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The two lead characters of the Noblesse series. Beware of Late Arrival Spoilers.

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Cadis Etrama Di "Rai" Raizel

Cadis Etrama Di Raizel

Voiced by: Tarusuke Shingaki (Japanese), Ray Chase (English) ^{Other languages}  Yong-Wu Sin (Korean), Bruno Meyere (French), Carlos Hernandez (Latin American Spanish), Johannes Semm (German), Segio Cantu (Portuguese)

The main protagonist of the series. Rai is a Noble of Lukedonia who holds the title of True Noblesse; a ranking that distinguishes him above all his fellow Lukedonian Nobles as the primary protector of their home. However, Rai was forced into an endless sleep after sustaining heavy injury in a duel against the Werewolf Lord, Muzaka.

Suddenly awakening from an 820 year long slumber. Rai attends Frankenstein's Ye Ran High School in order to adjust to modern life, and makes a new group of friends and enemies along the way.

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• A God Am I: He's a good guy, and he doesn't have this attitude normally. But when he's in Tranquil Fury, some of the things he says to his enemies fully invoke this.
  Raizel: I...did not permit you to move. Nor did I permit you...to breathe.
• The Aloner: Especially in the past.
• Authority Equals Asskicking: Downplayed. He is revealed to be the one true Noblesse, who is the most powerful Noble in existence and the avatar of Strength but explicitly does not hold any authority. The lord is the avatar of Authority..
• Badass Boast: That tend to double as Pre-Mortem One-Liner when he uses his Blood Field.
• Battle Aura: It is later revealed his Blood Field is actually this; its function is to suppress those who have blood.

• Bloody Murder: His main attack. "I'll ask your sin...with your blood"
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Early on, as he's still adjusting to the modern world. He's shown having trouble opening door locks, cannot comprehend a banana, barely speaks and requires Frankenstein to write him a treatise on how to win at video games (he still loses). Nonetheless, he's the most powerful and feared being in this world for a very good reason.
• Cast from Hit Points: His power.
• Chick Magnet: He has a legion of fangirls at school. Unfortunately for them, he's so...out of it and unapproachable.

• Comes Great Responsibility: As his title may have implied, he operates firmly under the noblesse oblige principle: Those with power must protect the weak. Some of the traitor clan leaders defected precisely because they didn't agree with this view.

• Compelling Voice: Like all nobles, he can control people with his voice, but he's one of the very few with enough power to compell his fellow nobles and creatures on similar power level.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: The only reason why a battle that involves him takes longer than it should is normally because he's using it as an opportunity to make it a tutorial for his underlings on how to utilize their power.
• Dissonant Serenity: Whenever there's a fight, he's usually the calmest man on the scene, mostly because usually, he's vastly superior to whoever is trying to threaten him.
• The Dreaded: As the Noblesse, he is feared by even the clan leaders, not only because he is very powerful, but also because he has the authority to execute them if he finds them guilty. He is so feared that when news break that he is still alive, the Union flies into panic.
• Expy: Of either (or both) Sebastian or Byakuya.
• Even the Guys Want Him: Shinwoo seems to think he's pretty hot.
• Eye Scream: And how. When he finds Ignes Kravei's lab in chapter 307 and asks her if it all was her doing, she made the mistake of trying to say his name. In what is possibly the scariest moment in the series so far, Raizel makes her eyes BLEED OUT OF HER HEAD as punishment for the things she's done.
• Fish out of Temporal Water: After waking up from his eight-hundred-year-long slumber, he at first has some troubles adjusting (though being able to read minds helps). For example, when he goes with Frankie and M-21 to the Union research lab, he spends several minutes walking back and forth through the automatic door, seemingly in amazement.
• Frozen Fashion Sense: Subverted. Rai goes from a formal/fancy black suit to a white school uniform right after he steps outside, in order to blend in...sorta.
• Friendly Neighborhood Vampire: His stated mission is to protect humans from his fellow nobles, though he quickly extends it to "weaker beings" and "overpowered beings".
• The Hero: A really unusual one.
• Hikikomori: In the past. He only left his mansion when summoned by the Lord, which happened very infrequently.
• King Incognito: Pretty much the definition of Rai. His title, the Noblesse, signifies him as the Noble race's avatar of Strength, but it requires him to work in secret; none of the newly-promoted clan leaders even know who he is. He's sort of like a secret Assassin King that erases all of the Noble race's problems. Even more, in the past he regularly mind-wiped clan leaders who paid him a visit for chit-chat. It can get pretty humorous when every single villain chooses to ignore or overlook him in favor of weaker characters. And the ones who eventually realize how powerful he is tend not to live very long.
• Limited Wardrobe: His wardrobe consists of only school uniforms, and he still takes ages to choose what he wants to wear!
• Magnetic Hero: Makes sense, considering how freaking good looking and amazingly strong he is. Who wouldn't want to be his friend?
• Morality Pet: To Frankenstein, as it's implied that he was the main catalyst of Frankie's turn away from Mad Scientist.

