Character sheet for Endo and Kobayashi Live! The Latest on Tsundere Villainess Lieselotte.
Note: Following the conventions of the J-Novel Club translation, Japanese characters will have their names in Eastern order, while other characters will be in Western order.
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Endo Aoto
Voiced by: Kaito Ishikawa
The Play-by-Play Caster of the duo. Having been trained as a baseball player for most of his life, he moved to the Broadcasting Club after sustaining a Career-Ending Injury. Has an obvious crush on Kobayashi.- Aimlessly Seeking Happiness: His general mood after his Career-Ending Injury, since he has no clue of any Goal in Life. The novel describes his mood when he first joined the Broadcasting Club as being "a walking husk, lost as to why he was even alive. He spent his days attending school and simply not dying." Kobayashi cheered him up significantly over the months right before the story begins.
- Career-Ending Injury: He used to be on the baseball team, but an injury to his shoulder put an end to any dreams of going pro (which were unlikely to begin with, seeing that he was "run-of-the-mill" in his own words). Shortly after, he met Kobayashi who encouraged him to join the broadcasting club, suggesting that maybe he could become a sports commentator instead.
- Cry for the Devil: Literally. That's his response after going through the fan disc at Kobayashi's behest.The conclusion? Aoto bawled. A mere otome game turned this high school boy into a sobbing wreck.
- Converted Fanboy: Endo only started playing Magikoi because his crush Kobayashi likes it, and hopes they can have more conversational topics. But still he got to play it for a month and a half before the current story.
- Does Not Like Spam: Eggplants. A funny moment that also shows how he's preoccupied with the Kuon Kirise thing involves him absent-mindedly ordering eggplant Bolognese during a date with Kobayashi, attempts to leave it all out, but finally having to eat what he calls his Achille's Heel because he thinks it's uncool to admit it to Kobayashi.
- Expository Hairstyle Change: A minor case. He had a crew cut while he was playing baseball, but he switched to a more natural hairstyle since.
- I Coulda Been a Contender!: He's actively working to defy this, especially he doesn't want this to mar his entire memory of baseball. This is probably a reason he declined a Post-Injury Desk Job at the baseball team.
- Minor Living Alone: He lives alone in an apartment complex owned by his aunt so he can be closer to his high school, chosen for its baseball program. He could have moved back home after he retired from baseball, but by the time he started having a crush on Kobayashi.
- Non-Uniform Uniform: He tends to put a hooded jacket between his blazer and shirt, with the hood exposed on top of the blazer.
- Periphery Demographic: In-Universe. Magikoi is a game mainly catered for women, but he gets emotionally invested in it.
- Straight Man: Coming from a background that's diagonally opposite of gaming, he's usually the person providing the layman's opinion on Magikoi.
Kobayashi Shihono
Voiced by: Kana Hanazawa
The Color Commentator of the duo. She's an energetic girl who happens to have an obsession over the Romance Game named Love Me Magically!, especially over Lieselotte, the supposed villainess. The story itself started as she pesters Endo to play the game with her.- Always Second Best: She has been living under the shadow of her ace sister Chiyono for her entire life. This makes her always feel insecure about her abilities, which is why she Can't Spit It Out—like Lieselotte, she thinks she isn't good enough to be loved.
- Cry for the Devil: In-Universe. Kobayashi becomes highly sympathetic with Lieselotte's plights after playing Lieselotte's route of the fan disc.
- Fangirl: Kobayashi is one to Magikoi, although she fixates on Lieselotte, the tragic villainess. The story essentially started as Kobayashi pesters Endo to play Magikoi. Turns out it is due to a case of Commonality Connection—Kobayashi has been overshadowed by her older sister Chiyono, and thus has pretty poor self-esteem. Despite having crush on Endo, she thought Endo's crush was towards Chiyono, which makes her having a similar predicament as Lieselotte.
- Genki Girl: Very energetic, especially when talking about her hobbies.
- Hidden Depths: While Kobayashi and Endo are classmates, Endo initially saw her as rowdy. It was the Broadcasting Club event when he found her surprisingly insightful. And it turns out her Genki Girl behavior masks her insecurity when compared to her sister.
- Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Subverted. While her Genki Girl behavior may lead the reader to think Endo has a crush on her for that reason, his backstory segment shows it's her being thoughtful that causes it.
- Ms. Exposition: Having finished all endings in all routes of Magikoi, Kobayashi provides Endo (as well as the audience) exposition regarding the game, its lore, as well as some general knowledge regarding Romance Games. This is lampshade by her designating herself as the "color commentator," or the "expert analyst" in some translations—in sports commenting, this role is usually held by a person who's experienced with the sport.
- Positive Friend Influence: In a section added to episode 1 of the anime, the rest of the Broadcasting Club reflected Endo was "still pretty bummed out" when he joined mid-year, but has cheered up a lot due to Kobayashi.
- Otaku: While lacking most nerd traits, she is so big into Romance Games the anthology serializing the manga refers to her as such.
