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Elizabeth

Debut: Volume 3 (Light Novel), Chapter 30 (Manga), Episode 22 (Anime)^noteFlashback only

Voiced by: Saori Hayami (Japanese), Brianna Roberts (English)

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The monarch of the Crimson Tower and an ancient vampire that died decades ago. She is resurrected in a ritual during the Blood Moon as part of Crimson's plans to take over the world with her power.

Absurdly Sharp Claws: She possesses red claws that can take against blows from the sharpest magic swords.
Authority in Name Only: While she is considered the monarch of the Crimson Tower, she is essentially just a corpse and potential attack dog with the true leader being Crimson.
Back from the Dead: The only thing that remained from her was her heart, which was then placed inside someone else's corpse as part of the ritual to resurrect her.
Blessed with Suck: How she views her condition. She's easily one of the most powerful beings in the world, able to give even Shadow a run for his money (literally), but she has no desire to hurt anyone and only wishes to live a normal life free of Horror Hunger - but her vampiric nature is too strong for her to ever be weaned off blood, making her a constant threat to everyone around her.
Blood Countess: One of the reasons Cid targeted her first in the Lawless Town is that Elizabeth, as one of the Vampire Progenitors, is rich and is the wealthiest amongst the three monarchs in the said city.
Blood Magic: Her greatest ability was the power to freely control her own blood and imbue it with magic, using it as things like spears, arrows, or deadly tentacles, or using it as healing magic to give herself a rapid Healing Factor.
Bloody Murder: Like her predecessor Aurora and true to her title, Elizabeth uses blood as weapons.
Brought Down to Normal: Cid uses his healing 'nuke' to cure her vampirism allowing her to live the normal life she long desired.
The Cameo: She makes a few voiceless appearances in the anime-exclusive Hot Springs Episode with her enjoying her stay in Mitsugoshi Hot Springs Lands while being attended by Mary.
Curtains Match the Window: Elizabeth sports red hair and eyes.
Dark Is Not Evil: She's a Vampire, sure but she's the most benevolent of her entire race.
Death Seeker: When Elizabeth finally met her match in Shadow, she implies this on Cid as she's one of the beings powerful enough for him to get a decent conversation with.
The Dreaded: As the strongest amongst the vampire progenitors, she's feared for a good reason. During the Red Moon event, the Dark Knight Alliance broke their no intervention rule in the Lawless Town in order to stop her from rampaging again and she's strong enough to give the strongest characters in the story, Aurora using Claire as a vessel and later a handicapped Shadow, a relatively even fight each.
Driven to Suicide: Elizabeth took her own life to ensure she would never harm any more lives when she lost control of her vampire nature. However, she didn't die but was merely put into a comatose state that made her look like she was dead.
Horror Hunger: Unlike less powerful vampires, she cannot ever leave her bloodthirst behind until Shadow fully cures her, and any lapse in willpower causes her to enter a horrific feeding frenzy she has no control over.
My God, What Have I Done?: When she regained her senses, Elizabeth was filled with immense guilt for the terror she unknowingly brought upon the world.
Naked First Impression: When she was resurrected, she was fully nude before using her Blood Magic to make new clothes for herself.
Posthumous Character: She was already dead but later got resurrected when the Red Moon occurred.
Power Trio: One of the three Monarchs of Outlaw City. She resides at the Crimson Tower.
Red Baron: She's widely known as the "Blood Queen".
Secret Secret-Keeper: She knows that Cid is Shadow and gives him a light bow as thanks for him stopping her rampage.
Sinister Scythe: In the anime, she wields a scythe made of blood against Shadow.
Super Smoke: She can change her body into red mist.
Tragic Monster: She is the only Vampire leader who refuses to take a life and only wishes to have a peaceful life. She tries to fight off her urge to feed but her nature as the vampire progenitor prevents her from doing so.
World's Strongest Man: Elizabeth is one of the vampire progenitors, making her the most powerful member of the vampire race. Unfortunately, this would be a detriment to her as while the other vampires can live normally, she is unable to and can easily succumb to her vampiric urges.

Mary

Debut: Volume 3 (Light Novel), Chapter 30 (Manga), Episode 21 (Anime)

Voiced by: Ai Kakuma (Japanese), Katelyn Barr (English)

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A legendary Vampire Hunter, who plans to raid Crimson Tower to prevent Elizabeth from awakening and letting her former master rest in peace.

Brought Down to Normal: Having shunned drinking blood, her strength and vulnerability are comparable to that of a human. She can get her powers back by drinking blood.
The Cameo: She makes a few voiceless appearances in the anime-exclusive Hot Springs Episode with her attending her master Elizabeth in their stay at Mitsugoshi Hot Springs Lands.
Crazy-Prepared: Knew that the Red Moon will come, she made an underground tunnel that leads to the Crimson Tower in order to stop the ceremony to resurrect Elizabeth.
Does This Remind You of Anything?: She drinks the blood that was on Claire's lips to revive herself. From another perspective, it looks like Mary tried to force a kiss on the girl. The light novel even has an illustration for it which to everyone who doesn't know the circumstances looks like they are kissing.
Earn Your Happy Ending: She and Elizabeth can finally start new lives after Cid cures the latter of her vampirism.
Fire-Forged Friends: She develops a friendship with Claire by fighting through the Crimson Tower together.
Hunter of His Own Kind: After Mercy Killing her master Elizabeth to stop her insatiable genocidal rampage, Mary made it her mission to slay any rogue vampires that dared threaten humanity and other species. In other words, she's a vampire Vampire Hunter.
Off with Her Head!: In the anime, she was decapitated by Crimson when he stole the corpse of Elizabeth from her.
One-Steve Limit: Her name is very similar to Marie, a former prostitute of Lawless City.
Pint-Sized Powerhouse: She's short but she's the closest servant to the most powerful Vampire progenitor in existence. Expect heavy resistance.
Take a Third Option: Instead of killing her master or allowing her to suffer because of her vampire nature, Mary chooses to imprison her. This backfires when Crimson manages to overpower her and take Elizabeth.
Undying Loyalty: It's clear Mary is still devoted to Elizabeth. When Beta accidentally makes a remark about progenitors being similar to demons, Mary is enraged at the comparison, condemning it as heresy.
Vampire Hunter: After Elizabeth went on a rampage, Mary dedicated her life to tracking her down and killing any vampires that do harm to humans.

Crimson

Debut: Volume 3 (Light Novel), Chapter 28 (Manga), Episode 21 (Anime)

Voiced by: Tomokazu Sugita (Japanese), Dickie Sanders (English)

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A vampire supremacist, who wants to rule the world by reviving Elizabeth through the Red Moon.

Ain't Too Proud to Beg: After being beaten within an inch of his life by Shadow, he tries to make a deal with him. Unfortunately, Shadow doesn't care and kills him for good.
All for Nothing: Crimson spent an entire millennium scheming, cultivating an army of bloodthirsty vampires and human sacrifices for the next Red Moon, only for it to come entirely undone in a single night, the Crimson Tower obliterated off the face of the world and be unceremoniously killed off thanks to Shadow. Moreover, Shadow's healing nuke cured Elizabeth of her vampirism, meaning she's finally free to live a normal life with Mary and create a safe haven for vampires and humans once more without Crimson's influence. Thus, truly putting everything he had done back at square one.
Arc Villain: For the Red Moon arc and notably the only villain so far not to be associated with the cult. This is because of his own agenda of resurrecting Elizabeth and spreading chaos and destruction across the world to rule it as opposed to Diabolos.
Asshole Victim: For intentionally causing Elizabeth's rampage and planning to do so again, his death means one less bastard to deal with in the future.
Big Bad Wannabe: He was the reason behind the Lawless City ghoul attack and Elizabeth's resurrection and built up to be the Arc Villain. Unfortunately for him, Shadow misses the memo, easily dispatches Crimson and insults the pile of ash about how he was too weak to be even considered the Vampire Queen. Not only that his death is merely an afterthought to everyone else as they are more focused on Elizabeth than his sudden disappearance.
Death of a Thousand Cuts: Meets his end this way when Shadow was crunched for time and couldn't be bothered to let Crimson even get a word in edgewise. His rapid slice-and-dicing completely overrides Crimson's rapid regeneration and turns him into mincemeat before he fatally stabbed him in the heart.
Demoted to Extra: The anime cut his appearance even shorter with him being completely obliterated by Shadow's attack, unlike his long and drawn-out death in the light novel and manga.
Dies Differently in Adaptation: In the light novel and manga, Shadow keeps cutting him to pieces until he stops regenerating. In the anime, Shadow comes up behind him and goes atomic, vaporizing him before he realizes what hit him.
Disc-One Final Boss: Despite being the one who started this whole mess of resurrecting Elizabeth in the Blood Moon arc, Crimson was swiftly dealt with by Shadow before Claire, Mary and co. could even arrive and was completely forgotten in favor of the Vampire Queen.
Egopolis: Crimson rules the Crimson Tower although it's ambiguous whether it was named after the color like the Black and White Towers or after himself considering his overflowing arrogance.
Flat Character: He doesn't get much characterization beyond being a smug, cynical, and hypocritical vampire supremacist.
Hypocrite: He claims that humans are in the wrong for using vampires' weaknesses against them, but he plants human blood in Elizabeth's food to make her crave blood, showing that he's willing to exploit vampire weaknesses for his own ends.
Karmic Death: He always preaches the superiority of vampires over humans but was trounced and unceremoniously killed by Shadow, a human beyond his comprehension and power.
Kick The Son Of A Bitch: He thoroughly brings the White Demon down to his knees and forces him to be his eternal servant.
Killed Mid-Sentence: Combined with Good Thing You Can Heal and Played for Laughs. When Crimson finally confronts Shadow, he is about to monologue only for the latter to kill him many times over before he can finish a full sentence.
Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: He claims to fight for the sake of vampirekind for how humanity killed many of his kind. Even though the vampires started the conflict by using humans as cattle and Elizabeth has proven that they can live peacefully and normally by simply not drinking blood at the cost of their powers.
Reduced to Dust: Because he's a vampire, Crimson turns into a pile of ash after Shadow fatally stabbed him in the heart.
Revenge Myopia: He states that he wants Elizabeth to help him slaughter and subjugate humanity as revenge for horrific vampire executions. Even though vampires use humans as food and are essentially treating them as livestock, which is the reason why humans started exploiting their weaknesses to kill them.
Talking Is a Free Action: Subverted. Crimson had prepared this entire villain monologue about the reign of vampires finally coming and nothing could stop them from enslaving all mankind but unlike the other times when Shadow lets his enemies talk big-game, he kept spamming the skip button for this NPC's dialogue since he was really eager to fight his master Elizabeth the vampire queen. As such, Crimson couldn't even edge in a word without being slashed down and eventually turned into mincemeat since Shadow couldn't give him the time of night to even care.
Tampering with Food and Drink: He adds human blood into Elizabeth's food thus reigniting her basic instincts.
Undignified Death: He is killed over and over again by Shadow during his Evil Gloating, which reduces the proud extremist to pathetically begging for mercy. Only for Shadow to simply continue killing him without any thoughts aside from how weak he is.

