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House Astrea

Theresia van Astrea

Voiced by: Minami Takahashi (Japanese), Xanthe Huynh (English)^{Foreign VAs}

^{Click here to see her as a knight of the Royal Guard}

The previous generation's Sword Saint and one of the heroes who ended the Demi-human War 40 years ago. She was Wilhelm's wife and Reinhard's grandmother.

Action Girl: She was an incredible swordswoman and is known as a legendary warrior to this day.
Badass Adorable: She's beautiful and deadly at the same time.
Bare-Handed Blade Block: Did this against Wilhelm in the past with ease, demonstrating her perfect affinity with swords.
Big Damn Heroes: She saves Wilhelm from being killed, slaughtering countless enemies with ease in the process.
Blessed with Suck: While she was easily the strongest swordsman of her time, she never wanted that lifestyle, with the duty being mostly forced upon her due to her blessings and her lineage. She also has a blessing that makes all wounds she inflicts impossible to heal, which is dangerous as it will even be applied to accidentally injuring someone.
Born Winner: She inherited the Sword Saint blessings despite having qualms with it.
Curb-Stomp Battle: She does this to Wilhelm. She also crushed the Demi-humans single-handedly in the Demi-human war 40 years prior to the events of the story.
Flower Motifs: Yellow daisies remind her husband of her. She loved flowers and the two met while near a field of daisies.
Flowers of Femininity: She was a noble lady who wore flowers on her hair because she loved to admire flowers.
Girlish Pigtails: She wore her hair in twin tails in her casual attire.
Girly Bruiser: She was so powerful with the sword that she could easily kill her opponents with a single attack. She also liked to wear pretty dresses and loved flowers more than anything.
I Just Want to Be Normal: She never wished to become the Sword Saint; she only wanted to live like a normal girl.
Irony: Before she dies for good during Arc 5, she wished that her family would reconcile, especially Wilhelm and Reinhard. Her second death broke their family further.
The Lost Lenore: Wilhelm hasn't gotten over her death. This is what fuels his desire for revenge against the White Whale and the reason his relationship with Reinhard is strained.
Master Swordswoman: She was the Sword Saint, whose blessings made her the strongest swordsman of her time.
Nice Girl: She had an open and caring personality where she puts the concerns of others over herself. In fact, prior to her death, she wished for Reinhard and Willhelm to reconcile.
One-Hit Kill: When she inherited the Sword Saint blessing, it included the Blessing of the Death God where wounds she inflicts can be fatal.
One-Woman Army: Due to her Sword Saint Powers, she could easily take down an entire army by herself.
Posthumous Character: She died fourteen years before the start of the main storyline and we only get to know her through her husband's flashbacks.
Redhead in Green: She had her family's characteristic red hair, and wore a green and white dress.
Red Is Heroic: She was red-haired and a heroic young woman.
Resigned to the Call: All she wanted to do is live like a normal girl, and yet she was given the Sword Saint's blessings, resigning her to a life of fighting.
Stock Light-Novel Calamity Princess: She isn't the heroine of the main storyline, but she fits otherwise, especially in the prequel centered around Wilhelm, where she's the love interest. She's a noblewoman with red hair in the half-up-half-down style. Having been born with the Divine Protection of the Sword Saint, she was extremely powerful, yet she yearned for a normal life.
Tomboyish Ponytail: She wore a ponytail during battle.
Uptown Girl: Theresia was the daughter of the noble House Astrea, who are direct descendants of the First Sword Saint. Wilhelm is the third son of the Trias family, an old house of nobility situated in one of the Kingdom's most remote northern province. After he was able to defeat her in a swordfight, Wilhelm was accepted into the House Astrea and married Theresia.
The Von Trope Family: Her family name is van Astrea.
Waif-Fu: Her fighting style involved as many acrobatic flips and graceful twirls as horrendously powerful strikes.
Warrior Undead: The Witch Cult reanimates her as a corpse soldier and she's controlled like a puppet during the events of Arc 5.
World's Best Warrior: As her generation's Sword Saint, she was known as the most powerful swordsman of her time.
Wound That Will Not Heal: Why she hates her powers is because she can inflict these. Even scratches made by her will not heal, making every contact with her lethal.

Heinkel Astrea

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The son of Wilhelm and Theresia and Reinhard's father. He is the Deputy Commander of the Kingdom Knights.

Alcoholic Parent: Due to his wife falling into a coma and his mother dying in the battle against the White Whale, as well as detesting Reinhard's perfection at everything, Heinkel resorted to heavy drinking, which further ruined his relationship with his son.
Broken Pedestal: Early in his life, Reinhard viewed his father as a hero, but their relationship fell apart after Heinkel became a terrible Jerkass, especially to his own son.
Evil Redhead: He has red hair like his son, but lacks all of the latter's virtues and replaces them with jerkassery.
Hates Their Parent: Inverted. Heinkel hates his son Reinhard for being so perfect and powerful, as well as blaming him for his paternal grandmother's death. After Reinhard disposes of Theresia's reanimated corpse, Heinkel vows to ruin his son's reputation once and for all.
I Have Your Wife: During Arc 5, when the Witch Cult attacks the Water Gate City of Priestella, Heinkel kidnaps Felt and forces Reinhard to stay by his side and protect him.
Jerkass: Heinkel is a slovenly, arrogant and brash man who is not ashamed to throw around his position to intimidate others for petty reasons.
Master Swordsman: Even though he didn't get the title of Sword Saint, he acquits himself well protecting Priscilla from assassins after the events of Arc 5, and it's noted that his swordplay is extremely refined and beautiful in action, contrasting with his appearance and attitude. Priscilla even took him on as a servant precisely because he has the fighting skills of the Astrea line despite everything else lacking about him.
Nepotism: Heinkel uses his son's title as the Sword Saint, to retain his position of the Vice Captain of the Royal Guard.
Overshadowed by Awesome: Heinkel never slacked off a day in training his swordplay despite his numberous flaws and failings, and more importantly, the impossibility of him ever becoming an outstanding individual like his father and son.