• Mundane Made Awesome: Every single mundane task.
• Nigh-Invulnerable: It doesn't matter whether you can punch out walls, buildings, or even Cthulhu; he will casually block your punch.
• No Sense of Direction: Played for Laughs pretty often.
• Not So Invincible After All: Turns out using his power is harmful to him; recently, he almost always gets Blood from the Mouth every time he uses his power.
• Not So Stoic: Edian's death spurs Raizel to showing him at his angriest yet.
• Odd Friendship: He was a good friend of the previous werewolf lord, Muzaka, before the friendship went sour.
• Oh, Crap!: Induces this reaction from EVERYONE — especially enemies right before they die.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
  • When he drops his cup of tea, Frankenstein is (understandably) shocked.
  • The previous Lord even said that for Rai to actually leave his mansion is serious business.
• Our Vampires Are Different
• Power Gives You Wings: Starting from his fight with Zarga and Urokai at once, he sports this.
• Power Limiter: His earring.
• Pretty Boy: Slim, young-looking and very attractive. In-universe as well - when he shows up to watch Suyi's photoshoot, the staff immediately wants to know who his agent is.
• Really 700 Years Old: He looks like a teenager or maybe a young adult physically but chronologically, he's over 2000 years old.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: And yet no one seems to think that he's anyone dangerous or important.
• School Uniforms are the New Black: Seems to have embraced this trope completely.
• Ship Tease:
  • Multiple times with Raskreia/Lascrea in Chapter 336
  • The previous Lord was shipping them even before the above-mentioned ship tease
• Shirtless Scene: The anime includes a scene of him in a clear glass tube wearing only a pair of black boxer briefs. His physique is particularly shredded and ripped.
• Showy Invincible Hero: Early on, before the Power Creep sets in, the moment he shows up at the scene of battle, the only thing left to do is to sit and watch the fireworks.
• Signature Move: Rai keeps to a strict schedule of sitting around and drinking tea for 95% of his day. He is never seen without his tea cup in his hand, quietly listening to everything that is happening... until he has something to say. Then there is the signature *click* of his tea cup hitting the saucer, and Words of Wisdom from The Ages flow forth from his mouth. He also likes to look out of a window, a habit he's had for as long as he has lived.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Appears cold from everyone's perspective but at some times he does show concern and care towards people that he had associated with.
• Summon Magic: When in his winged mode, he can call a blood eagle to finish off his target.
• Tall, Dark, and Handsome: Taller than most (though shorter than Frankenstein), dark-haired, dark-eyed and melancholic, and attractive enough to pass for an actor.
• Tastes Like Friendship: Shinwoo bought ramen for Rai and Ikhan. This cemented Rai's friendship with Shinwoo.
• Tears of Blood: Happens twice, both in his winged mode. And this is because he's sad that he has to execute the traitor clan leaders.
• The Quiet One: He has as much lines as minor, throwaway villains, despite being the protagonist. Frank almost becomes Voice for the Voiceless because of this.
• The Stoic: He's the very definition of it.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Ramen
• Tranquil Fury:
  • Particularly noticeable in chapter 307 when confronting Ignes. He asks one question, then pops his Power Limiter off and summons up his Blood Field—which he normally only does as a last resort against powerful enemies.
  Rai: Did you do this?
  • In fact, almost any time Rai asks "Did you do this to (fill in person's name here)?", someone's probably about to get wrecked.
• We Used to Be Friends: With Muzaka.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: For the longest time, Rai had trouble with opening Frankenstein's apartment door. (In fact, during the big battle of a story arc, it repeatedly cut to him trying to open the door with no success and ended with him breaking Frankenstein's window. He still didn't manage to get out.) He has since conquered this. Unfortunately, he now has to confront automatic doors...

Frankenstein

Frankenstein

Voiced by: Daisuke Hirakawa (Japanese), Sean Chiplock (English) ^{Other languages}  Gi-Hyung Kim (Korean), Benjamin Gasquet (French), Idzi Dutkiewicz (Latin American Spanish), Marcus Just (German), Peterson Adriano (Portuguese)

The deuteragonist of the series, and Rai's devoted servant. In the past, Rai took Frankenstein in to be the butler of his Lukedonia mansion after discovering that Frankenstein was using his house as a hiding spot during a battle against the Nobles.

Currently, Frankenstein is the founder, and principal, of Ye Ran High School, which he built in the hopes that Rai would be able to live a normal life. Frankenstein later becomes the leader of the Raizel Knights.