Yukime the Spirit Fox

Yukime

Debut: Volume 3 (Light Novel), Chapter 29 (Manga), Episode 21 (Anime)

Voiced by: Shizuka Itō (Japanese), Courtney Lomelo (English)

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A nine-tailed spirit fox therianthrope who rules the White Tower and controls the pleasure district in the Lawless City. After Cid successfully stops Crimson and Elizabeth's blood moon rampage, she approaches Shadow to suggest an alliance against the Major Corporate Alliance.

Adaptational Explanation: The web novel never explains why Gettan didn't simply kill Yukime when she went unconscious due to the strain her Traumatic Superpower Awakening caused, the light novel changes the events so that Cid causes Gettan's blindness, which forced her former fiancee to run away.
Adaptational Wimp: In the web novel, she caused Gettan's blindness after undergoing a Traumatic Superpower Awakening due to learning that Gettan was the one who killed her mother. In the light novel, that role goes to Cid, who was bandit hunting.
Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: She tries to tempt Shadow into sleeping with her. It doesn't work.
Asian Fox Spirit: Showcasing how powerful she is as a spirit fox, she has nine tails. For comparison, her mother only had three tails and was the strongest of the tribe before her death.
Benevolent Boss: She actually cares for her ladies and the first thing she does when she meets Shadow for the first time in the Crimson Tower is to thank him for saving them from the ghouls. In Master of Garden, she even holds a feast for them after they make a great profit from the kimonos they made.
Best Served Cold: She didn't just want simple revenge on Gettan, she also wanted to rob him of everything he had before confronting him directly due to his statement that one should steal others unless they want to be the ones stolen from.
Bodyguard Crush: She joins forces with John Smith, Cid's Secret Agent persona, in collapsing the economy and puts him in charge of dispatching any saboteurs obstructing the circulation. During this, she develops feelings for John which only intensify when he seemingly risks his life to "rescue" her from her ex-fiance Gettan. Unfortunately for Yukime, John doesn't return the sentiment at all, viewing them as Strictly Professional Relationship with eyes only for the big payout, so this completely one-sided love will forever amount to pining.
The Cameo: She makes a few voiceless appearances in the anime-exclusive Hot Springs Episode with her enjoying her stay in Mitsugoshi Hot Springs Lands.
Combat Hand Fan: Her signature weapon.
Cool Train: The anime changes her base and meeting place with John Smith from a mansion hidden in the woods to a train riding conspicuously throughout Midgar.
Covered with Scars: Her back is riddled with several scars caused by her fiancee Gettan when trying to force her to join the cult with him. They are later healed by John Smith after saving her from Gettan.
Cute Monster Girl: She is a beautiful spirit fox therianthrope.
Defrosting Ice Queen: She was a cold and bewitching woman but spending time with John allowed her to bring out the younger, kinder self she locked up years ago.
Effective Knockoff:
- The Snow Fox Corporation she manages is one of the leading companies that sell knock-off Mitsugoshi products of lesser quality although, unlike the shirts Skel and Po wore in the anime that have prints that easily fall off, Cid as John Smith did not have a single problem with the suit he received from her aside from it getting worn down after being used in combat too much.
- The counterfeit money she produces to cause the credit collapse is actually of a better quality than the shoddy credit of the MCA.
Et Tu, Brute?: Her fiance betrayed her and murdered her mother so that he could get power to end a clan war.
Forgotten First Meeting: In the Light Novel, it is implied that Cid saved her from Gettan's initial assault on her after Gettan had murdered her mother and destroyed her village. The last thing she hears before losing consciousness is a young boy shouting "Yahoo! Gimme all your money!!". She wakes up healed of most of her wounds and Gettan has been driven off. She later realizes that John Smith and the strange little boy are one and the same and tells Alpha that Shadow had saved her twice from Gettan.
Friend in the Black Market: After becoming allies with Shadow Garden, her role is to act as their liaison to Lawless City so her Snow Fox Corporation can handle the dirty work while Mitsugoshi acts as the public face.
From Nobody to Nightmare: If her fiancée hadn't betrayed the Spirit Fox clan, Yukime would not have transformed from an innocent village girl to a vicious crime lord.
Girl of the Week: For the second half of volume 3, which focuses on her partnership with John Smith and her quest for revenge against Gettan.
Good Scars, Evil Scars: She sports a large scar on her back, perpetrated by Gettan when she tried to escape from him. Cid later removes it for good by using his healing powers.
Honey Trap: She uses herself and her subordinates to seduce Shadow in order to have him tied to her organization.
I Own This Town: She's the sole undisputed ruler of the Lawless Town with the White Tower as her turf with the help of Shadow Garden dispatching her enemies (Shadow for Elizabeth and Delta for Juggernaut).
Insistent Terminology: When she first started copying Mitsugoshi's products, she told her employees they were simply "referencing" it just like how artists throughout history were inspired by others. However, this is more done to get her employees to work and she drops it once her employees make satisfying designs.
Iron Lady: As one of the rulers of Lawless Town, everyone knows not to mess with her.
Irony:
- She wants to control Lawless City in order to obtain information about Gettan yet she became its sole ruler after Gettan has been dealt with.
- Her Snow Fox Corporation is one of the leading companies that sells Mitsugoshi knock-offs and was able to achieve success due to their products being cheaper along with being stationed in Lawless City, but her company becomes partners with Mitsugoshi after the corporate war against the MCA has ended.
Kimono Fanservice: Due to being the head of the red light district, she and her workers wear kimonos designed to be as seductive as possible with her kimono having a Cleavage Window and a slit to show off some leg.
Light Is Not Good: She is a Foxkin with long, snow-white hair but she is the head of a criminal organization. That is reversed after falling in love with Shadow.
Meaningful Name: Yukime means "snow" in Japanese which is white and pure, reflecting her inner goodness and being the boss of the White Tower. This was also how Cid misinterpreted Gettan's Dying Wish of protecting Yukime to him supposedly hiding Cid's money in the snow patch next to her.
A Mother to Her Men: She treats those in her company with warmth and care due to them reminding her of herself after she lost everything.
The Oldest Profession: She rises to power by serving as a prostitute.
Power Trio: One of the three Monarchs of Outlaw City. She resides at the White Tower.
Rescue Romance: After being saved by John Smith (Shadow) from her former lover, she falls head over heels for him.
Revenge: The sole reason she engaged in the Corporate Warfare arc was to take revenge on Gettan for killing her mother and scarring her years ago. However, thanks to some wise words from John Smith, she lets go of her revenge by the end of it, realizing that she does still care for her former fiancé and hurting him will only hurt herself even more.
Shameless Fanservice Girl: Yukime doesn't mind showing off her breasts to Shadow and in a later chapter, reveals her bare naked body to him.
Shoddy Knockoff Product: Invoked and downplayed, her Snow Fox Corporation sells products that are clear knock-offs of Mitsugoshi's that are of lesser quality, but still sell well enough since they are cheaper and still of a decent quality.
Sleeping Their Way to the Top: Before being one of the top dogs in the Lawless Town with her owning countless brothels and a counterfeiting ring (usually Mitsugoshi products), she used to be one of the lowly prostitutes after Gettan annihilated her clan.
Super Mode: She transforms into her true form; possessing nine tails and blood-red eyes. In the Web Novel, she unknowingly uses it to rob Gettan of his eyesight.
The Queenpin: As the ruler of White Tower and at the end of light novel volume 3 the sole ruler of Lawless Town, she is this.
Vague Age: Unlike other characters whose profiles are shown at the end of the volume, Yukime's age is only shown as "???" with the only indication being that she was fourteen when she lost her home and was saved by Cid and became head of the brothel at age seventeen. Considering the fact that Cid started bandit hunting at six years old. This means she is possibly two to eight years older than him.

Juggernaut the Tyrant

Juggernaut

Debut: Volume 3 (Light Novel), Chapter 29 (Manga), Episode 21 (Anime)

Voiced by: Tsuyoshi Koyama (Japanese), Luis Galindo (English)

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One of the three rulers of the Lawless City and monarch of the Black Tower. He is a giant of a man with immense physical strength.

BFS: Wields a Giant Nata.
Blood Knight: He just wants a good fight, as he is willing to provoke and fight against people who aren't even hostile to him if he thinks they can give him a good challenge.
Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress: Mary sends him flying from the tower to the very bottom.
Hufflepuff House: Despite being one of Lawless City's rulers, he lacks any kind of focus compared to Elizabeth and Yukime and was even unceremoniously assassinated by Delta offscreen.
Enemy Mine: He joins forces with Yukime, Mary, Claire, and the members of Shadow Garden to fight off Elizabeth.
Killed Offscreen: He is killed by Delta, ordered by Cid who made it at random so that he can finish his mission.
Power Trio: One of the three Monarchs of Outlaw City. He resides at the Black Tower.
Undignified Death: Kagejitsu! makes his death especially pathetic with him being killed by Delta when he tries to tell her to get off his tower. On top of that Delta even forgot who she was supposed to kill and essentially leaped at him like an animal.
Unskilled, but Strong: Juggernaut boasts that he doesn't need any techniques. He relies solely on his monstrous strength to do the work for him.
Would Hit a Girl: Upon seeing Claire and Mary, he immediately decides to kill them.