Assassin Organization

Elsa Grandhirte

Voiced by: Mamiko Noto (Japanese), Cristina Valenzuela (English)^{Foreign VAs}

An assassin from a northern country called Gusteko who can sense fear in others. She is the first person to kill Subaru and trigger his time rewind ability. For reasons yet to be explained, she is after Emilia's insignia. She attempts to buy it from Felt and Rom, but she ends up killing them instead when negotiations fail during the first and second timelines. She is known for killing her 'prey' by disembowelment. In the final timeline of the stolen insignia, she is defeated by Reinhard and retreats vowing to come after Subaru again.

Actually Not a Vampire: Garfiel mistook Elsa for a vampire during their duel and she saw no reason to clarify because the actual answer was close enough for their purposes. Side-stories clarify that she's actually an imperfect "corpse doll" that was supposed to be perfected after killing a certain number of targets to enhance her body and regenerative capabilities, but since completing the procedure would have erased her mind and sense of self, Elsa stopped at the last one, so she could continue to revel in the joy of watching the strewn bowels of her targets whilst reaping the healing abilities of her near-perfected state.
Arc Villain: Of the first arc of the series. She returns in the fourth arc where she is finally killed off.
Ax-Crazy: Doesn't seem obvious at first, but she's an insane assassin who takes pleasure in gutting people and enjoys looking at the color of their guts.
Battle Amongst the Flames: Her fight with Garfiel amidst the ruins of Roswaal's burning mansion certainly counts. Her still-moving corpse's pursuit of Subaru as he searches for a way into the forbidden libary to save Beatrice also somewhat counts, although in his case, it amounts to trying to run the hell away from her and find a usage door before the building comes down on them both.
Big Bad Ensemble: She is the main villain of the first arc in her plot to retrieve Emilia's insignia before the Mabeasts and the Witch Cult are introduced.
Big Sister Instinct: She cares deeply for her partner Meili. This is actually what leads to her death. She was about to land a finishing blow on Garfiel, but she stopped the moment she noticed that Meili was about to be crushed by debris and was about to save her before Frederica did that for her. This gave Garfiel the opening he needed.
Blood Knight: Loves a good fight - seeing as how she's thrilled to go up against Reinhard. The Ayamatsu If reveals that she's perfectly happy going into a battle which will mean her death, so long as it promises to be a good one.
The Bus Came Back: After Reinhard defeats her in Old Man Rom's tavern, she escapes and promises that she will come again and will kill the heroes for good. She returns in the fourth arc to make good on her threat of killing Subaru and his friends after interrupting in the first arc.
Cloak of Defense: When she was hired by Roswaal L. Mathers, Elsa was given an enchanted cloak that could protect its wearer from any offensive magical attack. However, the cloak had two drawbacks; Firstly, it only worked once and would dissipate after negating an attack; secondly, it only worked against spells intended to harm her physically and could be bypassed by indirect Shamak magic.
Combat Sadomasochist: Elsa rather enjoys cutting people apart. In addition, she practically moaned upon taking a hit from Subaru. During her battle with Garfiel, she repeatedly compliments her enemy whenever he succesfully (and painfully) damages her. Her Healing Factor and ability to revive from fatal injuries a limited number of times really allows her to indulge upon this.
Crazy-Prepared: She is able to keep fighting her victims non-stop and has taken precautions in the event that she is mortally wounded, allowing her to become a Nigh-Invulnerable enemy.
Cute and Psycho: A darker version of "cute" anyway. Elsa, by appearances and voice alone, looks endearing enough. In reality, she is the second-most psychotic villain in the series after Petelguese, and her outward appearance is something she intentionally takes advantage of.
Dark Action Girl: She's an extremely dangerous killer, easily slaughtering Subaru and his companions several times over.
Dark and Troubled Past: Coming from the frigid northern land of Gusteko, young Elsa became a petty thief and shoplifter to survive the freezing winters of the land. When a shopkeeper she was stealing from discovered her and attempted to rape her, she slit his stomach open with a shard of glass and, unable to find any other source of warmth warmed her hands by thrusting them into his freshly-opened stomach, kicking off her obsession.
Dies Differently in Adaptation: Instead of being incinerated into ash, Garfiel simply just crushes her with the Guiltypig's giant corpse after incapacitating her by tearing into her neck during their battle in the anime. This is more because the anime didn't have time to show off her post-death final "fight" with Subaru, though.
Dissonant Serenity: She is always smiling even as she fighting people like Reinhard.
The Dragon: Becomes Subaru's main enforcer in the Ayamatsu If.
Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: She has black hair, a very rare trait in her world, and her white skin is unusually pale, to the point that it could almost be described as sickening.
Even Evil Can Be Loved: As much of a sadistic murderer Elsa is, she and Meili truly care about one another. So much so that Meili sought to find a way to avenge her death.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: The Ayamatsu If reveals that she sees Meili as a little sister and during Arc 4 this is shown. She also develops a fondness for Subaru, which prompts her to engage in a suicidal battle against Reinhard to buy him some more time in the final conflict.
Evil Wears Black: She's a devilish assassin in a black dress.
Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: She has a pleasant face, but it does nothing to downplay the sort of monster she really is and just makes her more unsettling.
Faux Affably Evil: She speaks politely to her victims as she's brutally murdering them.
Femme Fatale: A Professional Killer who just so happens to be a dark seductive mistress. She doesn't use her appeal to lure her victims in since they can see her murderous intent, instead opting for hiding her true agenda. Instead, she acts as the series' Ms. Fanservice villainess.
Foe Romance Subtext:
- In every loop in which she kills Subaru, Elsa is displayed as taking a particular interest in torturing him specifically. With everyone else she kills, she doesn't draw it out nearly as much. Even after dying, her corpse continues to pursue Subaru throughout the burning mansion trying to gut him, the narration even calling it the broken undead's sole "reason for existence" at that point.
