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Black Bulls

"Welcome to the absolute worst Magic Knights squad, the Black Bulls!"

—Yami Sukehiro

Led by Yami Sukehiro, the Black Bulls are one of the nine squads of Magic Knights in the Clover Kingdom. They are infamous for their destructive behavior and trouble-making and are regarded as the worst of the squads.

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A whole group of failures. ^Characters

Adaptational Muscles: Except for Yami, who is the most muscular character in the manga, all male Black Bulls are implied to have bodies that are slightly toned at best. In the anime, all of the male Black Bulls are quite muscular, which undercuts the manga's point about how Asta's training has made him almost freakishly muscular for his age.
Almighty Janitor: All of them besides Yami and Nacht (and possibly Gordon) are still lower-ranked Magic Knights. They all kick incredible amounts of ass regardless. All of the Black Bulls except Yami didn't even know the magic knights had ranks until Asta, Noelle, and Charmy got promoted by the Wizard King, despite all of them being on the combat level of Vice-Captains from other squads. This also applies internally to their squad. The highest official ranked member after Yami and Nacht is Charmy, followed by Asta and Noelle. In reality, this just means they get paid more money than their squadmates since the three of them probably have the least authority in the already almost nonexistent Black Bull command structure outside of "Do what Yami says or die" that seems to be very loosely based on seniority as long as that person isn't named Finral.
Animal Motifs: Bulls. They're a boisterous, stubborn bunch with a penchant for destruction. Henry can even use his Recombination Magic to turn the hideout into a humanoid or four-legged bull.
Anti-Hero Team: Downplayed, and mostly because they'd fit Chaotic Good. They are a group of societal misfits who often cause unintentional destruction in their wake. They have little regard for authority, breaking into the Magic Parliament Courthouse to save Asta and Nero. As Yami puts it, they'll become scoundrels or traitors if their members are messed with. That said, not all members really fit the Anti-Hero characteristics, e.g. Asta is quite an Ideal Hero instead.
Badass Crew: All of the members seen in combat have been quite competent when it comes to fighting in stark contrast to their horrible reputation. They (usually) look out for each other's well-being as well, albeit in unusual ways.
Badass in a Nice Suit: Chapter 295◊ has a double-page illustration that depicts them all wearing modern black suits and dresses for the girls. Needless to say, they all come off as quite snappy dressers.
Because You Were Nice to Me: Most of the members' loyalty to the squad comes from their comrades' unconditional acceptance and love for each other despite being social outcasts. This is especially true for Noelle, Gordon, Grey, Henry, and Nero.
Beware the Silly Ones: They're a very eccentric, quirky group with members who are much more powerful and skilled than they appear.
Big Damn Heroes:
- When Langris severely injures Finral and is about to kill him, the Black Bulls at the Royal Knights Exam come swooping into the battlefield, with Asta, Magna, and Luck having their weapons pointed at him and the others, save for Noelle who's checking on Finral, standing nearby ready with their grimoires.
- Inside the transformed hideout, they come out of Valtos's portal into the Clover Castle's courtyard to provide the other members some needed help against the elves and stop their plans involving the Shadow Palace.
- They break into the Magic Parliament through the building's wall to save Asta and Nero, with all of them prepared to fight.
- All the Black Bulls (sans Nacht) reunite at the Spade Kingdom Raid to fight Morris and save Yami.
  "Give us back our captain!!"
Blood Knight: All of them (with the possible exceptions of Noelle, Nacht, Finral, Gordon, Grey, and Nero) can enjoy a good brawl and causing as much chaos as possible. Especially their excited reactions to the sheer amount of destruction they can cause with Henry's Humongous Mecha. Since they're up against the constantly serious Eye of the Midnight Sun, their antics get funny very quickly.
Brilliant, but Lazy: Except for Captain Yami, Vice Captain Nacht, Asta, Noelle, Luck and Magna, members of this company are often seen more hanging around rather than working and training (especially Finral, Charmy and Vanessa), helping to earn their bad reputation as the most inept and weak mages of the Clover Kingdom. However, drawing inspiration from Asta's determination to achieve his dream of becoming the Wizard King and helping him in some of his missions, they actually prove to be quite skilled fighters and begin to discover and unlock their true potential that allows them to stand up to and, in some cases, even overpower some really dangerous mages that are far more powerful than they are.
Bunny-Ears Lawyer: They all are at the very least weirdos, but they are also among the best and most honorable Magic Knights that the Clover Kingdom has to offer. On a single year where Asta and Noelle are in the squad, they manage to jump from last to second place in the rankings once they are inspired to put more work into it.
Cerebus Retcon: Many of the Black Bulls have a comedic quirk to their personality that is explained to be because of their troubled backstory:
- Luck's bloodthirstiness is revealed to be because his late mother, who shunned him for his constant smiling, only began to show him affection when he defeated a noble.
- Gauche became a sis-con because his parents were killed for their wealth and him and Marie, his only family left, were thrown out, with him stealing from others to provide for her. It's also heavily implied that it worsened when he misinterpreted Yami's words to join the Black Bulls to support his sister.
- Vanessa's alcoholic tendencies are revealed in the Forest of Witches Arc to be because she was imprisoned in a cage until she was a teenager, heavily implying that she became a partying alcoholic because of this.
- Finral turned into a shameless womanizer because he focused on having fun with his life after he was disowned by his family for his weak magic which caused his engagement with Finnes, who he was in love with, to be broken off.
- Grey's extreme shyness about her true appearance is due to her stepfamily's constant mocking of her looks for years, calling her ugly which severely affected her self-esteem.
Color Motif: Black. The squad is a group of social outcasts. And through joining the Black Bulls, many of them gained a second chance at life.
Contagious Heroism: The Black Bulls start as a lackadaisical group who have a reputation as inept Magic Knights. After Asta joins, they become inspired by his determination and selflessness as a Magic Knight, especially in the Underwater Temple when they fight against Vetto. As a result, they train their magics more and take their duties more seriously. So much so that they jump from last place to second place at the annual squad rankings.
Dark Is Not Evil: They are associated with black and are composed at large by people who are badly seen by society. Despite this, they're still heroes. This is most apparent with four core Black Bulls: captain Yami uses dark magic with the power of the underworld, vice captain Nacht uses shadow magic and is the host of four devils, Asta has anti-magic thanks to the power of a devil in his grimoire, and Nero was permanently affected by using forbidden magic to gain the power of negative mana from the underworld.
A Day in the Limelight: Individual members outside of Asta and Noelle often receive more focus during specific arcs in which they undergo Character Development and/or have their backstories fleshed out: Magna in the Magic Knights Entrance Exam Arc, Luck in the Dungeon Exploration Arc, Gauche in the Eye of the Midnight Sun Encounter Arc, Vanessa in the Forest of Witches Arc, Finral in the Royal Knights Arc, and Gordon in the Heart Kingdom Joint Struggle Arc when he visits his family.
Defeat Means Friendship: They have essentially ritualized this with their "baptism" initiation rite where rookies have to fight Magna to get their magic knight mantle. Usually, this ends with the others playing save-the-rookie, but Asta totally wins them all over by deflecting Magna's fireball back at him.
Destructive Saviour: They frequently end up causing damage to towns and places they mean to protect or save. It's mainly why they're labeled with such a dreadful reputation among the Magic Knight squads. Luckily for the Black Bulls, not all of the people they protect seem to mind. It doesn't help that most of them actually enjoy causing destruction too much to stop doing it.
Dysfunction Junction: They are a group of quirky misfits who become a surrogate family due to their acceptance of each other despite their flaws.
The Exile: To appease the Magic Parliament who is suspicious of Asta and Nero, the Black Bulls go into exile while they investigate the devils.
Family of Choice: They're definitely a surrogate family given how many of them are orphans or otherwise estranged from their blood family:
- Vanessa straight up calls the Black Bulls her real family to her own mother because they're the ones who love and support her.
- Being disowned by his noble family, the House of Vaude, Finral is fine with his brother Langris putting the former down but will not tolerate insults to his squad.
- Noelle is far more sisterly with Vanessa and Magna than anyone in the House of Silva and it is implied her magic control issues were made worse by her real siblings' abuse.
- Gordon notes that, by the time of the Forest of Witches Arc, Gauche has come to care about Asta as much as he does Marie.
- Grey grew up in a household with a cruel stepmother and stepsisters, and is thankful that she's found the Black Bulls as a family that she can trust.
- In forming the Black Bulls for misfits like himself, Yami thought that he may have actually been the one to find a place to belong.
Foil: The Black Bulls as a whole are this to the Golden Dawn. The Black Bulls are ranked the lowest of the squads and have a bad reputation. The Golden Dawn is the highest-ranked squad and well-respected. The Black Bulls were established to take in misfits, made up of commoners, peasants, and disgraced aristocrats. The Golden Dawn was formed to accept the best of the upper-class and, save for Yuno, is comprised of almost entirely nobility and royalty. The Black Bulls are a rowdy bunch who see each other as a family while the Golden Dawn are formal and disparage Yuno for being a peasant. Almost every member of the Golden Dawn is taken over by a reincarnated elf; the Black Bulls become essential in stopping the reincarnation.
From Zero to Hero: The squad is first introduced as a joke among other Magic Knight squads. However, by the time of the Royal Knights Arc, they've become the second-most-powerful Magic Knight squads in history.
Hero with Bad Publicity: Although they're a Magic Knight squad who go to great deals to save innocent lives, commoner or not, they have a bad reputation in the Clover Kingdom due to their collateral damage to places they're supposed to protect and rowdy behavior. Their reputation improves as they accomplish important deeds such as defeating powerful members of the Eye of the Midnight Sun and Diamond Kingdom, so much that they end up second place in the squad rankings.
Idiot Hero: The closest any of them get to being intelligent is being a Genius Ditz (or, at best, a Ditzy Genius). Even the canonically most intelligent one, Gauche, is too full of Insane Troll Logic and his sister complex to qualify as anything else. The good part is they're all aware of it and know how to make it work to their advantage.
Inept Mage: They're full of these types, each of them inept in different ways. Asta has no magic whatsover and depends on his anti-magic swords (and later demon), Noelle has incredible potential for magic, but her spells often veer in unexpected directions and more often than not hit her allies instead, Gauche is too obsessed with protecting his sister to be of any use in combat when she's not involved, Luck is too bloodthirsty and reckless to know how to use his magic for anything but combat or get along with anyone else, etc. Averted with their captain, Yami, who is scary competent and likes recruiting misfits in hopes that they'll one day become as strong as he is.
It's Personal: They're a close-knit group that doesn't take kindly to anyone threatening their own:
- Langris about to kill Finral after blowing holes into his body has Asta, Magna, and Luck enter the tournament battlefield, surrounding Langris with their weapons pointed at him. The anime adds the other Black Bulls coming, ready to fight and save Finral.
- They break through the courthouse on the base to save Asta and Yami, ready to fight anyone there and be branded traitors if need be so that they can save the two.
- All the Black Bulls assemble together during the Spade Raid to fight Morris so that they can save Yami, telling the scientist to give them back their captain.
Kimono Fanservice: The females of the Black Bulls are dressed up in kimonos on the colored cover of Chapter 277.
Let's Split Up, Gang!: The Black Bulls spread out throughout the continent right after the six-month time skip. Asta and Finral leave the others in the Heart Kingdom to join up with the Black Bulls who're near the border of the Spade Kingdom, where they encounter Dante. Noelle, Luck, Charmy, and Nero are in the Heart Kingdom and fight Vanica and her Dark Disciples. Gordon was studying Curse Magic under his father, and Magna and Zora were off traveling. They all come back together later in the arc.
Mythical Motifs: Are associated with devils, thanks to Asta and his source of Anti-Magic, Nero and her small horns, Nacht outright having several devils under his control. Becomes more prominent in the final arc when Asta learns to share his Anti-Magic with the others, giving them all a more demonic appearance.
Oddly Small Organization: The Black Bulls are by far the smallest of the Magic Knights squads, likely because of their bad reputation, with only 15 members. Despite this, they end up the second-highest ranked squad at the Star Festival for their achievements and become important in defeating the Eye of the Midnight Sun and the reincarnated elves.
Parental Abandonment: Most of the Black Bulls, with the notable exception of Gordon and possibly Charmy and Magna, suffer from this. Asta was left at a church as a baby, Noelle's mother died in childbirth and she's heavily implied to have a strained relationship with her father, Yami has been stranded in the Clover Kingdom and likely hasn't seen his fishermen parents since, Finral's mother died and his father married a Wicked Stepmother who disowned him, Luck's mother died which left him to fend for himself, Gauche's parents were killed for their wealth, Vanessa left her mother the Witch Queen after being imprisoned all her life, Grey fled home due to her abusive stepfamily, Zora's father was killed by his fellow Magic Knights, Henry's parents left him at the hideout and never returned, Nero's parents are long since dead, and Nacht's family died when his Devil-Binding Ritual of Lucifugus went wrong. Fittingly enough, they all see each other as a surrogate family.
Platonic Declaration of Love: The Black Bulls together yell that they love Yami after he asks them if they like him that much when they come to save him from Morris.
Yami: Well, it's mutual, you idiots.
Quality over Quantity: Among the other squads, the Black Bulls by far have the lowest number of seen members, likely because of their bad reputation. Despite this, they're actually all highly skilled mages and in the six months after Asta and Noelle join they place the second-highest in achievements among all the squads. Furthermore, they have 4 members join the Royal Knights, tied with the highest-ranked and much larger squad the Golden Dawn.
Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Invoked. When Yami was promoted to Captain, he explicitly stated that he wanted to form a squad that welcomed various outsiders and other undesirables and give them a place to belong, stemming from the discrimination he faced as a foreigner with dark magic. Even years later, they still do this as they take in two disgraced nobles (Noelle and Finral), a runaway witch (Vanessa), a former delinquent (Magna), a bloodthirsty guy only interested in violence (Luck), a former criminal obsessed with his sister (Gauche), a total glutton (Charmy), the only one without magic in the world (Asta) and two complete weirdos (Grey and Gordon). Then there's a troll and known criminal (Zora), a five-centuries old girl who can turn into a bird (Nero), a shut-in who acts like a ghost and has to stay by himself all the time (Henry), and vice captain who's a reformed delinquent and devil host (Nacht):
Yami: Someday, I'm gonna make my own brigade. I bet the other brigades will look after the decent types and the brilliant ones, so the ones destiny didn't choose. The ones who got chained down. The lost ones. The ones burdened with crimes. A brigade where people who haven't been able to wield the power they've got can rampage around. I'll get stronger too, so I can keep those idiots together.
Recruited from the Gutter: Many of the Black Bulls were recruited this way as opposed to the annual Magic Knights Exam. Yami offers membership to Henry whose illness confined him to the hideout, Gauche who had escaped jail, Vanessa whose mother trapped her in a cage all her life, Zora who was on a vengeful rampage against corrupt Magic Knights, Noelle who was rejected from her family's squad the Silver Eagles, and Nero who was on trial for the elves' reincarnation, initially protesting to save the Black Bulls but giving in after being touched by the squad's words, and Nacht as Vice Captain after he caused his brother's death. Even Asta was recruited after he failed to get any other captains' offers at the Magic Knights Entrance Exam.
Sanity Ball: Due to their weirdness and sometimes Skewed Priorities, at least one of the members needs to hold one in the group.
Share Phrase: "Right here, right now, I'll surprise my limits" Is a Character Catchphrase Yami is well-known for and uses to hype himself, Asta, or the other Black Bulls up, but it quickly becomes a common refrain with the rest of the squad.
Throw the Dog a Bone: Although they were initially inept at the start, the Black Bulls score a major victory in the Star Festival, placing second among the squads in the annual ranking.
Time to Unlock More True Potential:
- To fight the devil hosts of the Spade Kingdom, most of the Black Bulls get stronger over the six month time skip: Asta, Noelle, and Finral train in the Heart Kingdom, Charmy, Luck, and Nero learn arrays from the Spirit Guardians and Lolopechka, and Gordon studies Curse Magic under his father.
- After their defeats by the Dark Triad despite training for six months, they undergo this again. Asta learns to use his devil power under Nacht. Licht and the Third Eye teach Noelle, Luck, Charmy, and Nero, as well as Mimosa and Leopold, the elves' esoteric art Ultimate Magic.
Took a Level in Badass: Throughout the story, when fighting the Diamond Kingdom and Eye of the Midnight Sun and training for the Royal Knights Exam, they become much stronger. As Yami puts it, they have to surpass their limits.
True Companions: They all care about each other greatly and are a close-knit group due to them all being societal outcasts, accepting each other when no other group would. They encourage each other to do their best, such as when Noelle practices her magic control to get them to the Underwater Temple, and are willing to go to great lengths to help one another, as seen when Asta's arms are cursed and they all try to find a cure. So much so that they barge into the Magic Parliament, the legal authority of the Clover Kingdom, to save Asta and Nero, and later all come together to save Yami from Morris.
Underdogs Never Lose: The Black Bulls start as the least respected and lowest-ranked of the Magic Knights squads with -30 stars. After Asta joins, they are inspired to become stronger and many of their members show their true potential as powerful mages. They face many foes from the Eye of the Midnight Sun and come out victorious afterwards, with all their accumulated accolades allowing them to jump to second-place in the annual squad rankings.
Underestimating Badassery: The Black Bulls get this a lot, especially Asta and Noelle, the former for his lack of magic and peasant origins and the latter for being the Chew Toy of the royal family and being forced to join the group because of her Power Incontinence. The Black Bulls are actually amazingly powerful, but their rowdy, quirky nature means that people usually don't take them seriously to a detriment. Gifso quickly realizes his mistake of judging the Black Bulls by their rankings once they show themselves to be tougher than he expected when they overcome all his challenges at the Underwater Temple, several of Vanica's Dark Disciples learnt it the hard way and even Dante lost to them in both of his fights against them.
Undying Loyalty: The members are each very loyal to their squadmates. They refuse to give up on helping each other in the face of powerful foes such as Vetto, and risk their lives to save Gauche and Luck from being possessed by elves. Especially to Yami, who they come to save from Morris. When he asks them if they like him that much, they reply that they love him.
The Un-Favourite: Among the Magic Knight squads, their reputation is by far the worst. The group's prestige is measured by the number of stars they receive from the king. They have negative thirty. When they end second in the rankings later on, people think they threatened someone to get there.
White Sheep: They actually show a stronger sense of camaraderie and are far more welcoming of newbies, especially those without noble backgrounds, than the other squads. They also show a stronger sense of justice in protecting the peasants and innocents and lack the elitist mindset that most squads have. It helps that there are no "proper" nobles among them, with Finral being kicked out of his family, Gauche's family's money stolen, Noelle growing out of the noble mindset, Henry abandoned by his parents because of his illness, Nero who was relegated to being a royal servant due to her seemingly weak magic, and Nacht whose family died after his Devil-Binding Ritual went awry.
Wrong Context Magic: Many of the Black Bulls are classified as Arcane Stage mages, having inexplicable magical powers.
- Asta was born without magic, letting him use Anti-Magic.
- Nero has Sealing Magic that was permanently changed after using Forbidden Magic.
- Yami's Dark Magic can affect the underworld.
- Vanessa can change fate to favor her friends.
- Grey can transmute magic into different attributes.
- Nacht is the host of ''four devils."
- Charmy has two magic attributes because she's a dwarf hybrid.

Members

Finral Roulacase

The Black Bulls' Pack Mule

^{Click here to see Finral after the Forest of Witches Arc}

Voiced by: Jun Fukuyama (Japanese), Brandon McInnis (English)^note

Debut: Chapter 2 (Manga), Episode 4 (Anime)

Magic Attribute: Spatial

"I don't have to become the strongest. I'll make the Black Bulls the strongest squad!!"

A casanova who was disowned from the high-ranking noble Vaude family that likes to hit on women whenever he has the chance to. Despite that, he is still one of the most level-headed and less explosive members of the Black Bulls, resulting in him having quite a bit of responsibility.

Uses Spatial Magic to create portals for transportation. However, he is inept at using it offensively and dislikes fighting.