Watchdog/White Demon

White Demon

Debut: Volume 3 (Light Novel), Chapter 27 (Manga), Episode 21 (Anime)

Voiced by: Jun Fukushima (Japanese), Chris Hutchison (English)

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A warrior in service of the Red Tower.

An Arm and a Leg: Whatever Crimson did in their fight had left him with a withered stump for his right arm.
Asshole Victim: He is a psychopathic mass murderer. After losing to someone he couldn't beat, he is forced into enslavement by Crimson, chained like the animal he is. He is later killed by another person above his comprehension.
Ax-Crazy: The guy was mad before he became Crimson's servant. He uses his position as Grand Commander to kill and when his crimes are exposed, he kills all of his men.
Bullying a Dragon: Subverted at first. After losing to Crimson, he made sure not to mess with people from Outlaw City, especially the three Monarchs. Played straight when he thought Shadow was someone he could beat, only to pay the price for his foolishness with his life.
Dirty Coward: While he has shown some skills, being able to take down Quinton, an anime flashback showed his preferred victims were unarmed civilians, with Crimson apparently coming to him. When Juggernaut, Yukime, and Shadow seek to gain entry to the Crimson Tower, he allows the first two to pass, attacking Shadow because he appears powerless.
Curb-Stomp Battle: He completely defeats Quinton and Goldoh, all-powerful warriors and prolific participants of the God of War festival, with only one arm.
Failed Attempt at Drama: Before starting his killing spree under the Red Moon, he marks the occasion by monologuing to three of his would-be victims about the White Demon being finally awakened. However, these three "victims" just so happened to be Juggernaut, Yukime and Shadow who really couldn't care less for a small fry and nonchalantly passed him without so much as a fight.
White Demon: "Hee, hee... I used to be the captain of the knights who happened to love the sight of blood a bit too much. I received my moniker on a fateful night when—"
Juggernaut: "Passing through." [Ignores White Demon and effortlessly slices through the Crimson Tower's door he's guarding]
White Demon's mind: Juggernaut the Tyrant? I have no chance against such power!
White Demon: "I- I suppose I can allow one of you to escape..." [Continues monologuing] "So on one fateful night, as I was cutting up a woman—"
Yukime: "Ahem, let me through." [Signals White Demon to step aside]
White Demon's mind: [Steps aside] Yukime too?! I'd have no chance against her either! [Looks over at Shadow] Hee, hee but that guy seems to be a pushover...
White Demon: [Finishing up the monologue] "One night as I was cutting up a woman in an alley, admiring her beautiful red blood, I decided from that day on—"
*BWOOSH* [Shadow silently passes by]
White Demon: [As his top half lies haplessly on the ground] "Hee, Hee...Hee...What? Why am I looking at the moon?... It's so beautiful... Like... blood..."
Half the Man He Used to Be: Shadow bisects him into half. He didn't even know he was dead until he hit the ground and sees the other half of his body.
Only Known by Their Nickname: He's either known by his monikers of White Demon or Watch Dog but never his real name as it wasn't disclosed.

Marie

Debut: Volume 3 (Light Novel), Chapter 28 (Manga), Episode 21 (Anime)

Voiced by: Mao Ichimichi (Japanese), Emi Lo (English)

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A former prostitute of Lawless City who now opened a tavern in the Oriana Kingdom.

The Bartender: Following the events of the Red Moon arc, she owns and manages a tavern in the Oriana Kingdom.
Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Averted in the anime, which shows Marie having multiple glaring, if minor, wounds on her body, following a recent service she gave to a customer.
Dude Magnet: Obviously there's a reason why she's such a popular prostitute. When she opened her tavern, it was clear the customers were more interested in her than in buying drinks.
Excellent Judge of Character: During the Red Moon Arc, she's the only one aside from Claudia who knows that Shadow is saving them from harm.
Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Despite being one of Lawless City's leading prostitutes, she's actually a sweet girl.
Let No Crisis Go to Waste: She makes use of the chaos surrounding the blood moon to leave Lawless City and start a new life elsewhere.
One-Steve Limit: Her name is very similar to Mary, the vampire hunter.
Rescue Romance: Marie is extremely grateful to Shadow for saving her life multiple times.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Thanks to Cid's warnings, Marie finally decides to leave the Lawless City once and for all.

Oriana Kingdom

Raphael Oriana (Volume 2 Spoilers!)

Raphael Oriana

Debut: Volume 2 (Light Novel), Chapter 25 (Manga), Episode 16 (Anime)

Voiced by: Minoru Aoyama (Japanese)

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The King of the Oriana Kingdom and Rose Oriana's father.

Adaptational Intelligence: While in the web novel, he was only mind-broken with no indication he knew what the cult did, in the light novel, he has made more efforts to oppose the cult including sending Rose to Midgar as an exchange student and putting a pre-recorded message in an artifact to expose Perv's crimes and make Rose the rightful queen.
And I Must Scream: He is aware of the fact his mind is eroding, but is powerless to stop it with him only barely able to tell Rose to kill him.
Ascended Extra: Downplayed; In the web novel, his only role was to be mindbroken by the cult and be mercy killed by Rose, but the light novel has him plant a message in the ring used to awaken the Black Rose. In the message, he reveals Perv's crimes and his wife being an accomplice, which clears Rose's name..
Defiant to the End: Even when his mind is broken, he is still able to disobey Perv's order and forgive Rose for her crimes along with requesting her to kill him and thwart the cult's plans.
Dying Declaration of Love: His last words towards Rose are proclaiming his familial love towards her.
Empty Shell: The poor man was drugged till finally, he became a mindless Puppet King to be used by the Cult of Diablos.
Fling a Light into the Future: Realizing his mind is detoriating, the king tampered with the key to the Black Rose so that onnce his daughter wears it, it'll release a recording detailing all of Perv's crimes along with hinting the cult's existance.
Late-Arrival Spoiler: Volume 3 onwards does not hide the fact he is killed by Rose.
Mercy Kill: He begs Rose to kill him to which she tearfully complies.
Mirror Character: He is one towards King Midgar, who prioritizes his kingdom and bloodline over the wellbeing of his daughters, unlike Raphael, who out of fatherly love does everything he can to protect his daughter.
Papa Wolf: He refused to give up his daughter to the cult and did everything he could to ensure she was safe, which is why they chose to break his mind to make him more obedient.
Properly Paranoid: The king correctly deduced that his food might be laced with the mind-controlling drug but had unfortunately trusted his wife to switch out his meals who will make sure he ate them without his knowledge.
Small Role, Big Impact: His only role in the present day is dying at Rose's hand. However, he is responsible for sending Rose to Midgar as an exchange student to keep her out of the cult's hand and putting a record into the key of the Black Rose, which reveals Perv's crimes and clears Rose's name. So without him, Rose would have never joined Shadow Garden and become queen of Oriana along with Shadow Garden ending the cult's influence within his country.
Walking Spoiler: It's hard to talk about him without revealing the fact his existence showcases how deeply the cult has rooted itself into Oriana along with the Late-Arrival Spoiler that Rose killed him.

Reina Oriana (Volume 4 Spoilers!)

Reina Oriana

Debut: Volume 4 (Light Novel), Chapter 41 (Manga), Episode 29 (Anime)

Voiced by: Yuko Minaguchi (Japanese), Kara Greenberg (English)

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The Queen of the Oriana Kingdom and Rose Oriana's mother.

Adaptational Jerkass: Unlike the light novel and manga in which she genuinely loved Perv, the anime instead has her being very dismissive at his death. In fairness to her, the events unfolded so fast that it's likely Reina (who had been paying zero attention throughout the wedding, seeing it as a mere formality since she was planning on subsequently having Rose killed to marry Perv) didn't really get the chance to even properly process Perv's death before meeting her own demise.
Adaptational Personality Change: While maintaining elements of being a manipulative adulteress, the anime has Reina portrayed as a Spoiled Brat with a remarkable lack of self-preservation. The fact it took a short while for her to realize Perv has been killed highlights how she is truly someone not befitting for combat.
Awful Truth: She is not a hostage of the cult, but is in cahoots with them all along. This is why Shadow Garden left Rose uninformed of her mission to save her from the heartbreak of discovering Reina's true personality. When Rose finds out of this through Shadow, she is left utterly broken.
Beneath Suspicion: Raphael realized that the Cult was poisoning his food, so he asked Reina, the person he trusted most, to check it for any signs of foul play. When that didn't work, he concluded that the Cult must be getting to him through other methods. At no point did it cross his mind that his beloved wife could be in cahoots with the enemy.
Composite Character: She takes on the roles of Clara and Guin from the web novel by being a relative of Rose held hostage by the Cult of Diabolos like the former and betraying her country for selfish reasons like the latter.
Even Evil Can Be Loved: Even though she betrayed her own country by siding with Perv and drugging her husband, Rose still cares about her mother and cries out to her when she is killed by Mordred.
Evil All Along: She at first appears to be a hostage of the cult, but she's actually one of their conspirators through her infidelity with Perv Asshat.
Evil Matriarch: She is Rose's beloved mother, but also a member of the Cult of Diablos, who seeks to have Rose killed so she can officially marry Perv Asshat.
Karmic Death: She expresses the downright insidious desire for Perv to kill her daughter after he's married into the family so they can finally be officially together as lovers. This never comes to fruition as she watches in horror as Rose mortally wounds and seemingly decapitates her beloved on their wedding day followed up by Mordred finishing her off in her despair. If it's any consolidation, at least she and Perv are together condemned to hell for all eternity.
Meaningful Name: "Reina" is Spanish for "Queen". She is the queen of the Oriana kingdom.
Off with Her Head!: In the anime, she is decapitated by Mordred.
Offing the Offspring: Once Perv's finally married into the family through Rose, she's planning to kill her daughter so she can marry Perv herself.
Rhyming Names: Reina Oriana
The Smurfette Principle: Notably the only woman so far to be working for the cult of her own volition and be killed off as an irredeemable villain, breaking the Men Are the Expendable Gender trend.
Unwitting Pawn: She thinks that she and Perv are in love but Perv only sees her as a means to claim the throne.
Walking Spoiler: It's hard to talk about her without mentioning the fact she is in cahoots with Perv and a traitor to her country.
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Shortly after Perv's decapitation, Modred cuts her down since she had served her purpose of being a useless proxy queen who gets easily seduced by her daughter's fiance.
You Monster!: She furiously calls her daughter when Perv was seemingly killed at Rose's hands.