- Her fight with Garfiel veers into Interplay of Sex and Violence because while Garfiel is completely disgusted by her, Elsa is clearly very into it.
Half the Woman She Used to Be: Her body winds up on its last legs after her fight with Garfiel, her lower legs crushed to paste and unable to heal anyone, along with losing her sense of reason due to actually dying for real. This handicapped state is the only thing that saves Subaru when her still-moving corpse pursues him through the burning mansion, trying to gut him on instinct.
Hoist by Her Own Petard: Whilst already deceased, her corpse moves on pure psychotic instinct to try and gut Subaru in its last moments before the mansion burns down, ultimately chopping through a wooden door he ran into in Roswaal's secret passage trying to reach him. This causes a backdraft to erupt that violently disintegrates Elsa's remaining corpse and blows the mansion apart, something Subaru had recognized the signs of before he opened the door, but trusted Beatrice to protect him when he opened it anyway.
In Love with Your Carnage: Towards Subaru in the Ayamatsu If.
Invincible Villain: Especially at the start of the series, where Subaru is only able to defeat her by getting Reinhard's help. It's even telling that in the Ayamatsu If timeline, where Subaru didn't receive Reinhard's help, he failed to defeat Elsa for over 80 loops. Tellingly, her final "battle" with Subaru happens after she's already been killed by Garfiel and his near-mindless body is operating on pure instinct to gut and kill the living beings around her before she expires, which is the only reason Subaru can stay ahead of her, along with her mangled legs crumpling her freakishly fast movements.
It Has Been an Honor: Gives a twisted variant to Subaru in the Ayamatsu If, shortly before going into what she knows will be her final battle against Reinhard.
I had fun. It was wonderful
Jerkass: In spite of the way she acts and looks, if not for her mask of politeness, Elsa would otherwise openly be an asshole to all of her victims considering her sole purpose in life appears to be killing others for fun with the most morbid of reasons.
Kill It with Fire: She ends up incinerated the flaming wreckage of the Mathers' Mansion, accidentally causing a backdraft by cutting through a wooden door in pursuit of Subaru —something the latter had recognized would happen, but trusted Beatrice to use her spatial warping technique to protect him when he opened it himself.
The Last Dance: Has a pretty epic one against Reinhard in the Ayamatsu If.
Let's You and Him Fight: Whilst her mindless body is doggedly pursuing Subaru throughout the burning Roswall Mansion as he seeks a usable door to reach Beatrice, the still-living Guiltylowe that they set on fire to defeat stands in his way, still guarding the door to Roswall's office that Subaru needs to pass as per Meli's order to it. Unable to beat the Mabeast or slow down, Subaru merely dodges the Mabeast's attacks and lets Elsa's corpse violently gut it instead trying to get to him, buying him enough time to reach the secret passage with the still-working door in it.
Losing a Shoe in the Struggle: When she is overwhelmed by Puck and gets her foot encased in crystal, she slides her foot out of the trapped high heel with a lot of effort and stands imbalanced with one heel and a scratched up foot. Elsa conjures crystal around that foot to create a makeshift replacement shoe.
More Despicable Minion: As it turns out, she's one to Roswaal, who is notably less of a sadist and somewhat more altruistic with some rather campy mannerisms, and Elsa's client. Elsa herself, however, is a rather despicable Psycho for Hire.
Navel-Deep Neckline: She wears a skimpy dress that exposes her cleavage and midriff.
Nightmare Fetishist: Elsa's hobbies include looking sexy, teasing young boys, and groping freshly cut human intestines.
Not in This for Your Revolution: It's very obvious that Elsa is not working in accordance with the goals of her client and only cares for her morbid bloodlust.
Professional Killer: She's an infamous mercenary that belongs to a mysterious group that takes on all manners of unsavory jobs which include contract kills.
Psycho for Hire: Was only hired to retrieve Emilia's insignia, but has a blast killing off everyone in her way. her psychosis is pretty much the entire driving force behind her final confrontation with Subaru, as despite losing her mind due to her death, her body continued moving on instinct trying to gut and kill the nearest living things around her.
Rasputinian Death: She gets beaten to death multiple times by Garfiel and then gets burned alive. Even after she should be dead even by the limits of a vampire, she still shambles on like a mindless shadow, only truly dying after being turned into ash.
Red Baron: She's known as "Bowel Hunter", because of her habit of disemboweling and admiring the colors of their intestines.
Resurrective Immortality: Elsa has a type of immortality that allows her to get killed a certain number of times before truly dying.
Sex Is Violence: In both her major duels with Reinhard and Garfiel, Elsa derives a lot of pleasure from both inflicting and receiving damage from her opponents, savouring the pain from her injuries and repeatedly complimenting them. Her exchange of bites after Garfiel tackles her to the ground is particularly evocative, made more disturbing by how Garf is thirteen at this point.
Sexy Slit Dress: She wears a dress with slits on both sides to show off her legs.
Soft-Spoken Sadist: She has a very calm and gentle voice, which only comes off as unnerving when she's cutting up people and playing with their guts.
Starter Villain: The first legitimate threat Subaru faced as well as the person who killed him in many of his early loops.
Theme Serial Killer: She is famous as Bowel Hunter for her tendency for gutting her victims.
Uncertain Doom: In some of the loops where Subaru is greeted with the Great Rabbit, it's never expanded upon as to what happened to her. It can be presumed she either fled beforehand, or was killed with everyone else.
Unwitting Pawn: It's never explained how much Elsa really knows, but it's likely she knows nothing of Subaru's Return by Death and how Roswaal was actually using her to train Subaru so he could revive his master, Echidna.
Villains Out Shopping: She... likes to make stuffed dolls oddly enough.
Worthy Opponent: She was quick to consider Garfiel this during their fight.
Would Hurt a Child: As shown when she doesn't have qualms with killing Felt and Petra in some loops.
You Shall Not Pass!: In the Ayamatsu If, she happily charges into battle against Reinhard to delay him from reaching his true target, Subaru.