Students and Faculty of the Royal Academy of Magic
Lieselotte Riefenstahl
Voiced by: Tomori Kusunoki
The titular "Tsundere Villainess" of Love Me Magically!, Lieselotte is the eldest daughter of the current Riefenstahl marquess, as well as the fiancée of Crown Prince Siegwald. In the game, she plays the role of the Alpha Bitch bully towards Fiene, and ends up causing Siegwald to break up their engagement. The despair eventually caused her to be possessed by the Witch of Yore, and killed by the rest of the cast.However, her route of the game's fan disc shows she never intended to be harsh to anyone, but her aloof and haughty attitude made her mistaken as actually evil. Kobayashi concludes Lieselotte as a misunderstood Tsundere, and would prefer if she had a better end than what the game gives her.
- Ambiguously Bi: While Lieselotte is very likely bisexual in the game's timeline—being in love with Siegwald yet her love with Fiene is strong enough to invoke Love Redeems—the question of whether she is still attracted by women is rather ambiguous in the novel's timeline, owing to her scenes with Fiene still limited to subtext.
- Berserk Button: In chapter 23 of the manga she was already denying the Witch a chance to break her spirit by refuting her claims about Fiene taking everything from her. What really sets Lieselotte off is suggesting that Siegwald would ignore his royal duties just for a romance when she knows how hard he works and how he denies his own desires.
- Cannot Spit It Out: Deconstructed, as her harsh tsundere tactics resulted in Siegwald thinking she saw him as an Unwanted Spouse which is what made it possible for him to try to get with Fiene in the game. Her inability to communicate her true feelings causes her to bottle them up to an unhealthy degree, which makes the inevitable backlash work against her. If it weren't for Endo and Kobayashi spelling out the truth to Siegwald to see through her antics, things would have ended up very bad for her
- Clingy Jealous Girl: Her reaction to seeing the golden ribbonnote on Fiene's wand (who doesn't know what it means and was just following the crowd) causes her to metaphorically declare war. It takes Fiene telling her that the ribbon came from the books she gave her to calm her down.
- Cool Big Sis: Her sisters often don't show it in her presence but they regard her as this. They lash out at Siegwald and Fiene in the game timeline for causing her demonic possession and death. Fiene comes to see her as this after getting over her initial fear of the noble. Later on, it becomes a literal version when Fiene is formally adopted into the Riefenstahl family. She also becomes this, metaphorically, towards Fabien.
- Death by Despair: If one removes the fantastical elements of the story, her death in the Magikoi canon is essentially one of these, triggered by Siegwald breaking up their engagement.
- Declaration of Protection:
- When she is "blessed" by the "goddess"/becomes a POV-Character, she vows to use this blessing to protect Sieg.
- Upon learning of Fiene's circumstances of how her maternal grandparents want her dead, she immediately decides to adopt her formally as a sister with the full intent on protecting her.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: Starts off somewhat haughty and aloof. Endo and Kobayashi giving Siegwald the necessary advice to see through her Tsundere acts, and thus avert many instances of her action being misinterpreted as cruelty allows her to open up more and become close friends to Finne and more honestly affectionate with Siegwald.
- Demonic Possession: Her fate in most routes of Magikoi is to fall so deeply into despair that she gets possessed by the Witch of Yore, turning into a monster that is slain by the heroes.
- Designated Villain: In-Universe; this is her role in the Magikoi. The main reason Endo and Kobayashi assist her is because they firmly believe her canon fate of being possessed and then killed is completely Disproportionate Retribution for being a haughty Tsundere at worst.
- Despair Event Horizon: In the Magikoi canon, it's the despair from being dumped by Siegwald that she fell into Demonic Possession. This is why Endo and Kobayashi find their ability to communicate with Siegwald a chance to prevent her downfall.
- Disproportionate Retribution: What Endo and Kobayashi see her canon fate, becoming a victim of Demonic Possession before getting offed, simply for acting like a haughty Tsundere and possibly getting mad when she believes her fiancé doesn't love her as this. Hence why they're dead set on giving her an ending where she survives that isn't as esoteric as the harem ending.
- Freudian Excuse: So why does Lieselotte wear a mask of harshness and aloofness to disguise her true, warm feelings? It goes back to when she was first betrothed to Siegwald when they were little children. Lieselotte was delighted and hoped to earn Siegwald's love. But then her well-meaning but misguided father told her she would have to temper her expectations in that regard, because as the future king, Siegwald could not afford to favor anybody, even his own wife, and Lieselotte would thus have to be careful not to burden him with her feelings. This advice affected Lieselotte pretty badly and resulted in her present personality.
- Friend to All Children: As a result of having the experience of raising her three younger sisters, she is very good with children. This is demonstrated when she and Siegwald attempts to recruit Fabien—she gets the highly defensive (owing to him being a Living MacGuffin) Fabien to relax in just an hour.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She has honey-blonde hair, and under her haughty front she is actually a kind-hearted person.
- Insecure Love Interest: She is convinced that she isn't lovable like Fiene. Even though she loves Siegwald from the bottom of her heart, she believes that any compliments that he gives her are part of his responsibilities as her fiancé.
- In-Series Nickname: The commentators call her Liese-tan.
- Lesbian Option: While she isn't a stand-alone romantic target in Magikoi, her presence in the reverse harem route implies the player (as Fiene) can romance her together with five males.