Clara Oriana

The second princess of the Oriana royal family and Rose Oriana's younger sister. She's exclusive only to the web novel.

Adapted Out: Clara is removed in the Light Novel with traits of her character being put into Reina and Rose.
Big Sister Worship: She idolizes her older sister, Rose. Even after learning about Rose's role in their father's death, she keeps on believing that her sister might have some reason for doing it.
Can't Kill You, Still Need You: The Perv Faction can't kill her for political reasons and they want to use her as bait to draw out Rose.
Damsel in Distress: She was kept as a prisoner in the Perv faction's prison camp following the kingdom's civil war. Shadow Garden's mission is to aid the Royalists in rescuing her.
Nice Girl: Much like her sister, Clara shows a lot of compassion and optimism despite being forced to live in what is essentially a prison. Upon witnessing Cid getting hurt, she came to his aid.
Nice to the Waiter: Clara remembers one of the Royalists as her family's gardener and despite the differences in hierarchy, she values his opinion.
Royals Who Actually Do Something: When OWL is engaging with Perv's forces, Clara decides to rally the Royalists to assist her.
Unwitting Pawn: Following her rescue, Clara understands she is this for Shadow Garden.

Margaret

Debut: Volume 4 (Light Novel), Chapter 42 (Manga), Episode 30 (Anime)

Voiced by: Reina Ueda (Japanese)

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A maid working for the royal family, who is also Rose's childhood friend.

Childhood Friends: Rose has known her ever since they were young.
Et Tu, Brute?: Rose's patricide hit her harder than other citizens of Oriana due to also being friends with Rose since childhood.
Frame-Up: She frames Kevin for stealing the tea and pastries in Rose's room out of her dislike towards him and gets him reassigned to a post far away from her.
Gold Digger: Although she seems to have a crush on Cid like so many women had before, she's only interested in his piano skills and wants to use him to elevate her and her family's position.
Honey Trap: She has no issue using her body to try and convince Cid to work for her family.
Loose Lips: In an attempt to get Cid to work for her family, she tells him the location of the rooms of Rose and Queen Reina after he asks for it.
Meido: She works as Rose's maid.
No Sense of Personal Space: When guiding Cid through the castle and telling him about his prospects as a pianist, she presses her body against him in an attempt to convince him to work for her family.
Shameless Fanservice Girl: She has no issue pressing her body against Cid in an attempt to get him to work for her family.
Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Epsilon does not like the maid at all for trying to get close to Cid and likewise Margaret does not like how much 'Shiron' hogs her disciple.
Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Similar to Zack from the web novel, Cid uses her as a source of information with the difference being that Margaret wants to use him to raise the status of her and her family while Zack is forced into a lackey role by Cid.
We Used to Be Friends: She ended her friendship with Rose after she kills the king and causes chaos throughout Oriana. She becomes Rose's friend again once the truth behind her actions and Perv's crimes are revealed.

Kevin

Debut: Volume 4 (Light Novel), Chapter 42 (Manga), Episode 30 (Anime)

Voiced by: Shinji Kawada(Japanese)

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A guard working in the royal castle, who is under the belief that he and Margaret have mutual love for each other.

Abhorrent Admirer: Towards Margaret since the only way he shows his affection towards her is by staring creepily at her. Not to mention his unattractive appearance.
Adaptational Curves: The anime gives him a couple of hundred pounds in weight in contrast to his manga design which made him as skinny as a twig except for his arms and was even drawn muscular for a single panel.
Crazy Jealous Guy: The reason he antagonizes Cid is simply because he is being guided by Margaret around the castle.
Fat Bastard: The anime makes him a rotund asshole, whose gut is so big that his uniform doesn't fit. This also makes Margaret's claim that he stole food from Rose's room more plausible.
Goofy Buckteeth: In the manga, he has these ugly front teeth.
Hated by All: Considering the fact Margaret was able to get the help of others to get him reassigned, he was clearly not liked by other people working in the castle.
I Resemble That Remark!: He complains over the fact knights don't get any respect in the Oriana Kingdom despite being the ones protecting them... while threatening Cid out of petty jealousy.
Klingon Scientists Get No Respect: He complains about how his occupation as a knight is looked down upon in Oriana a country that treasures art and culture.
Reassigned to Antarctica: Margaret frames him for the theft of snacks in Rose's room, which gets him reassigned to a post away from her.
Stalker with a Crush: He is interested in Margaret and believes that they are passionately exchanging gazes in the flower garden, but in actuality, she absolutely loathes him, which causes her to frame him for stealing from the castle.

Zack

Adapted Out: Zack is removed in the light novel but makes a Cameo in the anime when Cid offhandedly mentions letting himself get imprisoned.
Butt-Monkey: He became Cid's lackey after he threatened him.
I Fight for the Strongest Side!: When Cid met him, he was with the Perv Faction because they have the best privileges. However, that's what Zack wants everyone to believe.
Join or Die: His faction forces new prisoners to help them or be killed by them. Unfortunately, he tries this on Cid who turns the deal around.
The Mole: Zack's actually a member of the secret royal guard and is helping the Royalists to undermine the Perv faction.

Guin

Adapted Out: Guin is removed in the light novel.
Bodyguard Betrayal: He is working with Maximillian to sabotage the Royalist faction.
Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: After he betrays Clara, Maximillian finds no more use in him and cuts him to pieces.

The Three Heroes and the Witch of Calamity

Olivier

Hero Olivier

Debut: Volume 2 (Light Novel), Chapter 17 (Manga), Episode 12 (Anime)

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Adaptational Skimpiness: In the light novel and manga, when she is summoned to attack Cid, she is wearing a suit of armor with a cape. In the anime, she is wearing the robe seen in the picture, and a few shots confirm she has no underwear.
Famous Ancestor: She is the ancestor of all elves who suffered from demonic possession with Alpha and Beatrix resembling her the most. Also due to the elf race having a much longer lifespan than humans and therianthropes, there are also more possessed elves than humans and therianthropes.
Gender-Blender Name: While it can be unisex, Olivier is commonly a masculine name and rarely female. Hence, this is how the cult manipulated the world into thinking she was a man.
My Master, Right or Wrong: Towards the Church which the Cult secretly controls.
Reforged into a Minion: Her fate after stopping Diablos. She is used to attack her own descendant and later Cid.
Samus Is a Girl: Apart from Shadow Garden and the Cult of Diablos, everyone in the world thought Olivier was a man.
Posthumous Character: She was already dead centuries ago.
Unwitting Pawn: Olivier truly wants to save the world from Diablos but she is being used by the cult to harvest the demon's power.

Freya

Hero Freya

Debut:Chapter 182 (Web Novel), Episode 29 (Anime; Mentioned)

And I Must Scream: Being isolated inside a dark room and wrapped around in chains, unable to move really cost her sanity until Shadow frees her.
Death Glare: She gave one to Mordred.
Famous Ancestor: It's revealed Cid and Claire Kagenou, Alexia Midgar, Rose Oriana, and Millia are descended from her. Most likely includes other human descendants, which are harder to find due to humans having thinner blood due to their shorter lifespans compared to elves.
Mystical White Hair: She possesses silver hair.
Posthumous Character: She was already dead centuries ago but her ghost is another matter.
Sealed Good in a Can: Her spirit was presumably caught by the Order and was trapped under the Oriana Kingdom for a long time.

Aurora

Witch of Calamity

Debut: Volume 2 (Light Novel), Chapter 15 (Manga), Episode 11 (Anime)

Voiced by: Kaori Nazuka (Japanese), Shelley Calene-Black (English)

