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Kinji Ninomiya
Kinji Ninomiya
Voiced by: Katsuyuki Konishi (Japanese), Christopher Escalante (English)
- Asshole Victim: Kinji is a Jerkass at the best of times so if anything bad happens to him he usually deserved it like when his co-workers beat the crap out of him for abusing a mind control spell on them.
- Bad Boss: There are several examples in the series, including Kinji. To provide an example of just how bad a boss Kinji is he finds a magic staff that mind controls people and the first thing he does is enslave the rest of the work crew and work them almost to death. Though before the wand's powers wore off, he was considering a more stable means of using it without overworking them.
- That said, he is a Benevolent Boss to those who work directly with him.
- But Now I Must Go: Hilariously subverted. After taking over as CEO of Raiza'ha, it seemed that Kinji was prepared to return to Japan, given how Wanibe noticed his strange behavior. However, at his going away party, it is revealed that he was actually preparing to go to other countries in the world to take over their dungeons and expand the Black Company's power.
- Character Development: Kinji goes from a self-centered Bad Boss to a more altruistic and helpful Benevolent Boss.
- The Chessmaster: In full force once he returns from the future.
- Crazy-Prepared: When Kinji gets arrested, it is soon revealed he left an emergency manual for the Black Company for his inner circle to follow. Not only does it have instructions for them to follow in order to arrange for his freedom, but also the ways in which to get him voted as the CEO of Raiza'ha.
- Freudian Excuse: The reason why Kinji is such a selfish and opportunistic man? When he was a kid, His father threw him and his mother out on the streets in favor of his mistress and the child they had together.
- Human Resources: One of Kinji's get rich quick schemes involved creating a farm to harvest monster parts without killing them.
- Laborious Laziness: Kinji's defining characteristic. The series starts out with him explaining how use worked his butt off to get everything he has now solely so he can live as a NEET. After being transported to another world, he is looking to do it all over again.
- MegaCorp: Kinji ends up working for one after he gets dumped in his new world called the Raiza'ha Mining Corporation. It has a capital of 1.3 billion gold and over 30,000 employees and is centered around the industrialization of demonite crystals including the logistics, sales, research, development of said crystals in addition to the exploration and mining of demonite-rich dungeons.
- In Episode 11, Kinji creates his own company that utterly destroys the Raiza'ha Mining Corporation in a little over three months.
- NEET: Kinji, the story opens up about him bragging about managing to find a way to avoid becoming another office drone. He takes advantage of the international stock market and real estate and easily made enough cash for his own high-rise apartment. When he loses everything after being transported to another world and forced into menial labor, he spends most of the story finding a way to escape and return to this lifestyle.
- No OSHA Compliance: The Raiza'ha Mining Corporation is not very concerned with the safety of its employees and will happily sacrifice them in the name of profit. Kinji is even less concerned with the well-being of the workers he is put in charge of. At first.
- Trapped in Another World: Kinji getting yanked out of present-day Earth to his new fantasy realm kicks off the story. It later happens to him again when he gets yanked into a Bad Future version of the world.
- Villain Protagonist: Kinji is both ruthless and unscrupulous, willing to use any and all means to make his life easier. This includes enslaving his co-workers via mind control and blackmailing Shia into working for him. He does get better though, and is far more moral then the upper management of Raiza'ha.
Rim
Rim
- Big Eater: Rim is an adorable dragon girl who is frequently hungry and will eat just about anything.
- Cute Monster Girl: She's a powerful dragon that shifted into the form of a teenage girl. In her girl form, she appears mostly human aside from her horns, tail and Pointy Ears.
- Little Bit Beastly: She's a dragon girl, and she looks mostly humanoid aside from her dragon horns and tail.
- Spell My Name With An S: Rim/Rimu.
Wanibe
Wanibe
Voiced by: Hiro Shimono (Japanese), Stephen Sanders (English)
- Lizard Folk: He's a crocodilian demi-human and one of Kinji's co-workers.
Belza Schubach
Belza Schubach
Voiced by: Satomi Sato (Japanese), Sarah Roach (English)
- Freudian Excuse: In Episode 11, Ranga spells out why Belza is the way she is:Ranga: Born as the illegitimate child of the noble Shuba'ha family, loved by no one, you had no choice but to do everything by yourself. So you never trust anyone. You never love anyone. All you can do is deny, reject, and break everything. Those broken by you, in turn, grow to hate you.
- Manipulative Bitch: Playing on her "Well Done, Son" Guy issues, Belza is able to convince Shia to testify against Kinji in order to get him arrested.
- Mirror Character: Belza is this to Kinji. Both are very cunning and ruthless individuals in the world of business due to their respective Dark and Troubled Past involving family, hardening them into the cynical and cutthroat people that they are today. What separates the two is the fact that Kinji, for all of his self-centeredness, is still capable of sympathizing and befriending those around him, even going out of his way to help them out in their time of need and making sure they are in genuinely better conditions in life than before. Meanwhile, Belza has learned to only care about her own ambitions and power, to the point that she'll use anyone and anything to stand at the even if it means damning the world itself.
- Out-Gambitted: Belza thought she had everything under wraps when she managed to get Kinji arrested and get herself voted as Director of Raiza'ha. What she didn't foresee was Kinji having left an emergency plan for his team to follow during his incarceration, which leads to him being voted as the CEO of Raiza'ha and turning it into a subsidiary of the Dungeon Black Company.
- Villainous Breakdown: Belza, during The Climax of Episode 12, to the point of having to be physically restrained from attacking Kinji. She then spends the rest of the episode in a Villainous BSoD.
Boss Goblin
Shia Kinou
Shia Kinou
Voiced by: Megumi Toda (Japanese), Madeleine Morris (English)
- Easily Forgiven: Kinji doesn't hold a single ounce of resentment towards Shia after she testified against him, leading to him being arrested.
- My God, What Have I Done?: When she sees for herself how bad Kinji has been treated during his incarceration and knowing she aided in getting him arrested.
Ranga
Ranga
Voiced by: Mao Ichimichi (Japanese), Morgan Lea (English)
- Dude Looks Like a Lady: Kinji encounters an oddly young priestess named Ranga, while in an alternate future world from the one he was originally transported to. A good grope between the legs has him confirm that Ranga is actually a feminine male, who earned the title because he was the only one in town with magical power.
- Summon Magic: He summons Kinji Ninomiya to help them defeat the demon lord and save the world from destruction.