- Love at First Sight: Admits as much that she fell in love with Siegwald when they first met as children.
- Love Redeems: Endo and Kobayashi know that Liese resisting Demonic Possession is possible so long as her feelings of love and, more importantly, confidence in that love remains high. It doesn't actually matter who she's in love with, but they ship Sieg/Liese and go for that rather than the safer bet of the harem ending, which makes them uncomfortable. Liese's constant intense feelings of love also reawaken the Witch of Yore's true nature, causing her to revert to her true form as a goddess.
- Luminescent Blush: Her face positively glows when she's called out on doing something nice despite her harsh words, or when Sieg gets close to her.
- Nervous Tics: She twirls her Ojou Ringlet when she's nervous.
- Not Evil, Just Misunderstood: She takes a stereotypical Alpha Bitch role in the plot of Magikoi, seemingly putting down Fiene at every chance out of elitism and jealousy over Siegwald. However, as it turns out, she acts aloof and mean because she's too flustered to act in any other way and is bad at expressing her true feelings: that she loves Siegwald and is concerned about how Fiene is getting along in a new environment full of nobility. Her words sound sarcastic, but are an honest attempt to help.
- Ojou Ringlets: Being a high-ranking noblewoman, she has a noticeable hair ringlet on the right side of her head that tends to twist around her fingers when she's embarrassed.
- Poor Communication Kills: As a result of being a Tsundere who Cannot Spit It Out, her attempts to express herself end up misinterpreted with Siegwald thinking she hates him at first. The results would have been fatal without Endo and Kobayashi's interference.
- Promotion to Parent: Lieselotte's mother is still alive, but she is more interested in painting than in other's company. As a result, Lieselotte took the major role in raising her three younger siblings.
- Regal Ringlets: Aside from her Ojou Ringlets, closer shots of Lieselotte's hair show half of her hair is in curls.
- Thinks Like a Romance Novel: Was this as a child, having fallen in love with Siegwald when they first met she had hoped things would go as a fairytale. Her father put a stop to that. A little too well.
- Tsundere: The titular, Type A tsundere. She has a kind heart, but it is well hidden behind a very harsh front. Siegwald was led to believe she disliked him and that is why he drifts away from her in Magikoi canon, leading to her demonic possession and death. Then Endo and Kobayashi come into the scene and explain Lieselotte's behavior to him, and Siegwald starts to understand and find it endearing, as does Fiene and everybody else.
Crown Prince Siegwald Fitzenhagen
Voiced by: Yuichi Nakamura, Mio Ninomiya (Child)
The Crown Prince of the realm, and Lieselotte's fiancé. His ability to hear Endo and Kobayashi's commentaries kickstarted the story.- Adaptation Dye-Job: In the novel, he says his hair is platinum-blond, which is retained by the manga. The anime, however, turns him into a golden blonde.
- Curtains Match the Window: As a result of the aforementioned Adaptation Dye-Job, his eyes and hair are both gold in color in the anime.
- Everybody Calls Him "Barkeep": Most people in his universe just call him "Your Highness;" Lieselotte and Artur being the few people who tend to refer to him by his first name.
- Friendless Background: Lieselotte took a while to realize this, but due to him being the crown prince, he is no longer in the position to treat anyone of his age (other than Lieselotte and Artur) differently from one another. This means it's unwise for him to make friends—or enemies for that matter—at all.Even as a student—nay, because he was still a student—he could not afford to form concrete relationships.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Has blonde hair(platinum blonde in the novel and manga, golden in the anime) and is generally a Prince Charming who is shown to be a kind gentleman to everyone.
- Hearing Voices: He is able to hear Endo and Kobayashi's commentaries. But, later on in the story, he is not the only one...
- Lonely at the Top: Lieselotte's epiphany at the end of the first novel (which is not adapted in the manga) is mainly about this trope. What Bruno told her about the nature of a monarch wasn't wrong... especially when Siegwald is indeed trying to be responsible. The problem is Bruno didn't realize that the same responsibilities force him to be at arm's length to everyone, and Lieselotte is one of the two peoplenote with whom Siegwald can legitimately be a bit more intimate. This means her standoff-ish attitude towards him is harming his well-being.
- Mission from God: What he interprets Endo and Kobayashi's suggestions to avoid the bad ending as.
- Nice Guy: See Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold above. As the male lead from the game and a prototypical Prince Charming, he's generally one of the nicest and most understanding people around at all times.
- Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: Understandably, Siegwald won't know the Anime Fanspeak the two commentators use, such as Tsundere or Yuri, though he eventually figures out the former through context and has a partial understanding of yuri developments: Fiene and Liese getting along too well makes him uncomfortable for reasons he can't explain.
- Prince Charming: In a "Reborn as Villainess" Story, if the villainess has a prince as a fiancé, that prince usually has some glaring personality flaws. This ranges from Broken Ace at the most sympathetic to Royal Brat at the least. His initial misunderstanding of Lieselotte aside, Siegwald is one of the few who is as genuinely charming as he appears. Because this trope is nearly never played straight in the genre, the anime's character bios clarify he's a straight example.A true Prince Charming, [Siegwald] is the handsome crown prince of Fitzhagen and the Student Council President of the Royal Magic Academy.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: God Guise aside, he is willing to accept proof that his fiancée is not an elitist Alpha Bitch, and the scenes of him performing political activity also show his potential as leader, in that he might be the sanest among his teenage friends.
