injury protecting his master and the rest of their escort party from a monster attack.
- Too Dumb to Live: As effective as he is in combat and trusted as Reinhart's righthand man, he's got hilariously poor social skills and oftentimes acts impulsively, leading to him getting hurt and insulted in all manner of ways.
The Adventurer's Guild
Officials
Worgan
Voiced by: Tetsu Inada (Japanese), Chris Guerrero (English)
- Baritone of Strength: The anime gives him an incredibly deep and intimidating voice to match the rest of his muscular build and his reputation for intimidating and terrifying people on-sight.
- Face of a Thug: He has a rough, intimidating, and terrifying face, made all the more effective by his tall, powerful build and his weapon, a greatsword that's almost as tall as he is. Though the adventurers themselves know he is a Reasonable Authority Figure, they like to joke around that many unknowing civilians mistake him for a bandit and start running.
- Large and in Charge: Towers over even the other male adults in the cast. He's built like a brick house, carries a greatsword that's almost as tall as he is, and has the Face of a Thug that only enhances his authoritative aura. It's not entirely a good thing; his adventurers frequently joke people mistake him for a bandit than the man who leads the fight against them.
- Noodle Incident: At the Bamboo Forest opening party, Grisella makes reference to something that happened during his days in the field, which apparently brings new meaning to the word 'dirty'. Worgan is mortified just by the reminder!
- Reasonable Authority Figure: After Ryouma proves he's got abilities far beyond an 11-year-old should have, Worgan has got no issues trusting him with defusing a disaster-level crisis and treating him just like any other experienced and highly competent adventurer.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: He and Griselle love to bicker and argue just for the sake of it all the time, but they are good friends that stick together through thick and thin.
Maylene
Voiced by: Yuu Wakui (Japanese), Anastasia Muñoz (English)
- Demoted to Extra: Downplayed. While not a main character, Maylene gets more screen time in the novels and details on what her job entails.
- Suspiciously Specific Denial: According to an eye-swipe in the anime, Maylene is not dating Worgan.
Members
Miya Catt
Voiced by: Marika Kouno (Japanese), Monica Rial (English)
- Bare Midriffs Are Feminine: She's a girly Cat Girl wearing a crop top that exposes her belly.
- Cat Girl: Cat's ears on her head, whiskers, and fangs.
- Little Bit Beastly: She looks like a girl with the ears and tail of a cat.
- Marshmallow Hell: She gives it to Ryoma while hugging him after the work in the latrines, causing him (in the English dub) to briefly flub his response to Miya thanking him for a job well done.Ryoma: Thank… boobs! I-I mean you!
- The Nose Knows: She's got an exceptional sense of smell. This works against her when the landfill behind her house winds up spilling into her basement. She's ecstatic when Ryouma takes the quest to clean up, deodorize and repair said basement, and gives him a bonus when he goes above and beyond to secure the basement against future spills.
- Verbal Tic: Miya Catt, a cat Beastman, likes to pepper her words with "Nya", the Japanese equivalent of the English "Meow". The English translations make her constantly do cat puns instead.
Welanna
Voiced by: Yuuki Hirose (Japanese), Lauren Landa (English)
- Cleavage Window: Her outfit has a diamond-shaped opening to show off her cleavage.
- Little Bit Beastly: She looks like a woman with a wolf's ears and tail.
Mizelia
Voiced by: Yūki Takada (Japanese), Amber Lee Connors (English)
- Little Bit Beastly: She looks like a woman with a tiger's ears and tail.
Cilia
Voiced by: Yui Fukuo (Japanese), Risa Mei (English)
- Little Bit Beastly: She looks like a girl with a rabbit's ears and tail.
The Merchant's Guild
Officials
Grisella
Voiced by: Reiko Suzuki (Japanese), Wendy Powell (English)
- Cool Old Lady: She's visibly very old, wrinkly, and hunched over but she's still as effective in facilitating and regulating businesses, entrepreneurs, and prospective employees as ever.
- Mistaken for Superpowered: Ryoma thinks she has Telepathy, but in reality, she is just a very perceptive person with a lot of experience.
Members
Serge Morgan
Voiced by: Makoto Yasumura (Japanese), Charlie Campbell (English)
A friend of Former Duke Rheinback, head of the Morgan Trading Company, and Ryouma's main business partner. Through his connections and his work, he makes the two of them and many others very rich and prosperous indeed.
