The titular character of the series. She is the second royal princess, daughter of the king of all monsters. She appears as a young aristocratic woman wearing Gothic clothing. Her real name is Lillian but she dislikes people calling her by it. Although her siblings are busy fighting for the throne, she shows no interest in it. She resurrects Hiro on a whim after he dies, thinking him interesting enough to be her servant.
Nightmare Fuel: Hime can be more than capable of handing this out. For example, in episode 22 of the anime she and her band capture and imprison three nigh-invulnerable werewolf Blood Knights sent to assassinate her. In order to to remove them as a threat, she she goes into the room where they are being held captive and shoots them with silver bullets again and again until they are no longer able to regenerate. Worst of all, she tells them right off that this is what she is planning to do, and proceeds to commence firing. For most of the night. Wow.
Royals Who Actually Do Something: Played with. Hime has NO interest in the throne. But when she gets attacked, Hime is just as likely to fight back as Hiro is to protect her. Also, she will protect and assist her "subjects" and the local town.
The protagonist who dies at the beginning of the series (in the manga he was hit by the station wagon Flandre is driving, whereas in the anime he is hit by a falling iron pillar). He finds himself in Hime's service as he is bound to her because her blood revived him. Though young and not very strong, Hiro manages to assist Hime (mostly by being a human shield) through his "half-immortality" that was given to him after his resurrection.
Bodyguard Crush: Possibly. Either that or its just the whole Blood Warrior thing making him a tad clingy.
Butt Monkey: At the beginning of the series, at least.
Color Failure: An interesting version (at least in the manga). All the colour is "drained" out of him whenever Hime is in danger.
This is due to him being a blood warrior. His hair and skin actually becomes albino pale and obtains Glowing Eyes of Doom in active blood warrior mode.
Flat Character: There isn't much character development to him outside of learning the ways of the monster world. Half the time he's just following Hime around or happens to be in an area of monster activity.
Future Badass: You better believe it. If the bad future is anything to show.
A half-breed tomboy girl who has a werewolf father, called Volg Wildman, and a human mother. Being of mixed blood, Riza can only transform her arms up to her elbow and her physical combat capabilities can't compare to that of a pure breed, though she is many times stronger than a normal human.
Gamer Chick: Plays with Hiro sometimes. Ironically, she Doesn't Know Mortal Kombat (Hiro says she never bothered to read the instructions). She even lampshades the irony that Hiro is good at the game but, at this point in time, is useless in real life.
Idiot Ball: Literally holds it in Princess Seabed. She gets smacked with it again invading Duken's castle.
Lampshaded by Riza herself in the second OVA when preparing to ram the train. She remarks that if she thought about it, it would be a bad idea, but that thinking about it wasn't her thing.
A female vampire who attends the same school as Hiro. She has long black hair, always dresses in a dark sailor fuku, and has idol status in her school. At first, she greatly detests Riza but their relations change gradually for the better. Other than the blood from Royalty, she also prefers blood from virgins, girls and "cute" guys.
Animorphism: As a vampire she has the "swarm of bats" variant.
Bi the Way: Seems so, with her preference for the blood of "girls and cute guys". See Lesbian Vampire below.
She even comments Hiro when he has to dress as a girl.
Combat Pragmatist/Lovable Coward: She's braver and a bit more loyal than most vampires, but she is not above fleeing a fight if it's going badly for her.
Expy: With Princess Resurrection only pre-dating Hell Girl by a few months, it's probably just a coincidence, but doesn't a certain other black'n'red-Joshikousei-wearing, supernatural, pretty girl with a Hime Cut and red eyes rather resemble Reiri?
Fetish Fuel Station Attendant: The future version of Reiri is hotness incarnate, and amazingly goes the entire time she's shown without a Panty Shot at all.
Panty Shot: Reiri flies around a lot, and we are treated to a plethora of shots from beneath her.
Hell, we even get flashes from a normal angle. Must be windy in Sasanaki.
The Starscream: Subverted; she's rather loyal, even though she'll tell you she isn't. To the point of taking The Slow Path into a Bad Future and getting killed in order to give Hime a message to send back in time. This surprises a lot of Royals, as vampires do not make for loyal servants.
Vampire Detective Series: She is either one or likes pretending to be one. Her specialty is investigation and does solve the mystery she is assigned to.