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Affectionate Nickname: Shadow calls her "Violet" due to her appearance and as respect towards her abilities.
All of the Other Reindeer: During the Sanctuary arc, Aurora reveals that she was scorned by everyone during her entire life. She falls for Cid purely because the guy is willing to risk his life for her.
Anti-Villain: As the Witch of Calamity and Diablos, she only went around destroying things because she was an abused human test subject who wanted to kill those who exploited her.
Because You Were Nice to Me: By freeing Aurora, Cid earns the witch's eternal affection.
Big Damn Heroes: She reappears to save Claire and everyone else from the Queen of Vampires when Claire's blood starts going out of control.
Blood Magic: She specializes in magic that manipulates blood like Making a Splash and also solidifies it like An Ice Person.
Bloody Murder: Aurora's main offensive spell is the use of her blood tendrils so fast that an average person wouldn't be able to comprehend it.
Buxom Beauty Standard: Aurora possesses a very impressive chest size that in the anime, when she possesses Claire, the attire tightens around her chest area, causing Aurora to unzip that part a bit.
Cleavage Window: Has an opening on the upper portion of her chest that exposes her breasts. In the anime, when she possessed Claire, Aurora unzips a bit of her attire because her chest was a getting tight around there.
Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Aurora's "heroic" stories mostly lean on the Old Shame side rather than actually being heroic.
Curtains Match the Window: In the anime, Aurora sports violet hair and pupils
Dark Is Not Evil: She has long black hair and wears a black dress but she's anything but evil.
Death Seeker: Implied; At the end of the Sanctuary arc, Aurora reveals that she's the one who summoned Cid in the Sanctuary to kill her. She has also mentioned earlier in the arc that Cid is the most powerful person she's ever encountered and would have been the one who could defeat her if he was born during Aurora's time.
Given Name Reveal: Other than being called the Witch of Calamity, she actually goes by the name, Diablos. Meaning that she is the "demon" whose resurrection Shadow Garden is trying to prevent.
Gorgeous Garment Generation: When Cid finds and cuts her free from the straitjacket and chair she was strapped to, she was naked underneath, but immediately conjures up her outfit.
Greater-Scope Villain: Subverted. As Diablos, she is supposed to be indirectly responsible for causing the Cult of Diablos to be formed and placing the curse on the Three Heroes' descendants. However, her memories in the Sanctuary show she was also a test subject of the ancestors of Diablos Cult. Further, the "curse" plaguing the heroes was in reality mana deviation caused by being implanted with her stolen cells, so they could be used as weapons against her.
Guest-Star Party Member: She, or at least part of her, helps Shadow Garden in finding more about the Three Heroes and end the Oriana Kingdom Civil War.
Hive Mind: Anything that holds a large enough concentration of her cells can become a vessel for her mind. This includes her dismembered, mutated body parts, as well as people who were implanted with her cells to increase their own powers or even some of the descendants of these people.
Hospital Hottie: In the anime, when interacting with Claire for the first time, Aurora's wearing a school nurse's uniform.
Hot Witch: She is a drop-dead beautiful woman and is the world's most powerful magic caster.
I Hate Past Me: While reviewing the past memories, she has shown disappointment and is probably apathetic towards her younger self. Following her freedom from the Holy Ground, she requests Cid to kill her.
Laser-Guided Amnesia: She had lost most of her memories from centuries of isolation by the time the current day Trial of the Goddesses happened. However, it's revealed she retained a lot more memories than she lets on.
Monster Progenitor: She is the original progenitor of powerful Vampire Monarch Progenitors who inhabit the world. She is also linked to the origin of Possession.
Noodle Incident:
- In volume 4, it's implied by Mordred that she was the one who stopped and closed the Gate of the Black Rose after it slew the 100,000 invading Velgaltan soldiers. Hence, the Cult was able to enslave the whole Oriana Kingdom as repayment until King Oriana came along.
- According to Aurora in volume 5, she exterminated the whole orc race just because she was disgusted by them.
  - In the same volume, she once scratched and made a dent on the sacred shield of Aegis.
Old Shame: As mentioned above, Aurora never lives down her acts long ago. It's also one of the reasons why she was called The Witch of Calamity.
Ontological Mystery: The revelation Diablos was originally an experimented human begged the question of how did the predecessors of Cult of Diablos manage to create such a powerful entity whose cells can be used to produce heroes, rejuvenate youth, etc. At the end of the Oriana Kingdom arc, it's revealed Aurora herself might be born in this world, but the lifeform she originated from (or more likely was experimented with) was not, being a result of the clash between different dimensions.
Our Vampires Are Different: Her Blood Magic is often compared to vampire magic. She also comments that all vampires, even the Vampire Monarch, owe their abilities and existence to her. Drinking a specially processed drop of her blood can cease aging for a year.
Power Copying: In the anime, she learned how to mimic Cid's ability to refract light and change her appearance as well as how to cast I Am Atomic (Albeit the "All Range" version since that was what she witnessed).
Power Incontinence: In volume 5, Cid encounters her memory inside the school sanctuary. He comments on how her attacks as a child are stronger than the adult Aurora but unrefined compared to the latter and helps her while Aurora is stopping Cid from approaching her after mistaking him as a researcher, afraid of killing him or being experimented on.
Please, I Will Do Anything!: When she thinks Cid is about to be killed, she offers herself to the Cult of Diablos to save him. Cid however shows Aurora why she doesn't have to worry.
The Power of Blood: Blood Magic is her specialty. Her blood also forms the catalyst for Monster Progenitor situations and believed to be an important component for humans to achieve immortality.
Samus Is a Girl: The Demon "King" Diablos? Yeah, it's her.
Secret-Keeper: She's one of the few individuals who know that Cid is Shadow and helps his sister as a favor.
Sealed Evil in a Can: Diablos's arm and presumably her other body parts are scattered across the world, kept in the cult's facilities. Even though she isn't remotely evil, Aurora still requests Cid to find the rest, not wanting the cult to use the demonic power within them to bring about destruction.
Sinister Scythe: Aurora takes out a mean-looking one to fight Shadow in close combat.
Spirit Advisor: In volume 5 she becomes Claire's companion and is always advising Claire to avoid seeking trouble which has fallen into deaf ears. Hilarity Ensues as any attempt of Talking to Themself by Claire is seen as her having Chuunibyou tendencies and only a few people like Fenrir and Zeta are perceptive enough to notice Aurora.
Squishy Wizard: Despite being one of the most famous mages in history, she is still physically weak. Cid notes that she's not particularly good with a sword.
Storm of Blades: Using her magic, she is able to summon wave after wave of swords onto her target and can redirect them anywhere she wants.
Sultry Bangs: Sultry Hot Witch Aurora frequently has her left eye concealed by her long, dark hair.
Super Prototype: She is considered the Cult's first success in creating a powerful super-being with immense power. The Cult's later successes with the Three Heroes were a result of them experimenting with her cells to create the Heroes and they were implied to be inferior to her in power, as it took all three of them to defeat her in her guide as the Demon Diablos.
Was Once a Man: Cid later finds her still very much alive, heavily mutated finger and heals it back into a normal human finger the same way he healed the rest of Shadow Garden, much to the shock of everyone present, including Aurora. Cid then decides to find the rest of her and finish healing her, as she's his friend, according to him.
Worthy Opponent: Both Aurora and Cid consider each other as such.
World's Strongest Woman: Barring Cid/Shadow, she's actually the strongest character in the series. Her projection is so powerful Alexia notes she's decent enough to hold off and keep Shadow on the defensive for most of their fight, and even then the guy himself noted that the projection itself paled in comparison and actually wishes to fight her at full power. Not even the Blood Queen herself could match her when she took over Claire Kagenou and the Cult of Diablos calls her Witch of Calamity.

Others

Beatrix

Debut: Volume 2 (Light Novel), Chapter 24 (Manga), Episode 16 (Anime)

Voiced by: Mikako Komatsu (Japanese), Allison Sumrall (English)

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An elf who once won the God of War tournament and is searching for her lost niece, who resembles her.

Armor Is Useless: Just look at her. This is somewhat justified as she A) emphasizes speed and agility over defense, and B) is so skilled that nobody can really exploit her lack of armor (Shadow notwithstanding since against him, armor wouldn't help either).
Blood Knight: After Mundane defeats Iris, Beatrix shows admiration for the young man and wants to fight him.
Cassandra Truth: She's one of the rare few people who can sense Cid's immense might but no one believes her. Inversely, she dismisses the possibility that Alpha might be her long-lost niece when Alexia mentions how Alpha resembles her greatly, though this is mostly because she hasn't met Alpha herself and states no one in her family would consort with criminals.
Cloudcuckoolander: Her prowess aside, she has little to low social interaction.
Crippling Overspecialization: Shadow compliments her abilities as an amazing swordswoman. However, he observes she lacks magic ability and later demonstrates she has no defense in hand-to-hand combat.
Graceful Loser: In the anime, unlike Sore Loser Iris, Beatrix took her defeat at Shadow's hands perfectly well.
Iaijutsu Practitioner: Several of her special techniques involve sheathing her blade before executing a powerful attack.
Identical Granddaughter: Being related to Alpha, Beatrix is also the descendant of Olivier.
I Will Find You: She mentions she is looking for her niece who disappeared years ago. Based on her appearance and relation to Olivier, it's all but implied her niece is Alpha. Alexia mentions having met someone matching Beatrix's description, but she dismisses the possibility that Alpha is her niece, reasoning that someone from her family wouldn't associate herself with criminals.
In the Hood: She wore a gray robe to hide her face.
Know When to Fold 'Em: After their overwhelming loss to Shadow, she tries to warn Iris there are entities that no mortal could ever hope to defeat and to give up the foolish idea of facing Shadow again.
Lady of War: Hence the title, Goddess of War.
Magically Inept Fighter: While she has some magic and is probably only "inept" in comparison to Shadow, there is a massive gap between her skill with a blade (which, by Shadow's admission, rivals his own) and her magical power (which... doesn't).
Missing Child: She is searching for her late younger sister's child, implied to be Alpha.
Ms. Fanservice: Like her niece, she has some great looks and a voluptuous body.
Sexy Santa Dress: In the second Christmas event of Master of Garden, she wears a Christmas-themed outfit based on what she usually wears and is thus just as revealing.
Stripperiffic: Beatrix only wears a chest guard and a loincloth exposing her stomach.
Tron Lines: Her best attack is an iaido strike that momentarily traces these kinds of runes across her body. However, unlike Shadow, hers are white and do not extend into the surrounding environment.
World's Best Warrior: Her victory at the previous God of War Tournament made her this. This is reflected in her skills against Shadow and while she did lose to him in the end, she lasted a lot longer than his previous opponents, showing that there is some credence.

Annerose

Annerose Nichtsehen

Debut: Volume 2 (Light Novel), Chapter 20 (Manga), Episode 11 (Anime; Cameo), Episode 15 (Anime; Full Appearance)

Voiced by: Shion Wakayama (Japanese), Chelsea McCurdy (English)

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A swordswoman from the Velgalta Empire, who was once part of the Seven Blades, but abandoned the position to go on a training journey to get stronger.