Capital City

Kadomon

Voiced by: Kenta Miyake (Japanese), Patrick Seitz (English)^{Foreign VAs}

An extremely buff fruit seller that Subaru meets when he arrives in Lugunica.

Good Morning, Crono: For the first and third loops, Kadomon is the person Subaru awakens to, each time asking what he is doing just standing in front of his shop.
Happily Married: Despite coming off as scary, he has a wife and a daughter that he loves.
Oral Fixation: He always carries a blade of grass in his mouth.
Recurring Extra: Appears quite often despite having little to nothing to do with the plot.

Watergate City of Priestella

Liliana Masquerade

Voiced by: Aya Yamane (Japanese)

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A 20-year-old traveling diva who is known for her strangely captivating voice. A big fan of Emilia and Subaru, especially the former.

The Bard: She is wandering minstrel who sings songs of the folklore and tales of Lugunica's history.
Bedlah Babe: She's a music performer wearing a bedlah.
Curtains Match the Window: She has yellow hair and eyes.
Cute Clumsy Girl: She's often clumsy and scatterbrained in general.
The Ditz: She's almost definitely the dumbest character in the cast. She doesn't know a lot about the world she lives in, she often says unnecessary things and it's hard for her to get what people mean, especially smart people.
Dumb Blonde: She's blonde and really stupid.
Genius Ditz: She's pretty stupid overall, but she is extremely talented in music.
Girlish Pigtails: She has her hair hair tied in twin-tails, showing her energetic character.
Hair Antennae: She has two strands of hair standing atop her head like an antennae.
Older Than She Looks: She's actually a young woman in her early twenties, but her short stature and flat chest make her look like a preteen.
The Runaway: She ran away from home to become a traveling minstrel. Her parents couldn't care less.
Showgirl Skirt: She wears a crescent-shaped skirt that shows off her legs.
Telepathy: She has the Divine Protection of Telepathy, which allows her to communicate with others through her thoughts.
Wandering Minstrel: She makes a living as a traveling minstrel.

Reala Thompson (Unmarked Spoilers)

Reala Thompson (Former Name: Reshia Tinsel)

Voiced by: Aya Endo (Japanese)

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The mother of Garfiel and Frederica. She was thought to have died in an accident after she left the Sanctuary. In reality, she survived and was found by Garek Thompson with seemingly no memories of her past. He took care of her and brought her to Priestella. A few years later, they married and had two kids, Fred Thompson and Rafiel Thompson.

Chekhov M.I.A.: In Arc 4, she's stated to have gone missing many years ago and is presumed dead. In Arc 5, she shows up alive and well, now living with her new family at Priestella after losing her memories in an accident.
Florence Nightingale Effect: After she lost her memories in the landslide accident, Garek Thompson, who was a merchant at the time, found her and took care of her. They got married and have two children together.
Identity Amnesia: She doesn't have memories of her life before the landslide accident.
Inconsistent Coloring: Her hair was colored as orange in an illustration from Volume 13. In the illustration from Volume 17, her hair color was changed to blonde like her children, which is the color the anime uses.
Made a Slave: Her family suffered from a crushing debt, which forced her parents to sell her off into an illegal slave trader at a very young age. Not long after, she was kidnapped by a group of Demi-Human bandits who raided her slaver trader's camp. Several years later, she was abandoned by the Demi-Human bandits after she became pregnant with Ferederica, and spent the following years of her life hopping from one slave caravan to another.
Missing Mom: She left the Sanctuary 10 years ago to search for Garfiel's missing father and never returned. She apparently died in a landslide during her search. What happened to her is the main reason behind Garfiel's extreme hostility towards those outside the Sanctuary. It's later revealed she's still alive, but lost her memory in the landslide accident and started a new family with another man.
The Pollyanna: She's described as an unfortunate kindly woman who went through many hardships in life, but that despite always looked on the bright side of things.
Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: She was believed to have died in a landslide after leaving Sanctuary, which greatly scarred Garfiel. However, in Arc 5, it is revealed that she survived albeit with amnesia. Afterwards, she moved to Priestella, where she remarried and started a new family.
Wistful Amnesia: Despite the loss of her memories before the accident, she subconsciously named her new full human children after Garfiel and Frederica.