An "evil" spider deity initially responsible for the disappearance of students at Hiro and Reiri's school, she is eventually stopped by Reiri and Riza. After failing to get back at the pair (and by extension Hime, for being their patron), she settles into a sort-of cooperative relationship with the residents of Hime's mansion after the latter builds a shrine to her in the mansion's backyard. Is pretty much the de-facto guardian deity of Sasanaki at the moment.
Defeat Equals Friendship: She tries to trap Hime and her entourage in prehistoric times in response to Riza and Reiri impeding on her human offerings. This fails. Later on, when her temple is destroyed, Hime allows her to set up on her new temple in Hime's backyard. She has two spider servants, Jiroumaru and Taroumaru.
I'm a Humanitarian: She clashes with Hime, Reiri and Riza on this. Not that it makes her a bad person. She was just taking 'offerings' as she has to eat. Now, she accepts offerings from a little shrine...though she complains about how Sawawa makes them.
Hime's younger sister. She once harbored bad feelings towards Hime, but later reconciled, and has a rather obvious crush on Hiro and will almost do anything to make him her servant. After that she moved in to a mansion on the hill opposite Hime's mansion.
Annoying Younger Sibling: At first...in series. YMMV on whether or not her Heel Face Turn made her less "annoying".
Disney Death: In chapter 77 due to exposing her body to the spore cloud and adapting to it, fresh air become lethal to her and she nearly dies if not for Hime saving her with her newfound phoenix power.
Weirdness Censor: Seriously. Does she ever notice any of the super natural happenings around Hime's house?
The one time she does notice anything weird at all is when Hime gets cloned... which Sawawa passes off as her being tired. Oh well, at least she doesn't get underfoot in the action.
Berserker: Very much so. One time he killed a giant snake by landing on it. Only to break his neck from the landing. Even Riza, who isn't known for her tactical prowess, called him wreckless.
Color Failure: As with all Blood warriors. His black fur even turns white, making some people mistake him for a polar bear at times.
Reality Ensues: Sherwood doesn't even try to hide Ryu, and nobody calls her out on the fact that owning a panda as a pet is illegal. Until chapter 35, where she's arrested for violating the Washington Convention.
Wrong Genre Savvy: Smart enough to notice something weird's going on, not smart enough to know why.
Prince Severin and his entourage
Severin
Voiced By: Kenyuu Horuichi (anime)
One of Hime's siblings, a self-important coward who will use any means to remain the last one standing. It is hinted that he was the one who ordered the attack that decimated Hime's forces prior to the story via unleashing a Zombie Apocalypse on her holdings, and he tries to do so again.
Bad Boss: His blood warrior, Mikasa, is a woman he killed himself.
Dirty Coward: Hime has no qualms about calling him as such, pointing out that even little Sherwood was ready to risk her life, while he hid behind his little tricks as to not get in the line of fire.
Villainous Breakdown: When he sees that his underhanded tricks don't work on Hime, he gets angry. Just as Hime planned, as his rage causes him to drop his guard and get killed.
Franz
Severin's android bodyguard, he looks like a tall man dressed in a tuxedo with a cybernetic left eye.
Severin's blood warrior, Mikasa is a woman that Severin killed then revived via his blood. Mikasa is much more deadlier than your usual Blood Warrior, by virtue of the "modifications" done on her by the Fly Man. At Severin's death, she becomes Silvia's Blood Warrior instead.
Big Sister Instinct: She takes up with Severin and later Silvia, for the sake of her Ill Girl little sister.
Mix-and-Match Critters: Severin had her body modified while she was his blood warrior. Fly Man is also doing some experiments on her.
Fly Man
An anthromorphic fly scientist. He is first introduced trying to "sell" the fruits of his research to Hime (meaning he took her hostage to force her to buy them from him, or die if she refused). He works for Severin at first, but Silvia eventually becomes his financial patroness, and as such he makes things on her request, whenever he isn't pursuing his own independent research that is.
Quiet and brooding, Emile is one of Hime's older brothers. Seemingly plagued with a weak consitution, his powerful Psychic Powers, including telekenesis and limited clairvoyance, more than makes up for this. Like Sherwood he is not openly antagonistic with Hime, but will not aid her either (directly anyway).
Psychic Powers: Seems to have telekinesis. He uses it to deflect a Wave Motion Gun from hitting a Afterlife Express. Using it really takes a toll on him. He can also see into the future for a limited amount of time.
A werewolf warrior first encountered stranded in the Ghost Ship, Keziah is one of Prince Emile's loyal servants. He was a companion of Riza's father in the old days, and as such, despite being technically Riza's enemy, tends to look out for her whenever they cross paths.