- Royalty Superpower: Members of the royal family have the apparent ability to commune with the gods. Hence when he somehow ends up hearing Kobayashi and Endou's commentary he assumes it's due to this power being in effect.
- Self-Applied Nickname: Right at the beginning, he allowed the commentators to call him "Sieg."
- Stepford Smiler: Lieselotte noticed this of him before she entered the academy. Not that Siegwald has any mental issues, but his station demands it.In contrast to his grinning mouth, Siegwald’s eyes had an unreadable blankness to them. They conveyed neither good nor bad. Who could say how much emotion he’d suppressed to achieve such tranquillity? When Lieselotte had first asked herself this, she’d wept.
- Student Council President: Something of an Informed Attribute in the story, since he's mainly in the position of Lieselotte's fiancé; and Fiene's friend. Justified, given his status as the heir apparent.
- Too Many Belts: Downplayed. In both novel and manga art, he is seen to wear two belts, despite having no apparent need for an extra belt.
- Unwanted Spouse: Subverted. He thought he was this to Liese at first due to not being able to see through her tsundere nature. Endo and Kobayashi's commentary lets him see through her real feelings behind her haughty demeanour and realizes that she truly does love him.
Fiene
Voiced by: Miyu Tomita
The Player Character of Love Me Magically, Fiene is a 15-year old commoner girl who unusually gained the use of magic and thus suddenly trusted into the world of nobility. In the game, she is supposed to be a rather generic girl who can romance one of the five targets, but in Endo and Kobayashi's playthrough, she turns into a somewhat different character.- Ambiguously Bi: She is this in both the original and the novel timelines. In the original game, her "reverse harem" route also includes Lieselotte along with several boys. In the novel timeline, despite being close to Baldur, her interactions with Lieselotte are noted by the commentators as "yuri developments".
- An Arm and a Leg: In the novel's timeline, she was attacked by the assassins chasing her and had her dominant arm cut off... except she immediately reattached it with healing magic and proceeded to defeat the attackers.
- Badass Adorable: She is adorable and cute...but also able to beat up people with her fists thanks to strengthening magic. One of the flashbacks to when she was attacked by assassins shows her surrounded by bodies and blood covering herself and the walls/floor, which is implied to not be her own when she says "All I did was punch them..."
- Big Eater: In episode 2 of the anime, she starts eating a huge manga meat with her hands. Lieselotte, who sits across the dining table, is so surprised that she has her mouth left (realistically) ajar.
- Book Dumb: When discussing her combat skills, Siegwald notes Fiene's combat abilities made up for her abysmal grades in the classroom. A rare Justified Trope, since Medieval Universal Literacy is only downplayed in this series, so it can be assumed that she learned much less than her schoolmates.
- Calling the Old Man Out: Does this briefly to her mother for abandoning her and saying she could try to live a normal life and romance since with how many people want her dead any possible lover she'd choose would no doubt be constantly in danger as well.
- Combat Medic: She possesses healing magic, however she is also a brutally (and comically) effective physical fighter far beyond everybody else in the setting.
- Disappeared Dad: She doesn't know the identity of his father until she enters the Academy.
- Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: She's an adorable Naïve Newcomer girl as well as a Rose-Haired Sweetie, but she's also power Kung-Fu Wizard and a Big Eater.
- Good Old Fisticuffs: In the novel's timeline, she tends to use status magic on herself, to increase her status, and then fight enemies with bare fists.
- Hearing Voices: Later in the story, she was also able to hear Endo and Koyabashi's commentaries.
- Heroic Bastard: She is the illegitimate daughter of both the Marschner and Riefenstahl houses via her mother Elizabeth Marschner and August Riefenstahl. This makes her Liese's cousin and, once everyone involves conspires to do away with the 'illegitimate' part, the strongest claimant to the Riefenstahl title.
- Idiot Hair: She sports one on the top of her head, which symbolizes her Naïve Newcomer trait.
- Innocent Blue Eyes: She has a pair of sky-blue eyes, which fits well with her original role as the Naïve Newcomer. She inherited those from her father August Riefenstahl.
- Kung-Fu Wizard: Mostly fights by using Magic to enhance her body to beat down the opposition with a powerful flurry of kicks and punches. Downplayed on the Kung Fu part as she has little formal martial arts training the trope implies.
- Mage Born of Muggles: She is this in the MagiKoi canon, being a commoner with magic while it is usually assumed to be restricted to the noble class. Subverted in novel's timeline. Fiene is actually a Royal Bastard and her mother is shown to have powerful magic. Fiene's mother fabricated her background to hide her identity.
- Meaningful Name: She is named after her mothers best friend and Lieselotte's mother, "Josephine".
- Naïve Newcomer: She has some trouble acclimating to the magic academy, especially as she's a commoner and she is surrounded by nobles, thought to be the only magic-users. The love interests (and Lieselotte in her tsundere way) help her get along.