Cassandra Truth: Annerose is one of the only people to discover Mundane's true strength but no one believes her due to the sheer ridiculousness of the ways he defeats his opponents.
Challenge Seeker: The reason she left her country is because she long desires to find a strong opponent that can match her skills. Unfortunately, years of not finding one leave her cynical and bored. That is until she meets Mundane.
The Comically Serious: She tries to imitate Mundane's moves (weird ones) in order to intimidate him. It didn't work.
Condescending Compassion: Her first scene has her calling out to Mundane Mann (actually Cid in disguise) and telling him to not enter the God of War tournament on account of his poor posture and shoddy equipment. Mundane, albeit as part of his act, calls her out on judging him by appearances, to which she responds with indignation and demands he wait when he tries leaving since she isn't done talking. She even goes as far as attempting Cruel Mercy by letting a foul-tempered participant assault him with no effort to step in, something Cid also acts calling her out on, on the vague hope that it would convince him to opt out and leave him too injured to enter, only threatening to step in and diffusing the situation when the guy goes for his sword.
Defeat Means Friendship: Annerose became more friendly towards Mundane following her loss to him.
Dub Name Change: Her last name in Japanese is Fushiana, which caused an Inconsistent Dub in Seven Chronicles, which uses that name rather than "Nichtsehen".
Early-Bird Cameo: Annerose first appeared during the Trial of the Goddess when she won against a summon with the manga expanding upon her battle rather than being offhandedly mentioned. She wouldn't be prominent until the next arc.
Entertainingly Wrong: When seeing that the supposedly dead Karen von Herzog is alive, she comes to the conclusion that Karen is a ghost with unfinished business, who came to warn her.
Friendly Rival: After being beaten, she promises Mundane that she'll be worthy of his skills. Mundane replies that she, having fought him without his Power Limiter, is an accomplishment that earns his respect.
Genius Ditz: She is a genius swordswoman, who knows the ins and outs of both swordsmanship and weapon maintenance yet she is also rather straightforward, naive, and oblivious to her circumstances with Gamma even being surprised at how casually she tells her about the investigation surrounding Karen von Herzog's disappearance, which is supposed to be classified information.
Graceful Loser: Unlike Mundane's next opponent, Annerose took her total defeat in stride and used it as a sign to train even harder so she could match Mundane's speed and strength next time.
Ignorance Is Bliss: As lampshaded in Seven Chronicles, Annerose is oblivious to the full extent of danger she is in and is completely unaware of the cult's existence, which allows her to continue honing her sword skills without any care in the world.
Ironic Name: Zigzagged; Annerose's surname Nichtsehen (Fushiana) means "cannot see". She's the only one who notices the true might of Mundane Mann and how he performs his tracks. However, Seven Chronicles makes the name more meaningful since while she is able to see everything in combat, she is actually oblivious and naive to everything outside of combat. This is best shown in her interaction with Gamma, who as Luna tries to get her to try a subscription for natural whetstones to maintain her sword. While she thinks hard over whether the subscription is worth it, she also blurts out every detail of her official investigation surrounding Karen von Herzog essentially treating it as small talk she can share with everyone instead of confidential information she should keep to herself.
Locked Out of the Loop: Annerose decides to skip the tournament finale in favor of going back to the Velgeta Kingdom to train harder for her next match with Mundane, meaning she was entirely unaware of the revelation that Mundane being the notorious Shadow all along at said event.
Master Swordswoman: Her mastery of the sword is the reason why she was chosen as one of Velgalta's Seven Blades despite her young age of nineteen. Seven Chronicles even shows that she is strong enough to fend off attacks from the cult by herself.
Meaningful Name: Her last name "Nichtsehen" translates from German into "cannot see" which is fitting as she is unable to follow Mundane's moves at all in their fight and thus underestimates him while her first name means "grace" since she accepts defeat gracefully and takes the opportunity to train harder.
Naïve Newcomer: As shown in Seven Chronicles, she became the newest member of the Seven Blades of Velgalta at a young age and was put in charge of investigating the circumstances surrounding her successor Karen von Herzog, who supposedly went insane and murdered her entire family. In her investigation, she was targeted by the Cult of Diablos to be assassinated yet she is oblivious to the amount of danger she is in with her continuing on with the investigation straightforwardly. She even casually tells Gamma everything without thinking that said information could be confidential.
Offscreen Moment of Awesome: During the Goddess Trials, she's the only one aside from Shadow to have won against a Memory Summon, impressing the guy himself.
Oh, Crap!: When she realizes that Mundane had a Power Limiter throughout most of the tournament and she's about to face him in full strength.
That Man Is Dead: For some unknown reason, Annerose prefers not to be called Annerose of the Seven Swords of Begalta and just Annerose.

Quinton

Debut: Volume 2 (Light Novel), Chapter 20 (Manga), Episode 15 (Anime)

Voiced by: Kenta Miyake (Japanese), Andrew Love (English)

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Adaptation Expansion: While the light novel and manga don't show what happened to Goldoh and him in Lawless Town after being Made a Slave, the anime shows that Goldoh was able to use the chaos from the Red Moon Incident to escape while dragging Quinton with him.
Break the Haughty: Quinton's humiliating defeat at the hands of some "nobody" in the God of War festival follow by his enslavement humbles him.
Cassandra Truth: He's one of the people who doesn't want to believe Annerose that Mundane is a lot more dangerous than he seems. Because of it, he gets his rear kicked.
Dark Is Not Evil: He looks like an evil wrestler but despite this and his Jerkass tendencies, he's an overall nice guy.
Eyepatch of Power: He wears one over his right eye.
Hammered into the Ground: His match with Mundane Mann, if you want to call it, ended with him being planted headfirst into the ground like an ostrich.
Made a Slave: Following the Red Moon incident, he is reduced to a servant and in the web novel was bought and ordered to steal the Oriana's kingdom's treasures.
No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: He gets mad at Mundane and beats him up to a pulp. Of course, what he did was something Mundane wanted.
Tempting Fate: Before going to have his match against Mundane, Quinton declares he's going to prove to everyone that he's a fraud. Moments later, he gets defeated by Mundane.

Goldoh

Goldoh Kinmekki

Debut: Volume 2 (Light Novel), Chapter 21 (Manga), Episode 15 (Anime)

Voiced by: Kazuyuki Okitsu (Japanese), Justin Doran (English)

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Adaptation Expansion: While the light novel and manga don't show what happened to Quinton and him in Lawless Town after being Made a Slave, the anime shows that he was able to use the chaos from the Red Moon Incident to escape while dragging Quinton with him.
Alliterative Name: His name in the English translation is Goldy Glided.
Awesome by Analysis: His preferred tactic is to make sure to gather battle data and choose his opponents and battles wisely. Sadly, this doesn't apply to someone who can hide his strength very well.
Bling of War: His golden armor is not exactly subtle.
Break the Haughty: His defeat at the God of War festival and his enslavement humbles him, making him reconsider his life choices.
Broken Pedestal: Played for Laughs. Skel Etal looks up to Goldoh until the latter's loss costs him lots of money and Skel angrily casts him aside as a result.
Curb-Stomp Battle: On the receiving end of this. He unleashes his ultimate attack upon Mundane who counters it by firing off a powerful sneeze.
Dub Name Change: The English dub changed his name from "Goldoh Kinmekki" to "Goldy Gilded" so his Punny Name was still intact from the translation.
Embarrassing Nickname: He detests the title "Undefeatable Myth" since it painfully reminds him that part of the reason he wasn't defeated is because he ran away from stronger opponents. He prefers "Sure Win Golden Dragon".
Heroic Second Wind: After Cid powers him up, Goldoh turns the tide in his favor.
Instant Awesome Just Add Dragons: He calls himself the "Unbeatable Golden Dragon" and his Battle Aura is shaped like a dragon.
Made a Slave: Following the Red Moon incident, he is reduced to a servant and in the web novel was bought and ordered to steal the Oriana kingdom's treasures.
Miles Gloriosus: Textbook example. He dresses in fancy golden armor, talks a big game and makes a big show out of being undefeatable. In reality, while he is by all means a decent combatant, he is only unbeaten because he avoids actually strong opponents like the plague. Unfortunately for him, he fails completely and utterly to properly estimate Mundane Mann's power level.
Punny Name: The English translation of his name is Goldy Glided as in "Glided in Gold" which is fitting since he's decked out in shiny gold armour for battle.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: It's revealed that whenever he meets stronger opponents, he either flees or forfeits. The most recent example is that after realizing that he cannot defeat the Watchdog, he flees, abandoning Quinton. Not like he got that far.
You Are in Command Now: After Tulpicano dies, Goldoh takes command of the Black Rose in the web novel.

Tulpicano

Debut: Volume 3 (Light Novel)

Adapted Out: He does not appear in either the manga or anime adaptation.
Asshole Victim: His one true aim is to use the Civil War at Oriana to steal the Kingdom's wealth. It's safe to say that none will miss him.
Con Man: He made a team of volunteer soldiers so that they could distract the Ratja Count's armies while he and a small few loyal to infiltrate the palace, get the treasure, and escape with it.
Early-Bird Cameo: He first appeared at Outlaw City buying Quinton and Goldoh although he wasn't named at the time.
Fat Bastard: Cid describes him as looking like a pig.
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: He gets killed by the arm of Diablos, the real treasure.

The Clovers

Debut: Volume 3 (Light Novel), Chapter 35 (Manga)

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A quartet of highly-skilled personal assassins hand-picked by Gettan to take down the Mitsugoshi Company. But since Mitisugoshi is the front for Shadow Garden, they never stood a chance.