- Honest Corporate Executive: He could have easily taken advantage of Ryouma's ignorance in business several times but chooses to treat him as a partner and an equal. Granted, he knows Former Duke Rheinback well, that there should be much more to this young boy than meets the eye, and it wouldn't be good for business to make enemies with the Duchy that runs the city he's based out of.
City of Lenaf
Pioro Saionji
Voiced by: Kenichi Suzumura (Japanese), Shawn Gann (English)
A merchant and boss of the Saionji Trading Company. He's a descendant of a Child of God, having maintained within his family many aspects and traditions of his ancestor, including his surname.
- Eyes Always Shut: He always keeps his eyes closed.
- Teasing Parent: He likes teasing his daughter Miyabi, like asking her if Ryoma was hitting on her when he first arrives at their company.
Miyabi Saionji
Voiced by: Yuiko Tatsumi (Japanese), Kristi Rothrock (English)
A young female fox beastkin and Pioro's daughter. She trains to be a merchant like her father and befriends Ryoma during his stay in the city of Lenaf. She later moves to the capital to study at the Imperial Academy, becoming one of Eliaria's close friends.
- Hime Cut: She's descended from a Japanese otherworlder, dresses in kimono, and sports a traditional hime cut with blunt bangs, chin length sidelocks, and waist length straight hair.
- Little Bit Beastly: She looks like a girl with fox ears and a tail.
The Gods
Gain
Voiced by: Motomu Kiyokawa (Japanese), R. Bruce Elliott (English)
- Berserk Button: Do not insult or belittle Earth's idol groups, especially by comparing them to the music troupes and entertainers of the other world. To him, those girls work hard and deserve all the recognition and adoration they get.
- Big Ol' Eyebrows: He has big and long eyebrows that look like a mustache above his eyes and seem to defy gravity.
- The Maker: He's the creator of animals and nature in the new world.
Lulutia
Voiced by: Kikuko Inoue (Japanese), Marissa Lenti (English)
- Flowers of Femininity: Her hair and dress are decorated with flowers, emphasizing her beauty and femininity.
- Hot Goddess: She's a goddess appearing in the form of a lovely, shapely, twenty-something woman.
- Love Goddess: She's the goddess of love.
- Magical Floating Shawl: She wears a translucent blue hagoromo that forms a Heart Symbol outline for Cardiovascular Love above her head and shoulders, signifying her status as a Love Goddess.
- Rose-Haired Sweetie: She's a pink-haired Love Goddess with a sweet and motherly personality.
- Sweet Tooth: During her trips to Earth, she likes going on marathon dessert eating sessions.
Kufo
Voiced by: Makoto Koichi (Japanese), Ciarán Strange (English)
- Curtains Match the Window: Has golden eyes as well as hair.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: He's a benevolent, young-looking, and blond god.
- Long-Haired Pretty Boy: He appears as a cute young boy with long blong hair he wears in a braid.
- Noodle Incident: Recalls visiting Atlantis during his most recent trip to Earth.
- Supernatural Gold Eyes: He's a god with golden eyes.
- Travel Montage: One of these (complete with constant selfies!) overlays Kufo recounting his most recent trip to Earth while chatting with Ryouma.
Tekun
Voiced by: Nobuyuki Hiyama (Japanese), Patrick McAlister (English)
The Craft God and the God of Wine. In his aspect as the God of Wine, he appears as a short, hairy, middle-aged man with a wine barrel under his right arm, and a wine bottle in his left. Worshipped by the dwarves in both aspects, he hears about the new Transferee from Gain, Lulutia and Kufo. Impressed by Takebayashi's tolerance for alcohol, he gives Ryouma his Blessing as well, though only in his aspect of God of Wine.
- Born Lucky: Variant. One specific feature of his Blessing as God of Wine is that the best and rarest liquors will always be available when you're shopping for drinks. Usually at a discount.
- Expy: While several other Gods clearly seem to be inspired by various members of the Greek Pantheon, Tekun, who is illustrated wearing a wreath of vines and a one-shouldered tunic, seems to definitely be an Expy for Dionysus.
- It Amused Me: When Ryouma finally meets him face to face, Tekun says he Blessed Ryouma simply because he was interesting.
- Magical Barefooter: He's a barefoot god.
- Walking the Earth: While the other Gods have homes, Tekun prefers to wander.Tekun(LN vol 3): "Nah, I don't got no home. I'm a god of work and wine, and there are all sorts of places where you can partake in those. I just wander between the worlds when I feel like it."
Fernobelia
Voiced by: Takuya Eguchi (Japanese)
God of Magic and Academics. He appears as a thin man with shoulder length hair; comes across as kind of a grouch. Unlike the other Gods, whose homes appear as white voids, his personal territory is a large library.