- Nice Girl: She's not the protagonist of the original game for no reason, after all. She's genuinely very friendly to everyone - even Lieselotte during her Tsundere moments, including when she comes off as an outright villainess. Somewhat Downplayed with Bal when she starts developing Tsundere traits of her own, though none of it really takes away from her essential kindness.
- Only One Name: Following pre-industrial European customs, commoners like her don't have surnames. Ceases to be this after she's been adopted by Bruno later on.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: She's the second shortest of the cast (after Fabien), and without any doubt, she's the strongest physical fighter among them.
- Princess Phase: She mentions when she was a child, she would play pretend princess with her mother one day a week. This is the excuse Elizabeth uses to teach Fiene manners of the high society.
- Really Moves Around: She recalls in her early years, she and her mother had to move frequently to escape from people trying to hunt them down, sometimes moving once a month. Her mother explained that's because some high-ranking nobles are mad at her. Those were assassins sent from Fiene's maternal grandparents, and they're trying to hunt down Fiene, much less her mother.
- Reincarnation: Fiene is the current incarnation of Eve.
- Rose-Haired Sweetie: In all timelines, she has rose-blonde hair and is a sweet person with a mostly feminine demeanor. Downplayed as the one in the novel's timeline is also a martial artist and big eater.
- Royal Bastard: She is the illegitimate child of Elizabeth, a duke's daughter, and August, a marquis' son. Her bastardy is longer relevant after the events of Chapter 5 of the novels or Chapter 11 of the manga when she's adopted by Bruno and thus treated as Bruno's daughter by the public.
- Suddenly Suitable Suitor: When Baldur starts to have a crush on her, he suspected he would need to abandon the Riefenstahl heirship Bruno planned for him, as Bruno conditions it on Baldur marrying one of Lieselotte's younger sisters. And then it turns out her father is Bruno's late older brother. Which should make her Suddenly Suitable... but no. Since now she belongs to a branch more senior than Bruno's line, she's Bruno's new heir. The title of marquis falls to her husband, but in this case Baldur's the suitor.
- Support Party Member: Subverted. Artur (himself a very powerful mage of this class) mentions Fiene, having strong healing and Status Buff spells but little when it comes to Elemental Powers, probably belongs to the Priest class, this universe's equivalent to this trope. However, Fiene is more used to using the buffs on herself to aid her in manual fighting. And the healing? Good way to keep herself going if someone, say, chops off her arm.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Fiene likes meat as much as a shounen protagonist. In fact, she refused to be a priest because priests require occasional abstinence from meat.
- Trauma Button: Baldur pledging his life to protect her infuriates her because she doesn't want to stand back and be a damsel and watch him die. She tells him that she is strong enough to not need protection and if anything that they should fight side-by-side. It's hinted that she's seen him die this way before.
- Tsundere: She starts becoming a Type B as her relationship with Baldur progresses. She is usually sweet with everyone (especially Lieselotte) but Baldur announcing his feelings to her causes her embarrassment and she lashes out as a result. She even lampshades it after Baldur's confession.- "I'm acting like Lieselotte!" - Fiene
- Unskilled, but Strong: She never had formal martial arts training, but her Status Buff spell allows her to be some of the strongest person in the setting.
Baldur Riefenstahl
Voiced by: Tomokazu Sugita
Lieselotte's distant cousin, who is a knight in training. In the game, he dies protecting Fiene in all but three endings, and thus is another target for Video Game Caring Potential for Endo and Kobayashi. Has a crush on Fiene in all situations.- Ancestral Weapon: Wields a longsword that doubles as a Magic Wand, which is a Riefenstahl family heirloom given to him as the designated heir.
- Declaration of Protection: Does this to Finne during a monster hunt. Unfortunately, he accidentally hits Finne's Trauma Button in the process.
- Dumb Muscle: While the Riefenstahls, in general, have the reputation to be this, Baldur is specifically called out by Lieselotte to be stupid.
- Heir-In-Law: Is set to become Heir to the Riefenstahl Marquisdom via his arranged marriage to one of Lieselotte's sisters.
- Innocently Insensitive: His pledge to protect Fiene is just part of his honorable nature along with an oblivious crush. He wouldn't have known that such a declaration would trigger a traumatic reaction in her, causing her to tearfully lash out.
- In-Series Nickname: The commentators call him Bal.
- Hunk: At 1.91m, he's extremely tall, and he also has the Heroic Build often seen in Riefenstahls.
- Kissing Cousins: He is asked to marry one of Lieselotte's younger sisters as a condition of being Bruno's successor. And his crushing on Fiene can't avert this, since Fiene is also a cousin of Baldur's.
- Like Brother and Sister: Due to the age gap and having known them since they were young, Baldur admits to seeing Lieselotte's sisters, one of whom he will have to marry, more as his own little sisters than in any remotely romantic light.
- Kuudere: Kobayashi categorizes him as this.
- Magic Knight: In RPG terms, this is his class—his modus operandi is to channel offensive magic through his sword (which doubles as a wand), but he is incapable of most other classes of magic.
- Magic Wand: In an unusual case, his magic wand is embedded in his sword. It's a Riefenstahl heirloom that Bruno gave him to prepare for his heirship.