Abusive Parents: He was verbally abused and disowned by his father and Wicked Stepmother.
Amazon Chaser: After he sees Mimosa fight in the Royal Knights Exam, he calls her "the complete package" of beauty, grace and magical power.
Big Brother Instinct: Despite his younger half-brother Langris' abuse of him, Finral still greatly cares for him and regrets not bonding with him during their childhood. It shows when he tries to save him when he's possessed by an elf.
Big Damn Heroes:
- He comes just in time to save Finnes from being killed by Latry's Spatial Magic.
- Arrives at the scene after Zenon becomes a devil and overwhelms Yuno to save Langris and team up with him against the Triad member.
Black Sheep: His family hated him for being too weak and reluctant to fight. They outright disowned him so that his younger and more powerful brother could become the heir instead.
Bloodless Carnage: He bleeds, but considering all the big holes all over his body from Langris' attack, the amount of damage shown wasn't gory enough.
Blue Blood: Finral is a son of the House of Vaude, but was disowned as its heir in favor of his younger brother Langris for his powerful Spatial Magic.
Butt-Monkey: Yami uses him as a vehicle and he gets dragged into dangerous situations whether he likes or not.
Cain and Abel: The Abel to Langris' Cain. He always tried to connect with his brother growing up and even now he wants to get along with him. Sadly, Langris doesn't reciprocate at all. Despite all the abuse (and attempted murder) Langris has thrown at him, Finral still cares about him more than anyone else.
Can't Act Perverted Toward a Love Interest: He gets way too nervous and insecure to be flirty as usual around Finnes Calmreich in both flashbacks and present day. After he declares his intention to marry her, Langris chews him out for flirting with every girl he meets when he needs to limit this behavior to just Finnes or he will never be a good husband. Langris also mentions that he'll marry her instead if this continues.
Casanova Wannabe:
- Stated in his introduction that his liking for women interferes with his work. However, he hasn't found a girlfriend yet. When Finral goes on a triple date, with Asta and Luck tagging along, he soon realizes how big of a mistake it was to bring them. It's heavily implied in his flashbacks that this behavior came about from realizing that his brother would become the head of his family and be forced to marry Finnes instead of being married to her himself despite their mutual attraction. Langris seems to be aware of Finnes' feelings for him, telling Finral before fighting him that she will be sad when Finral gets killed in their match.
- Thanks to a major tongue lashing from Langris, he realizes that his aggressive advances on women have become so habitual that he's a hypocrite for declaring his love and intention to make Finnes his bride only to turn around and hit on two random girls. He goes from this to a Nervous Wreck around attractive women in a single chapter trying not to cheat on her anymore. Of course, he's immediately sent on a mission with Noelle, Mimosa, and Nero to meet the princess of the Heart Kingdom, who naturally turns out to also be gorgeous. Asta comes along too. However, due to being in such a panic, Finral can barely recognize Asta's presence.
Catchphrase: "I'm your superior!!", usually aimed at Gauche or Noelle.
Character Development:
- Finral starts off as being a coward with little confidence due to being disowned in favor his more talented brother. After being encouraged by Asta, he decides to become more assertive and stronger, training his magic. It leads to him resolving to become the next head of House Vaude again and make Finnes his wife, and teaming up with Langris to fight Zenon.
- He also begins as a very meek person who easily submits to others' demands. During the Royal Knights Examination, Finral displays a stronger sense of leadership, successfully commanding his teammates Leopold and Hamon to destroy the enemy team's crystal using their magics.
Characterization Marches On: Finral's introduction during the Magic Knight's Exam presents him far more seriously than his later Butt-Monkey treatment would suggest. For one, he's shown to have little problem charming women, exudes a more low-key and Brilliant, but Lazy attitude, and is called a famous spatial magic expert. He's also suggested to be far higher up in the Black Bulls hierarchy, acting almost like a Cloudcuckoolander's Minder to Yami and attempting to corral his captain's reckless behavior. He only falls into his Casanova Wannabe, No-Respect Guy, Lovable Coward characterization around the Eye of the Midnight Sun Encounter Arc.
Color Motif: Green — the color of his clothes and mana. Finral himself is an easygoing man who is jealous of his younger brother's superior magic, seeing himself as inferior to Langris.
Combination Attack:
- With Vanessa and Asta. Vanessa uses her strings and Finral his portals to make Asta move faster and with more flexibility while making it almost impossible for Vetto to hit him.
- He has a series of these with Yami and Jack against Latry, the elf possessing Langris, with Jack and Yami slicing up Latry's Spatial Magic and Finral teleporting them.
Cowardly Lion: He is brave and very useful in battle, but only once running is no longer an option.
Disappointing Older Sibling: Finral's comparably less impressive magic got him disowned by his father and Wicked Stepmother, while his younger half-brother Langris fulfills the "little brother bully" version of this trope. However, much of Langris' hatred actually stems from the fact that, outside of the family, people somehow prefer the "weaker" Finral for, you know, being a decent person. Finral, meanwhile, is the one who considers himself a failure as a brother, feeling that he should have stopped Langris' descent into murderous jealousy.
Dramatic Irony: Despite Finral holding bitter feelings towards noble society because of how hard he believes it rejected him, his brother getting all the praise, and his parents abusing him for not being good enough to be a noble, the other nobles actually loved him because his incredible social skills allowed him to make tons of friends and connections. In contrast, Langris was the one most of the nobles didn't approve of due to having No Social Skills and being a rude brat who never showed respect for his peers. Finral's father and stepmother were so obsessed with Langris' intelligence and attack magic that they were the only ones in the court totally blind to Lanrgris' awful public behavior, leading to them abusing and disowning a successor that would've been accepted by most of noble society, while promoting the bad behavior of their younger child. Of course, the only one who ever found out about this contradiction was Langris, which kept Finral in the dark while thinking he was worthless and helped Langris into his Start of Darkness.
Emerald Power: While not much for raw destructive power like his brother, his magic is incredibly useful in a fight, and comes with a green aura. Also fits given that his hair later turns green after training intensively.
Expository Hairstyle Change: Before the Royal Knights tournament, he gets a new hairstyle, which causes the rest of the Black Bulls not to recognize him at first. And during his battle with Langris, he even says that he trained so hard that his hairstyle changed.
Extreme Doormat: Played for laughs among the Black Bulls, but most definitely not with his family. Finral tends to let people walk all over him without doing anything about it because he truly believed he's worthless. While he starts to understand that his squadmates care about him and are just being idiots (and Yami is doing it on purpose to try and get him to grow a spine), his family's severe abuse destroyed his courage and self-image to the point where all he does is run from his problems. It's implied this is why he strikes out with the ladies so much because he has no confidence to be genuine with them, on top of still loving Finnes, who he also didn't fight for at all because he was such a doormat. After spending a year of being encouraged by Asta's actions, he decides enough is enough and puts this trait to bed for good.
Freudian Excuse: He became a shameless flirt whose only goal was to have fun after being disowned by his family for his inadequate magic, which caused his engagement with Finnes to be broken off.
Genre Savvy: He's aware of the Running Gag of people going in the Black Bulls' restroom always walking in on Yami taking a dump, so he tries to teleport Langris knowing that it was one of the few ways he could defeat him. Predictably, he hits Sekke instead. And of course, Yami is sitting there, pants down and ready to kill the poor bastard.
Good Old Fisticuffs: His only way of attack, since his magic can't be used to Portal Cut. Unfortunately, Finral is a Squishy Wizard, but against an even physically weaker opponent like Latry, it works just fine.
Grew a Spine: After being inspired by Asta, he resolved to become less passive and cowardly, with Finral training his magic and standing his ground against his brother.
Half the Man He Used to Be: The Witch Queen attempts to have Asta slash Finral in half, but Rouge stops the former from doing so.
Handsome Lech: He's certainly good looking and introduces himself to a girl at the Magic Knights Entrance Exam to her blushing flattery. After this, he's seen having no luck, getting shot down by whoever he flirts with and states that he hasn't had a girlfriend yet.
Hard Work Hardly Works: Due to his kind, peaceful nature, no matter how hard Finral trained he was unable to learn offensive Spatial Magic. Instead, he learned a new spell that forcibly teleports enemies.
Has a Type: According to the Volume 12 Questions Brigade, he especially likes girls who are pure and fleeting, which fits Finnes.
Heroic Self-Deprecation: Finral has very low self-esteem thanks to his inability to use offensive Spatial Magic that led to his family's disownment of him in favor of Langris, seeing himself as nothing more than a failure. Thanks to Asta's influence, although accepting that he will never surpass his brother, he tries to improve himself and become a better mage, cutting his hair as a sign of his determination and training his magic to the point he can forcibly teleport enemies.
Holding Hands: He does this with an unconscious Langris's body when he collapses after defeating the elf possessing him, representing the brothers' reconciliation.
- Happens again when the brothers team up against Zenon.
Homing Projectile: His spell Fallen Angel's Wingbeat that he learns after training follows enemies to forcibly teleport them wherever he chooses.
Important Haircut: While his hair turning green was unintentional, his new hairdo is what Finral sees as the symbol of being a new person by ditching his lazy, cowardly, and desperate womanizing ways to become a brave and powerful magic knight. When Magna and Luck don't buy it, he quickly proves them wrong with his actions. At least concerning ditching the laziness and cowardice. Stopping the womanizing proves to be much harder.
Inadequate Inheritor: He was originally the heir to the House of Vaude, a noble family with generations of offensive Spatial Magic users and famed Magic Knights. But because of Finral's inability to use his magic offensively and being placed in the Black Bulls, he was disowned by his family in favor of his younger brother Langris.
In the Blood: Both he and Langris have crippling self-esteem problems, but cope with them in completely opposite ways. While Finral became an Extreme Doormat, Langris became a Sadist.
Ladykiller in Love: Although he usually fails, Finral is a shameless flirt who'll try to woo any pretty girl. That said, he's in love with his former fiancée Finnes, who is now engaged to his brother Langris after he was disowned. He later tries to win her back and become a man worthy of her by trying to stop being a flirt.
Likes Older Women: He's in love with his former fiancée Finnes, who is five years his senior. When she apologized to him for being sickly and older, Finral told her that he didn't mind.
Locked Out of the Fight: Finral thinks about teleporting away to get help when Dante fights Yami to try and capture him, but Dante shoots him a menacing Death Glare that makes it clear that he'll kill Finral immediately if he tries to do so, leaving only Yami and later on Asta to fight Dante.
Lovable Coward: He's always trying to avoid fights as much as possible. His magic suits his personality well: it's not particularly good for fighting but it's great for running away. He nonetheless musters up the courage to support Asta with his magic against Vetto. By the time he enters the Royal Knights Exam, he's no longer a coward in any way even though he still can't use magic to attack directly.
Magical Gesture: In battle to rapidly create portals for allies he'll extend his arms and clench his fingers.
May–December Romance: With his First Love, Finnes, whom he would've married if he hadn't been disowned. She's almost 5 years older than him, which is almost unheard of in this kind of setting among nobles, with their first meeting happening when Finral was still a teenager and she was an adult. While Finnes was insecure about it, both of them wanted the Arranged Marriage to happen. But then Finral was kicked out of the family for Langris to be engaged to her instead.
Meaningful Name: Not his name per se but his named spells which all include "Fallen Angel", going with Finral being disowned by his noble family which played a huge part in him becoming a cowardly womanizer.
Meaningful Rename: He took on Roulacase as his surname after being disowned by the Vaude family.
Missing Mom: His mother died shortly after he was born, with his father remarrying Langris' mother soon after.
Mundane Utility: When he asked Yami why he allowed someone as weak as him to join the Black Bulls, Yami at first responds that he needed someone to help carry luggage.
Nice Guy: Finral is really nice and friendly to whoever he meets. Because of his social skills, he was seen as a better choice as the next head of House Vaude than his younger brother Langris.
Nom de Mom: After being disowned as the heir of the noble Vaude family due to being less gifted than his younger half-brother, Langris, Finral took his dead mother's surname, Roulacase.
No-Respect Guy: Despite being ranked a 1st Class Junior Magic Knight higher than the rest of the squad (except Charmy and Yami) and the most down to earth member, Finral gets no respect from the others for his status and is treated as Yami's human ride, to his repeated frustration.
Only Sane Man: He is the only member of the Black Bulls who's not seen doing anything particularly crazy. He even bemoans how he's the only normal guy in his group when his triple date goes poorly.
Perfectly Arranged Marriage:
- Had this with Finnes, who is supposed to marry the next head of House Vaude and was originally going to marry him before he was disowned in favor of his younger brother. It's heavily implied that they are both still attracted to each other.
- He announces his intention to reclaim his position in the family to Langris and Finnes to make Finnes his wife. Finnes responds with asking him to make it soon.
Personality Powers:
- Finral tries to run away from fights whenever possible and often lets people walk all over him. He uses his Spatial Magic to open portals to go to different locations, and cannot use it offensively.
- After his training he gains a spell "Fallen Angel's Wingbeat" that launches spatial matter at an enemy to forcibly teleport them, representing his new resolve to be more assertive.
Portal Cut: Averted as Finral can't make his portals rip objects or bodies apart. It's actually his complete inability to Portal Cut that started his problems with his family that eventually grew into the completely trashed relationship he has with them at the present. The consequences of this also meant he couldn't marry his First Love and led to him joining the Black Bulls.
Power Dyes Your Hair: The severe training he subjected himself to permanently singed his hair with his own mana, turning half of it green.
Runic Magic: After training in the Heart Kingdom, he learns to use Mana Method, boosting his speed with Langris against Zenon to catch him off guard. However, Zenon is able to regenerate from Langris's magic and is about to kill them until Yuno gets back up.
Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Finral is the Sensitive Guy to Yami's Manly Man, being a coward with low self-esteem who can't fight offensively while Yami is an uncouth, powerful mage who smokes and fights with a katana. As a result, Yami often uses Finral as a human taxi to his begrudging reluctance.
Sibling Rivalry: Finral declares this with Langris after Latry is exorcised from his body, stating that he'll become the next House of Vaude and make Finnes his fiancée. Langris challenges Finral to break his playboy habits to get his older brother to become a better man.
Sibling Team: Finral teams up with Langris against Zenon, using his teleportation directly on Langris within his brother's Mana Zone to fight together complete with them clenching hands, a Call-Back to their resolution after Finral saved Langris from his elf possession.
Sibling Yin-Yang: Finral is a kind young man who thinks lowly of himself for his inability to use offensive Spatial Magic. Langris, on the other hand, is unpleasant and became very arrogant from the praise over his powerful Spatial Magic. Notably, many thought that Finral would be better suited to be the next head of their family due to his sociable nature, while others thought that Langris's unfriendliness made him inferior.
Single-Target Sexuality: After resolving to become Finnes's husband again, he aspires to have this to be a man worthy enough for her. He still instinctively finds other girls attractive and nearly flirts with them, much to his own dismay.
The Slacker: Finral is one of the laziest Black Bulls, trying to escape from dangerous situations with his magic and shirking his duties to flirt with women. His laziness stems from his desire to only have fun after he was disinherited from the House of Vaude. He grows out of it and begins to take his duties as a Magic Knight more seriously.
Space Master: He's able to create portals that can transport people from one place to another. It can also be used to save people from falling by aiming the portal in the horizontal direction. It's explicitly referred to as Spatial Magic. Granted, it's hard to keep a portal open, so he can't perform Teleport Spam.
Still the Leader: He regularly reminds the Black Bull rookies that he outranks them, but they don't care (neither does anyone else). "I'm your superior..." becomes a Running Gag.
Successful Sibling Syndrome: Finral grew up in the shadow of his younger brother Langris, who was seen as a prodigy for his powerful Spatial Magic whereas Finral couldn't use it offensively. As a result, Finral was disowned as the next head of the House of Vaude in favor of Langris. Said events caused Finral to have a low opinion of himself and tend to run away from his problems. He never knew that Langris saw him this way as well, because other nobles saw Finral in a better light, a charming gentleman, while violent magic was all Langris had.
Support Party Member: Thanks to being unable to use any offensive Spatial Magic because of his kind nature, Finral is purely a support mage, using his magic to warp away attacks and teleport his allies to avoid enemies or help them with surprise attacks.
Takes One to Kill One: One of the few ways to cancel out Spatial Magic is through other Spatial Magic spells. This makes Finral important in fending off Langris during the Royal Knights Exam and against Latry when he possesses Langris's body.
Tears of Blood:
- A comedic version. Once Fana snaps back to normal and reunites with Mars, her childhood friend, Finral cries streams of blood, bemoaning the fact that he's envious and miserable.
- This happens again when he flirts with Lolopechka despite trying to change his ways for Finnes, with Finral also hitting his head against the floor in self-punishment.
Tears of Joy: He cries these when Asta and Yami manage to defeat Dante. It doesn't last when Zenon arrives and captures Yami.
Technicolor Eyes: Finral has purple eyes.
Teleportation: Finral's brand of Spatial Magic, which is highly accurate and agile to instanteously teleport himself or allies. He combines it with Langris's Mana Zone to instantaneously teleport within Zenon's Absolute Space.
Teleporter's Visualization Clause: Finral can create portals within his field of view for his allies to pass through. He can also use this for long distance teleportation as long as the destinations are locations he previously "marked" when visiting them.
Theme Naming: All of Finral's named spells begin with "Fallen Angel".
Thinking Up Portals: His Spatial Magic opens portals.
Took a Level in Badass:
- Finral trains in preparation for the Royal Knights Examination, so much so that his hair is permanently tinged green by his mana, to the point he learns a new spell that can forcibly teleport enemies.
- Over the six month time skip, he trains in the Heart Kingdom under the Spirit Guardian Smurik to improve as a support mage.
Training from Hell: He made up his mind to be more like his squadmates some time after the events at the Witch's Forest. To do this, he gave up his slacking and flirting to subject himself to training offscreen that was so grueling that not only did he end up physically and magically stronger, but his hair was permanently damaged by overusing his mana to have green highlights.
You Are Better Than You Think You Are: He's been on the receiving side of these speeches multiple times from multiple people (such as Asta or Finnes) due to his awful self-esteem. Finnes even believes his positive qualities make him so much more impressive than Langris will ever be. It takes a while, but eventually it works.
Weak, but Skilled: He doesn't have the large magical power of other nobles and his kind nature makes him unable to Portal Cut. However, he still makes his rare Spatial Magic useful, quickly creating portals to close large distances, forcibly warp enemies, and help comrades avoid attacks in the midst of battle. The agility and accuracy of his magic lets him instanteously teleport himself and Langris when they fight Zenon.
Weaponized Teleportation: After resolving to be stronger, he develops a new spell that follows enemies to forcibly teleport them. It's used on Sekke to warp him to the bathroom while Yami's using it.
Wicked Stepmother: One who bluntly said that she doesn't love Finral because he's not her son and continuously mocked him while praising Langris for being superior to him.

Magna Swing

Funny-Glasses Delinquent

Voiced by: Genki Muro (Japanese), Ian Sinclair (English)^note

Debut: Chapter 3 (Manga), Episode 6 (Anime)

Magic Attribute: Flame

"We're the Black Bulls, a whole group of failures! That little flaw of yours ain't a big deal, idiot."

A loud mouthed Magic Knight with the looks of a delinquent. He was indeed a former delinquent that joined the Magic Knights once he was inspired by the mayor of his village and is a much nicer guy once one proves their worth.

Uses Flame Magic, primarily to throw several types of fireball with different effects. Tying in to his baseball theme, Magna can also conjure up flaming sport shoes or fiery baseball bats.