A winged warrior of an unspecified humanoid race, Sledge is another of Prince Emile's bodyguards, serving opposite to Keziah. Despite being in the same faction, they tend to bicker with each other when left alone.
Flanders is the robot bodyguard assigned to serve Emile. Unlike his "siblings" Flandre and Francesca, Flanders is a Humongous Mecha on the scale of kaiju-sized monsters. He is later upgraded to Flanders G.
Foreshadowing: The fact that Flander's head-mounted photon cannons are used by Gilliam is a big clue that Emile has already died
A mermaid that was trapped on a ghost ship, and was used by the malevolent entity there to lure in other ships to their doom. In return for gaining the ability to walk on land, she had willingly given up her voice, but in the process she was cursed that she would die if she ever spoke. She is eventually rescued from the ghost ship by Hime's friends and Keziah, but not before she speaks up to warn the latter. This causes her death, but she is quickly revived via Emile's blood, becoming one of his Blood Warriors.
Adaptation Dye Job: Despite her hair being a dark color in the manga, it becomes pink in the first anime. The OVA rectifies this somewhat, turning her hair back into a very dark blue.
Color Failure: Much like Hiro, she suffers this at times.
Last Of Their Kind: Mermaids are mentioned by Riza as being "almost extinct".
Only Known by Their Nickname: She is referred to through the manga and the OVA simply as "ningyo", which literaly means mermaid. It is only later in the manga that we learn that her real name is Madeline.
Our Mermaids Are Different: Similar the Little Mermaid variety: as mentioned, she gave up her voice as a payment to a sorcerer to be able to walk. The moment she speaks a word however, she dies.
The eldest princess, Silvia is beautiful, elegant, and charismatic. She is also incredibly cunning and willing to do anything to come out on top of the current succession war, without directly showing her hand of course. With this in mind, she is likely the most dangerous of Hime's siblings prior to the emergence of Prince Fuhito, that is.
Silvia's gynoid bodyguard. One of her distinct features is the large pneumatic drill standing in as a replacement for her lost left hand. She is not hesitant in using it against Silvia's enemies.
Another of Hime's older brothers, Gilliam appears as an intense-looking man in a white suit, and is always seen with his sword close at hand. Unlike his brother Emile, Gilliam is much more brash, and isn't shy to prove how good at using his sword he really is.
Badass: His fight with Hime, Reiri and Hiro in the 2nd OVA.
Cloud Cuckoolander: Implied, mostly through his rather unusual blood warriors.
Hoist by His Own Petard: On the giving and recieveing end. He blasts Hime's mansion with a particle cannon for fighting him earlier, using the very weapon she used then on him. He then is about to blast Sherwood's mansion, proclaiming "karma's a bitch", only to be blasted, but not killed, by Hime with the same cannon.
By chapter 78 and 77, he gets desperate and willingly exposes himself to an alien spore cloud in hopes of fighting and defeating Fuhito. This winds up backfiring as prolonged exposure means he can't survive in fresh air. The spore uses him to explain to the others that they meant no harm and were just trying to find a new home before heading out into space. Clearing away the mist and killing Gilliam in the process. He is graceful about it though and, like Emil, wishes for Hime to be the next ruler as she gave him a royal death.
The oldest royal sibling alive, Duken was supposedly the winner of the previous generation's succession war by default, as his only other remaining rival had gone into hiding. However instead of being elevated to maturity, he was instead passed over by the other Elder royalty, which indirectly leads to the current succession war. In reality Duken had been killed decades before by his brother Prince Fuhito, and the "Duken" seen by the other siblings is simply another android.
The creator of the humanoid bodyguards that serve the royal siblings, Dr. Franken considers himself a neutral observer to the succession war. As such his mansion is considered a demilitarized zone where the royal siblings can talk with each other without fear of attack or betrayal.
BadAss: Chapter 70 shows that, prior to his current state, he can actually defend himself quite well.
Another royal prince, Fuhito's unexpected entry into the succession war has shifted the power balance between all his other siblings. Although looking for all the world like a young boy, Fuhito is an extremely powerful esper... and he isn't hesitant in using that power. Fuhito was actually a participant of the previous generation's succession war, though he had to go into hiding due to the toll the battles took on his body. It was he who killed Duken, and had him turned into a robotic body-double, which in turn indirectly causes the current generation's succession war.