Kararagi

Halibel

A ninja wolf demihuman.

Curse: By mixing his own fur and nails into his weapons, he is able to curse people through mere scratches.
Doppelgänger Attack: As any good ninja, he can create multiple versions of himself in battle. Bonus points for these copies being real instead of mere illusions.
McNinja: He has pretty much all the skillset of a stereotypical ninja, but he's from this world's Fantasy Counterpart Culture of Japan instead of an actual Japanese ninja.
Oral Fixation: He often likes biting on his golden kiseru.
Wolf Man: He's an anthropomorphic wolf dressed in a black kimono.

Three Great Mabeasts

White Whale

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A giant, flying, white, whale-like mabeast that's terrorized the world for over 400 years. Anyone it hits with its white fog is not only killed but erased from the memories of everyone else, along with any physical evidence of their existence—only Subaru remembers them. Since its appearances are random, hunting it down is even more difficult than it would otherwise be.

Brown Note:
- Of a sort. Subaru comes up with the idea of using the side effect of saying that he can Return By Death to kill or cripple the White Whale after he manages to get on top of its horn. It succeeds in bringing the beast down to the ground, where the real trap can be sprung.
- The White Whale can do a version of this, too, causing many people to go temporarily insane and collapse in agony.
Defeating the Undefeatable: Taking down the White Whale is seen like this, in-universe. Not just because it's a giant, flying, magical whale with instant-death, area-of-effect ranged attacks, but because its appearances are always random and unpredictable, meaning that actively hunting for it is extremely difficult. But the chance to take it down and get revenge for all of the suffering, terror, and horror it's inflicted on the world for 400 years is too tempting for many to pass up.
The Dreaded: The White Whale is probably the second-most feared entity in the world after Satella, and for good reason. The anime demonstrates just why this is in excellent detail: people don't even remember its victims, nor do any records. The only way for anyone to know that people have fallen victim to the White Whale is for there to be some kind of irrefutable organizational structure that necessitates the existence of people at a given point in time, but, inexplicably, there is no one filling those positions/records. This leads to situations in which a convoy of traders are picked off one by one, with none of them even realizing they're under attack because they instantly forget the ones whom are killed ever existed.
From Bad to Worse: Just when it seems like they have the White Whale on the ropes, it spawns two clones of itself.
Giant Flyer: A literal flying Monster Whale that has menaced the world for centuries.
Monster Whale: This monster is basically the fantasy world version of Moby-Dick. If a giant flying whale that hunts people isn't terrifying enough, it also possesses a mystical fog that's capable of Ret Goneing anyone it touches and erasing all traces of them from history.
Rasputinian Death: The White Whale takes an absurd amount of punishment to kill. Even dropping Flugel's tree onto it isn't enough to kill it, forcing Wilhelm to finish it off.
Retconjuration: The White Whale's fog/mist attack erases both all memories of the victim and all physical traces or records of that person's existence. Subaru is the only one who remembers, most likely solely because of a side-effect of his Return By Death ability, which lets him remember everything even past death itself.

Great Rabbit

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A singular Great Rabbit

The Sizeable Hare is actually a swarm of hares with an insatiable, unending hunger. They have an inherent population limit that they can't exceed (which is still a very high number), but they will quickly replenish back to that maximum number in seconds if all of them aren't killed at once. Also, their bites are supernaturally strong: Subaru puts his hand near one and the entire hand is almost instantly chomped off.

Devoured by the Horde: Inflicts this on its victims. It's a very painful way to die, as Subaru can attest to.
The Dreaded: The Great Rabbit is treated as a natural disaster even worse than White Whale. While the appearance of the White Whale is a freak occurrence akin to a meteor, the Great Rabbit is more like a never ending hurricane that can be tracked by the sheer amount of devastation it causes by eating everything in sight.
Dude, Where's My Reward?: Emilia's faction reports that they killed the Great Rabbit to the government, but they don't receive credit for the achievement since no witnesses outside their faction were present and no body could be found. They said that they'd consider the claim proven if the Great Rabbit made no appearances for the next decade, but by that point the Royal Selection will be over.
From a Single Cell: If even one of the hares survives, it will continue to multiply back to its maximum population limit extremely quickly, usually by feeding.
Hair-Raising Hare: These fluffy bunnies are actually a man-eating monster that will devour every person in sight, or, if no people are nearby, then they'll devour themselves.
Hive Mind: The Great Rabbit is believed to be a single entity split into hundreds.
Horde of Alien Locusts: A non-alien version. They descend onto a settlement and devour everyone, leaving nothing behind in terms of bodies.
Killer Rabbit: Don't let its adorable appearance and small size fool you because this little thing is one of the most dangerous mabeasts in the world and the hardest to kill.
Negative Space Wedgie: How they are ultimately defeated. Beatrice, aided by Subaru and Emilia, uses the ultimate yin-element spell, Al Shamac, creating a wormhole of sorts that sucks the entire swarm into an alternate dimension of blackness.
The Swarm: They always act as a swarm, overwhelming everything with sheer numbers and incredible multiplication/replication.

Black Serpent

The Black Serpent is said to be the hardest of the great three mabeasts to control or deal with.