Adaptational Expansion: In the anime, his backstory involves the mayor of Saussy, which is why Magna gets angrier with Heath than he does in the manga.
Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Despite his rough attitude, Magna gets on his knees and begs Zora to teach him how to fight like him, frustrated that he can't learn the Heart Kingdom's Mana Method and not wanting to let Luck pull ahead of him and drag the Black Bulls down.
Always Second Best: He started as this with Luck. No matter how hard Magna trains, Luck is simply more talented with unmatchable battle instincts. This became painfully clear after the latter's power boost following his elf reincarnation, and the gap between them only increased after Magna failed to learn Mana Method because of his low mana when they went to Heart Kingdom together. The fear of being left behind, amongst other reasons, fuels Magna's determination to become stronger in his own way, leading him to beg Zora to train him.
Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: Comes across as this at first. However, after Asta beats him, he sheds the arrogant facade and reveals himself to be a pretty amiable fellow from the sticks. It's later revealed that, underneath the cocky fiery attitude Magna is deeply insecure that he's weak and unable to face the other Black Bulls after learning that he's unable to learn Mana Method until he's become stronger in his own way.
Bash Brothers: Magna and Luck are best friends and coordinate well with each other in battle, able to combine Magna's flames with Luck's lightning in a combined spell when fighting Vetto.
Batter Up!: He can form a baseball bat out of fire to knock his fireballs at enemies or as a melee weapon.
Big Damn Heroes: With Zora, Magna makes his return to the story during the Spade Assault, saving Jack from Dante and fighting him himself with his new spell.
Boxing Battler: Magna shows off skill in unarmed fighting, using boxing stances and often employing the high guard, during his fight against Dante.
Brought Down to Badass: His power using his one-time spell Soul Chain Death Match. It equally splits the combined magical power of Magna and whoever he connects himself to the chain with, letting him fight the incredibly strong Dante on even ground.
The Bus Came Back: After being absent from the story for over 60 chapters, he returns in Chapter 289 with Zora when the Clover Kingdom raids the Spade Kingdom.
Butt-Monkey: Chances are if someone is going to have their intelligence insulted, their appearance mocked, or their fundoshi set on fire for cheap laughs, it's going to be Magna.
Can't Catch Up: Magna becomes this for the rest of the Black Bulls. In a squad of Arcane Stages (Asta, Yami, Vanessa, Grey, and Nero), mages with high magical power (Noelle, Nacht, Luck, Gauche, and Charmy), and unique magics (Finral, Gordon, Zora, and Henry), he sticks out for simply being a peasant with low magical power and Flame Magic. Because Magna has lower mana reserves due to being a peasant, he's unable to learn rune arrays in the Heart Kingdom with the rest of the Black Bulls who use natural attributes. He leaves in frustration, resolving to get stronger in his own way, and ends up learning rune arrays under Zora. He's well aware that he's this, lamenting that he can't face the Black Bulls as weak as he is now, and learns to use his weak magical power through the Soul Chain Death Match.
Chain Pain: The spell he learns after six months of training, Soul Chain Death Match, forms a chain that connects himself to his opponent, combining their magics together and then splitting it equally for each other.
Combination Attack: Him and Luck combine their magic to cast Flame Lightning Explosive Cannon against Vetto. It doesn't do anything to him.
Commonality Connection: He bonds with Zora over the six month time skip due to their shared peasant background. Zora agrees to teach Magna runes because, being a flame-using peasant Magic Knight, he reminds him of his own late father Zara.
Confusion Fu: His spell Time Bomb Explosive Scattershot, which makes it so that enemies don't know which fireballs will disappear or explode and where they'll go to.
Cool Bike: More like Cool Broom, but it's decorated with a bull skeleton and saddle. Noelle thinks it's unsightly but Asta likes it.
Cooldown Hug: Magna gives one to a crying Luck after Rufel is exorcised from him, reassuring him that he is a Black Bull.
Cool Shades: He's almost always seen wearing a pair of blue-tinted sunglasses to go with his delinquent look. They tend to shatter whenever he's shocked for comedic effect.
David Versus Goliath: The David to Dante's Goliath, being a peasant with low magic power against an incredibly powerful devil user. Using his Soul Chain Death Match on Dante when he lets Magna get a free hit on him out of his pride to not even fight someone as weak as him, he fights Dante on equal ground with them each having half of their combined magic power, with Magna coming out victorious when they get into a fistfight once they run out of magic power.
Defeat Means Friendship: He warms up to Asta immediately after he sends his own magic back at him.
Delinquent Hair: His hair is dyed light grey hair on the top and shaped into a mohawk. It adds to his "yankee" image.
Determinator: As Yami puts it, he let Magna join the Black Bulls because he looked like the gutsiest one out there. He develops his Soul Chain Death Match after six months of hard studying and training, and uses it to defeat Dante in a fistfight of endurance.
Disability Superpower: A variant. As Zora puts it, peasants like him and Magna's runes, unlike users of the Heart Kingdom's Mana Method style, are so weak that they just stick around. Zora teaches Magna to use this to his advantage to take a ton of time to build very complicated arrays in advance. After six months of experimentation and training, Magna learns his Secret Flame Magic: Soul Chain Death Match, which combines his measly magical power and his opponents to split the total amount equally between the two.
Dramatic Shattering: For comedic effect, Magna's sunglasses shatter whenever he's greatly surprised, including when the Black Bulls take second place at the Stars Festival and he isn't chosen as a Royal Knight.
Elemental Speed: Magna's spell Risky Stolen Base forms a pair of fire shoes that let him run faster.
Elemental Weapon:
- He can create a baseball bat from flames to use as a melee weapon.
- Magna can form a pair of shoes out of fire to increase his running speed.
Explaining Your Power to the Enemy: He explains his new technique to Asta during their fight in the tournament. Zora calls him out for how stupid that was afterwards.
Face of a Thug: His appearance is made complete with the clothes of a Japanese Delinquent, with Delinquent Hair to match. It initially terrifies Asta, who even calls him a gangster, but the two soon become quite friendly. With Zora, they're called the "thug-faced duo" by Vanessa.
Farm Boy: Like Asta, he also comes from the farmland outskirts. He became the town hero for being admitted into a Magic Knight squad and works to make his village proud.
Fireballs: His Flame Magic centers around throwing small fireballs like baseballs to explode on enemies. After his training for the Royal Knights Exam, he can use the Gargantuan Exploding Fireball spell, creating a fireball much larger than his usual baseball-sized ones that's also more destructive.
First Friend: In a monologue, Luck starts realizing that Magna is his first friend. He even stops smiling for a second once he realizes that Magna hasn't been selected to be a Royal Knight.
Foil: To his best friend Luck. Luck uses Lightning Magic and is a friendly, happy young man whose youthful appearance hides a psychotic love for fighting. Magna uses Flame Magic and is a short-tempered delinquent who has a soft side underneath his attitude. Despite being of common birth, Luck has impressive magical power that only increases after being possessed by an elf, and his magical amount and talent lets him learn Mana Method, through which he can use True Lightning Magic and eventually Ultimate Magic. Magna, on the other hand, is a peasant with simply low magic reserves, frustrating him that he's too weak and he has to get stronger in spite of this handicap, using his low magic power to his advantage by learning a spell using weak runes to build complex arrays beforehand that evenly splits the total magic power of himself and his enemy.
Friendly Rivalry: With Luck. They're best friends who like to push each other to get stronger. After seeing Magna beat Dante, Luck excitedly tells him that he's looking forward to fighting him sometime, with Magna replying that he'll win.
The Gambling Addict: As usual for this, he's absolutely horrible at it. He's seen with nothing but his underwear and shades by the end of Chapter 10.
Good Old Fisticuffs: After they run out of magical power while connected with the Soul Chain Death Match, Magna gets into a good old-fashioned fistfight with Dante and wins.
Hair-Trigger Temper: He goes from calm to extremely angry with minimal provocation and usually deals with it by picking fights with his fellow Magic Knights, as demonstrated when he attacked Luck because he ate his dessert.
Has a Type: According to the Volume 12 Questions Brigade, he likes a lively woman who can keep up with him.
Having a Blast: Many of his fireballs can explode upon contact or after a set amount of time.
Heroic Self-Deprecation: Is well-aware that he's weak and couldn't return to the Black Bulls and pretend that it didn't bother him after Yami got captured, biting his lip in frustration that he couldn't do anything to help in the moment. In frustration, Magna trained hard enough over six months up to the days before the Spade Kingdom raid to complete a new spell that let him fight against Dante.
A Hero to His Hometown: Although he's the Butt-Monkey of his squad, Magna is respected in his village Rayaka for becoming a Magic Knight.
Hot-Blooded: Loud-mouthed and passionate about whatever he does, whether it's throwing fireballs in battle or getting annoyed with his fellow Black Bulls.
I Call It "Vera": His treasured broom, Crazy Cyclone, which is the only named broom in the series. Magna has great pride in it; decorating it with a sunglasses-wearing bull skull as its headpiece to match him.
I Know Madden Kombat: Magna learns some new spells over the course of the series that gain a baseball motif to them, such as a dash move themed on stealing a base and a handheld fireball he throws like a pitcher. It's an odd use of this considering baseball doesn't exist in his world. He follows his delinquent theme with knuckles and a chain.
Improbable Aiming Skills: With his Flame Magic, Magna can throw curving fireballs to attack. His Annihilation Massacre Fireball spell makes his fireball disappear then reappear to hit from another angle. The Guidebook gives him a 5/5 in Batting Eye.
It Only Works Once: Magna's spell Soul Chain Death Match. Thanks to being an intricate, full-body array that took Magna half a year to make, it's a one-time-only spell.
Japanese Delinquents: Has this image to a T with the chain, dark shades, dyed mohawk, leather jacket and boots, and tough guy attitude. He's even called "Funny-Glasses Delinquent" by others.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's a foul-mouthed delinquent with a short temper, getting angry very easily. Despite this, he's very loyal to his squadmates and risks his life to save innocent civilians.
Kung-Fu Wizard: Shows off skill in hand-to-hand combat in Boxing Battler style with knuckle dusters made out of his magic during his fight against Dante.
Lightning/Fire Juxtaposition: Luck and Magna are best friends and often fight as a duo. Luck uses Lightning Magic to form gauntlets and greaves to fight at great speeds; Magna uses Flame Magic to form a bat out of fire and throw explosive fireballs. Personality-wise, Luck is an eccentric, bloodthirsty fighter while Magna is a short-tempered delinquent.
Mangst: In spite of Magna's tough delinquent front, he's deeply insecure of and well aware that he's weak, being a peasant with low magic, and could only bite his lip in frustration knowing that he wasn't able to help the Black Bulls against Dante. So much so that he begged Zora to teach him so that he can't let Luck surpass him and drag down the Black Bulls. He channels his frustration into developing his new spell after six months of hard studying and work.
Meaningful Name:
- Magna sounds and is spelled similar to "magma", which fits with his flame powers.
- His surname is Swing, and he uses his Flame Magic to form bats made of fire and throw fireballs like pitches.
Names to Run Away from Really Fast: His spells' names include Prison Death Scattershot and Annihilation Massacre Fireball.
No-Respect Guy: Nearly as bad as Finral. Luck often messes with him and Vanessa likes to call him a "virgin delinquent". Noelle also tends to dismiss Magna, despite his sempai status, with the excuse that she's royalty. Firmly Averted after he beats Dante one-on-one thanks to his Soul Chain Death Match and sheer determination. Asta and Luck both congratulate him on the win, clearly being impressed at his unexpected victory and improved skills, Zora shows faith in him throughout the match, having witnessed his determination to improve himself over their six-month training, and even Jack the Ripper, of all people, expresses respect towards Magna's achievement, staying behind after the Bulls leave the room to finish off Dante after he forcibly tries to heal himself to get revenge for his humiliating loss, telling the horribly-mutating Dark Triad member that he won't let him sully Magna's hard-won victory.
Offscreen Moment of Awesome: After returning from a dungeon in a wasteland to find a cure for Asta's arms, he comes back with a changed personality and overflowing with power. He returns to normal soon after.
Personality Powers: Naturally, the hot-headed, short-tempered Magna wields Flame Magic that includes explosive fireballs.
Playing with Fire: His magic. He can shoot fire in small bursts, massive fireballs, or in a spray like a shotgun. He can even later create fire knuckles and a flame chain that connects two souls and equally splits combined magical power.
Power Fist: Forms a pair of knuckles out of flames while using his Soul Chain Death Match to get into a fist fight with Dante while they're on equal ground.
Power Nullifier:
- Magna can use his Flame Magic to seal others' magical power, as he does to Heath after he gets defeated.
- A variation with his Secret Flame Magic: Soul Chain Death Match puts his magic and his enemy's together and then splits it equally between the two. For Magna, it gives him a tremendous boost in magical power while Dante has his magical power decreased greatly, forcing him out of his 100% devil power form.
Put on a Bus: Right after the six month time skip, he's off traveling with Zora. As a result, they don't fight against Vanica, her Dark Disciples, or Dante along with the rest of the Black Bulls. He returns during the Spade Kingdom Raid arc to fight against Dante after learning a technique for the past six months.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: Zigzagged between Magna and Luck. At first glance the hot-headed, blunt, fire-using Magna seems to be the Red while the happy-go-lucky, cheerful, lightning-using Luck looks like the Blue. But in battle Magna relies more on skill, aim, and timing while Luck is sociopathic in a fight, attacking his enemies relentlessly with his speed and power.
Runic Magic: He learns from Zora his style of rune arrays over the six month time skip, using runes so weak because of their low magical power that they linger to build complicated arrays in advance. After a ridiculous amount of time and patience, he uses it to make his Soul Chain Death Match spell.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Magna leaves in frustration after finding out his mana is too low to use the Heart Kingdom's rune technique. Luck leaves him be, saying that if this stops him from getting stronger that's all Magna's worth.
Secret Art: Over the six month time skip of training Magna learns Secret Flame Magic: Soul Chain Death Match, a spell that puts his magic and his opponent's magic together and then splits it equally amongst the two.
Sir Swears-a-Lot: While none of the members of the Black Bulls are really exempt from this, he uses expletives more often than anyone else seen in the series thus far despite being a nice guy at heart.
Smarter Than You Look: Because of his short temper, potty mouth, and delinquency, it's easy to think of Magna as dumb and the Databook gives him a 3/5 in Cleverness. But being a peasant with little magic, he has to use his magic with a decent amount of intelligence, using timing, aim, and feints to land attacks on enemies. And through six months of hard studying of runes under Zora, Magna is able to use an extremely complicated, full-body rune array for a one-time spell that lets him fight Dante by connecting them via a chain that equally splits their combined magical power.
Soul Power: His Soul Chain Death Match is this. It links up his soul with Dante's to equally split their combined magical power, with the chain itself becoming their souls and turning Dante insane if he so much as yanks or breaks it.
Spam Attack: Many of his spells involve throwing many fireballs at once to hit enemies from different angles. His Prison Death Scattershot and Explosive Buckshot spells are especially notable, as he throws a barrage of fireballs.
Stealth Pun: Magna throws baseballs made of fire, making him a literal flamethrower.
Taking You with Me: He sets his fireballs to blow himself and Rufel up, leaving Rufel injured but not defeated.
Technician Versus Performer: Magna is the Technician to Luck's Performer. Magna is a peasant with little magic, and as a result he has to rely on throwing fireballs with tricky aim and timing to land his attacks on enemies. Luck has incredible instincts as a fighter, attacking relentlessly with lightning-fast speed, and becomes stronger in magical power after getting reincarnated as an elf. This is further highlighted in the rune styles they learn after the timeskip: Luck, having enough magical power to do so, learns the Heart Kingdom style of runes, putting Mana Method instantaneously which requires a lot of magic, good instincts, and fast reflexes. Magna, on the other hand, learns from Zora a style better suited for peasants — taking a large amount of time beforehand to build complex arrays for one-time spells because their runes are so puny that they stick around.
Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: With Sol during the Royal Knights tournament, though they manage to cooperate more or less fine. Kirsch is another matter altogether.
Time Bomb: Magna has a spell called Time Bomb Explosive Scattershot, forming many fireballs and throwing them, with the fireballs exploding after a set time period.
Tombstone Teeth: Unlike other characters, his teeth are sometimes portrayed as this when he smiles. He's also the Butt-Monkey of the Black Bulls for comedic purposes.
Took a Level in Badass:
- After his training for the Royal Knights Exam, his fireballs become much more explosive and they can disappear when thrown, reappearing to hit enemies from a different angle.
- Following his training for six months, Magna learns a new spell that puts his magic and enemy's together and splits it equally between the two, letting him fight against Dante of all people. Though with that setup, it's more akin to bringing stronger opponents down to his level to force them to fight on the same terms.
Vancian Magic: Crossed with Runic Magic. Magna learns from Zora how to use weak runes to create complicated arrays beforehand to cast limited use spells, spending six months of learning and experimentation on his one-time spell that connects his soul to Dante using runes ascribed onto his body, halving their combined magic power.
Victorious Roar: He looks up overhead and howls in victory after defeating Dante after a grueling fistfight.
Victory by Endurance: Coupled with Weak, but Skilled, this is how he manages to triumph over Dante, using his Soul Chain Death Match to force the fight into a Combat Breakdown where grit becomes the deciding factor.
Virgin-Shaming: He's occasionally subjected to this by Vanessa, who calls him a "virgin delinquent". Judging by his embarrassed denial whenever she does, she's probably right.
Vitriolic Best Buds: Luck likes to tease Magna with shocks and pranks, with Magna often getting angry at him. Despite this, the two acknowledge each other as best friends and often go on missions together, with them forming the Special Assault Duo of the Black Bulls.
Volleying Insults: Quite often with Luck.
Weak, but Skilled:
- As Magna states himself, he doesn't have the large magical power that nobles have, and needs to use his magic wisely as a result. Thus, he uses aim, proper timing, and tricky pitches to make the most of his fireball spells.
- When he tries to train with Gaja, it's revealed he's a Stage Five, with his mana too low to handle arrays. He leaves and resolves to get stronger by himself. Zora teaches Magna to take advantage of the Weak — because peasants like himself have low magical power, their runes just linger around and this lets them take a long amount of time to create complicated arrays beforehand. It takes Magna a ridiculous amount of time, studying, and patience for him to learn and perfect his Soul Chain Death Match, a one-time spell that lets him fight on par with Dante.
You Remind Me of X: A reason Zora decides to teach Magna how to fight like him? He's a peasant Magic Knight who uses Flame Magic, reminding Zora of his late father Zara.

Luck Voltia

The Cheery Berserker

Voiced by: Ayumu Murase (Japanese), Justin Briner (English)^note

Debut: Chapter 3 (Manga), Episode 6 (Anime)

Magic Attribute: Lightning

"As long as I get to fight tough guys, I'm good! ♪"

An upbeat and friendly boy eager for strong opponents to fight with, and capable of great magical feats and magic sensing. He was brought up by his mother to always win and become strong.

Uses Lightning Magic, manipulating lightning most often by conjuring magical greaves and gauntlets.