- God of Knowledge: He's the god who rules over magic and academics.
- Holy Halo: He's a god with a giant halo floating above his head.
- Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: He argues constantly with Kiriluel, as they are polar opposites.
- Smart People Wear Glasses: He is the God of Academics and the only of the known gods to wear glasses.
Kiriluel
Goddess of War. She's also in charge of Judgement; on the rare occasions a human cause so much harm to the world that the gods have to step in, she's the one for the job.
- Action Girl: She's stated outright to be capable of taking on Gain, Lulutia and Kufo at once single-handedly; she could even kill them if necessary, though it would be a very tough fight. It's to be expected since she's a War Goddess.
- Amazonian Beauty: She appears as a strong, fit woman in armor, both beautiful and wild.
- Fiery Redhead: She has red hair, fitting her rough and violent nature as a War Goddess.
- Genius Bruiser: She's very clever in all kinds of strategy.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: She has red eyes to match her hair and she's the Goddess of War.
- Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: She argues constantly with Fernobelia, as their lifestyles and personalities are polar opposites.
- War Goddess: She's the goddess of war.
Wilieris
Goddess of Land and Bountiful Harvest. She appears as a graceful, middle-aged woman, both kindly and refined. Married to Grimp. One of three gods (along with Lulutia and Kufo) who usually gets invoked at weddings.
- Arch-Enemy: To Serelipta. They fought over the land/sea ration during the creation of the world, and haven't really stopped arguing since.
- Happily Married: Grimp mentions to Ryouma that he and Wilieris are on their 'billion-an-somethin' honeymoon'.
Grimp
God of Agriculture and Livestock. He appears as a strong, middle-aged man carrying a hoe. He's married to Wilieris.
- Happily Married: Grimp mentions to Ryouma that he and Wilieris are on their 'billion-an-somethin' honeymoon'.
Manoailoa
God of Wind, Travel, and Performing Arts. He doesn't seem to have a defined form - he's said to "take the form of the ever-present wind and watches over us".
- The Faceless: Even his worshippers have no idea what he looks like. At the Gimul festival in LN vol 5, Ryouma meets a troupe of travelling performers who pay tribute to him by tying handkerchief-sized cloths around a masked statue.
- The Ghost: Has not appeared in the series to date.
Serelipta
God of Fishing and Ports. His home appears as the depths of the ocean. Looks rather like a merman in the illustrations.
- Arch-Enemy: To Wilieris ever since the creation of the world, due to their disagreement over the land/sea ratio.
- Expecting Someone Taller: Nearly all the depictions of Serelipta show him as a tall, butch, brawny man.
- For the Lulz: Inverted. Unlike the other gods, Seralipta thinks Ryouma's quite boring and offers him extensive critique on being interesting to watch. Ryouma realizes later he doesn't actually mean to be insulting, he just has no filter.Ryouma's POV: Somehow, this god I'd never met was giving me serious "editor lecturing an author about every single mistake they make" vibes...
- Long-Haired Pretty Boy: He appears as an androgynous teenage boy with long flowing hair.
- Might Makes Right: Big believer in this, to the point he deliberately triggers Ryouma's trauma from his Earth life to try and overcome his crazy-level mental resistance. After Wilieris and Grimp come along and rescue Ryouma from his clutches and report him for breaking the rules... he gives Ryouma a tip about finding a rare slime, gives him a vague warning about the future, and sincerely wishes him well. Wilieris thinks that he actually ''likes'' Ryouma.
Japan
Ryoma's Parents
- Abusive Parents: While his mother was a good, kind woman, Ryoma's father was an "ultra-conservative" brute who thought it was the height of righteousness to force Ryouma into Training from Hell. He thought nothing of putting him into difficult martial-arts stances while ordering him to think of nothing and look at nothing for long periods of time. Should Ryouma fail, he would strike him in the back of the head with a baseball bat then yell abuse at him while he's on the ground in a Troubled Fetal Position.
- Motherhood Is Superior: Unlike his self-righteous, monstrous father, Ryoma's mother was good and kind, watching over and tending to him to alleviate his suffering due to working in an extremely toxic and abusive environment. She even went out of her way to stay up into the wee hours of the morning so Ryouma would have someone to come home to after his long, constant streaks of overtime.
- Struggling Single Mother: Ryoma's father died when he started high school. He and his mother had to sell their house and work overtime to make a living for themselves, with his mother eventually dying from overwork.
- Unnamed Parent: They never get their names mentioned.