The Dreaded: The White Whale, while powerful and existentially terrifying, is still vulnerable to sufficiently-massed firepower and magical attacks, preventing it from operating too close to cities or armies. The Great Rabbit is mindless and drawn by overt concentrations of mana, and can also be killed by sufficient concentrations of disciplined firepower if it gets too close to an army or city. Comparatively, Black Serpent is unpredictable and has no known means to attract its attention towards any given target. Even if it is killed, the curses it would leave on the area upon being defeated makes fighting it seem very costly, no matter how perfectly executed.
The Ghost: While its influence is great and the cast has fought its venom as its own dreaded boss monster prior, The Black Serpent itself has not properly appeared. This is likely because of the sheer difficulty to track it down in the first place, and hasn't happened upon the characters itself yet. Narratively, this works because the monster is simply too powerful to ignore and thus would put a halt on any current plot arc by simply having its location known.
Poison Is Evil: Its venom alone is so powerful and dangerous that it's able to prey on powerful demons and serve as an immensely tangible threat on its own.
Serpent of Immortality: Very literally an immortal snake, though the immortality is more age related than being unable to die.
Walking Wasteland: It is a giant black snake which sows the lands it travels through with curses, making it a mobile, living natural disaster. On top of that, it inflicts over a hundred diseases upon anyone it touches—such as with its long, prehensile tongue—which kills its victims in mere seconds in horrific fashion. The curses it leaves upon the land as it travels is analogous to radioactive pollution in which it makes an area uninhabitable and dangerous to even approach for a very long time.

Four Great Spirits

In General

Classical Elements Ensemble: Melakuera is the Great Spirit of Fire (although he has been replaced by Puck after being defeated by the latter), Zarestia is the Great Spirit of Wind, Muspel is the Great Spirit of Earth, and Odglass is the Great Spirit of Water.

Melakuera

Voiced by: Tesshō Genda (Japanese)

The former Great Spirit of Fire until Puck defeated it seven years prior to the beginning of the story.

Antiquated Linguistics: Melakuera spoke in a robotic manner while also using archaic pronouns.
Fantastic Racism: He loathes all half-elves because of Satella's actions.
Hellish Horse: Melakuera appeared as a horse completely covered by red and light blue flames.
Hypocrite: He thinks Emilia and Puck threaten the balance of the world around them. So what does he do? Possesses a slave trader that wanted to get revenge, threatens the village near them, starts burning down a forest where plenty of animals (and humans) live, and unleashes the poison of the Black Serpent to aid in his goals.
Insane Troll Logic: His "justifications" when it comes to his attempted murder of Emilia border on this. For instance, the idea that, because she somewhat resembles a long-defeated Witch, she's somehow a "grave threat to the world" (not even at the moment, but merely potentially), and therefore requires him threatening the existence of the forest to put down. When pressed, he's unable to provide anything more rational than his mysterious self-proclaimed role as a "mediator"; and when pointed out she's just trying to defend herself and he would do the same in her situation, he responds she shouldn't be allowed to do as others do. Because that's fate. Fortunately for Emilia, Puck manages to defeat him; unfortunately, that same "logic" is deeply-rooted all throughout the world.
Knight Templar: He actively tries to murder Emilia because of her half-elf nature, regardless of her actions, causing considerable collateral damage in the process.
Playing with Fire: As the Great Spirit of Fire, Melakuera used very powerful fire attacks.
Posthumous Character: Melakuera has been dead for seven years by the time of the main storyline, having been killed by Puck to protect Emilia.
Self-Duplication: Melakuera was able to create clones of himself.
Tautological Templar: He's arbitrarily decided that Emilia, and Puck who defends her, threaten the "balance" of the world; he seeks no secondary opinion to confirm this hypothesis, and seems fully convinced that his actions are justified because he decided they were.

Zarestia

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The Great Spirit of Wind who dwells at Zarestia's Bed.

Ax-Crazy: As the Great Spirit of Murder, Zarestia is a killing machine with uncontrollable murderous impulses. However, without her light ball, her personality becomes much more peaceful and friendly.
Blow You Away: While Zarestia once possessed power over the four elements, she now retains only her extremely powerful Wind Magic.
Does Not Like Spam: She hates alcohol. Just coming into contact with it is enough to put her into shock.
Ethereal White Dress: She's the Great Spirit of Murder that is called a Shinigami by many. She dresses in a mostly white kimono similar to burial clothes to represent her close connection to death.
Everyone Has Standards: She's a Spirit of Murder and self-proclaimed Shinigami, but she won't kill pregnant women regardless of any sin the mother committed.
Immortal Immaturity: She can be surprisingly childish despite being one of the oldest beings in her world.
In-Series Nickname: She asks others to call her "Tia".
Innocent Fanservice Girl: In the Rem IF novel, she tries joining Subaru and Halibel at the male side of the hot springs, not understanding the reasons why that would be wrong. Luckily, Rem is there to stop her.
My God, What Have I Done?: In the Rem IF novel, she accidentally knocks the pregnant Rem into a wall when Rem gets close to her while she's passed out drunk and Zarestia mistakes Rem for the Oni girl who stole her light ball. When Zarestia comes to her senses, she's horrified at seeing what she did to Rem.
Mystical White Hair: She has the appearance of a young woman with pure white hair, hinting at her supernatural nature as a Great Spirit.
Red Baron: She took the title of the Most Beautiful Shinigami after people called her "shinigami" when she killed them in the end and how they had once called her "beautiful".
Supernatural Gold Eyes: She's an ancient Great Spirit who takes the form of a woman with bright yellow eyes.

Muspel

The Great Spirit of Earth. It was said to roam freely within Vollachia and had settled itself in the territory of House Abellux until it was partially devoured by Arakiya roughly 7 years before the start of the main story.