Abusive Mom: Luck's mother mistreated him for his inability to stop smiling, with a flashback showing her slapping him at one point while bitterly wondering why he was born like that. She only began to show him affection when he beat a noble with magic, which began his pathological desire to win fights.
Adaptive Armor:
- Luck can add claws to his Holy Lightning Boots for more power. They also change throughout the story as he becomes more powerful, gaining more pointed toes and eventually horns.
- After being possessed by Rufel, his Holy Lightning Gloves become more streamlined and gain horns.
All Girls Want Bad Boys: Subverted. A girl at a mixer starts falling for the gap between his cute looks and dangerous personality but she's soon put off.
Always Someone Better: Represents this for Magna. No matter how hard Magna trains, Luck is simply more talented with unmatchable battle instincts. This became painfully clear after Luck's power boost following his elf reincarnation, and the gap between them only increased after Magna failed to learn Mana Method because of his low mana when they went to Heart Kingdom together. It's a bit different from Luck's angle, however, as he always had a feeling that Magna would become someone interesting and kept messing with him to push him forward.
Arc Hero: In the Dungeon Exploration Arc, which has Luck join with Asta and Noelle on the mission. The arc reveals his backstory and has Luck learn to accept help from his comrades as well as fight Lotus and take part in fighting Mars.
Armed Legs: In physical combat, he mostly fights using his lightning greaves, which he can add claws to for more power, to attack with kicks.
Armor-Piercing Attack: After learning True Lightning Magic over the time skip, he uses it to pierce through Svenkin's devil-reinforced Skin Magic.
Attack! Attack! Attack!: His usual strategy, since he loves fighting so much.
Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: While not specifically canon, Luck shows clear signs of having ADHD, being both extremely hyperactive and easily fascinated by the thought of fighting strong mages.
Awesomeness by Analysis: When he does stop to think of a plan, he is actually very competent when it comes to analyzing the opponent's magic, taking into account factors such as Asta's lack of a magical signature and the force behind Noelle's water attacks.
Ax-Crazy: While fighting someone strong, he'll have a psychotic grin on his face as he tries to relentlessly attack them, even putting someone to the point of near-death all with a smile on his face.
Badass Adorable: A short, cute young man with an equally friendly personality who's also a very bloodthirsty yet powerful mage, with Yami noting that Luck could have been recruited by another squad if not for his terrible personality.
Bash Brothers: Luck and Magna are best friends and coordinate well with each other in battle, able to combine Luck's lightning with Magna's flames in a combined spell when fighting Vetto.
The Berserker: Due to being such a battle maniac, he fights relentlessly in battle, almost constantly trying to attack enemies during a fight. Unlike most, he does display some perception when he actually stops to strategize.
Beware the Nice Ones: Luck is constantly cheerful and amicable towards everyone he meets. He also enjoys fighting so much to the point of leaving opponents near death.
Blood Knight: More than willing to leave his teammates in an extremely deadly dungeon with enemies abound if he thinks he'll get a good fight. It's the reason why Yami describes Luck as having a messed up personality despite his talent. He's this way because his mother only started showing him love after he defeated a noble.
Bright Is Not Good: Luck wears bright green, has blonde hair, and clads himself in greaves and gauntlets made of bright blue lightning. Despite his appearance, he's a borderline psychotic fighter who becomes more unhinged as a battle goes on.
The Cavalry: He and the rest of the forces who were training in Elysia join up with the Magic Knights and Resistance in the Spade Kingdom to help them fight against the devils released from the underworld and the Dark Triad.
Character Development:
- Stemming from his promise to his late mother, Luck refuses help from his friends when fighting enemies at first. When Asta refuses to abandon him during his fight with Lotus, he acknowledges that he's not alone anymore and breaks the promise, choosing to fight with his squadmates and becoming more cooperative with others.
- Luck starts as a Magic Knight only interested in fighting strong enemies. From being around Asta, Luck becomes more moral, chastising Svenkin for his cruelty and proclaiming that he'll protect innocents because he's a Magic Knight.
Child-Like Voice: He's 18 but has the appearance of a small boy and a fittingly boyish tenor to match with his playful personailty.
Combination Attack:
- Him and Magna combine their magic to cast Flame Lightning Explosive Cannon against Vetto. It doesn't do anything to him.
- His Lightning Arrow spell with the rest of Team K during the Royal Knights Exam, creating a large arrow made of electricity that's fitted onto a railgun which is flown with wings.
Creepy Blue Eyes: He has blue eyes which seem like Innocent Blue Eyes when combined with his youthful appearance and demeanor, but are chilling when he's unhinged during a fight.
Creepy Child: He was considered this when he was younger due to constantly smiling and being so bloodthirsty.
Cute and Psycho: His cute, boyish appearance hides a nigh sociopathic fighter who enjoys bloodshed.
Cute Bruiser: A Rare Male Example. Despite being 18, Luck looks young for his age with messy blonde hair, big blue eyes, and a smile noted to be cute. He's also a deranged fighter who uses lightning gloves and boots to ricochet around.
Dynamic Entry:
- During the attack on the Eye of the Midnight Sun headquarters, Luck kicks through a wall, hitting a member about to torture an innocent woman.
- Makes his arrival onto the scene by kicking through one of Megicula's giant corpses and helping clear a path for Noelle to Megicula with Gaja using his lightning magic.
Elemental Armor: Using Ultimate Lightning Magic: Lightning Battle Fiend allows him to clad his body from head to toe in armor made of lightning.
Elemental Eye Colors: Has light blue eyes the same shade as his bright blue Lightning Magic.
Elemental Hair Colors: Adding to his eye color, he also has messy blonde hair and uses Lightning Magic.
Elemental Speed: Luck's Lightning Magic forms electric gauntlets and greaves on his hands and feet that allow him to move at blistering speeds.
Elemental Weapon: He uses his lightning magic to create magical gauntlets and greaves to fight in close combat. When training him during the six month time skip, Gaja notes that Luck is good at equip spells and forming arrays near his hands and feet, encouraging him to focus on this to form his own magic fighting style.
Enfant Terrible: Was thought to be this when he was a child for his constant, creepy smiling. Being conditioned to get his mother's love from defeating people certainly didn't help.
Extremity Extremist: Thanks to forming his Holy Lightning Boots, Luck mostly fights in close combat with his legs.
Facial Markings: Like the others possessed by elves, while Rufel is in his body he gains lightning-shaped marks down his eyes. He manifests similar markings while using his Ultimate Lightning Magic: Lightning Battle Fiend.
Fast as Lightning: He's a mage who uses Lightning Magic and his fighting style has him move at blistering speeds to catch enemies off-guard. His lightning boots especially give him incredible speed.
Foil:
- To his best friend Magna. Luck uses Lightning Magic and is a friendly, happy young man whose youthful appearance hides a psychotic love for fighting. Magna uses Flame Magic and is a short-tempered delinquent who has a soft side underneath his attitude. Despite being of common birth, Luck has impressive magical power that only increases after being possessed by an elf, and his magical amount and talent lets him learn Mana Method, through which he can use True Lightning Magic and eventually Ultimate Magic. Magna, on the other hand, is a peasant with simply low magic reserves, frustrating him that he's too weak and he has to get stronger in spite of this handicap, using his low magic power to his advantage by learning a spell using weak runes to build complex arrays beforehand that evenly splits the total magic power of himself and his enemy.
- With Klaus. Both are seniors to the new members of their squad and forced to work together when fighting the Diamond Kingdom in a dungeon and during the Royal Knights Examination. But while Luck is a carefree fight lover who doesn't fight with others' help out of his promise to his late mother, Klaus is an uptight nobleman who dislikes having to work with peasants and commoners. Despite their differences, thanks to Luck learning to work with others and Klaus developing out of his classism during the Dungeon Exploration Arc, they work well together in the tournament.
Freudian Excuse: He has a pathological need to defeat strong individuals because when he was young, his distant mother only began to give him affection after he defeated a noble. Because this helped her, she encouraged him to continue to fight and win. Even after she died, he still tries to find and defeat powerful enemies so she will still love him.
Friendly Rivalry: With Magna. They're best friends who like to push each other to get stronger. After seeing Magna beat Dante, Luck excitedly tells him that he's looking forward to fighting him sometime, with Magna replying that he'll win.
The Gadfly: Luck's character profile states that one of his favorite things is messing with people. He likes to prank his squadmates, taking their belongings and setting off traps near them. Especially with Magna, shocking him often and setting his fundoshi on fire at the beach.
Gratuitous Greek: Using True Lightning Magic, his spell Ceranos is Greek for lightning.
Hand Blast: Luck can fire lightning orbs from his Holy Lightning Gloves.
Has a Type: According to the Volume 12 Questions Brigade, he likes someone strong who can fight him again and again.
Hellish Pupils: Fitting its name, Luck gains vertical slits for pupils while using his Ultimate Lightning Magic: Lightning Battle Fiend.
Hoist by His Own Petard: In the match against Team I (Rill's team) in the Royal Magic Knights exam, Rill reflects his Thunder Arrow back at him, completely destroying his team's crystal and winning Team I the match.
Horned Humanoid: After being possessed by Rufel, which gave him a permanent boost in magic power, Luck manifests horns made of electricity whenever he uses his lightning greaves and gauntlets.
Identical Stranger: Looks very similar to the elf boy who was with the elf lady whom Rhya tried to go have a drink with. As it turns out, Luck's the host of the elf boy.
Instant Expert: As Gaja says, Luck has an instinct for magic arrays and almost instantly forms one. While it took Gaja, the strongest of the Spirit Guardians, two years to use True Lightning Magic through natural mana, it takes Luck six months.
I Work Alone: Luck has this mindset at first due to his promise to his late mother, ditching Asta and Noelle to fight Lotus and not wanting their help. When Asta refuses to abandon him, Luck decides to fight together with them.
Keet: He's extremely joyful and hyperactive, has the design of a cute little boy, and is the second shortest male in the squad. He also loves to tease and mess with his squadmates, which makes him quite annoying and difficult to deal with at times, but is still loved by them as seen when they put their lives on the line to get him back.
Kung-Fu Wizard: His fighting style revolves around forming clawed gloves and boots out of lightning to move at great speeds and attack with slashes and kicks.
Leeroy Jenkins: He rarely puts together a strategy any more complicated than attacking the opponent until they stop moving. However, that doesn't mean he can't stop to come up with something brilliant, his greatest victory so far is when he uses his brain, not his fists, to come up with a plan that defeats Reve by forcing her to summon Dorothy into her own dream world.
Lightning Bruiser: His Lightning Magic can be quite destructive and by forming lightning boots he can attack enemies with electric blasts and his gauntlets at great speeds. He becomes faster and stronger after being temporarily turned into an elf.
Lightning/Fire Juxtaposition: Luck and Magna are best friends and often fight as a duo. Luck uses Lightning Magic to form gauntlets and greaves to fight at great speeds; Magna uses Flame Magic to form a bat out of fire and throw explosive fireballs. Personality-wise, Luck is an eccentric, bloodthirsty fighter while Magna is a short-tempered delinquent.
Maniac Tongue: Luck sometimes has his tongue playfully sticking out of his mouth, which fits his cute boyish appearance and bloodthirsty tendencies.
Meaningful Name:
- Luck suits his happy, upbeat demeanor whenever he's not obsessed with fighting.
- Voltia as in a volt of electricity. His last name can also be rendered Boltia as in lightning bolt.
Messy Hair: Untidy and unkempt, which goes with his eccentric, wild personality.
Momma's Boy: A surprisingly dark example because his mom was distant from him in his youth, but she first started showing him affection after he defeated a noble. This event helped her and so she encouraged him to keep fighting, and keep winning, all for her selfish benefit. Now he has a pathological need to find and defeat strong opponents so that she will continue to love him. He finally grows out of it after his friends pull him back from being possessed, leaving what could either be his mental image of her or her spirit in the afterlife behind as she cries in happiness for him.
Mythical Motifs: Of Raijin, the Japanese god of lightning and storms often depicted with a terrifying appearance and associated with death and destruction. He's nicknamed the "Smiling Battle Fiend", his magic manifests clawed gauntlets and boots, and he has a sociopathic love for fighting that can make him very unnerving in battle. Luck's Ultimate Lightning Magic: Lightning Battle Fiend continues the theme with his horns and spheres of lightning arranged circularly behind him, evocative of the deity's Thunder Drums.
Offscreen Moment of Awesome:
- Luck, while searching for the source of the dungeon's strong magical power - later revealed to be Lotus Whomalt and his underlings - defeats all of the foot soldiers, leaving only the veteran member to face him.
- After returning from a dungeon in a wasteland to find a cure for Asta's arms, he comes back with a changed personality and overflowing with power. He returns to normal soon after.
Older Than They Look: He's actually 18 despite looking like a young boy.
O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
- When Langris severely injures Finral and is about to kill him, Luck stops smiling and threatens to kill him in a chillingly cold voice.
- After seeing one man from the Spade Kingdom wipe out a whole force of soldiers from the Diamond Kingdom, some of whom were captain level according to Magna, Luck starts to shake, with Vanessa asking him not to start a fight. Luck quickly corrects her: he's not shaking out of excitement but pure fear for the first time.
Perpetual Smiler: Always has a smile on his face, no matter what. He's even introduced as the "Cheery Berserker". He only stops when Langris is about to kill Finral and after his friends save him from being possessed.
Personality Powers: He uses lightning and is eccentric, unhinged, and actually quite intelligent and perceptive in battle.
Power Up Full Color Change: While using his Ultimate Lightning Magic: Lightning Battle Fiend, his entire body is covered in his blue lightning.
Psycho Electro: When Luck fights an opponent he really likes, he becomes more unhinged, going back to his issues with his controlling mother, as shown with his fight with Lotus Whomalt.
Red Baron: Luck is known as "The Cheery Berserker" for nearly beating an opponent to death at the Magic Knights Entrance Exam.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: Zigzagged between Magna and Luck. At first glance the hot-headed, blunt, fire-using Magna seems to be the Red while the happy-go-lucky, cheerful, lightning-using Luck looks like the Blue. But in battle Magna relies more on skill, aim, and timing while Luck is sociopathic in a fight, attacking his enemies relentlessly with his speed and power.
Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: Luck's spells "Holy Lightning Boots" and "Holy Lightning Gloves" in the original Japanese text refer to the Raijin, the Japanese god of lightning. His Lightning Battle Fiend spell has his appearance take after the deity with lightning orbs arranged circularly behind him similar to the Raijin's drums.
Ride the Lightning: After training for six months in magic arrays, he can use True Lightning Magic: Ceranos to become a piercing lightning bolt.
Runic Magic: After training in the Heart Kingdom, he learns to use spell arrays, forming them mid-air to ricochet off of and near his hands and feet to boost his speed.
Sensor Character: All the Magic Knights captains acknowledge Luck's skill in mana sensing, which Yama states is better than even nobles'. He can sense magic from miles away and differentiate the magic attributes of group members close together. When entering a dungeon, he shortly senses Lotus as a strong mage and goes off to fight him.
Sharing a Body: Turns out to be sharing the body with the soul of a long dead elf named Rufel. It takes a battle involving Asta and his new sword to exorcise him out of Luck's body.
Shock and Awe: His magic. He's able to shoot condensed bolts as an attack or equip them to his feet and hands to increase his speed dramatically and allow him to bounce off walls to come at his opponent from various angles.
Slasher Smile: He displays an unnerving, wide grin whenever he gets excited during battle.
Smarter Than You Look: He's the one who figures out how to use Sally's discovery of the weakness to Reve's Dream Magic and make a plan that summons the real Dorothy.
Sphere of Power: While using his Ultimate Lightning Magic, Luck has eight balls of lightning floating circularly behind his back. And being a unique, unrivaled spell embodying its caster, while using it he has the power to sever several mid-ranking devils before they can even notice.
Stepford Smiler: His mother never showed affection to him unless he won a fight, so he has an obsession with winning even after her death, leaving him an empty shell with nothing but a drive to win until Asta gets through to him.
Strong Family Resemblance: His deceased mother looks just like a female version of him.
Super Mode: His Ultimate Lightning Magic: Lightning Battle Fiend covers his body in lightning and forms spheres of lightning behind him. It gives him the power to move at incredible speed and cut down multiple mid-ranking devils before they can even notice.
Surpassed the Teacher: He learns from Gaja how to create a magic array with natural mana runes over the six month time skip. It took Gaja, who's the strongest Spirit Guardian, two years to use it well enough to cast True Lightning Magic. It takes Luck six months.
Tears of Remorse: After Rufel, who was rampaging in his body, is exorcised and he recalls memories of his squadmates, a crying Luck asks if he's a Black Bull, with Magna reassuring him.
Technician Versus Performer: Magna is the Technician to Luck's Performer. Magna is a peasant with little magic, and as a result he has to rely on throwing fireballs with tricky aim and timing to land his attacks on enemies. Luck has incredible instincts as a fighter, attacking relentlessly with lightning-fast speed, and becomes stronger in magical power after getting reincarnated as an elf. This is further highlighted in the rune styles they learn after the timeskip: Luck, having enough magical power to do so, learns the Heart Kingdom style of runes, putting Mana Method instantaneously which requires a lot of magic, good instincts, and fast reflexes. Magna, on the other hand, learns from Zora a style better suited for peasants — taking a large amount of time beforehand to build complex arrays for one-time spells because their runes are so puny that they stick around.
Tricked-Out Gloves: His Holy Lightning Gloves, a pair of clawed gauntlets that he can use to cut up enemies and unleash concentrated lightning blasts.
Tricked-Out Shoes: Luck's Holy Lightning Boots, a pair of greaves that boost his speed and jumping power which he can add claws to.
Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Was thought of as creepy as a child for constantly smiling. Then only being showed love by his mother when he defeated a noble made him a Blood Knight.
Two Girls to a Team: Gender-Inverted. Of the six Magic Knights in the Heart Kingdom who fight against Vanica and her Dark Disciples (Noelle, Nero, Mimosa, Leopold, Luck, and Charmy), Leopold and Luck are the only two males.
Vitriolic Best Buds: Luck likes to tease Magna with shocks and pranks, with Magna often getting angry at him. Despite this, the two acknowledge each other as best friends and often go on missions together, with them forming the Special Assault Duo of the Black Bulls.
Volleying Insults: Quite often with Magna.
"Well Done, Son" Guy: His desire to beat enemies comes from his mother, who only began to show him affection when he defeated a noble in a fight. Even long after her death, Luck continues to want to fight strong opponents alone until realizing that he's not alone anymore thanks to the Black Bulls.
We Want Our Jerk Back!: On the receiving end. Luck is one of the most messed-up members and is always causing everyone trouble with his naughty personality, but the second he needs saving Magna and Vanessa risk their lives multiple times for his sake because he's still one of their own.
Yellow Lightning, Blue Lightning: Luck's Lightning Magic has a bright blue color to it.

Gauche Adlai

Sister-Complex Thug

Voiced by: Satoshi Hino (Japanese), Risa Kageyama (Japanese, young), Dave Trosko (English), Kate Oxley (English, young)^note

Debut: Chapter 3 (Manga), Episode 6 (Anime)

Magic Attribute: Mirror

"You're all I need, Marie!! What do I care about other people?!"

A man obsessed with his little sister and whose primary objective is to dedicate himself to her. He was born to the noble Adlai family but was cast out after his parents' deaths. Thus, he became a violent, vulgar ex-criminal who has a very hard time working with his fellow knights.

Uses Mirror Magic, being capable of firing lasers by reflecting light, and duplicating someone, most often himself.