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• Agent Peacock: The previous lord even lampshades this.
• Ax-Crazy: Whenever the fighting gets serious, he gets more than a little unhinged, to the point where his allies are too scared to assist him, for fear he'll attack them for it. He also enjoys fighting for the hell of it and calls the Artifact of Doom he uses as a weapon his "lover".
• Badass Bookworm: A genius scientist...and also one hell of a fighter.
• Battle Butler: Being a head teacher isn't his main occupation. Looking after Rai in all the ways he can is. Including tea service and swatting gnats.

• Beware the Nice Ones: Polite and mild-mannered high school headmaster on one hand, Ax-Crazy Mad Scientist when no Muggles are around.
• Bodyguarding a Badass: On paper, Rai really shouldn't need any help in a fight, so Frank seems a touch relegated to a warm-up boss role before the real show-stopper enters the stage. Given that Rai's awesome powers are basically Cast from Lifespan, it turns out Frank is playing a rather vital role keeping his boss alive by whittling their opponents down whenever he can.
• Casting a Shadow: His attacks and signature weapon Dark Spear are pitch black, and their origins aren't pleasant.

• Curb-Stomp Battle: Once his seal is released.
• Dark Is Not Evil: One of the good guys, despite dark motifs and an Evil Weapon he uses.
• Evil Weapon: Apparently a counterpart to soul weapons, Frank can summon the Dark Spear, which provides a similar measure of power to a soul weapon — but has a noticeably darker aura...and tries to eat him alive.
  • When Frank and Dark Spear are (rarely) in full agreement about working together in a fight... run. It won't do you any good, but, if you've managed to annoy it/them as much as him, you're toastier than normal toast.
• Fangs Are Evil: When Rai gave him permission to release his seal when he encountered the Kertia noble.
• The Gadfly: He has a habit of deliberately mocking his opponents during battle. Seira initially assumes that he is deliberately provoking them into making mistakes, Rai explains that's not true, he just really likes annoying people.
• Humans Are Special: Revealed in chapter 190. He was explicitly acknowledged by the previous Lord because he had power rivalling that of a clan leader's DESPITE being human. This kind of potential is implied to be something that Nobles lack.
• I Shall Taunt You: Don't expect any verbal courtesy from him when fighting him.
• It Amused Me: Once he lets himself get 'kidnapped' by Yuri and meets Dr. Arith who is looking for experiment subject. Frankenstein quickly shows Arith just how far below him she is.
• The Lancer: To Rai.
• Mad Scientist: Invoked Trope by both him and The Union. The Union & Lagus Tradio painted him as this in the stories they spread to turn humans and nobles against him, and he realized that acting this way had its advantages since they wouldn't use hostages against him if they thought he didn't care about human lives.

• Neat Freak: Very few things annoy Frank more than someone messing up his meticulously clean mansion; something Shinwoo & co. are often unwittingly guilty of. Hilarity Ensues.
• Oh, Crap!: In contrast to Rai, he induces this to the enemies before fighting them.
• Ojou Ringlets: He used to have them until Art Evolution took place.
• Papa Wolf: As seen in episode 359 when he nearly attacks Muzaka after he finds several members of his household (who he calls "his kids") unconscious and injured in front of him. He is barely stopped by Raizel, who confirms it was not Muzaka's doing.
• Pet the Dog: When he allows M-21, Tao and Takeo to stay in his house after their Heel Face Turns.
• Power Limiter: Apparently imposed by Rai, though he can release it himself.
• Power Nullifier: Apparently Frank's attack has this effect on the Agents' Healing Factor.
• Professor Guinea Pig: Instead of using humans to advance his research, Frankenstein claims that he experimented on himself.
• Really 700 Years Old: Due to his contract with Rai and being a modified human he is likely 1000 years old, if not older.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: As the principal of his school.
• Screw You, Elves!: When he arrives on Lukedonia, he's absolutely furious with nobles for their holier-than-thou attitude. He mellows out a little during his time with Rai, but still doesn't care much for them, seeing nothing wrong with putting family leaders to domestic tasks (although he does care about them like family).
• Slasher Smile: When he really lets loose.

• Spam Attack: One his favorite tactics is to summon dozens of huge dark needles above him which he then sends down on his enemies all at once.
• Subordinate Excuse: Frankenstein is a wealthy high school principal, whom after 800 years of being his own man, immediately reappoints himself as butler, caretaker & bodyguard of the Noblesse, whom he was looking for the entire time.

• Undying Loyalty: Towards Rai.
• You Are Number 6/My Hero, Zero: Of the Raizel Knights. Tao gave him the honorary number zero.
• Your Soul Is Mine!: His Dark Spear feeds on souls and becomes stronger with each soul taken, it is constantly trying to devour his soul, and it often demands Frankenstein to feed the enemies to it.

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