Dishing Out Dirt: Muspel is the Great Spirit of Earth. According to records, Muspel moves on a grand scale every 12 years, leading to various earthquakes after its movement.

Odglass

The Great Spirit of Water. She is known as the Benevolent Mother of the Gustekan Church.

The Chooser of the One: Odglass has chosen each Holy King in the line of succession of Gusteko.
Founder of the Kingdom: She founded the country of Gusteko by crowning its first king.
Making a Splash: She's the Great Spirit of Water.

Pleiades Watchtower

Shaula

The disciple of Flugel as well as the Sage. She was a key figure in sealing away Satella 400 years ago. She has remained at the Pleiades Watchtower for 400 years, acting on Flugel's orders and watching over the Evil Sealing Stone Shrine.

A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Shaula has a built-in program that forces her to maintain the rules of the Pleiades Watchtower even if it would be detrimental to her own interests and those of her friends.
The Aloner: Guarded the Pleiades Watchtower for 400 years, with her only interaction being the Witch Cult members that she has to kill every so often.
Ancient Keeper: She watches over the Pleiades Watchtower and maintains the trial there.
Animorphism: Any time a rule of the tower is broken, Shaula can transform herself into a colossal scorpion.
Braids of Action: She ties her hair back in a braid. It's meant to resemble a scorpion tail.
Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Despite acting as frivolous as Subaru, Shaula holds the answers to many ancient mysteries.
Cannot Tell a Lie: She cannot tell a lie, but that won't stop her from keeping certain pieces of information to herself.
Character Tics: She tends to talk using a lot of modern words. She is noted to talk and pose similarly to Subaru.
Fake Ultimate Hero: Turns out Flugel had left all his accomplishments and his title to her while he disappeared somewhere, leaving scant traces of his own existence.
Girly Bruiser: She has incredible physical strength despite her looks. At one point in Arc 6, she carried a Dragon Carriage and its Land Dragon down to the 6th floor of the Pleiades Watchtower for storage.
I Cannot Self-Terminate: After turning into her scorpion form, Shaula can't even kill herself to stop rule breakers even if she wants to.
Magic Librarian: Shaula is the caretaker of Flugel's library.
Metaphorically True: Though she won't tell a lie, she won't give the whole truth. This can be seen how she doesn't explain that there are actually 5 rules for the Pleiades Watchtower.
No Sense of Personal Space: She's constantly hugging (or attempting to) Subaru almost anytime she sees him. Even tries to steal a kiss from him during his amnesiac episode.
Scary Scorpions: In her scorpion form, she can fire stingers at people with tremendous speed, as well as giving her the ability to attack people with her pincers. In addition, she can detach her tail and use it as a detonator device.
Space Master: Shaula has shown the ability to manipulate space such as when she sent Subaru and his group to separate locations by distorting space.
Stellar Name: Shaula, also known as Lambda Scorpii, is the second-brightest star in the southern constellation Scorpius.
Walking Swimsuit Scene: She goes around wearing a black bikini top and mini shorts.

Reid Astrea

The original Sword Saint who helped seal Satella 400 years ago and the ancestor of the Astrea family lineage. His soul acts as the overseer of the second trial of the Pleiades Watchtower.

Barbarian Long Hair: He has waist-length, messy red hair that gives him a wild look.
Dirty Old Man: He doesn't attempt to hide his lust towards Emilia and Anastasia, even mentioning that he would've had Emilia in bed if he was still alive.
Distracted by the Sexy: As the group bartered him down to bragging that he'd beat them all without moving a step, and whilst Emilia was swinging at him close-range, he took the opportunity to fondle her chest with his chopsticks. Thanks to her sheltered upbringing and childlike mentality towards romance or the like, Emilia didn't react at all to his shameful groping and just smashed him on the head, taking Reid by surprise and making him move.
Eyepatch of Power: He wears an eyepatch on his right eye for literally no reason other than to look more badass.
Improbable Weapon User: During a trial in Arc 6 he duels and handily beat both Julius and Anastasia with... nothing but a pair of chopsticks. He's so good he can use them like they were actual swords, complete with slashing others and even unleashing powerful flying slashes with them. Despite this seeming to be a self-imposed handicap, when Julius manages to convince him to fight him a bit more seriously using the actual sword provided in the trial room, he finds out that Reid's strength hasn't increased or decreased from changing his weapon. Rather, Reid was so good that he was able to fight with his full strength even whilst using seemingly asinine or weaker weapons.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's a rough, frank, arrogant and rather lecherous man who is hard to get along with, but he is not a completely bad person.
Lightning Bruiser: An incredible swordsman with inhuman strength & skill. Whether one comes at him with magic or martial prowess matter not, he can defeat most just the same.
No Hero to His Valet: While famous to most people for sealing Satella, Shaula considers him to be human trash who liked to bully people. Upon meeting the memory version of himself summoned for the trial and finding out that his mannerisms and personality were basically the exact opposite of his future descendant Reinhard, Subaru and the rest are forced to agree with her assessment.
Red Baron: Known as the first historical Sword Saint & the 2nd strongest to exist, only surpassed by Reinhard.
Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: The memory version of himself summoned for the second trial of the Pleiades Watchtower gets eaten by Roy Alphard. However, instead of Roy being able to possess Reid's abilities, Reid ends up possessing him and essentially resurrects himself from the dead, in this state no longer being restricted to the trial room and able to interfere in other locations around the watchtower, which causes Subaru's death in several loops due to him appearing unexpectedly and still prioritising fighting them for his own reasons/amusement.
Useless Accessory: It should be noted that there is nothing wrong with his right eye; he just wears an eyepatch as a handicap to avoid easily defeating his opponents too quickly.
Walking Shirtless Scene: He only wears one sleeve of his kimono to reveal his muscular chest.
World's Strongest Man: In his time he reached the peak state of swordsmanship & martial arts known as "Heavenly Sword" which was his other title. Upon technically defeating him in the trial by successfully landing a blow on him with his strongest move (though a greater reason what that Reid's possession to Roy's body was unstable and came undone after a while due to his immense power being too much for Roy to contain) Julius expresses interest in his unique opportunity to have a serious duel with Reinhard, the present Sword Saint, having crossed blades with the man who invented the title.