Adaptation Dye-Job: The anime makes his light brown hair a darker purple shade. Additionally, he is shown to have pale blue eyes in the manga, while the anime follows his original eye color and goes with brown.
Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Despite his rudeness, Gauche gets on his knees and begs Finral of all people to take him back to Yami and Asta so that he can save them, giving Finral no choice but to accept his request.
All Girls Want Bad Boys: Subverted; Grey develops emotional affection towards him because he showed sincere interest in her abilities and motivated her to stay in her true form. Furthermore, her life was saved by him in the past, and it's thanks to him that Grey gained the courage to thrive and survive when no one else cared about her. Gauche himself, while rude and rough around the edges, is noted to be close friends with her and Gordon.
Alternate Universe: One of the aspects of his Mirror Magic is that he's able to bring an alternate version of himself from the mirror world to assist him in combat, effectively doubling his combat power.
Anger Born of Worry: After the elven spirits are exorcised from his and Marie's bodies, Gauche snaps at Asta and the other Black Bulls for risking their lives and getting their hideout destroyed for his sake, pointing out every reason why they should've left a scumbag like him alone. This moment is soon followed by a Grudging "Thank You", as the Black Bulls see right through his act and ask him to look at them.
Anti-Hero: Gauche is a complete asshole, but when push comes to shove, he will help the other Black Bulls.
Arc Hero: For the Eye of the Midnight Sun Encounter Arc, which delves into Gauche's relationship with his sister, reveals his backstory, and has him learn to work with others, teaming up with Asta to defeat Baro.
Attack Reflector: His mirrors can do this, reflecting his own light lasers to hit enemies from different angles and allies' attacks in Combination Attacks. His Full Reflection spell creates a giant mirror that reflects Licht's light spell at him.
" No matter how big or strong it is... mirrors reflect light!!"
Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Gauche is characterized to be this with his little sister Marie. She's all he thinks about and he constantly loses focus and common sense whenever she's involved.
Bash Brothers: Gordon, after becoming closer with Gauche and fighting alongside him, considers himself and Gauche to be the Go-Gau Duo, to Gauche's denial.
Beam Spam: One of the abilities of his Mirror Magic.
Because You Were Nice to Me: Although he rarely shows it, Gauche holds deep respect and gratitude for Yami, who took him in despite being an escaped prisoner, and Sister Theresa, who looks out for his little sister despite their dishonored family background.
Big Brother Instinct: He's fiercely protective of his younger sister Marie, to the point where he tries to kill a sleeping Asta because of her Precocious Crush on him. He prioritizes saving her over everyone else so much that he leaves Asta, Sister Theresa, and the other children after Baro is transformed into a monster. Marie punches him saying that she hates when he's like this and that she likes him as a Magic Knight who protects others. This causes him to go back to help them.
Big Brother Worship: Inverted, as Gauche is a siscon of the highest caliber. He is constantly staring at pictures of his little sister and always refers to her as an angel. It is implied that he does everything for her as he tells Asta he can spend all the money he wants for her.
Big Damn Heroes: Finral teleports Gauche just in time for him to reflect Licht's powerful light spell with a giant mirror, defeating him.
Blue Blood: Gauche was the son of the House of Adlai. However, his parents were killed for their wealth and him and his younger sister Marie were cast aside to the streets.
Brainy Brunette: Gauche has light brown hair and, according to the Volume 9 Questions Brigade, is the smartest Black Bull with a Cleverness of 5/5 from the Guidebook. He puts his intellect to use in a fight, devising a new magic theory in the middle of battle to learn a new spell. Notably, in little time he figures out how Henry's Recombination Magic works.
Brutal Honesty: He doesn't shy away from speaking his mind. When Gordon shows him the creepy dolls he made to look like the Black Bulls, Gauche bluntly tells him that he's scary and if Gordon wants to get closer to everyone then he should work on being more approachable.
Character Development: He starts as a selfish loner who only cares about his little sister. After Marie calls him out for it, he tries to become a brother she would be proud of and helps Asta, even developing a new spell involving cooperation. This continues, as he grows to care more for the other Black Bulls.
Character Exaggeration: The anime takes his siscon antics as well as the nosebleed jokes and cranks them up with no regard to his Character Development, turning him into a one-dimensional creep who, compared to the manga, can't hold normal conversations or bond with others without involving his sister.
Character Tics: Tends to keep one or both of his hands in his pockets while using his Mirror Magic and flying on his broom. He also has a tendacy to avoid eye contact during emotional moments.
Combination Attack: He duplicates Asta with his left mirror eye, with him absorbing Gauche's magic with his sword to unleash many simultaneous slashes to defeat Baro.
Commonality Connection: With Gordon. They end up bonding over their shared interest in magic while searching in the royal library for a cure for Asta's cursed arms.
Cool Big Bro: Despite his obsession with her, Marie does love and respect Gauche. When he leaves the others to save her, she chastises Gauche for being uncool. Marie tells him to stay the cool big brother she's proud of by being a Magic Knight that protects everyone. This motivates Gauche to return and help fight Sally and Baro.
Crazy Jealous Guy: He gets extremely jealous if his sister Marie shows affection to anyone else. He's really sad when she proclaims that she'll marry Asta and later tries to kill him in his sleep.
Death Glare: Gives quite the frightening and intimidating ones to anyone who dares to threaten the safety and happiness of his beloved sister Marie.
Diagonal Cut: Paladin Damnatio slices him in half from the waist, cutting off his hand on the way and seemingly killing him alongside Grey.
Disproportionate Retribution:
- He threatens to kill a group of criminals who didn't wish Marie happy birthday when he asked.
- He furiously stomps on Neige when he finds out he bruised Marie. During the arc, Gauche's Jerkass behavior had been nothing but reprehensible, prioritizing only himself and his sister over helping others in need and physically assaulting Asta and Sister Theresa for poorly justified reasons. However, Neige did kidnap almost an entire village full of children to drain their magic power and struck Marie, so no matter how much of a prick Gauche was, his beatdown of Neige wasn't totally uncalled for.
Doppelgänger: He's able to call forth a mirror world duplicate of himself to assist him in battle. Using his mirror eye he can create multiple duplicates of an individual that have the original's abilities.
Energy Weapon: The main application of his magic in which he blasts holes in his opponents with powerful beams, but they're still slow enough that Asta can deflect them after being jolted out of bed.
Everyone Has Standards: Gauche may be an ex-con obsessed with his sister, but even he thinks the extremely shy Grey and creepy, mumbling Gordon are complete weirdos.
Forgotten First Meeting: He actually met Grey before either joined the Black Bulls as he saved her from a bunch of thugs. Of course, he doesn't remember this as she was disguised by her magic at the time.
Freudian Excuse:
- His rich parents were killed by a friend of the family for their estate, who then promptly kicked the young Gauche and Marie out on the streets. This led Gauche to a life of crime to provide for Marie and a belief that people only look out for themselves and he should do the same.
- It's implied that his insane devotion to Marie is as fanatical as it is because some advice Yami offered him to convince him to join the Black Bulls was somewhat misinterpreted by Gauche and the actual message was skewed as a result.
The Friend Nobody Likes: During the Elf Reincarnation Arc, while Asta, Grey, and Gordon try to save Gauche from his Grand Theft Me situation, they all hilariously wonder why they're risking their lives for someone as unpleasant as Gauche, and then scream that they'll get him back so that they can complain to his face.
Glass Eye: He has a mirror where his left eye would be that lets him store mana for future use, boost the strength of his spells, and duplicate anyone he sees with it.
Grudging "Thank You":
- To Sister Theresa for taking care of Marie. Lampshaded by the elderly woman:
Theresa: Hmph. So you've grown enough to say "Thank you."
- To Asta and the Black Bulls during the Elf Reincarnation Arc for taking the effort to save him and his sister from the elves' possession.
Had to Be Sharp: His thuggish, undesirable personality is implied to be the result of his harsh life on the streets as he was forced to adapt a life of crime from a young age and only rely on himself to survive and provide for himself and his sister. His words of advice to Grey seem to be a reflection of his own experiece:
"If you're not committed to running away, go home already. If you're not prepared to get everything on your own two hands, you won't survive in a dirty world like this one."
Hair-Trigger Temper: He's prone to get pissed off by the slightest of things, but hurting his little sister or even getting close to her is more than enough to make him see red.
Heroic Sacrifice: When Paladin Damnatio is about to kill Grey to shatter the Black Bull's battle formation, he jumps in front of Grey to block Damnatio's sword and seemingly dies alongside her.
Hidden Depths:
- Initially comes off as just a reckless sister complex thug who acts without thinking. Turns out he's one of the smartest Black Bulls with a perfect 5/5 in Cleverness. His observing and tactical skills stand out in battles, as he has an impressive ability to analyze the situation and come up with plans in record time, which often leads to save the day.
- Gauche seems to be always rude with Sister Theresa and the two of them bicker a lot. However, it becomes clear later on that he does actually care about the old woman's well-being, albeit subconsciously, as seen when he freaks out after she gets heavily injured and begs her to live for Marie's sake, admitting under his breath that he himself will also be sad if she dies.
Hiding Behind Your Bangs: Sports shirt bangs that covers his left eye. It covers a special magic mirror that has replaced it, which he then uses, albeit reluctantly, to clone Asta to beat a sludge monster.
How Dare You Die on Me!: He tells a wounded Sister Theresa how dare she die as she's being healed. She gets better, giving him her magic power to save Asta.
Humans Are Bastards: Gauche holds this view because of his past, believing that no human can be trusted because everyone looks out for themselves first, betraying people without second thought to have it easier. This gradually changes when the church children donate their magic to him to help Asta, and the Black Bulls save him from his possession by the elf Drowa.
Icy Blue Eyes: Manga only. Originally, he was drawn with brown eyes in Volume 5, but they were changed to pale blue eyes in the next volume, mirroring his cold, cynical personality and pricing death glares.
Identical Stranger: He bears an uncanny resemblance to a long-deceased member of the elf tribe - and a companion of Licht, Rhya and Vetto - seen in Chapter 134. This similarity gains significance when back in Chapter 51, Licht was not only shown reacting strongly upon encountering Gauche, but even stated that he "could not bear to hurt him", the reason for which apparently is one that Gauche would "someday understand." Sally even mentions in Chapter 139 that she and the others have been ordered not to kill him, so Licht definitely has an interest in keeping him alive. Turns out he was the host of said elf.
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Dante stabs him with his giant stone sword. He's luckily saved by Grey's magic.
Impoverished Patrician: He's the son of the noble Adlai family and his parents were killed for their wealth, leaving Gauche and his sister impoverished. It doesn't help that even after joining the Magic Knights, he's spent his entire salary on gifts for Marie.
Inconsistent Spelling: Originally, his name was romanized by Tabata as "Ghosh Adorei" in Volume 5. This was then corrected in the next volume.
Ineffectual Loner: At first, he's a selfish loner who always prefers to act alone. After being called out by Marie for fleeing, Gauche returns to help Asta. Due to his past failures and acknowledgement of Asta, he develops a new spell that duplicates others, using it on Asta to defeat Sally and Baro.
Inner Monologue: Chapter 189 starts off this way, with Gauche voicing his inner thoughts and doubts to himself.
Insane Troll Logic: Thanks to his sister complex, Gauche has this when it involves his little sister Marie:
- He tells a defeated group of criminals he won't kill them because it's Marie's birthday. He then tells them to wish her happy birthday and that they'll die afterwards anyway.
- He tries to kill Asta in his sleep after Marie has a Precocious Crush on him because Gauche doesn't want him to marry her. Asta lampshades just how ridiculous it sounds.
It's All About Me: The death of his parents left him with the mindest that all people are selfish, himself included, and led him to devlop an attitude of only depending on himself while devoting everything to his sister. This changes over the course of the series as Gauche learns to become less selfish and more trusting of others.
I Work Alone: Used to be this due to his trust issues and preference to act alone, depending on his double's support. Thanks to Asta's strong sense of comradeship, he gradually grows into a team player.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Deep, deep down. He's overall a jerk, but he'll make an exception for those who make his sister happy. He also went back to save Asta, Sister Theresa, and the other children at Marie's urging. Gauche also grows to care for the other Black Bulls, though he doesn't like to admit it.
Justified Criminal: He was sent to prison because he was stealing food and money to provide for himself and his sister Marie after their noble parents were killed and their family's money was stolen.
Knight Templar Big Brother: A glaring example; see Big Brother Instinct above and Yandere below.
Magic Mirror: The basis of his magic, in which he uses a mirror to reflect light into powerful beams to use against his foes, and to access Mirror Universes to bring alternate versions of himself to help him in combat. He has another one hidden under his bangs that can clone one person dozens of times in an instant.
Meaningful Name:
- "Gauche" means awkward or left in French. He's a socially awkward jerk with a sister complex. He also has a mirror where his left eye would be that can instantaneously make many clones of a person.
- "Adlai" is Hebrew for refuge. After escaping prison, he finds refuge in the Black Bulls to avoid being imprisoned again.
- Gauche can also be a reference to Gaucher's disease, with one of the symptoms being frequent nosebleeds.
Morality Chain: His little sister, Marie, whom he raised after his rich parents died in suspicious accident. Without her, he would likely still be even more of a self-serving thug.
Murder the Hypotenuse: Takes My Sister Is Off-Limits to the extreme, where he tries to murder Asta in his sleep, all because his sister expressed her desire to marry him out of childish admiration.
My Sister Is Off-Limits: Gauche is creepily obsessed with his sister, to the point where he tries to kill Asta in his sleep because Marie has a Precocious Crush on him.
Nosebleed: Constantly, as a joke about his sister complex. Gordon later reveals it happens whenever he thinks about anyone he cares about including Asta and the other Black Bulls, so whether it's him being a total pervert, just having high blood pressure, or Bizarre Human Biology is anyone's guess.
Odd Friendship: Gordon and Grey, who are both speech-impended but very kind, become close with the cold, impolite siscon Gauche, with the three fighting together against the Eye of the Midnight Sun and going together to meet with Gordon's family. Gordon even calls himself and Gauche the Go-Gau Duo to Gauche's refusal.
One-Man Army: The first page of Chapter 39 has him sitting on top of a mountain of criminals he defeated.
Only in It for the Money: He became a Magic Knight to provide for his beloved sister Marie. During a visit, he buys out an entire toy shop to give her presents. He later does care about the Black Bulls, however, as seen when they exorcise Drowa from his body.
Only Sane Man: This is what happens when you leave him alone with Grey and Gordon.
O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Finral is left speechless when Gauche asked nicely for his help while begging him on his knees instead of forcing him like he often does.
Perpetual Frowner: Gauche's usual facial expressions switch from being either angry or impassive. He only cracks a few smiles when he talks or thinks about his sister, and the rare occasions when he warms up to the other Black Bulls, which always indicates his Character Development.
Personality Powers:
- Gauche is a very self-concerned, selfish loner who, in his own words, only sees himself and his sister, does everything for their sake, and has no interest in befriending or trusting others. He often uses his Mirror Magic to duplicate himself and work alone.
- After warming up to Asta, he develops a new spell that requires him to cooperate with others by letting them look at his mirror eye to create multiple copies of them. Since then, Gauche becomes more of a team player, even willing to work alongside the other Black Bulls on several occasions.
Promotion to Parent: Following their parents' deaths, Gauche became Marie's only family and he took it upon himself to protect her no matter what. Subverted, though; because Gauche isn't close enough to being a good role model for his sister and is still too mentally unstable to be allowed to meet her more than once a month. Instead, Sister Theresa (who's the closest thing the two siblings have to a parental figure) takes over this role.
Purple Is Powerful: He wears a purple shirt and purple is the color of his Mirror Magic. He's quite a powerful mage and a former nobleman who has a fairly large amount of magical power.
Recruiting the Criminal: Gauche was an escaped convict imprisoned for mugging a noble after his parents were killed for their wealth and him and Marie were cast out. Yami defeated him and convinced him to join the Black Bulls to support his sister.
Reformed Criminal: Reformed in the loosest meaning of the word - given that he is still as vulgar, violent, and unpleasant even after being arrested - and only stays out of prison thanks to his status as a Magic Knight.
Rescue Romance: Gauche saved a transformed Grey, who had left home, from robbers at Marie's urging, then telling her get everything with her own hands to survive. It's heavily implied that she's in love with him, and why she desperately tries to save him from dying of Dante's wound.
Restored My Faith in Humanity: After his parents were killed for their wealth and he was cast out onto the streets, Gauche believed that all people were selfish. He has a change of heart when Sister Theresa, the children from the church, and Neige give Gauche their magic to save Asta, with Gauche even begging Finral to teleport him to do so.
Riches to Rags: Was born the son of a noble family, but after his parents died their wealth was stolen and he and his sister were forced onto the streets.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Played with. Incapable of attacking Sally or stoping the giant mud monster, Gauche snatches his sister and flies away leaving everyone else behind. He then comes back a few minutes later to help them at her request and tells Asta that he wasn't running and just wanted to ensure Marie's safety.
Self-Duplication:
- With his Mirror Magic, he can summon an alternate version of himself in combat.
- Using the hidden mirror where is left eye would be he can manifest many copies of a targeted individual. He creates many copies of Asta to defeat a transformed Baro.
Senseless Sacrifice: Despite taking a lethal blow meant for Grey, Paladin Damnatio's sword slices right through Gauche and manages to mortally wound her alongside him.
Sharing a Body: Turns out to be sharing the body with the soul of a long dead elf.
Ship Tease: With Grey. She tries to stay in her true form partly because Gauche complimented her real appearance. When he's stabbed by Dante, she remembers how she met him and he gave her the determination to survive by herself. After the fight between Asta & Yami and Dante, she hugs him in relief and blushes immediately after.
Sir Swears-a-Lot: As stated by Sister Theresa, Gauche has a filthy mouth, which goes with his thuggish personality.
Smarter Than You Look: He may be a thuggish siscon most of the time, but according to the Volume 9 Questions Brigade, he's the smartest Black Bull and the Guidebook rates his Cleverness as a 5/5. He rapidly comes up with a new magic theory in the midst of battle to develop a new spell that duplicates others.
Stalker Shrine: He's obsessed with his little sister and has a Marie collection that includes photos, figures, and statues.
Tears of Blood: Gets this after hearing Marie's desire to marry Asta.
Theme Initials: Gauche Adlai and Gordon Agrippa share the same initials and first syllable. Funnily enough, Gordon calls himself and Gauche the Go-Gau Duo.
Took a Level in Kindness: Over time, he becomes nicer to the other Black Bulls, growing closer to them. He doesn't like it being pointed out, though.
Volleying Insults: With Sister Theresa. Their first interactions on screen have them jumping to exchanging insults and threats the moment their eyes meet, from "filthy" and "fool" to "she-ghoul" and "gangster hag."
We Want Our Jerk Back!: On the receiving end. As his squadmates Asta, Grey, Gordon, and Henry come for his rescue, they complain about his usual self's flaws before shouting that they are going to get him back no matter what, so they can complain to his face.
Would Harm a Senior: He's not above attacking old nuns just to vent his anger.
Yandere: When Finral states that Gauche only cares about his sister, he's definitely not joking. The man will ignore injured children, abandon his comrades, and kill defeated opponents against said sister's wishes, all in a rescue mission for said sister and her friends. He later becomes like this towards the rest of the Black Bulls, but he'd never admit it out loud. Gordon sees right through him.

Vanessa Enoteca

Booze-Loving Witch

^{Click here to see her in public uniform with Rouge}

Voiced by: Nana Mizuki (Japanese), Lydia Mackay (English), Hayden Daviau (English, young)^note

Debut: Chapter 3 (Manga), Episode 6 (Anime)

Magic Attribute: Thread

"The greatest witch genius since the founding of the country of witches has returned!!"

Vanessa is a Magic Knight that loves drinking and has a penchant for hitting on and seducing men she finds attractive. Aside from that, she is a skilled mage and a cool and friendly woman who likes to help newcomers. She is originally from the Forest of Witches, but after meeting Yami she left against the wishes of the Witch Queen.

She uses Thread Magic, a magic able to manipulate threads to make clothes or objects, and change the thread of fate itself.

Action Girl: She's a capable fighter, using magical threads to trap enemies and turn them into her puppets.
The Alcoholic: She loves her alcoholic drinks and is often drunk at the Black Bulls' base. She's known as a "Booze-Loving Witch" for a reason. Not to mention that she also provides the page image for the Manga's "Drinking Game" page.
All Witches Have Cats: After her "red thread of fate" power manifests itself, she's often accompanied by her cat familiar, Rouge.
Animal Motifs: Cats. She's a beautiful, sultry woman who spends a lot of her time lounging around and sleeping, and is a witch whose magic over fate takes the form of a red cat.
Arc Hero: Of the Forest of Witches Arc, which has Vanessa return to the forest to ask her mother the Witch Queen to heal Asta's arms. The arc has her take part in defeating Fana, reveals her backstory, and culminates in her manifesting the Red Thread of Fate to save the Black Bulls and defeat her mother.
Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: When Vanessa undoes her magic with her Red Thread of Fate, telling her that they have no bonds, the Witch Queen remembers her past loving relationship with her daughter, realizing that she had forgotten that there's strength gained from imperfect feelings and gracefully accepts defeat. When Vanessa leaves the forest, the Witch Queen tells her that she's free and can come back to visit whenever she'd like, with Vanessa grateful for her healing Asta and considering returning someday, showing that their mother-daughter relationship can be mended.
Barefoot Captives: A Flashback shows her in the Witch Queen's birdcage without shoes. After all, she wouldn't need them if she never goes outside. They also make her look more vulnerable.
Bare Midriffs Are Feminine: All of her outfits expose at least part of her stomach, with the one that covers it the most still exposing a fair amount. Becomes more prominent with her new outfit after the six month timeskip.
Beergasm: Of course, she's quite the drunkard after all.
Beware the Nice Ones: She's a fun, friendly witch with a love for drinking who is also a competent fighter with invisible magic threads and can even manipulate fate itself.
Big Sister Instinct: She's regarded as a sister figure by the younger members of the Black Bulls and is fiercely protective of them, especially Noelle and Asta. When the Witch Queen tries to use Asta to kill Noelle, Vanessa desperately activates her Red Thread of Fate to rescue them.
Brilliant, but Lazy: She has great finesse with her Thread Magic to bind enemies and make them her puppets and is actually pretty clever. Vanessa's also very lazy, spending her days off sleeping and drinking. She tries to amend the lazy part when Asta's trust in her motivates Vanessa to help him beat Vetto. Later on, she goes to the Forest of Witches to try to heal Asta's arms, culminating in Vanessa gaining the true power of her magic to save her beloved friends.
Caged Bird Metaphor: She was imprisoned in a giant birdcage for most of her life by the Witch Queen so that she could control fate until Yami accidentally broke her out and she joined him, with him literally comparing her to a bird in a cage.
Cats Are Magic: Literally with her Red Thread of Fate magic manifesting itself in the form of her cat Rouge, manipulating fate to favor Vanessa's companions.
Character Development: Vanessa starts as a lazy drunk who tends to ignore her duties as a Magic Knight, and understandably sees herself as little more than that. Asta's faith in her motivates Vanessa to be more dutiful, even returning to the Forest of Witches to selflessly help Asta have his arms healed and stand up to her powerful mother to save her beloved friends.
Cheery Pink: She has pink hair, and is cheerful and easygoing with a love for alcohol.
Combat Medic: Vanessa can fight with magical threads and actually knows enough about herbs and salves to provide first aid. She also can use her Thread Magic to seal open wounds and keep broken bones in place, doing this for Asta during the fight against Vetto.
Combat Stilettos: Wearing heeled boots does nothing to stop her from fighting enemies and entangling them in her magical threads.
Combination Attack: With Finral and Asta. Vanessa uses her strings and Finral his portals to make Asta move faster and with more flexibility while making it almost impossible for Vetto to hit him.
Conditional Powers: Vanessa doesn't have complete control of Rouge's actions and its powers only reset time in defensive situations:
- Rouge uses a large amount of mana automatically when it detects that a Black Bull is about to be hit with an attack and activates the time rewind (excluding some non-lethal self-inflicted injuries). This can become a problem if Rouge blocks too many non-critical attacks due to the high cost and Vanessa's poor to average mana pool (under normal circumstances 3 or 4 activations are pushing her limit), but this weakness can be mitigated by Charmy's powers.
- Rouge can't be used to attack at all and is incapable of causing harm to others. It will only stop their attacks or diffuse their magic.
- Rouge has a pathetic range and requires intense focus from Vanessa to work on anyone who isn't a Black Bull. If the person she's trying to protect isn't a Black Bull or right next to her, Rouge won't activate. It can protect Black Bulls at long range and only requires minimal focus from Vanessa. It's implied that to even make it work this way without being a Black Bull, Vanessa has to stand close enough to someone to trick Rouge into interpreting attacks are meant to hit her.
- Rouge won't activate against spells or movements that aren't explicitly harmful, even if they lead to extreme danger. A possessed Dorothy nearly kills half of the Black Bulls and Sally because Rouge can't stop her from taking them to her dream world, where she plans to barrage them with attacks until Vanessa runs out of mana and room in her stomach for Charmy's food.
Conflicting Loyalty: In the Forest of Witches Arc, Vanessa has to choose between staying with her mother so she can decide her fate or rescuing her friends so she can use the Thread Magic to form the Red Thread of Fate. She picks the latter.
Cool Big Sis: To her younger squadmates that she is happy to protect, especially to Noelle since the latter has a bitchy older sister who shares the same age as Vanessa.
Dark and Troubled Past: She spent her early life imprisoned by the Witch Queen, who knew she had the potential to control destiny and wanted to steal that power from her as soon as it manifested. She escaped only because a young Yami accidentally broke her cage open during one of his early adventures. This life of enforced deprivation may explain some of her later behavior.
Deal with the Devil: Subverted with her deal with the Witch Queen in the Forest of Witches Arc. In her search to heal Asta's arms, Vanessa bargains with the Queen to heal Asta in exchange for her freedom. Despite tricking Asta into nearly killing Vanessa's friends, Rouge defeating the Queen makes the latter keep her end of the deal for good and heal everyone as a result. Not only that, but the Queen allows Vanessa to keep her freedom.
Disappeared Dad: Her mother is the Witch Queen. However, Vanessa's father, or if she even has one, is unknown.
Drink-Based Characterization: As a drunk, Vanessa seems to have a preference for wine and she's a sensual yet upbeat woman.
Dude Magnet: She's known as the Black Bulls' "lush of a witch", catching the attention of some men while walking around Kikka. Dante of the Dark Triad thinks he's a good fit for him for her beauty, figure, and magic over fate. She's appalled to say the least.
Empathy Pet: Rouge, her familiar. The cat sometimes mimics Vanessa's expressions.
Ethical Slut: She dresses scantily and likes to hit on attractive men, but cares deeply for her squadmates and is a Magic Knight who risks her life to save others.
Even the Loving Hero Has Hated Ones: Vanessa is a good-natured Hard-Drinking Party Girl who often hits on attractive men. But she deeply resents her mother, the Witch Queen, for her continual abuse even after she returns to the Forest of Witches.
Fairytale Motifs: Vanessa's background is based on Rapunzel, where she is imprisoned from a young age by the Witch Queen to use her powers and escaped when Yami broke her cage.
Fallen Princess: Though she's one of the Witch Queen's daughters and a princess by birth, she lives most of her later life as a member of the Black Bulls.
Familiar: The Red Thread of Fate manifests as Vanessa's cat familiar Rouge, who's often by her side even outside of battle.
Foil:
- To Charlotte. Vanessa was imprisoned in a cage for most of her life by her mother until Yami accidentally broke her out, with this leading her to live a life of enjoyment and carefreeness, becoming a drunk who likes flirting with men in the outside world. Charlotte was cursed as a child, which could only be broken if her heart was stolen by a man, with the repeated romantic advancements of weak male suitors leading her to become a stern Magic Knight with a strong dislike for men. They are also both renowned for their beauty, but while Vanessa flaunts her looks Charlotte doesn't care for hers. Charlotte is secretly in love with Yami and gets embarrassed about it, and Vanessa on the other hand has a close relationship with Yami and acts clingy towards him like a sister.
- To Dorothy. As Sally notes, they're both witches with amazing powers — Vanessa's Thread Magic able to change fate and Dorothy's Dream Magic that imagines whatever she thinks of in her Glamour World. They are also Brilliant, but Lazy in different ways, Vanessa is a lazy drunk while Dorothy is usually sleeping. Visually they contrast as well. Vanessa is a Hot Witch dressed in revealing clothing in red-violet colors. Dorothy is a Cute Witch with a petite figure despite her age who wears more classical witch clothing in pink-purple shades.
Freudian Excuse: It's heavily implied that her love for drinking and men is because she was imprisoned in a cage all her life before she fled the Forest of Witches with Yami.
Good Bad Girl: Vanessa is a total sweetie, but she loves to drink, party and it's implied she's not averse to male advances either.
Gorgeous Garment Generation: She can use her Thread Magic to create clothes and stitch them back up. She uses it to create the Black Bulls' robes.
Graceful Ladies Like Purple: She has purple eyes and her clothes are a red-violet color, and is a composed and sultry Lady of Black Magic whenever she's in a sober state.
Hard-Drinking Party Girl: She's often seen around a bottle of booze, whilst making her interest in men very clear. She also frequently complains of hangovers and begins puking within panels of her introduction. She's even referred to by the townsfolk as the "Booze-Loving Witch".
Has a Type: According to the Volume 12 Questions Brigade, she likes wild men with muscles.
Hates Their Parent: Vanessa deeply resents the Witch Queen for her continual abuse.
Head-Turning Beauty: While walking through Kikka she catches the attention of several men, with one recognizing as her as the Black Bulls' Hot Witch.
Heroic Sacrifice: Subverted; she attempts to offer herself as a slave to the Witch Queen so that she'll heal Asta's wounds. Except that she fully intends for Asta to help her escape later, which the Witch Queen understandably does not approve of.
Heroic Self-Deprecation: Well-aware of her faults and sees herself as nothing more than a drunk, but Asta's faith in her abilities motivates Vanessa to use her threads with Finral's portals to help beat Vetto, with the three managing to succeed against all odds.
Hot Witch: A given due to her appearance, nickname, and being a Magic Knight. There's also the fact she's from the Forest of Witches.
I Lied: She attempts to have the Witch Queen teach her how to dispel the curse on Asta in exchange for her freedom when she arrives at the Forest of Witches. It backfires on her, because the Witch Queen actually predicted her return to the forest. Vanessa was also planning to run away again anyway after Asta was healed. However, when trying to get Asta to go along with the deal, she explains this to him and forgets that the Witch Queen is still in earshot.
Instant Knots: This is justified due to the magical nature of her Thread Magic when wrapping around enemies.
Knows the Ropes: Vanessa uses Thread Magic, letting her form magical string that's virtually invisible to entangle enemies, move them like puppets, and seal wounds.
Lady in Red: Wears maroon (red-purple), whether it be her underwear or normal yet revealing witch wear. She's the resident Ms. Fanservice of the series who catches the attention of many men at the Star Festival.
Lady of Black Magic: When she is not in her usual drunken state and takes the situation seriously, Vanessa is very calm and composed while using her magic to provide essential support to her companions. She later gains the power to change the fate of allies in their favor through her cat familiar Rouge.
Light Feminine and Dark Feminine:
- The Dark to Charmy's Light. Charmy looks like a young girl, is smitten with Yuno, and has a love for food, using her magic to cook food and bake sweets. Vanessa dresses in revealing clothing, likes flirting with handsome men, and loves drinking alcohol, with her often seen in a drunken state.
- She's also the Dark to Grey's Light, being a flirtatious witch in revealing clothing who takes pride in her good looks while Grey is a naive, shy girl dressed in modest clothing who easily gets very embarrassed.
Like Mother, Unlike Daughter: Vanessa's the complete opposite of her mother in every way. While the Queen eventually realizes she can't predict her fate, Vanessa possesses magic that can change her own fate. She likes flirting with handsome guys while the Witch Queen dislikes men. Her mother's abusive behavior directly contrasts with the Black Bulls' friendly dispositions.
Long Hair Is Feminine: Her pink hair reaches past her shoulders and she's a flirtatious drunk who's the Black Bulls' resident Ms. Fanservice.
Lovable Sex Maniac: She likes to playfully hit on her male squadmates and has a thing for hunky men, but is a fun, kind, and loving woman who deeply cares for the Black Bulls.
Mama Bear: She loves the Black Bulls so much she considers them her family, so hurting a younger member of the team will immediately set her off.
Master of Threads: Vanessa's magical affinity is Thread Magic. Her primary use of this ability is using threads made of mana to bind or control her enemies like puppets. It is revealed that her magic is capable of manipulating the red thread of fate itself, undoing certain events as though they never happened.
Meaningful Name:
- Vanessa in Latin can mean "of Venus", the goddess of love. And in Greek, it's a reference to the mystic goddess Phanessa. And Vanessa herself is a sultry witch with power over fate.
- Enoteca means "wine repository" in Italian, which is fitting for a Hard-Drinking Party Girl like her.
- Rouge means "red" in French, and is the name for her red cat familiar that's her Red Thread of Fate spell.
Ms. Fanservice: She debuts wearing nothing but her Magic Knight cloak and underwear to show off her assets. She then proceeds to flirt with Asta as soon as he manages to introduce himself. Her normal wear isn't much better, being a witch outfit that exposes the upper half of her breasts and is cut down the middle to reveal her navel.
Mundane Made Awesome: Her power? Thread Magic. She's not only a capable fighter with it, she can craft it to the point she can change fate.
Naughty Nuns: In the anime-only cosplay contest, Vanessa dresses as a nun. Surprisingly for her, it's a very reserved and realistic nun outfit, but given it's Vanessa, it goes into this by default. After all, she planned to seduce the crowd with her unexpectedly innocent appearance.
Navel-Deep Neckline: Vanessa's top in her casual wear shows her cleavage down to her midriff.
Nice Girl: She may look a bit slutty and be a Hard-Drinking Party Girl, but is undoubtedly a good person and very kind.
Nigh-Invulnerability: The main use of Vanessa's Red Thread of Fate, changing fate to have the Black Bulls avoid any direct attacks targeted against them. However, it's limited by its large mana usage, small range, and inability against spells that aren't outright harmful.
Parental Favoritism: In her childhood, Vanessa was a favorite of her mother the Witch Queen. However, this made a turn for the worse when she chose to lock Vanessa in a cage for years after learning of her magical potential, all so that she could attain the Red Thread of Fate.
People Puppets: She fights using mana-infused threads that she can use to trap people or to make them her puppets. She can even do this to her allies, controlling them to get near enemies and dodge attacks.
Personality Powers: Vanessa's Thread Magic ties into her belief to control your own red thread of fate after she thought she was destined to live in her cage all her life until she had met Yami and joined the Black Bulls. Her rejection of her mother and her foresight is what lets Vanessa achieve the true potential of her magic, controlling the red thread of fate to benefit the Black Bulls whom she acknowledges as her true family.
Pink Is Erotic: Vanessa has long pink hair and makes pink threads with her magic. She's known as the Black Bulls' "lush of a witch", wearing revealing or little clothing and often flirting with handsome men.
The Power of Love: Vanessa's actions towards the younger members of the Black Bulls are driven out of the intense love she has for her friends. Her love for the Black Bulls as her true family and desire to save them unlocks her Red Thread of Fate spell, which only protects those dear to her.
Prodigal Hero: Vanessa was one of the Witch Queen's daughters. However, after meeting Yami, she escaped her past by fleeing to the Clover Kingdom and living a life as a Black Bulls member for several years. She's forced to face her past when she returns to the Forest in search of a cure for Asta's curse.
Purple Is Powerful: Vanessa has purple eyes and wears clothes of a reddish violet shade, and gains the magic to control fate, marking her as an Arcane Stage mage.
Red String of Fate: Vanessa's spell is called the Red Thread of Fate, forming a red cat familiar named Rouge made of her magical threads. Instead of it being romantic love as is usual for the trope, the magic is based on familial love. Her spell only protects the Black Bulls, whom she deeply loves and acknowledges as her true family over her abusive mother the Witch Queen. Rouge's presence near the Black Bull changes fate in their favor, making them avoid attacks so long as it's nearby.
Relative Button: She loves the Black Bulls so much that she considers them her family, so threatening or hurting the people she cares about will immediately set her off.
Rose-Haired Sweetie: She has long, wavy pink hair and is a fun-loving and kind young woman who acts as a Cool Big Sis to the younger members of the Black Bulls.
Say It with Hearts: Vanessa sometimes does this, fitting with her flirtatious personality.
Screw Destiny: This is a lesson she learned from Yami. He tells her that she can't let other people control her fate when they first meet in the Forest of Witches. This actually becomes a magic of hers when she's desperately praying to save her friends from her cruel, uncaring, and ungrateful mother.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Vanessa left the Forest of Witches for good with Yami's help after enduring years of solitude forced by the Witch Queen.
Semantic Superpower: Her Thread Magic encompasses not only magical string but also the red thread of fate itself, letting Vanessa change destiny to favor her comrades through her cat familiar Rouge.
Shameless Fanservice Girl: She flaunts her revealing outfit to attract men and has no problem wearing her underwear around the hideout.
Shipper on Deck:
- After Mars breaks Fana's brainwashing, Vanessa giggles at their sweet reunion, proclaiming that the flustered boy and shy girl are adorable.
- After Grey hugs Gauche after the battle between Asta & Yami and Dante, she wonders what's going on between them with a smile on her face.
The Slacker: One of the laziest Black Bulls, usually seen drinking and napping. She grows out of this thanks to Asta's influence.
Smarter Than You Look:
- Despite being a drunk most of the time, she manages to trick a member of the Eye of the Midnight Sun into falling for her trap and devised a plan beforehand to escape the Witch Queen (although it fell through).
- She's also knowledgeable enough in herbs and salves to provide some urgent first aid without Healing Magic.
Statuesque Stunner: One of the taller women in the cast at 170 cm, and the tallest of the female Black Bulls. She's called the Black Bulls' "lush of a witch" and, according to the Assorted Question Brigade Rankings, is the fourth most beautiful woman in the cast.
Story-Breaker Power: Her Red Thread of Fate spell would be insanely broken if not for its limitations as it can alter fate itself to the best outcome for her. These limitations are its high mana use, lack of offensive capabilities, Rouge's range, and Vanessa's focus to work on anyone who isn't a Black Bull.
Stripperiffic: Even her outfit in public is this, wearing a revealing top and miniskirt that show off her chest, stomach, and thighs.
Swiss-Army Superpower: Vanessa has the power to use magical thread. She can use her magic to entangle enemies, control someone like a puppet, temporarily keep broken bones in place and close open wounds, and, at its peak, have power over the Red Thread of Fate, making destiny favor her close comrades to have them avoid any attack so long as her cat is nearby.
The Tease: She playfully flirts with the male members of her squad, and all in her underwear no less.
Took a Level in Badass: Goes from a lazy drunk who uses her magical threads to entrap enemies and move others like puppets to a more responsible Magic Knight who gains the magical power to control fate itself.
Used to Be a Sweet Kid: A rare heroic example, but as flashbacks show Vanessa was meek and timid as a teenager due to being imprisoned in a cage all her life by the Witch Queen. After she left with Yami, she became a flirtatious alcoholic, which is heavily implied to be because she was imprisoned all her life and had never indulged herself until she was nearly an adult.
Vapor Wear: The Navel-Deep Neckline of her outfit shows that Vanessa has little bust support.
Weak, but Skilled: She tells Noelle that she specializes in magic control, which is seen in how she fights. Her magic isn't powerful, with even her fate manipulation only used for evasion, but she controls her threads with great dexterity and fast reaction times to bind enemies and wrap them around their wrists and ankles to make them her puppets.
"Well Done, Daughter!" Girl: What with being trapped in a giant bird cage to gain power over fate, she heavily desired her mother the Witch Queen's approval of her magical power. Vanessa understandably grew out of it due to the resentment against her mother for her upbringing after escaping, and disowns her as her family after she eventually does gain the Red Thread of Fate.
Winds of Destiny, Change!: Rouge, Vanessa's cat familiar formed out of the "Red Thread of Fate", can change the fate of the Black Bulls near it in their favor. Certain death attacks miss, strike the wrong area, or backfire as best suits Vanessa's mindset. She effectively rewrites fate to what's most optimal for them.
Women Prefer Strong Men: Vanessa's type is wild, muscled men.
You Can't Fight Fate: When Yami accidentally broke a hole through her cage, at first Vanessa refused to leave, stating that she was fated to stay. After Yami tells her to screw fate and make her own choice, she abandons this mindset, leaving with him.