- Reincarnation: Baldur is the current incarnation of Adam.
- Sacrificial Lion: He is doomed to be killed by the possessed Lieselotte in most of the routes (the exceptions are his own and the harem one) leading to Fiene's awakening. Endo and Kobayashi are as determined to avert this fate for him as they are for Lieselotte. Later developments imply Baldur's death is another manipulation by the god stalking Fiene because Baldur is the current incarnation of Adam.
- Unknowingly in Love: Everybody picks up that he has a crush on Fiene long before the summer vacation started. He only realized it after it ended.Lieselotte: (Sarcastically) Took you long enough to notice, didn't it?
Artur Richter
Voiced by: Ryōta Ōsaka
Son of a Count and nephew of the country's top priest, Artur descends from a line of prominent priests. He is an up-and-coming mage in that class, to the point that while at school he has been performing government assignments. He is Childhood Friends with Siegwald, but compared to the latter he is a bit more morally ambiguous.- Affectionate Nickname: Siegwald often calls him "Art."
- Butt-Monkey: Probably because he's the most laid-back personality of the entire cast (which otherwise consists of serious characters like Lieselotte, Siegwald or Baldur), practically nothing goes his way within the story.
- Casanova Wannabe: According to Kobayashi, Artur is pigeonholed into the "flirty guy" archetype. In the story, he does (at least orally) flirt with Fiene more frequently than Baldur, and attempts to flirt with Lieselotte's younger sisters.
- Failure Is the Only Option: While a Casanova Wannabe, he isn't able to pick up anyone.
- Fiery Redhead: He has rose-gold hair, with the ends dyed in crimson. He's also the most lively of the Magikoi cast, especially compared to the more solemn Siegwald.
- Hidden Depths: Despite his foppish playboy nature, he shows strong amount of insight and capabilities, able to see through Siegwald's conflicts and offer honest helpful advice.
- Long-Haired Pretty Boy: Even Siegwald agrees with it. He has loosely-tied, waist-long hair, and Siegwald describes him as "excessively handsome."
- Only Friend: Since Lieselotte has been aloof to him for most of their lives, Art is the only person Siegwald can be friendly with since as a member of the hereditary High Priest house, he is, strictly speaking, not a subject of the crown.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: When it's revealed that Fiene is actually born from Bruno's older brother, he immediately decides to have some of his relatives in the church's higher upper echelonsnote forge documents to claim her as his legitimate offspring.
- Support Party Member: The priest class specializes in status magic, and he is no exception.
Leon Schach
Voiced by: Taku Yashiro
A teacher in the Royal Academy of Magic, and another romance target. He specializes in curses or debuff spells.- Bastard Angst: He was born an illegitimate son, but his father legitimatized him because his official wife bore no children... until right before he came to age, so he lost inheritance immediately.
- Eyes Always Shut: As a result, Kobayashi considers him a bit shady.
- Precocious Crush: He has had a crush on Elizabeth ever since his social debut at 6, and persists in the time of the plot.
- Status Effects: He specializes in status ailments.
Fabien Oltenberg
Voiced by: Shun Horie
The 11-year-old new student of the Academy.- Affectionate Nickname: Kobayashi usually calls him Fabien-kyun, or Fabby-boo in the localization.
- Battle Couple: Invoked when Lieselotte suggests setting him up with one of her sisters, as they could protect him while he casts his spells. Cecelia falls in Love at First Sight.
- Glass Cannon: Attack-wise he is a walking Fantastic Nuke, but he has very poor defence.
- MacGuffin Super-Person: Being a young child who is also a walking Fantastic Nuke, he was subjected to multiple kidnapping attempts. This causes him to become afraid of people, especially taller males.
- Magic Staff: Unlike most magic users that use a Magic Wand, he uses a bow-like staff that's longer than he is tall.
- Nervous Wreck: Fear of his powers, and repeated kidnapping attempts to exploit them have rendered him into this. Thankfully, meeting Lieselotte and the others seems to be putting him on the right track to coming out of his shell.
- Person of Mass Destruction: He specializes in area-of-effect spells. However, those spells take a long time to chant. On the other hand, his mana is so vast that the kingdom doesn't just allow him—but force him—to enroll in the Academy out of the fear that he lost control of his mana!
- Puppy Love: Lieselotte’s youngest sister Cecelia falls for him and becomes super protective of him.
- Token Mini-Moe: He is intended to be the "younger" romance target, and for the most part he still looks like an Innocent Prodigy.
Other Love Me Magically! Characters
General Bruno Riefenstahl
Voiced by: Yuu Maeda
Lieselotte's father and the current Marquis Riefenstahl.- Big Brother Instinct: Both Kobayashi and Siegwald's father mentions he has an inverted case of this; he began to learn swordplay and magic to protect his Delicate and Sickly older brother August.
- Open-Minded Parent: At his time, premarital sex is considered a form of adultery, and it would be a major scandal to many clans. Yet Bruno has little problem accepting August and Elizabeth consummating their relationship against Parental Marriage Veto, and outright calls Elizabeth his sister-in-law the time he learns of the story.