Adaptational Name Change: The Third Leaf was called "Olé" in the light novel and manga but was changed to Zabra in the anime.
Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Third Leaf tried appealing to his long-forgotten sister Delta after she eliminated his entire dark knight squad by introducing her to Gettan as a concubine. Unfortunately for him, Delta was not having any of it and brutally beheaded him for being a "weak brother".
Bullying a Dragon: Fourth Leaf leads his men to wipe out all the Mitsugoshi staff on sight and attempts to rape the leader. Said leader turned Alpha who instantly impaled Fourth Leaf before he had the chance and cued all the "slained" employees to arise as if they were resurrected, killing off the assailants one by one.
Connected All Along: Olé the Third Leaf was surprised to find his long-forgotten and presumably dead sister Sara (Now Delta) standing in front of him once she slaughtered all of his dark knights. Too bad for him that she severed the connection by ending his life.
Dies Differently in Adaptation: The anime has significantly changed the circumstances of each of The Clovers' deaths:
- Third Leaf had his throat slashed out in the manga and pierced through the stomach in the anime rather than being beheaded and brought to Mitisugoshi alongside Second Leaf in the light novel. He's also the first casualty of The Clovers instead of the second in the anime.
- Fourth Leaf managed to not be killed first in the anime since he wasn't present during the hijacking of the Mitsugoshi carriage. However, he cannot escape his inevitable fate as he assists First and Second Leaf at the Mitsugoshi headquarters where he gets thoroughly beaten to death by Omega and Kai.
- Second Leaf was beheaded by Nu offscreen but beaten to death by Omega and Kai offscreen alongside Third Leaf.
- First Leaf somehow gets an even more humiliating death at Gamma's hands when her sword's trajectory upon tripping did not simply lodge into his head but instead pierced the back of his neck while escaping in which the sword's released mana violently exploded, turning him into a charred corpse.
Dwindling Party: All four were systematically killed off by Shadow Garden in the order they ranked. Fourth Leaf got fatally stabbed by Alpha, Third Leaf had his throat slashed out by Delta, Second was beheaded offscreen by Nu and finally, First Leaf was humiliated till the very end by Gamma.
Facial Markings: The manga depicts them with face tattoos according to their numbers^note. It's assumed Fourth Leaf has four unspecified ones since we never properly see his face before his death.
Ironic Name: Their group and codenames are themed after the Four-Leaf Clover but their luck soon ran out the moment they tried messing with Mitsugoshi aka the front of Shadow Garden.
Killed Offscreen: Second Leaf was only left as a severed head in his next and last appearance courtesy of encountering Nu.
Off with His Head!: Second and Third Leaf are decapitated with Nu presenting their heads to First Leaf to show how seriously fucked he is.
Stealth Pun: Third Leaf is a dog-like therianthrope and a skilled militant assassin so it's fitting for him to wear dog tags in his anime character design.
Undignified Death: First Leaf, an accomplished dark knight and practitioner of the Western Liechtenroi style of fencing, finds himself overpowered by the absolute amateur Gamma whose technique is best described as a million-miles-an-hour windmill going "Swish! Swish! Swish!". The final kicker is when Gamma tripped as usual and her sword went flying into his head, which the manga added the little detail of First Leaf's lifeless body despondently shedding a tear.
First Leaf: I'm gonna swishing die!!!
We Hardly Knew Ye: Had only lasted in the same chapter they were introduced in with Fourth Leaf being killed before The Clovers were even established in-story.
You Are Number 6: They respectively named themselves First, Second, Third and Fourth Leaf to match their Four-Leaf Clover theme. The anime changes their names to Leaf One through Four but the trope still applies.

The Three Ojisans

Farm Boy: One of them used to work on the farms but he grew fed up and joined Black Rose.
Leeroy Jenkins: Cid tries to warn the three about their odds against the enemy but they don't listen and charge forward against the numerically superior enemies.
My God, What Have I Done?: One of them succumbs to guilt for mortgaging his wife.
Nice Guy: All three of them are kind to Cid when they became a team.
Only in It for the Money: Another of the Ojii-sans only joins Black Rose to get rich.

Mist Dragon

Debut: Volume 2 (Mentioned), Master of Garden

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An ancient dragon that has existed for millions of years. Once the guardian deity of the ancient city of Alexandria, the inhabitants' decline and corruption caused the Mist Dragon to revoke his protection and destroy Alexandria in a single night. Although regarded as a legend of the Abyss Woods, the Mist Dragon is discovered by Shadow Garden as they search for a new base.

Curb-Stomp Battle: While Shadow Garden puts up a decent fight against it, the Mist Dragon tanks all of their attacks with relative ease. The only one who managed to deal any damage at all was Alpha and even that doesn't faze it. It isn't until Shadow appears that the tides turn in Shadow Garden's favor.
Fair-Weather Friend: In the past, the Mist Dragon's pact with Alexandria's royal family allowed it to prosper. However, as years passed and its rulers grew corrupt, the Mist Dragon revoked its protection and used its mist to kill everyone in the city.
The Ghost: Outside of Master of Garden, it has yet to make a physical appearance in the novels, manga, and anime.
Light Is Not Good: A brightly colored dragon who stands in Shadow Garden's way in finding a new base of operations. The only way it will allow them to proceed is of they defeat it and prove they have power and wield it responsibly.
Might Makes Right: The Mist Dragon believes that those with power are capable of enacting any true, meaningful change in the world. However, it also believes the strongest must have standards such as honor and dignity. The reason the Mist Dragon laid waste to Alexandria was because its rulers had become corrupt with the same power they once used to bring Alexandria prosperity. After Shadow defeats it in battle and meets the Mist Dragon's standards, it allows him and Shadow Garden to make Alexandria their new base.
Worthy Opponent: While they fail to defeat it, the Mist Dragon recognizes that the Seven Shadows are easily the strongest mortals it's seen in years and even states ordinary beings would have no chance of defeating it. After fighting Shadow, the Mist Dragon is elated to find someone who meets his standards (possessing power with honor and dignity) and allows Shadow Garden to use Alexandria as their new base of operations.

Earth

Akane Nishino

Debut: Chapter 145 (Web Novel), Volume 4 (Light Novel), Chapter 47 (Manga), Episode 1 (Anime)

Voiced by: Yui Horie (Japanese), Natalie Rial (English)

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A high school classmate of Minoru Kageno's. Her parents were owners of Nishino Zaibatsu, a giant conglomerate and Akane used to work as an actress from time to time. One day while walking home alone, she was kidnapped but was shortly after saved by Minoru, disguised as the Stylish Hoodlum Slayer.

The Ace: In the light novel, she is humanity's strongest knight against the invading beasts. Then it gets Deconstructed when she became Earth's greatest warrior as the only reason she got to where she is now is due to an experiment that resulted in hundreds of deaths and since then, she has immense guilt over it.
Accidental Misnaming: She gets pissed that her name gets wrong by Minoru.
Adaptation Dye-Job: In the light novel, her eyes were black before becoming red due to awakening her magic ability, the anime gives her red eyes from the start due to the animation studio basing her color palette on the illustrations of the light novel, which only featured her with red-eyes.
Adaptational Early Appearance: She appears in the anime's first episode while in the light novel, she is only introduced about halfway through Volume 4.
Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Played With. Akane has a reasonable authority and command amongst the knights in Japan due to her sheer prowess, but the actual leader of the knights is Commander Haitani to whom even Akane listens and follows his commands.
Attempted Rape: Her kidnappers wanted to force themselves onto her until Minoru rescued her before the attempt was made.
The Atoner: She wants to redeem herself for the slaughter of the people at Arcadia.
Dark and Troubled Past: When she was in Junior High, Akane had a stalker who kidnapped her. Although she was saved, the event caused her to halt her acting career and for her parents to arrange a car and driver to take her home safely.
Death Seeker: The poor girl has suicidal tendencies as a result of immense guilt over accidentally destroying Arcadia.
Decoy Protagonist: The first episode opens with her perspective and follows her throughout the day, making her look to be the main character, with Minoru being largely out of focus. Then in the later half the story quickly switches to an isekai, with Akane not being seen or even mentioned for the rest of the season.
Defrosting the Ice Queen: After being saved by the Stylish Badguy Slayer and Minoru finally remembering her name, she decides to walk with her classmate; presumably their relationship has improved.
The Dreaded: Her alternate persona, the Original Knight is this to human race after she destroyed Arcadia, Japan's last safe haven.
Golden Super Mode: In her alternate persona as the Original Knight, she sports golden hair and wields golden-colored magic.
Hostage MacGuffin: Her current kidnappers want to use her as ransom and get her family to pay a huge sum of money.
Intro-Only Point of View: The 1st episode of the anime follows her point of view up until Minoru's death and the end credit rolls.
Memento Macguffin: Surprisingly, her most prized possession is Minoru's uniform. When Cid returns to Earth, one of the things Akane does to him first is to try out his own uniform, to which she cries Tears of Joy due to nostalgia.
Mirror Character: Akane has strong parallels with Aurora and the Three Heroes. Akane's similarity with the Three Heroes is that they are experimented on to become heroes. Akane's similarities with Aurora are that they both have great power which turned them into monsters; Akane's Original Knight and Aurora's Diablos.
- Akane also has strong similarities with Claire Kagenou, Cid's sister from Minoru's next life. Akane after awakening her power, she and Claire both have black hair and red eyes. Also, both wear black tights, both have a similar obsession with Minoru/Cid, both were once kidnapped and were saved by him, and both can recognize some traits and aspects of him.
Ojou: Her parents are the owners of Nishino Zaibatsu, a giant conglomerate.
Only Friend: In a way, Akane's this to Minoru Kagenou/Cid Kagenou albeit one-sided. Even after years later following the latter's death, Akane still holds him with immense fondness that she's overjoyed that she realizes that he's alive.
Power Incontinence: The tragedy of Arcadia was because of Akane being unable to control much of her newfound powers as the First Knight. Though it's implied at the end of the volume that she can now freely control it after her encounter with Shadow.
Proper Tights with a Skirt: Akane wears black tights with her school uniform. Which would later become a part of her knight uniform in Messiah.
Phrase Catcher: "From now on, be careful on your way home/try to stop getting kidnapped so much." This is how Akane identifies that Minoru/Cid saved her twice and is also the Black Knight that stopped her rampage.
Quiet Cry for Help: She longed for Minoru/Cid to come and save her after being rescued by him under the guise of Black Knight.
Red Eyes, Take Warning: After her brother experimented on her, she now sports red eyes and is the strongest amongst the knights on Earth before Shadow and Beta.
Rescue Romance: She, like most of Cid's love interest, falls in love with him after suspecting and putting two & two together that he's the one who rescued him from the kidnappers. Doubly so after being saved again by Cid by Yuuka and the Alliance.
School Idol: She's very popular with the boys and girls at her school for her looks and good grades.
Small Role, Big Impact: Believe it or not, it's quite possible that her second kidnapping did make Minoru be a little more aware of the people around him. Tellingly, he actually addressed her by the correct name the next time they met, and even looked her in the eyes while doing so.
So Beautiful, It's a Curse: A lot of men would nothing more than to have Akane to themselves much to the latter's disgust.
Stepford Smiler: Because of what the stalker did to her, she tries to hide her emotions to not show how troubled she is about it. She also does this to avoid unwanted rumors when around Minoru.
Took a Level in Kindness: In Volume 4, Akane has became a calming presence within her band of Knights in contrasts to the haughty girl she was back in high school.
Trapped in Another World: By the end of Volume 4, she gets transported into Cid's world after Beta kidnaps her as part of the spoils of Japan.
Trauma-Induced Amnesia: Akane has a missing piece of her memory regarding what happened to Arcadia. Turns out that missing piece is her destroying that safe haven due to her out-of-control powers.
Walking Spoiler: She is one to anime viewers, as her eventually re-encountering Cid is a pretty big spoiler. This is not the case in the light novel as she only debuted in Volume 4.
World's Best Warrior: Akane is the strongest knight in Earth during the Japan Arc.