Charmy Pappitson

Perpetual Glutton

^{Click here to see Charmy while using Food Magic}

Voiced by: Kiyono Yasuno (Japanese), Sarah Wiedenheft (English)^note

Debut: Chapter 3 (Manga), Episode 6 (Anime)

Magic Attribute: Cotton + Food

"I don't care who they are—Nobody touches my food!"

A quirky and friendly girl with a love for eating nearly obscene amounts of food like it's nothing. Usually harmless, keeping her from eating or stealing/destroying her food causes her to go absolutely ballistic.

Uses Cotton Magic, a type of magic that allows her to create cotton which can form fluffy sheep. She later manifests Food Magic, forming a giant wolf for her to eat other magic and use the eaten magic power with hers to unleash enhanced punches.

Action Girl: She has her moments when she's serious, creating a giant sheep to pummel enemies. After expressing her dwarf heritage, she can eat enemies' magic and punch them with magically reinforced punches.
And This Is for...: Parodied when she fights Lira with reinforced punches for rejecting her food.
"This is for the protein!!! This one's for the fat!!! And this one is for the caaaaaarbs!!!!"
Animal Motifs:
- Her magic lets her create sheeps from cotton, and she's usually peaceful and soft-mannered. However, like a ram, she has an aggressive side. When she awakens her Dwarven heritage, she switches to wolves, which represent her dangerousness and large appetite.
- Sylph also disparagingly calls her a "raccoon" because she's small, is a pest to her for Yuno's affection, and can eat anything in large amounts.
Artistic License – Biology: Downplayed. Her magic attribute is cotton, a fiber comprised mostly of cellulose that is grown from plants, but she's able to use it to create sheep, who in real life have wool which is made up of protein with lipids.
Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Using Mana Method after learning it in the Heart Kingdom, she can make the giant sheep formed by her magic even larger, towering over a forest. The giant sheep can unveil itself to be an equally large wolf that eats magic.
Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Charmy keeps getting distracted by the food around her even in the middle of life-and-death situations; in fact, food is the only way in which people can attract her full attention.
Badass Adorable: She's a young woman with a love for food who looks like a little girl. In spite of this, when she's angered or serious enough, she can create a gigantic ram that pummels enemies to defeat.
Berserk Button:
- Don't try to attack her while she's enjoying her food. She gets serious and pummels Catherine when she tries to.
- Another fast way for her to get angry is ruining or wasting her food. Ruining her vegetable garden gets her to angrily rouse up her squadmates to fight against the Eye of the Midnight Sun.
Beware the Silly Ones: She's definitely one of the zaniest characters in the city, downing the equivalent of two full-course meals while everyone else is fighting for their lives. When push comes to shove, however, she is still an officially recognized Magic Knight and a surprisingly dangerous one at that.
Big Eater: Introduced as the "Perpetual Glutton", she's first seen finishing several plates worth of food, before using magic to create a sheep that cooks even more food. She's almost always seen eating, and tends to only think about eating more food.
Blush Sticker: Befitting her childlike appearance and cute personality, she's almost always blushing in the form of sticker-like ovals on her cheeks. She only loses them when she turns into her taller, more mature, human form.
Boring, but Practical: Her food restores mana near instantly. Not too exciting, but pair it with the normally limited attacks the Black Bulls have and it gets crazy really fast.
The Cavalry: She and the rest of the forces who were training in Elysia join up with the Magic Knights and Resistance in the Spade Kingdom to help them fight against the devils released from the underworld and the Dark Triad.
Chef of Iron: Charmy can use Mana Method to form a kitchen with seasoning and a pan for the hungry wolf from her Food Magic to cook up an enemy and eat their magic, as she does to Halbet.
Clingy Jealous Girl: After falling for Yuno, she develops a rivalry with Sylph for his affections, trying to swat her and eat her.
Color-Coded Eyes: She has green eyes, and can become feral with hunger when using her Food Magic, fitting with the eye color's association with wildness.
Combo Platter Powers: After manifesting her dwarf heritage, half her grimoire turns black, letting her use both Cotton Magic and Food Magic.
Contralto of Strength: The anime deepens Charmy's normally high voice when she uses her Food Magic, turning her into a Magic Eater strong enough to defeat an elf possessing the body of a captain.
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass:
- She's a young woman with the size and appearance of a child, comedically obsessed with food and eating, to the point where she'll neglect everything else in order to focus on sating her appetite, which seems largely endless. On top of that, her magic creates sheep. However, if you get on her bad side, she becomes one of the most dangerous characters, capable of one-shotting powerful mages with ludicrous ease.
- When she gets truly serious, she's capable of using her magic to prepare food that can replenish people's magic, including her own. Her magic food also near instantly restores mana, and she can use this power on herself for infinite food. Considering most of the Black Bulls have low mana pools but insane abilities (not to mention how often mana expenditure becomes a problem for other characters too) this is bar none one of the strongest spells. It becomes a complete Story-Breaker Power when combined with Vanessa's fate manipulation and Henry's mana drain field plus Recombination Magic.
- Manifesting her Dwarven heritage allows her to use her second magic which is capable of eating magic and adding it to her own. This makes her the perfect counter to Lira since he fights entirely with magical constructs — she literally eats everything he throws at her.
Curb-Stomp Battle:
- Charmy one-shots Catherine with a punch from her giant sheep when she thinks that she's trying to steal her food.
- When tricked by Gauche and Grey into thinking Zuta is trying to take her meal, she smashes him unconscious three times with her Strike of the Sleeping Sheep.
Cute Bruiser: Whether in her child-like or older form, Charmy is a cute young woman who can unleash a powerful barrage of punches after eating an enemy's magic.
The Dreaded: Played for Laughs. Over the six month time skip, Charmy has gained an infamous reputation in the Heart Kingdom for her hunger-induced rampages, bringing gluttonous animals with her to gather food using her giant sheep. Potrof, the Spirit Guardian who taught her Mana Method, thinks he created a terrible monster, which is repeated when she uses her Food Magic with rune arrays to brutally pummel Halbet.
Dual Age Modes: Charmy is normally in her petite, child-like form. But when she gets serious, she grows much taller and looks more her age, with her hair hanging loose while using her Food Magic.
Enclosed Space: She learns to create one after training in magic arrays for six months in the Heart Kingdom, turning the space into a kitchen and making her enemy a cooked ingredient for her Food Magic.
Extreme Omnivore: She's eaten parasitic mushrooms and tried to eat Sylph when competing for Yuno's attention. This is weaponized with her Food Magic, in which she uses a giant hungry wolf to eat magic.
Facial Markings: Subverted. As everyone possessed by an elf has one, her squadmates think she's been taken over too when they see a mark on her face. It's just her sauce which she promptly licks off.
Fairytale Motifs: Charmy's power is based on Little Red Riding Hood, with her Food Magic wolf disguised as a sheep a reference to the wolf who disguised itself as a grandma in the story.
First Love: According to Walter, she's this for Rill after she saves him, while using her Food Magic, from his possession by Lira.
Foil: To Halbet, the Dark Disciple she fights in the Heart Kingdom. Charmy, by then, has become fat, with Halbet being a thin woman who mocks her for being an unsightly fatty. Halbet thinks consuming food is idiotic for making you fat and ugly. Charmy, stating this after beating her up, believes true beauty comes from proper nutrition and meals.
The Force Is Strong with This One: Parodied. Her squadmates sense a great, angry magical power and she approaches them with a marking on her face, causing them to think she's been possessed by an elf. Charmy's just angry that her vegetable garden's been ruined.
Forehead of Doom: Owing to her regular childlike appearance, Charmy has a large forehead. Sylph even calls her a "domehead", and so does Gauche several times.
Fork Fencing:
- Played for Laughs when she tries to eat Sylph.
- The giant hungry wolf formed by her Food Magic eats enemies' magic with a fork and knife. It can even throw the utensils at enemies.
Formerly Fit: She's gotten much fatter after spending six months training in the Heart Kingdom, where the food is delicious. She still slims down considerably when using her Food Magic though.
Giving Up the Ghost: During the Royal Knights Arc, she gives Yuno a cake to help replenish his strength. When he mentions that it's delicious, she falls over and has a blissed out look on her soul's face as it drifts from her mouth, much to Sylph's annoyance.
Half-Human Hybrid: She is half Dwarf. Amusingly, she had no idea and does not even know what Dwarves are. Her mixed heritage has the benefit of granting her two magics.
Heart Is an Awesome Power: Her magic lets her produce cotton. Although it may seem relatively harmless, her magic is very versatile. She can use cotton to soften landings or bind enemies by forming ropes, and form sheep that serve different purposes. She can create a giant ram that pummels enemies and sheep cooks that make food which replenishes mana, which is highly useful in a setting where sufficient mana reserves are needed to cast spells. Unlike everyone else, Charmy can get mana from anything she eats, not just what her sheep make. It's because the other element she possesses is hunger.
Hell Is That Noise: The other Black Bulls think Charmy's been possessed by an elf too when she ominously approaches them with a creepy sound in the background. It's just her stomach rumbling.
Hybrid Power: Due to being dwarf-human hybrid, she can use two different kinds of magic – Cotton Magic and Food Magic.
Hyperactive Metabolism: Eating instantly restores mana for her, and her sheep can make special food that does this for everyone else. She's also never full because of it, and eats non-stop. She can also instantly transition magic she eats into her own. When Charmy's body grows when her wolf sheds its sheep's clothing, she's constantly starving because she can't eat enough to meet her body's needs.
I Am Big Boned: Her reaction when Rill calls her fat:
"I'm not that fat. I'm pleasantly plump. The most popular type."
Improbable Weapon User: Her particular magic is Cotton Magic, allowing her to manipulate wool and spontaneously create sheep to do menial things for her, which usually involves preparing food. However, it's just as lethal as any other magic, even one-shotting Catherine, whom Yuno was fighting after she managed to piss Charmy off.
Instant Expert: She effortlessly learns to use natural mana rune arrays, with Potrof noting that she and Rill are geniuses.
Irony: Just like her rival for Yuno's love Sylph, Charmy is Older Than They Look with child like proportions who has a magical powered up form that makes her a curvy, tall older woman.
Lethal Joke Character: Her childlike appearance, comical obsession with food, and magical attribute of cotton of all things make it seem as though Charmy's role is being useless comic relief. That said, she has insane attack power with her giant sheep that even Gauche reluctantly admits, letting her one-shot members of the Eye of the Midnight Sun. Her magic can even cook food that restores magic power, making it incredibly useful. And she later manifests Food Magic, letting her eat enemies' magic and pummel them with a barrage of enhanced punches.
Let's Get Dangerous!: When she gets serious, she becomes taller and her face is more detailed. Even moreso when she expresses her dwarf powers. And in these moments, she's strong enough to deliver a Curb-Stomp Battle to an elf possessed captain, something Yami had trouble doing.
Letting Her Hair Down: When using Food Magic, Charmy's long black hair is let loose from its bun, and she becomes more dangerous and hungry.
Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: The Light to Vanessa's Dark. Charmy looks like a young girl, is smitten with Yuno, and has a love for food, using her magic to cook food and bake sweets. Vanessa dresses in revealing clothing, likes flirting with handsome men, and loves drinking alcohol, with her often seen in a drunken state.
Lost Food Grievance: The easiest way to anger the normally peppy Charmy is to try to steal her meal or waste food, manifesting her giant ram to attack enemies who do so. The Eye of the Midnight Sun ruining her vegetable garden causes her to angrily rally the Black Bulls to make them pay.
Love at First Sight: She falls in love with Yuno the moment she meets him, after he saves her food from falling.
Magic Eater: Her second magic "Food Magic" allows her to summon a gigantic wolf that eats magic and adds it to her own.
Magic Enhancement: She can use her Food Magic to eat enemies' magic, combining their mana with her own to unleash powerful, reinforced punches.
Meaningful Name: Charmy is similar to "charming", and she's a cute, friendly young woman who looks like a little girl.
Megaton Punch: Her main attack spell is Strike of the Sleeping Sheep, forming a giant ram that can do this multiple times.
Mundane Utility:
- She mostly uses her Cotton Magic to create sheep that cook for her. However, it's shown to be a highly useful spell later on when it's revealed that they can make food that restores magic power.
- What's the first thing she uses mana runes for? To make a ball of cotton fetch her some apples to eat.
Mysterious Past:
- In spite of being one of the strongest members of the Black Bulls and half-dwarf, Charmy is the only member of the squad who has not had her backstory revealed. All that is known is that she was recruited through the backdoor by Yami and she herself was unaware of her heritage until it was revealed.
- To add to the confusion, the Land of the Sun worships a character named "Ocha-ami," the Goddess of Meals, who long ago saved the land from a huge famine. They even have little mechanical dolls based on Ocha-ami that serve food — dolls that look an awful lot like Charmy...
Older Than They Look:
- She is actually 19, but looks younger than Asta and Noelle even when she gets serious. She looks more like her age when being put on the brink of death awakens her Dwarven heritage. This is lampshaded by Sylph when she calls herself a sexy older girl:
  Sylph: Sexy?! You're built like a grade-schooler, besides your giant forehead!
- If Charmy and the mysterious "Ocha-ami" really are the same person, then Charmy is actually way older than her self-proclaimed age of 19.
One-Hit KO: Her sheep's Megaton Punch has been capable of doing this twice now.
One-Track-Minded Hunger: She loves eating and always wants food. She enjoys a meal by the royal chefs when the kingdom is under a zombie attack and uses her magic to cook food she catches in the Underwater Temple despite needing to defeat enemies for her squad. She even attacks a Heart Kingdom forest with gluttonous animals to steal food.
O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Parodied. After the tournament, Charmy says that she is so stunned by Yuno's coolness that she can now only eat only one portion of food, which is still a lot of food.
Personality Powers:
- She loves eating and is constantly doing so, thanks to her magic which creates sheep chef to cook for her whenever she wants.
- Fitting with her large appetite, her Food Magic has a wolf eat enemies' magic to add to her own mana supply.
Picky Eater: The wolf formed by her Food Magic is one, so she makes her Mana Method a kitchen and cooks her enemy in there with seasoning to eat their magic, as she does to Halbet and her magical hair.
Pint-Sized Powerhouse: She's a small young woman who can form a giant ram that punches Catherine out. She grows taller when using Food Magic though.
Power Glows: Charmy's body glows after eating an enemy's magic through her Food Magic to pound them with powerful punches enhanced by the eaten mana.
Power Makes Your Voice Deep: Using Food Magic not only turns Charmy into an adult form but also deepens her voice along with giving her the power to eat enemies' magic and use it to empower her punches.
Power-Up Food: The food created by her cotton magic restores mana when eaten. With her around her squadmates essentially have unlimited mana.
Prim and Proper Bun: Subverted. She wears her black hair like this, and although Charmy sees herself as a sophisticated older girl, it's definitely not the case with her gluttonous behavior.
Proud Beauty: Averted. Charmy thinks of herself as a "sexy older girl" when she looks like a child. That said, when using her Food Magic, she's beautiful enough for Rill to fall in love with her and call her a goddess.
Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs: After eating Halbet's Hair Magic using her Food Magic, Charmy unleashes a barrage of magic-reinforced punches.
Rescue Romance:
- Parodied. She falls in love with Yuno after he "saves" her food.
- Rill falls for Charmy, who saves him after he is taken over by an elf. Because she looks different when using her Food Magic, Rill doesn't recognize her and doesn't believe Asta when he tells the truth.
Runic Magic: After training in the Heart Kingdom, she learns to use spell arrays, boosting her Cotton Magic sheep and forming an enclosed barrier to cook her enemies for her Food Magic.
Savage Wolves: Charmy's Food Magic reveals her giant sheep to actually be a rude, hungry wolf that eats magic for her.
Serious Mode: When she gets serious, it's not just an art shift. She literally becomes taller.
Single-Target Sexuality: According to the Volume 12 Questions Brigade, her type is her meal-saving prince, a.k.a. Yuno.
Skewed Priorities: So, the kingdom you've sworn to protect is under attack by zombies and a witch who happens to be draining the life out of people to maintain her youth. Sounds like a perfectly good time to be enjoying a full course meal.
Sleep-Mode Size: In her child-like form, hinted to be her dwarf form, Charmy is much less powerful than when she's in her more mature, human form, with her giant sheep revealing itself to be a hungry wolf that lets her use Food Magic to eat an enemy's magic, letting her defeat an elf in the body of a captain and a Dark Disciple.
Smitten Teenage Girl: She acts like this around Yuno, blushing in his presence and coyly trying to talk to him and offering him food.
Super-Deformed: Her default state. She becomes more detailed when she gets serious. Oddly this isn't just a humorous art shift; other characters have noticed her size and appearance changing (though even when serious, she's still short).
Superpower Lottery: Charmy's Cotton Magic forms a giant sheep with great attack power that even Gauche acknowledges, as well as the Master Chef whose cooking restores magic dependent on how much one eats, which makes the others note how insane her magic is. Then she manifests Food Magic, which has her eat magic itself, letting her easily defeat a powerful elf.
Supreme Chef: Her Sheep Cook: Master Chef spell creates a sheep cook who cooks food that restores mana.
Sweet Sheep: She uses Cotton Magic, and appropriately, her familiar is a giant but friendly sheep. Outside of combat, Charmy has a spell called "Sheep Cook" that summons sheep who create tasty food and pastries for her. The Sheep Cooks also serve as Charmy's servants throughout the story. However, it's subverted if you push Charmy's patience far enough, switching to Food Magic, and said giant sheep familiar turns out to be a wolf in sheep's clothing who immediately drops the nice guy act with the disguise.
Tastes Like Friendship: Is always offering food to people in her group. When Lira rejects her offering of food to calm him down, she's furious.
Team Chef: Always makes sure to feed her squad and makes meals for them.
This Is Gonna Suck: After teleporting with Yuno, she arrives to find Asta and Mimosa fighting Lira's creations. She immediately believes she's arrived in hell.
This Is Unforgivable!: Halbet ruining the food and attacking the villagers of the Heart Kingdom, who she befriended over the six month time skip, has Charmy proclaim that she'll never forgive her and, soon after, pummel her face in.
Token Mini-Moe: Blatantly lampshaded by Charmy herself when she finds out Dorothy is actually twenty-seven years old:
"She took my 'Lolita character who's actually older' spot!"
Tomato in the Mirror: Judging by the Big "WHAT?!" reaction, Charmy was just as clueless about her Dwarven heritage as everyone else.
Verbal Tic: She tends to say "La" a lot.
Visual Pun: When Charmy first unlocks her Food Magic, the giant sheep she summoned sheds the wool to reveal a giant, monstrous wolf. It's A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing.
With Great Power Comes Great Hotness: When using her Food Magic, Charmy gains a more slim, curvaceous body and grows taller. Rill falls in love with her after she uses her magic to save him while he was possessed, describing her as a "goddess". However, she looks so different from her normal self that Rill doesn't recognize her. He doesn't even believe Asta when he tells him that she's Charmy.
A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: Almost literally. When she awakens her Dwarven heritage, the giant sheep she normally creates sheds its skin to reveal a gigantic hungry wolf.
You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry!: Charmy is normally a friendly small girl who just wants to eat food. When she's angered though, usually when her meal is interrupted or food is wasted, she shows incredible attack power, forming a giant sheep to punch enemies, and later gains Food Magic that has her eat enemies' magic and use it to unleash powerful punches.