Volcanica

The dragon who helped seal Satella 400 years ago with Reid, Flugel and Shaula. He acts as the overseer of the third trial of the Pleiades Watchtower.

Dragons Are Divine: Volcanica is an extremely powerful dragon. He's deified in Luguinca as the country's guardian deity who has bestowed blessings on the land and gifts to its people that has brought the nation prosperity for centuries. The decline of the royal family statesmanship for several generations has lead people to look to him as the true ruler of Luginica. His very presence can instinctively compel others to kneel before him.
Heal It with Blood: His blood has powerful restorative properties that can create miracles, like curing famine or breaking powerful curses and magic afflictions.
Living Legend: To the citizens of Lugunica for sealing away Satella and establishing the covenant with Farsale Lugunica which has protected and supported the kingdom until the death of the royal bloodline.
Red Baron: "The Divine Dragon"

Subaru's Family

In General

Does Not Like Spam: They hate peas, even though they try getting Subaru to eat them.
Good Parents: From what little we see of them in the illusion created by Echidna, Kenichi and Naoko are nice parents who love their son. In fact, they're such good parents that Subaru felt he didn't deserve them and wanted them to give up on him. Subaru's one regret about possibly never being able to return to his original world is that he will never see his parents again.
Trademark Favorite Food: They're both mayonnaise lovers, to which their son also inherited.
Two First Names: Their surname, Natsuki, is more commonly used as a feminine Japanese given name.

Kenichi Natsuki

Voiced by: Kosuke Toriumi (Japanese), Kellen Goff (English)^{Foreign VAs}

Subaru's father.

A Hero to His Hometown: Kenichi is something of a local celebrity in the community he lives in, getting along with everyone from high schoolers to the elderly, resulting in his phone having thousands of contacts. This is deconstructed on Subaru's end, as he can't live up the (perceived) expectations of being Kenichi's son, leading to him being a Hikikomori prior to the story.
Heroic Build: Kenichi is tall and strongly built for a middle age man, and he's A Hero to His Hometown.
Nice Guy: Kenichi has a rather boisterous, charismatic and out-going personality which has usually made him popular with people.
Strong Family Resemblance: Kenichi is basically an older and muscular version of his son with glasses.

Naoko Natsuki

Voiced by: Ryōka Yuzuki (Japanese), Laura Post (English)^{Foreign VAs}

Subaru's mother.

Family Eye Resemblance: Her son inherits her Tsurime Eyes.
Motherly Side Plait: As a typical anime mom, Naoko ties her hair in a loose ponytail over her left shoulder.
Tsurime Eyes: Subaru got his stern-looking upturned eyes from Naoko.

Others

Sylphy

Sylphy / No.184

One of Regulus' wives and often acts as representative of them.

Broken Bird: Due to years of having to live in fear of being killed for even smiling in front of Regulus, Sylphy developed a cold and emotionless personality.
You Are Number 6: She's Regulus Corneas' 184th wife and is mainly referred to by her number.

Sphinx

A clone of Ryuzu Meyer who was created in the Sanctuary by the Witch of Greed, Echidna. She was born as a failed vessel from Echidna's attempts at achieving immortality by transferring her consciousness to one of Ryuzu's clones. During the Demi-Human War, she gained infamy in the Kingdom of Lugunica for being a "Witch" who utilized undead soldiers, as well as one of the Demi-Human Alliance's most crucial members.

Arc Villain: She's the main antagonist of Arc 8 as the culprit behind the Sacred Vollachia Empire's Great Disaster.
An Arm and a Leg: After the Demi-Human War, Sphinx lost her arms and legs.
Artificial Human: She's one of the first five clones of Ryuzu Meyer.
Clone Angst: Due to being a clone meant to be a mere vessel for her creator, Sphinx lacks a proper soul and emotions. She desires to gain a "complete" soul.
Emotionless Girl: As a result of being created from one of Echidna's failed experiments and not fully inheriting a complete soul, Sphinx has an emotionless demeanour.
Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: Despite having the appearance of a cute and innocent little girl, Sphinx radiates an abominable aura that denotes her as a wicked monster.
Manipulative Bitch: She often manipulates or exploits other people for her own interests.
Necromancer: She can reanimate corpses of the dead and make them do her bidding.
Pointy Ears: She has pointed elf-like ears, like Ryuzu and her other clones.
Psycho Pink: She looks like a small elf girl with pink hair, but she's actually a dangerous and wicked Necromancer.
Puppeteer Parasite: She has the ability to create parasites that take over a living target's body and turns them into one of her "zombies".
Really 700 Years Old: Echidna created her over 400 years ago.
Stellar Name: She's named after the asteroid 896 Sphinx.

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