- Parents as People: Bruno is personable and well-meaning, but the way he reminded Lieselotte that being betrothed to the crown prince is different from being betrothed to another noble... could have been fatal to her in the long term had Endo and Kobayashi never intervened.
Elizabeth Marschner
Voiced by: Sayaka Ohara
Fiene's mother and the daughter of Duke Marschner.- Action Mom: She has profoundly little trouble with knocking down the walls of the von Riefenstahl estate when she hears false rumors that Liese has abducted Fiene to bully her.
- Grew a Spine: When she was younger she was often compared to a fairy and described as having "fragile and ethereal beauty". Seventeen years' ordeal with her loved ones hardened her to the Action Mom she is today.
- Easily Forgiven: Bruno and the other Riefenstahls don't hold her attacking their castle, knocking down several guards, accusing Liese of kidnapping and bullying her daughter and putting Bruno himself in a headlock after she explains her backstory.
- The Mourning After: During her first appearance she's seen wearing a wedding ring. This indicates she still considers herself married to August despite the latter having died 16 years ago.
- Mythical Motifs: She was called the Fae Princess for her delicate and ethereal beauty, though beneath that she instead is more of a prankster with irreverent behavior such as a setting a rat loose at a party.
- Ojou Ringlets: In her flashback, she is shown to have a pair of them when she was younger, when she was the daughter of a duke in name and fact.
- Red Baron: She was generally known as the "Fae Princess" when she was younger.
- Together in Death: Subverted. Since she went missing right after the death of her fiancé August Riefenstahl, the high society thought she committed suicide for the loss. However, she's still alive 16 years after that event. She had August's child, and knows her family won't let her exist, so she fled and lived in the countryside with her daughter Fiene.
- Widow's Weeds: In the manga, she is seen wearing this during the Grave-Marking Scene towards the end of her backstory segment in Chapter 10 of the manga adaptation, with a back dress, black hat, and a lace veil. The implication is she considers herself married to August, with all that entails.
August Riefenstahl
Voiced by: Kenta Zaima
Bruno's late older brother and Elizabeth's late fiancé.- Delicate and Sickly: Implied, despite being rather old by this trope's standards. It's clearly stated that he's always in frail health, but the fact that Bruno has an (Inverted case of) Big Brother Instinct on him implies this trope is in operation.
- Nice Guy: The few recollections about him is either about him being Delicate and Sickly or being nice and gentle, different from the typical muscle-headed Riefenstahls.
- Posthumous Character: He died 16 years ago, but the fact that he is Fiene's father means he does appear in the backstories.
- Satellite Family Member: To his fianceé Elizabeth and daughter Fiene. Fiene grew up as a commoner as the indirect result of him being Delicate and Sickly. At the time Elizabeth could marry him, he was already dying, so her parents issued a Parental Marriage Veto despite the two were completely in love with each other. Fiene was conceived when they decided to consummated their relationship nonetheless. As a result, Elizabeth (and Fiene) had been on the run for the past 15 years, owing to the Marschners considering that scandalous and are completely willing to kill both of them.
- Soap Opera Disease: He has always been sickly since birth, and by the time Elizabeth could have married him legally, he "could hardly rise from bed" and is implied to died from it a year afterwards.
- Suddenly Voiced: Neither the novel nor the manga gives him any lines, but he has a speaking role in the anime.
Josephine Riefenstahl
Bruno's wife, and Lieselotte's mother. Daughter of a viscount, she is a talented painter.
- Excessive Mourning: Being sad about her best friend's death is understandable. All but outright abandoning her family in favour of locking herself away to paint pictures of her dead friend constantly for nearly 16 years, leaving her eldest daughter(who barely has any memories of her) to raise the youngest on her own, was too much.
- Living Emotional Crutch: Elizabeth was hers. Though she produced children for her husband, she didn't really care about them and went off to a secluded villa to just paint pictures of her friend.
- Parental Favoritism: Tries to assign all her assets to the recently adopted Fiene as soon as she gets caught up on recent events.
- Parental Neglect: She abandoned her children because her high school BFF was declared dead.
- Reclusive Artist: In-Universe. She is a famous painter, but she isn't the most comfortable with people, even her immediate family. As a result, she has the tendency to retreat to paint her days away, and Lieselotte does not recall ever spending much time with her.
Cecilie Riefenstahl
Voiced by: Yukine Shiraishi
The fourth and youngest of the Riefenstahl-sisters.- All Amazons Want Hercules: Her stated goal is to marry "the strongest man in the world". Actually Played With, in that she sets her sights on The Squishy Person of Mass Destruction Fabien.
- Declaration of Protection: Why she decides to take on the royal knight test to be recognized as a knight is because she wants to prove to Fabian she'll be able to protect him from anyone that tries to kidnap and exploit him.
- Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: She is seen climbing trees and leaping down from them, but retains the dress and manners of a typical Ojou.
- Love at First Sight: Quotes this trope verbatim upon meeting Fabien, promptly asking him to marry her.
- The Nose Knows: She can smell magical power and notes his smell as one of the three reasons why she fell in love with Fabien.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: She only drops her stoic expression upon meeting Fabien and falling in Love at First Sight.
- Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Her third reason note for being in love with Fabian is his genuine kindness and mindfullness.
- Stronger Than They Look: She's only ten, but she goes on monster hunts with her older sisters and is already an apprentice knight, which requires winning the majority of bouts against five normal knights in a row.
- The Stoic: She is somewhat un-expressive and seems to very much go with the flow.
Witch of Yore (Unmarked Spoilers!)
Voiced by: Shizuka Itō
The Final Boss of the game who possesses Lieselotte in most routes. She's actually the corrupted form of Lirenna, one half of the Creator God Couple of the Magikoi universe.- Apologizes a Lot: After being freed from her state as the Witch of Yore, she repeatedly apologizes for the pain she put the cast (particularly Lieselotte) through, to the point of repeatedly falling into Dogeza. It gets to the point where
the cast gets uncomfortable. - Big Bad: The Witch of Yore who possesses Lieselotte is the final boss of the game and Endo and Kobayashi work to prevent this from happening. Ultimately, it turns out the Witch of Yore is actually the corrupted form of the creator goddess Lirenna, who became like that because of the real villain: her male counterpart Kuon, who cheated on her and who's been trying to stalk and manipulate his crush's reincarnation aka Fiene into loving him.
- Break Them by Talking: She attempts to do this to Liese in her dreams. It fails because Liese realises "she" would never talk about Siegwald in the way the Witch does.
- God Couple: She was originally this with Kuon.
- Literal Split Personality: Along with Kuon, she was split from the original god that created the Magikoi universe.
- Loser Deity: Lirenna has this opinion of herself once she realizes her misdeeds as the Witch of Yore almost destroyed the world.
- Love Redeems: Being constantly subjected to Lieselotte's feelings of love and happiness blasting her in the face eventually purifies her corruption and restores her original form as the creator goddess. Who is a bit of a loser, but no worse than that.
- Top God: Lirenna is the top-ranking deity of Fitzenhaven's Holy Church.
- Woman Scorned: The Witch of Yore is actually a goddess's corrupted state formed after her counterpart cheated on her by pursuing another woman, of whom Fiene is the reincarnation. Her possession of Lieselotte trying to get her to hate Fiene and later attacking her are her attempts to get revenge on the woman. Once she returns to her original self, she's very apologetic about the whole affair and moves on from him.
Kuon (Unmarked Spoilers!)
Voiced by: Jun Fukuyama (Kuon Kirise)
The secret "god target" of Love Me Magically!, he is the other half of the Creator God Couple of the Magikoi universe.- Adaptational Early Appearance: His first appearance gets earlier with successive adaptations. In the novels, he first appeared when the commentators are dating downtown, at Chapter 6B. In the manga adaptation, he first appeared on the cliffhanger of Chapter 5, which adapts Chapter 2B of the novels. In the anime, he appears at the end of Episode 1, which adapts both parts of the novel's first chapter.
- Demonic Possession: He possesses a man in modern-day Tokyo who he made a celebrity, despite the man’s real personality being rather shy and introverted. He’s quite happy to let Endo and Kobayashi get rid of the crazy god inside him.
- The Dog Was the Mastermind: The actual villain of the story is a deity who doesn't even feature prominently in myths anymore. What's more, he's in another world from the place all the action is taking place. The only reason he gets recognized at all is because he's A. a local celebrity and B. has a very strange ending in the game where Fiene crosses worlds to reach him.
- God Couple: He was originally this with Lirenna before he cheated out on her for Eve and her incarnations.
- Greater-Scope Villain: The ultimate villain of the story is actually him, the male counterpart to the Witch of Yore, who cheated on her to try to coerce a woman they created to love him.
- Jerkass Gods: He's a god who would kill a human (if not reincarnations of the same human) to fulfill his crush for a human female, and manipulates the situation to get her.
- Literal Split Personality: He is one of the halves of the original god that created the Magikoi universe.
- Mad Love: No incarnation of Eve is interested in him, but he still stalks her anyway.
- Manipulative Bastard: It's unclear exactly how much control he had over the situation, but the plot as a whole was directed by him in an attempt to manipulate what is basically a high school girl into abandoning the world she's from and crossing over to him. In the process, this would both cause the death of his ex-wife and her host, who had done nothing wrong.
- Secret Character: After clearing all five canonical routes, a "god route" is unlocked in Magikoi, where Fiene can romance the god who empowered her, and Fiene can potentially marry the god in question and joins him in his dimension. Puzzlingly, that dimension looks exactly like modern Japan, and the god looks so similar to a local celebrity to the point that many players suspected the celebrity's likeness was used without permission. As it turns out, that celebrity is the host of that god, who is attempting to manipulate the situation to force Fiene into a one-sided Reincarnation Romance.
- Seers: He doesn't have the power you'd expect from a god, but he is capable of observing the world he came from and subtly influencing it in the hopes of making a bridge between the two worlds that his stalkee will cross over to reach him.
- Stalker with a Crush: He harbors a twisted kind of affection for a woman named Eve, as well as her human incarnations. It didn't work and when he's unable to return to his world, he creates Magikoi to create a link between the worlds to bring that woman's reincarnation, Fiene, over to him.