Gordon Agrippa

Hex Magic Expert

Voiced by: Ken'ichirou Matsuda (Japanese), Mike McFarland (English)^note

Debut: Chapter 2 (Manga), Episode 4 (Anime)

Magic Attribute: Poison

"I want to hurry and make friends with everybody too."

An odd man who wears all black and constantly mumbles to himself. Despite his creepy appearance and mannerisms, he's actually a very friendly person.

He uses Poison Magic to form poisonous masses which have the additional effects of hexes.

Adaptation Expansion: The anime shows his personality off a lot more, and shows what happens to him while the rest of the Black Bulls go off to the Underwater Temple.
Animal Motifs: Gordon can form badgers out of his magic. Although said badgers are made of poison and chew through limbs, he's actually very friendly and down to earth, fitting with the more positive associations of the animal.
Bad Powers, Good People:
- Uses cursed poison that can melt the flesh off an enemy's bones, but is a genuinely nice person who doesn't like to hurt anyone.
- He studies under his father, who has been using the family's knowledge on curses and poisons to create medical treatments, during the six month time skip.
Bash Brothers: Gordon, after becoming closer with Gauche and fighting alongside him, considers himself and Gauche to be the Go-Gau Duo, to Gauche's denial.
Best Friend: He often says that Asta is his best friend, but he's also referred to the other Black Bulls as this too.
Beware the Quiet Ones: Gordon has a habit of mumbling quietly that makes it hard for others to understand him. He also has Poison Magic that can corrode anything it touches as well as curse enemies, which he will use to help his friends if needed.
Birds of a Feather: In the squad, Gordon is closest to Gauche as well as Grey, with both of them being kind-hearted people who suffer from communication problems, Grey's extreme shyness and Gordon's mumbling, and lonely pasts, with Gordon shunned for his magic and appearance and Grey mistrusted for being in her transformed form until they joined the Black Bulls.
The Bus Came Back: 86 chapters after his last appearance, choosing to study curses under his father, Gordon returns with the other Black Bulls during the Spade Raid on the Black Bulls base to save Yami.
Character Development: Gordon becomes more sociable over time, toning down his unintended creepiness and speaking more loudly, allowing him to be actually understood by his squadmates unlike previously.
Combination Attack:
- Tons of them with Grey due to Gordon's poison magic creating large masses of deadly smoke, which she can transform into other more useful (or less deadly to their own allies) objects.
- After half a year of research and training, he can use his Modified Poison Curse Magic: Curse-Worker's Neighbor to choose whose magic power Henry absorbs with his curse.
Commissar Cap: He wears a dark grey one with the Black Bulls' symbol in front. It contributes to rest of his uniform-like outfit.
Commonality Connection: With Gauche. They end up bonding over their shared interest in magic while searching in the royal library for a cure for Asta's cursed arms.
Creepy Doll: He has a collection of these made to look like each of the Black Bulls that he keeps under his jacket.
Creepy Good: Uses Poison Magic, looks like a goth, and creepily mumbles, but he's actually a super nice guy and aligned with the forces of good.
Crippling Overspecialization: His magic is only good for killing and is just as dangerous to everyone as it is the opponent. He has no other applications for it, which leads to him being left behind a lot. Grey's transformation magic bypasses this, letting him use it for almost anything the two of them want to do.
Curse: He uses Curse Magic to add effects to his spells that are harmful to enemies. His family is infamous for being experts of curses.
Dark and Troubled Past: He grew up in a household where curse magic was everything. He couldn't make any friends because of his appearance and magic, leaving him incredibly lonely. After receiving his grimoire, he left and joined the Black Bulls.
Dark Is Not Evil: He wears a black makeup and dark grey outfit and uses Poison Magic with hexes. Nevertheless, he's one of the nicest members of the Black Bulls.
Deadly Gas: His spell Dwelling of the Poison Cloud releases poison gas that easily corrodes plants.
Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: He has pale skin and short black hair. Combined with his heavy black eyeshadow and lipstick, and red eyes, it contributes to his creepy appearance.
Freaky Fashion, Mild Mind: Gordon has pale skin with black eyeshadow and lipstick along with a gothy, dark grey outfit. He's one of the kindest members of the Black Bulls and wants to become closer with his comrades.
Friendless Background: He grew up friendless because of his family's infamous reputation, poison magic, and difficulty talking to others. This changed when he joined the Black Bulls.
Generation Xerox: Gordon left his family to distance himself from their legacy of cursing others for profit. When he returns to learn more about the devils' curses, it's revealed that his father Nathan has been trying to change their family's long legacy of hexes, using their knowledge and experimentation to create medicinal treatments and cures. Gordon ends up studying under his father over the six-month time skip to learn more about curses and applying it to Recovery Magic.
Goth Girls Know Magic: A Rare Male Example. He has the look down with grey clothing, pale skin, and black makeup. It's also notable that, among the rest of the cast who are mages, he's an expert in Curse Magic, adding hexes to his Poison Magic.
Gratuitous German: Some of his spells are in German:
- "Violett Schirm" is "purple umbrella".
- "Aufwachen Dachs" is German for "wake up badger".
- "Verboten Obst" is "Forbidden Fruit.
- That said, all of these spells feature some grammar errors:
  - "Violett Schirm" should be "Violetter Schirm".
  - "Aufwachen Dachs" should be "Wach auf, Dachs".
  - "Verboten Obst" should be "Verbotenes Obst".
Has a Type: According to the Volume 12 Questions Brigade, he likes someone who isn't afraid of him — which would be hard.
I Just Want to Have Friends: Gets upset at the fact that he's often left out of the missions that the other members go on, staying in the base when they head to the Underwater Temple. Thus, missing all that possible friendship-bonding time. Gordon is actually a really sweet guy who wants to befriend everyone he meets.
In the Blood: Defied. Gordon comes from a lineage of curse mages infamous for bringing misfortune on others, with one of his ancestors making a deal with the devil Megicula, so he ran away from home to avoid falling into this. However, after he returns to learn more about the devils' curses, he finds out his father Nathan is changing the family legacy to use their knowledge for curing curses and healing. This leads him to studying under his father during the six month time skip.
It Runs in the Family: The Agrippa family all have the same creepy demeanor (Even their Pet Dog) and are experts at curse magic.
Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold: Was shunned for being a creep from an infamous family with curse magic, despite Gordon himself being a total sweetheart who really wants to make friends, until joining the Black Bulls.
Named After Somebody Famous: His last name comes from Henry Cornelius Agrippa, a German occultist.
Nice Guy: He might actually be the nicest person in the cast and just a swell person. Provided you get past his creepy looks and mannerisms.
No Brows: Gordon doesn't have any eyebrows, which contribute to his creepy appearance.
No Celebrities Were Harmed: Bears more than a passing resemblance to Marilyn Manson.
No Social Skills: Gordon is actually one of the nicest characters in the cast and desperately wants to befriend his squad. However, he's absolutely terrible at it. He's almost always mumbling, which makes him both incomprehensible and creepy, and keeps voodoo dolls of each of the Black Bulls. Regardless, they do become closer to Gordon and he gets better at interacting with them.
Odd Friendship: He and Grey, who are both speech-impended but very kind, become close with the cold, impolite siscon Gauche, with the three fighting together against the Eye of the Midnight Sun and going together to meet with Gordon's family. Gordon even calls himself and Gauche the Go-Gau Duo to Gauche's refusal.
O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
- Anime example. When the Black Bulls have come in second place at the Star Festival, Gordon, who always mutters so softly that the audience can only understand him thanks to subtitles, says out loud "It can't be!"
- When Langris nearly kills Finral, the normally quiet, nice Gordon says that he's pissed off.
- He and Grey yell that they're going to protect the Black Bulls' hideout against the Eye of the Midnight Sun when they get up after being injured, remembering how the Black Bulls accepted them after their lonely pasts. Gauche is surprised that he can actually hear them and, remembering his memories with the squad, agrees with them in protecting their home.
Perky Goth: Although he wears dark makeup with his pale skin, he’s actually one of the nicest, most positive characters and wants to befriend his squadmates more.
Poison Is Corrosive: His Poison Magic easily melts away plants, making it effective against Plant Magic.
Poison Is Evil: Gordon's Poison Magic is seen as creepy, which caused people to shun him growing up. Despite this, he's actually a very kind person who really wants to become closer to his squadmates.
Poisonous Person: He can generate liquid or gaseous masses of poison that can melt off flesh. His poison magic is also effective against Plant Magic.
Poor Communication Kills: He thought his father was cursing people to death when he refused to help heal Asta's cursed arms. Instead, it was because he couldn't help even though he wanted to.
Power Stereotype Flip: Poison users are usually portrayed as petty and cruel in fiction. Gordon, on the other hand, is very kind and friendly, desperately wanting to bond with his squadmates. It's because of this stereotype that Gordon couldn't make any friends growing up because others feared him for his Poison Magic.
Practically Different Generations: Gordon's sister, Roxanne, is twelve years younger than him.
Put on a Bus: Right after the six month time skip, he's still studying Curse Magic under his father. As a result, he doesn't fight against Vanica, her Dark Disciples, or Dante along with the rest of the Black Bulls.
The Quiet One: He doesn't speak up often. When he does, he speaks incredibly softly, so it's often difficult to understand him. Numerous early episodes — at least for the English dub — would often supplement his speech with subtitles so the viewer can at least read what he's saying. Other episodes would have him extremely quiet, but still understandable in quiet situations. Episode 127 focuses specifically around him and his family, and drops the gimmick by having Gordon speak at a subdued but perfectly normal audible range.
Red and Black and Evil All Over: Subverted. He wears a dark grey outfit lined with red, black makeup, uses Poison Magic, and is an expert at cursing others... while being a total sweetheart and one of the nicest members of the cast, with a desire to bond with his squadmates.
Red Eyes, Take Warning: Subverted. He has red eyes, which along with his mumbling, poison magic, and unnaturally pale skin and black hair contribute to his creepy image. Although his magic is very dangerous, he's actually one of the kindest characters in the series.
Shared Family Quirks: Aside from their identical appearances, the Agrippa family all have hereditary expertise at curses, creepy demeanors, and are terrible at communication.
Slasher Smile: Hilariously, his regular smile resembles this and makes him look like he wants to murder someone.
Strong Family Resemblance: His parents, sister, grandma, and his dog all have the same face as him. Gauche immediately questions why Gordon's mother and father both look alike, and hopes that they aren't related.
Technicolor Toxin: His Poison Magic is purple in color.
Theme Initials: Gauche Adlai and Gordon Agrippa share the same initials and first syllable. Funnily enough, Gordon calls himself and Gauche the Go-Gau Duo.
The Unintelligible: It's one of the reasons people find him creepy as he's always mumbling. It makes him look like he is always casting curses, which makes him seem even more intimidating. Over time, he speaks louder, allowing his squadmates to actually understand him.
White Sheep: Gordon left his family, a lineage infamous for casting deadly curses, to join the Black Bulls. When Gordon returns home, he finds out that this is no longer the case, as his father is trying to change the family's legacy by using their knowledge and research to find treatments for curses and other illnesses.

Grey

Master of Transformation Magic

^{Click here to see her first transformation}

Voiced by: Masayuki Akasaka (Japanese, Transformed), Minami Takahashi (Japanese, True Form), Jarrod Greene (English, Transformed), Megan Shipman (English, True Form)^note

Debut: Chapter 3 (Manga), Episode 6 (Anime)

Magic Attribute: Transmutation

"Unless I can transform, I just might die!"

A seemingly huge man whose true appearance is concealed. In truth, she's an extremely shy woman who is constantly embarrassed in her true appearance.

Seemingly a master of Transformation Magic, able to shapeshift into anyone and transform other objects as well, including the magic of others. Her true magic is later revealed to be Transmutation Magic, letting her change the structure of a substance.