Akira Nishino

Debut: Volume 4 (Light Novel), Chapter 49 (Manga)

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Akane's older brother and head scientist of the human settlement Messiah in post-apocalyptic Japan. He becomes obsessed with studying magic and unlocking its secrets.

Evil Is Not a Toy: He injected Akane with Stygian Beast's blood to make her stronger. He succeeded and his sister demonstrated this new strength by slaughtering everyone in Arcadia.
Four Eyes, Zero Soul: The man experiments on people, including her own sister just to satisfy his own morbid curiosity. The first thing he does when he sees Beta is to "take care" of her much to Akane's dismay and chagrin.
Karmic Death: He is shot by Yuuka, a victim of Arcadia which he had a hand in its destruction.
Noodle Incident: He is somehow responsible for Minoru/Cid's hatred of the local private school.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: He claims to be saving the world but his actions show he's anything but.

Yuuka

Debut: Volume 4 (Light Novel), Chapter 49 (Manga)

Yuuka is a physician of Messiah.

Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Yuuka seems to be Akane's close friend but in truth, she is an Alliance spy, wanting revenge against Akane and her brother for what they did to Aracadia.
Dramatic Irony: She was under the belief that Akane didn't care over the fact she caused Arcadia's destruction including her husband's death due to her living on as if nothing happened. In reality, Akane was deeply traumatized by her rampage and works hard to atone for her crimes.
Have You Told Anyone Else?: When Minoru found bullet holes in Saejima's body, proving Akane's innocence, Yuuka innocently asks him if he told anyone else. Then she decides to gun him down for Minoru's total silence.
He Knows Too Much: She sends hitmen to kill Minoru for nearly finding out about her plot to undermine Akane.
The Mole: Yuuka's an alliance spy trying to sabotage Messiah.
Revenge: She wants vengeance against both Akane and Akira for the destruction of Arcadia and the death of her husband.
Together in Death: Once her revenge is complete and she is killed by Akane, she smiles over reuniting with her husband in the afterlife.

Yudai Saejima

Debut: Volume 4 (Light Novel)

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The former classmate of Minoru and Akane. Both describe him as looking like a gorilla.

Asshole Victim: Much of his characterization is built around him needlessly being a jerk to both Akane and Minoru as well as being a spy. Few will mourn him when he is killed.
Blackmail: He threatens Akane by revealing her "sins" when she tries to stop Saejima from interrogating Minoru. Fortunately, he gets stopped by Commander Haitani.
Bullying a Dragon: Goes out of his way to antagonize Akane and Minoru, despite being fully aware that the former is stronger than him.
The Mole: He serves as one for Alliance.
Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: He is a spy for Alliance and gets killed by another spy as part of the plot.

The Kidnappers

Debut: Volume 4 (Light Novel), Chapter 47 (Manga), Episode 1 (Anime)

Voiced by: Chikahiro Kobayashi & Makoto Furukawa (Japanese)

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The Soldier on the left.

Two men hired to kidnap Akane. One of them served in the military. They both run afoul of the Balaclava Berserker.

Back for the Finale: The reappear in the finale of the second season, kidnapping Akane again. Shadow promptly drops in on them again.
Blade Below the Shoulder: The ex-military kidnapper gets retractable blades in his arms after the invasion.
Blood Knight: The ex-soldier gained a lust for blood after his military service, hence his current work as a mercenary. However, he never counted on being on the receiving end of a beatdown that when he's in the even bigger Blood Knight Stylish Bandit Slayer's mercy, he pathetically begged for his life.
Curb-Stomp Battle: Shadow's fight against them is even more one-sided than before, even with the cybernetics.
Curb Stomp Cushion: The ex-military kidnapper puts up some fight against Minoru but ultimately he beats them both without issue.
Cyborg: After the invasion, the two have been cybernetically enhanced by an unknown source.
Electronic Eyes: Both have cybernetic eyes after the invasion.
No Holds Barred Beat Down: Minoru shows no mercy when beating them with his crowbars.
Small Role, Big Impact: Their kidnapping of Akane is what caused Minoru to rescue her, leading Akane to develop an admiration and even romantic interest towards her classmate.
Starter Villain: They're the first antagonists seen in the anime and show what Minoru was capable of before his death.
Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: After the bludgeoning Minoru gave him, probably not helped by the machinery shoved into his head, the ex-soldier is left with severe brain damage and PTSD, having trouble focusing on his situation. He also has flashbacks to the Balaclava Berserker and seems to recognize him in Shadow.

Characters / The Eminence in Shadow

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Lawless City

Elizabeth

Debut: Volume 3 (Light Novel), Chapter 30 (Manga), Episode 22 (Anime)note Flashback only

Voiced by: Saori Hayami (Japanese), Brianna Roberts (English)

Mary

Debut: Volume 3 (Light Novel), Chapter 30 (Manga), Episode 21 (Anime)

Voiced by: Ai Kakuma (Japanese), Katelyn Barr (English)

Crimson

Debut: Volume 3 (Light Novel), Chapter 28 (Manga), Episode 21 (Anime)

Voiced by: Tomokazu Sugita (Japanese), Dickie Sanders (English)

Yukime

Debut: Volume 3 (Light Novel), Chapter 29 (Manga), Episode 21 (Anime)

Voiced by: Shizuka Itō (Japanese), Courtney Lomelo (English)

Juggernaut

Debut: Volume 3 (Light Novel), Chapter 29 (Manga), Episode 21 (Anime)

Voiced by: Tsuyoshi Koyama (Japanese), Luis Galindo (English)

White Demon

Debut: Volume 3 (Light Novel), Chapter 27 (Manga), Episode 21 (Anime)

Voiced by: Jun Fukushima (Japanese), Chris Hutchison (English)

Marie

Debut: Volume 3 (Light Novel), Chapter 28 (Manga), Episode 21 (Anime)

Voiced by: Mao Ichimichi (Japanese), Emi Lo (English)

Oriana Kingdom

Raphael Oriana

Debut: Volume 2 (Light Novel), Chapter 25 (Manga), Episode 16 (Anime)

Voiced by: Minoru Aoyama (Japanese)

Reina Oriana

Debut: Volume 4 (Light Novel), Chapter 41 (Manga), Episode 29 (Anime)

Voiced by: Yuko Minaguchi (Japanese), Kara Greenberg (English)

Margaret

Debut: Volume 4 (Light Novel), Chapter 42 (Manga), Episode 30 (Anime)

Voiced by: Reina Ueda (Japanese)

Kevin

Debut: Volume 4 (Light Novel), Chapter 42 (Manga), Episode 30 (Anime)

Voiced by: Shinji Kawada(Japanese)

The Three Heroes and the Witch of Calamity

Olivier

Hero Olivier

Debut: Volume 2 (Light Novel), Chapter 17 (Manga), Episode 12 (Anime)

Freya

Hero Freya

Debut:Chapter 182 (Web Novel), Episode 29 (Anime; Mentioned)

Aurora

Witch of Calamity

Debut: Volume 2 (Light Novel), Chapter 15 (Manga), Episode 11 (Anime)

Voiced by: Kaori Nazuka (Japanese), Shelley Calene-Black (English)

Others

Beatrix

Debut: Volume 2 (Light Novel), Chapter 24 (Manga), Episode 16 (Anime)

Voiced by: Mikako Komatsu (Japanese), Allison Sumrall (English)

Annerose Nichtsehen

Debut: Volume 2 (Light Novel), Chapter 20 (Manga), Episode 11 (Anime; Cameo), Episode 15 (Anime; Full Appearance)

Voiced by: Shion Wakayama (Japanese), Chelsea McCurdy (English)

Quinton

Debut: Volume 2 (Light Novel), Chapter 20 (Manga), Episode 15 (Anime)

Voiced by: Kenta Miyake (Japanese), Andrew Love (English)

Goldoh Kinmekki

Debut: Volume 2 (Light Novel), Chapter 21 (Manga), Episode 15 (Anime)

Voiced by: Kazuyuki Okitsu (Japanese), Justin Doran (English)

Tulpicano

Debut: Volume 3 (Light Novel)

The Clovers

Debut: Volume 3 (Light Novel), Chapter 35 (Manga)

Mist Dragon

Debut: Volume 2 (Mentioned), Master of Garden

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Earth

Akane Nishino

Debut: Chapter 145 (Web Novel), Volume 4 (Light Novel), Chapter 47 (Manga), Episode 1 (Anime)

Voiced by: Yui Horie (Japanese), Natalie Rial (English)

Akira Nishino

Debut: Volume 4 (Light Novel), Chapter 49 (Manga)

Yuuka

Debut: Volume 4 (Light Novel), Chapter 49 (Manga)

Yudai Saejima

Debut: Volume 4 (Light Novel)

Debut: Volume 4 (Light Novel), Chapter 47 (Manga), Episode 1 (Anime)

Voiced by: Chikahiro Kobayashi & Makoto Furukawa (Japanese)

Debut: Volume 3 (Light Novel), Chapter 30 (Manga), Episode 22 (Anime)^noteFlashback only