Abusive Parents: Grey's stepmother greatly mistreated her, calling her ugly and forcing her to do all the house's chores while pampering her own daughters.
All Girls Want Bad Boys: Subverted; Grey develops emotional affection towards Gauche because he showed sincere interest in her abilities and motivated her to stay in her true form. Furthermore, her life was saved by him in the past, and it's thanks to him that Grey gained the courage to thrive and survive when no one else cared about her. Gauche himself, while rude and rough around the edges, is noted to be close friends with her and Gordon.
Apologises a Lot: Tends to say sorry often regarding her constant extreme shyness. It's revealed that she's had this trait since living with her cruel stepfamily, who forced her to do all the house chores.
Bedsheet Ghost: In the color pages of Chapter 84, her costume is a bedsheet ghost, which is taken off by Vanessa.
The Big Guy: When transformed, she towers over her fellow members to the point that her face can't be shown as its covered in shadow. She shrinks down to the size of anyone she's imitating when she transforms.
Birds of a Feather: In the squad, Grey is closest to Gauche as well as Gordon, with both of them being kind-hearted people who suffer from communication problems, Grey's extreme shyness and Gordon's mumbling, and lonely pasts, with Gordon shunned for his magic and appearance and Grey mistrusted for being in her transformed form until they joined the Black Bulls.
Broken Bird: She was greatly mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters, who forced her to do all the house's chores and ridiculed her for her appearance, which led Grey to be extremely shy about her looks. When she transformed into her stepsisters to appease them, they tried to attack her and she was forced out of her home. Because she transformed into a large, intimidating form due to her lack of self-confidence, Grey unsettled others and nobody trusted her, causing her to be alone until meeting the Black Bulls.
Character Development:
- Grey tries to get used to being in her true form after the rest of the Black Bulls give her so much support. While Grey is still embarrassed, it would be wrong to use a disguise all the time after the rest of them have so much trust for her.
- Despite being very meek, she gradually becomes more assertive over time. When Nacht calls the Black Bulls a worthless bunch, she raises her voice and defends them against him, her superior within the squad.
Characterization Marches On: In the first couple of arcs, Grey comes across more as a Shapeshifting Trickster, using her various transformations to troll or annoy people while not in her default form, a giant faceless man in a robe. After The Reveal of her true appearance, she settles more into her more well-known Shy Blue-Haired Girl personality.
Character Tics: She tends to bring her hands up and hides her face behind them when she's feeling nervous or embarrassed.
Chekhov's Skill: Grey uses her magic to seemingly transform a rock into meat at the Underwater Temple, with Gauche noting that her magic likely isn't actually Transformation Magic if she can transform other objects and not only herself. This becomes very useful when she fights with Gauche and Gordon against Rades, Valtos, and Sally, using her magic to transform Sally's giant Sticky Salamander and Gordon's Poison Magic.
Cinderella Plot: She was mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters, who made her do all the housework which left her covered in ash. After she used her magic to look like her stepsisters, they attacked her and she was forced to leave her home. The chapter on her backstory is even called "Cinderella Grey".
Combination Attack: Tons of them with Gordon due to his poison magic creating large masses of deadly smoke, which Grey can transform into other more useful (or less deadly to their own allies) objects.
Diagonal Cut: Paladin Damnatio slices her in half from the waist, seemingly killing her alongside Gauche.
Disappeared Dad: Despite being shown to have a stepmother and stepsisters in her backstory, Grey's father was nowhere to be seen. Considering that they abused her and her backstory is based on Cinderella, by then he was most likely absent from her life if not deceased.
Don't Look At Me: Her word-by-word reaction when people look at her. Thankfully, she grows out of it as she becomes more confident in herself, and even inverts this trope later when she admits that she wants Gauche to look at her more.
Dub Name Change: Her true magic is named "錬成魔法" (Rensei Mahō) in Japanese, which literally translates to "Transmutation Magic". However, the Viz translation names it "Fortification Magic", with transmutation and fortification having two different meanings. This is later corrected with Viz changing the translation to Transmutation Magic.
Early-Bird Cameo: Her true form is seen in episode 11. She runs past Asta while blurred in a background shot and blushing, then quickly ducks inside of a shop door before he notices her.
Elemental Powers: Her magic lets her transform the magic of others into any element she wants, essentially giving her the power of any magic element.
Embarrassing Nickname: Grey, which isn't her real name according to her volume character profile, comes from her stepsisters, who mocked her for being covered in soot from doing all the chores in the house. Despite this, she continues to address herself as this among the Black Bulls in the present-day.
Fairytale Motifs: Grey is based on Cinderella, where she is abused by her mother and stepsisters and incurs her stepsisters' wrath when her magic changes her to one of the stepsisters.
Freudian Excuse: Her desire to stay transformed and transform into others because of her shyness, which led others to mistrust her before she joined the Black Bulls, is heavily implied to be because her twin stepsisters constantly mocked her as being ugly, with Grey even transforming into them to fit in which led them to run her out of their home.
Friendless Background: Because she wasn't confident in her true form, Grey unsettled others and nobody trusted her, leaving her alone until meeting the Black Bulls.
Grew a Spine: She starts as extremely shy about her true appearance and wanting to go back to her transformation but gradually becomes more confident in her appearance and powers, as well as becoming a useful mage on the battlefield. She manages to successfully save Gauche's life when he's stabbed by Dante through transforming the sword he's impaled with, with the resolution that she wants him to look at her more. She even argues against Nacht that the Black Bulls are good people.
Hartman Hips: Although it's usually not that noticeable in her usual normal outfit, Grey sports pretty wide hips.
Has a Type: According to the Volume 12 Questions Brigade, Grey likes someone gentle and would lead her. Ironically, she's in love with Gauche who's rude and brutal, but did motivate her to survive by herself after she ran away from home.
Healing Hands: She's able to heal Gauche from being impaled by Dante's giant sword through transforming the blade itself. Owen notes that her magic isn't mere recovery and had reassembled his very tissue, making it possible that her magic isn't transformation.
Heart Is an Awesome Power: At first it seems that Grey's Transformation Magic can only be used to shapeshift. It's later shown that her magic is actually transforming matter, allowing her to change spells' attributes to make them harmless or weak to her ally's magic. She's later able to use it to heal Gauche from being stabbed with a giant stone sword by transforming the sword itself to reassemble his body tissue, marking her as an Arcane Stage.
Heroic Self-Deprecation: Has a very low opinion about her true appearance, stemming from her stepfamily's insults of her, and thinks of herself as being a lowly mage and her magic being useless when she can't help Gauche after he's stabbed by Dante. Thinking back on how he first saved her and gave her the resolve to live on and eventually meet the Black Bulls gives Grey the motivation to use her magic to transform the sword he got impaled with, healing him.
Idiot Hair: She has two of these sticking out of the front of her hair to go with her extremely shy personality.
Innocent Grey Eyes: Fitting with her name, she has grey eyes and is a petite, very shy, and kind woman.
Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: She's the Light to Vanessa's Dark, with Vanessa being a flirtatious witch in revealing clothing who takes pride in her good looks while Grey is a naive, shy girl dressed in modest clothing who easily gets very embarrassed.
Luminescent Blush: Always blushing out of embarrassment when in her true form.
Master Actor: While transformed into someone, Grey can copy their behavior and actions very well, showing that she has an impressive talent in observation and acting.
Meaningful Name: Grey is a color associated with humility and sadness. She's very shy and suffered mistreatment from her stepfamily, causing her to have low self-esteem. Her eyes are also grey.
Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold: Was shunned for being always transformed and not showing her true appearance, despite Grey being a really kind person who did so out of her extreme shyness, until joining the Black Bulls.
Nice Girl: Despite being extremely shy, she is this, treating her squadmates with kindness. Even when she was mistreated by her stepsisters, she tried to befriend them.
No Name Given: "Grey" is only an alias, as said in her introduction.
Odd Friendship: She and Gordon, who are both speech-impended but very kind, become close with the cold, impolite siscon Gauche, with the three fighting together against the Eye of the Midnight Sun and going together to meet with Gordon's family.
Older Than They Look: Would you believe she's 24?
Only Known by Their Nickname: She goes by Grey, the nickname given to her by her stepsisters for being covered in soot while doing the household chores. Her real name hasn't been revealed at all.
O.O.C. Is Serious Business: She and Gordon yell that they're going to protect the Black Bulls' hideout against the Eye of the Midnight Sun when they get up after being injured, remembering how the Black Bulls accepted them after their lonely pasts. Gauche is surprised that he can actually hear them and, remembering his memories with the squad, agrees with them in protecting their home.
Personality Powers: It's only fitting that a girl who's embarrassed of her true, petite form can shapeshift.
Power Misidentification: As Gauche notes, he's seen Transformation Magic used by others to transform themselves but he's never seen Grey's Transformation Magic, which transforms other things. She uses it to heal Gauche from being stabbed by transforming the giant sword itself. Owen notes that it isn't simply recovery and her magic reassembled his very tissue, making him think that Grey's magic may not be transformation. Owen states he's never seen this magic before, and names it "Transmutation Magic".
Production Throwback: Her grimoire's design is based off of the Wizard King's in the original Black Clover one-shot.
The Quiet One: Doesn't say anything while in the form of a large man, except for ominous wheezing, although when she transforms into other characters, she's much more enthusiastic. And once her true form is revealed, she becomes much quieter.
Rescue Romance: Gauche saved a transformed Grey, who had left home, from robbers at Marie's urging, then telling her get everything with her own hands to survive. It's heavily implied that she's in love with him, and why she desperately tries to save him from dying of Dante's wound.
Rich Sibling, Poor Sibling: Grey is the poor sister to her rich stepsisters. She was treated like a servant and forced to do all the chores and cleaning.
Running Gag: She is always imitating her companions with her magic.
Samus Is a Girl: Grey's real form is that of a timid woman.
Scullery Maid: In her backstory Grey was made one by her stepfamily, mistreated and forced to do all the house chores.
Ship Tease: With Gauche. She tries to stay in her true form partly because Gauche complimented her real appearance. When he's stabbed by Dante, she remembers how she met him and he gave her the determination to survive by herself. After the fight between Asta & Yami and Dante, she hugs him in relief and blushes immediately after.
Shrinking Violet: Grey is terribly shy about her actual appearance, to the point we at first only see her in a transformed state and only become cognizant of her real form in the Underwater Temple Arc, barring a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo during the shopping trip segment. It's heavily implied she's this because of her past mistreatment by her stepsisters, who repeatedly called her ugly. We see her in her real form more often from here out, but every time she's too embarrassed to interact with anyone in that state:
Asta: Is there anything that doesn't embarrass you?!
Shy Blue-Haired Girl: What she really is, once her Transformation Magic wears off.
Silk Hiding Steel: Grey is an extremely shy, demure woman who's very kind-hearted. She develops the Steel over time, honing her magic to the point she becomes a useful support mage in battle by transforming enemies' magics and heal Gauche after he gets stabbed, showing that she's actually an Arcane Stage. She even stands up to Nacht when he derides the Black Bulls while the others can only listen in silence.
Single Woman Seeks Good Man: The Volume 12 Questions Brigade states that Grey's type is someone gentle and would lead her. Ironically, she's in love with Gauche, but because he saved her from thieves when she ran away from home, only at Marie's request, and inspired Grey to rely on herself to survive. It’s also notable that Gauche, while rude and abrasive to most others, is closer to and shows a somewhat softer side to Grey.
Skilled, but Naive: Despite being in truth an Arcane Stage with a rare magic, Grey thought her magical attribute was truly just normal Transformation until it was pointed out by Gauche. The anime shows that she didn't even learn a proper spell until 3 years after she gained her grimoire. By the time she fights the Eye of the Midnight Sun, she's honed her magic enough to transmute other magics, and Owen points out that her magic isn't transformation after examining Gauche's reassembled body tissue after she transformed the stone sword Dante stabbed him with.
This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman: While not a bad or ineffective ability by any means, Grey's ability to transmute elemental attacks into other elements is the only means the Black Bulls have in counteracting Sally's slime attacks.
Took a Level in Badass: Both in personality and magical ability. Grey begins as a meek woman extremely embarrassed about her true appearance who believes that her magic isn't useful at all. She develops her magic to the point that she can transform others' magics into different attributes, making it very useful in battle, and saves Gauche's life by transforming the very sword Dante impaled him with, showing that she's in truth an Arcane Stage. Despite her initial timidness, she eventually becomes assertive enough to stand up for the Black Bulls to Nacht, telling him that they're good people.
Transmutation: At first it seems that her Transformation Magic can only be used to shapeshift. It's later revealed that she can transform objects and alter magics themselves by converting elemental spells into a different attribute. Gauche guesses that because she can transform other objects and magic, she doesn't actually have Transformation Magic. She later uses her magic to reassemble Gauche's body tissue by transforming the giant sword he was stabbed with, making it plausible that her magic isn't merely transformation. Owen notes that he's never seen such a magic that changes structure before, and names it Transmutation Magic.
True Blue Femininity: Grey has light blue hair and wears a pair of dark blue pants, and is very demure and kind. She also suffered from loneliness before joining the Black Bulls.
Voluntary Shapeshifting: Her epithet is "master of transformation magic", using it to transform into others because she's terribly shy about her true appearance. She can also make other things disguise as other stuff, which Gauche notes is a rare occurrence.
Walking Spoiler: It's hard talking about Grey without mentioning her true form.
Weak, but Skilled: Her magic doesn't have much outright offensive use, but she can use it to change a target's structure, essentially making enemies' attacks useless or changing the environment to suit the situation. The guidebook gives her a 3/5 in Magic Amount but a 5/5 in Magic Control. Case in point, when combined with Gauche's Mirror Brigade she can turn many of Morris's modified devil tendrils into harmless flowers.
Wicked Stepmother: Her backstory shows that she grew up with one who forced her to do all the house's chores, with her stepsisters tormenting her.

Zora Ideale

Super Magic Knight Zora

Voiced by: Hikaru Midorikawa (Japanese), Johnny Yong Bosch (English)

Debut: Chapter 112 (Manga), Episode 73 (Anime)

Magic Attribute: Ash

"You aren't the magic knights of my father's dreams!"

A mysterious and eccentric man who comes into the Royal Knight Tournament unannounced. Zora has dedicated himself to punishing corrupt Magic Knights due to his father's death. He enjoys playing pranks on others and getting under people's skin, but actually has great observation and analytical skill.

Uses Ash Magic in conjunction with Trap Magic, being capable of drawing magic symbols that unleash a variety of traps when triggered. Never confronts his enemies directly, preferring to befuddle them and trick them into defeating themselves.

Aloof Ally: Zora's this after officially joining the Black Bulls, leaving the hideout without telling the others and refusing to go with Magna and Luck to train in the Heart Kingdom. That said, he does bond with Magna over their shared peasant background and they travel together a lot over the six month time skip.
Ambiguously Evil: Apparently, he impersonated Xerx Lugner to deceive "the enemy", which included the rest of the Black Bulls.
Anime Hair: Zora has crimson red hair that flares up like flames.
Anti-Hero: Easily the most morally grey member of the Black Bulls. He dedicates himself to brutally taking down corrupt Magic Knights and is quite rude to his fellow squadmates.
Arc Hero: For the Royal Knights Arc, with Zora becoming part of Asta's team in the Royal Knights Exam, the reveal of his backstory which ties into the story's themes of discrimination, him playing a part in Langris' defeat, and the ending of the arc implying, and later it being confirmed, that he's a Black Bull.
Ashes to Ashes: He uses Ash Magic to draw magical traps that trigger when stepped on such as landfills, pitfalls, and snares. He can even draw magical trap circles on himself, which is incredibly dangerous because his magic is attacking his own body.
Asshole Victim: He beats up Xerx partly for his own amusement, but that was after Xerx threatened to kill an old woman who simply wanted his help to find her granddaughter.
Attack Reflector: One of his traps functions this way, while doubling the power of the spell. They can bounce multiple times especially with Asta's help, turning normal spells into Wave-Motion Gun levels of destruction.
Big Brother Mentor: To Magna, teaching Magna how to use rune arrays as a peasant over six months, with Magna calling Zora "my man".
Big Damn Heroes:
- With Asta, he manages to save Mereoleona from being killed by five elves when she leaves herself behind to fight them off.
- He comes just in time with his magical trap to save Solid from an elf's attack. He even brings a healer to save the Silva siblings from their injuries.
- With Magna, Zora makes his return to the story during the Spade Assault, saving Jack from Dante.
Broken Pedestal: The Magic Knights became one to him. His father, Zara, was an idealistic Magic Knight who genuinely wanted to help people, and he idolized the old man, wanting to help people too. His father's colleagues, however, were nobles who secretly killed Zara off because they didn't want to associate with a peasant. From then on, Zora would repeatedly encounter corrupt Magic Knights who would bully, threaten, assault, and rape civilians to where he swore revenge on the entire Magic Knights organization.
Brutal Honesty: Combined with The Snark Knight and Troll, Zora's tongue couldn't be sharper even if he tried. Anyone who crosses roads with him is likely to be hit with a brutal "The Reason You Suck" Speech, himself not excluded. This is best exemplified by his first serving of critique on screen, thrown to an unfortunate magic knight who was offended to be beaten by an insolent mage with weird magic.
The Bus Came Back: After being absent from the story for over 60 chapters, he returns in Chapter 289 with Magna when the Clover Kingdom raids the Spade Kingdom.
Character Development: He's introduced being very cynical of the idea of Magic Knights because of their widespread corruption and his father's death. After being inspired by Asta during the Royal Knights Exam, Zora works towards becoming his ideal of a true Magic Knight, with him fully embracing his membership of the Black Bulls and accepting his position as a Royal Knight.
Combat Pragmatist: This man will do whatever it takes to win a fight, including messing around with the arena the entire night before his fight in a battle tournament so he'd have the upper hand when they begin. He'll also unhesitatingly throw his teammates into harm's way if it ensures he and his teammates win.
Combination Attack: With Nero, using Secret Counter Trap Magic x Mana Method: Sealing Magic to save Asta from Lucifero's punch by having Zora take the punch and hold out for a short time with the power of their magics.
Commonality Connection: He bonds with Magna over the six month time skip due to their shared peasant background.
Conveniently Unverifiable Cover Story: He passes off as Xerx Lugner because the real one has been stationed at the border, with not even his squadmates knowing what he looks like.
Cool Mask: As he himself puts it, it's an awesome mask.
Crazy-Prepared: Considering his forte is setting traps around the battlefield, he needs this kind of personality.
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: To lower opponents' guards. He pretends to fall asleep during the first match of the Royal Knights Exam, belying that he had already set the field with his traps.
Dangerous Forbidden Technique: He even inscribes magical trap circles on himself. Observers note that this is extremely risky since it constantly drains his own magic power.
Dare to Be Badass: He does this to Nozel, mocking him for being a royal unable to even protect his own house. As harsh as it is, it works.
Dark and Troubled Past: His father was the first peasant who managed to join the Magic Knights. When his father perished in the line of duty, he overheard a couple Magic Knights mocking his late father for being a peasant. He also heard them gloating over how they killed his father just because they didn't want a peasant in their ranks. From that point on, Zora dedicated himself to punishing any Magic Knight who would abuse their power.
Dark Is Not Evil: He wears almost entirely black and, despite being a manipulative jerk, is committed to punishing corrupt Magic Knights.
Defeat Means Friendship: This is how he was recruited to the Black Bulls. He was beating up some Magic Knights and then tried to do so to Yami who ended up kicking his ass instead. Yami, who thought he was fun, gave him the squad's robe to wear whenever he'd want. He becomes a full-fledged member and wears it regularly after the Royal Knights Exam.
Determinator: As expected from someone who's willing to plant traps on the battlefield the night before the Royal Knights Examination. It's later revealed that Zora has been studying hard all his life to learn how to become stronger in spite of being a peasant, with his hideout plastered with his studies on runes.
Disability Superpower: A variant. As a peasant, his runes, unlike users of the Heart Kingdom's Mana Method style, are so weak that they just stick around. Zora uses this to his advantage by taking a ton of time to build very complicated arrays in advance for his counter-traps.
Eat the Rich: Downplayed. He greatly dislikes nobles for acting superior to commoners and peasants and likes to mock them at any chance he can get. Given that his father was killed for being the first peasant Magic Knight and the common corruption among the Magic Knights, it's understandable.
Elemental Hair Colors: Downplayed. He has red hair and his magic attribute is ash which is implied to be an element derived from flame, his father's attribute.
Even Bad People Love Their Parents: Zora may be disrespectful to everyone he meets, but he loved his late father Zara. The reasons he hates Magic Knights are because his father was killed by his comrades for being a peasant and the extensive corruption of Magic Knights, who his father greatly respected. When he confronts Langris after he nearly kills Finral, he's livid, shouting that people like him aren't the Magic Knights his father dreamed of.
Everyone Has Standards: While he does make it a point of punishing corrupt Magic Knights, he never actually goes out of his way to try killing them. Instead, he settles for brutalizing them in a fight and walking off.
Face of a Thug: Although his face can't fully be seen with his mask, he qualifies with his Tsurime Eyes and sharp teeth. With Magna, they're called the "thug-faced duo" by Vanessa.
Fan of the Underdog: Although he insults Asta a lot, he sees him as the one closest to what he considers to be the ideal Magic Knight.
Fiery Redhead: He has bright red hair and can get riled up when it comes to nobility and Magic Knights, intentionally trying to earn the hate of all the Royal Knights Exam candidates.
Friend to All Living Things: Ranked 5th as the character most liked by animals.
From Zero to Hero: As a child, he was a quiet boy who did chores around the house and eagerly awaited his father to come home. Then, he saw some terrible things that shattered his perception of the world and is now a highly driven mage who can mow down almost any Magic Knight like they were nothing. Lampshaded when he describes himself:
"I was born from a dirty little brat in a peasant town. And I am hopeless rage incarnate!"
Gender-Blender Name: "Zora" is a traditionally female name that means "dawn".
Generation Xerox: Although he definitely became more cynical after his father's death, like Zara he is a prankster and user of Trap Magic, and, despite his low view of them, a Magic Knight after the Royal Knights Exam.
Good is Not Nice: He's a manipulative jerk whose life mission is to punish corrupt Magic Knights.
Guile Hero: Fitting his magic, he relies on his wits and trickery in a fight. During the Royal Knights Exam he has his traps prepared beforehand and has a trap set next to a pitfall just in case Kirsch escapes from it. His secret base is covered with his study of runes, having been studying arrays for ages to become stronger in spite of his low magic as a peasant. The Guidebook gives him a 5/5 in Cleverness.
Has a Type: According to the Volume 31 Questions Brigade, he likes a woman who lets him do what he wants.
Hated by All: Intentionally and with gusto. He earns the hate of every person in the stadium, including his own teammates, less than fifteen seconds after showing up there.
Hell-Bent for Leather: His outfit consists of a bunch of leather straps that wrap around his neck and the lower half of his face.
Heroic Lineage: He's the son of Zara Ideale, the first peasant Magic Knight, whom Julius considered what a true Magic Knight should be.
Hidden Depths: Although he has a boorish attitude, he doesn't like it when women are disrespected. When Rhya tells Mereoleona she's wasting her beauty, Zora tells him she's not a beauty, she's a beast.
Icy Blue Eyes: Zora has blue eyes that contrast with his red hair, and is, in Asta's words, a cool-looking jerk and can be very condescending and rude to others while also being very calculating, with his magic revolving around planning and preparation.
Instant Runes: He uses his Trap Magic by drawing magic circles, which appear when the traps get set off. Zora's counter traps use the magic circles to absorb enemies' attacks and send it back at them with double the power and speed.
I Work Alone: Zora has been a lone wolf for most of his life, preferring to do things his own way and use others to his advantage. He drops this attitude after experiencing a sense of real teamwork with Asta in the Royal Knights Exam.
Jerkass Has a Point: Despite his disrespectful behavior and harsh way of communicating it, all the criticism he says about members of his team and the teams that they fight is true. Julius even thanks him afterwards, telling him that those who genuinely want to improve will take his words to heart.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's very rude, insulting almost everyone he meets at the Royal Knights Exam at no provocation. Despite this, he's a vigilante dedicated to taking down amoral Magic Knights and eventually decides to become a model Magic Knight himself. He'll also go out of his way to help commoners who find themselves in the crosshairs of nobles who are willing to throw their weight around.
Knight in Sour Armor: When he was young, he had a very idealistic view of the Magic Knights and aspired to be one himself, especially after his dad managed to rise through the ranks and become the first peasant to be a Magic Knight. However, his dad ended up being killed in battle and one day when he went to visit his grave, he overheard some Magic Knights calling him a loser of peasant. This revelation of their corruption not only disillusioned Zora with the Magic Knights but also caused his outlook towards the world to become more dreary and realistic. In present day he himself is now a Magic Knight and with the Black Bulls no less but his hatred for the organization as a whole has not waivered and he's quite hesitant to bond with his teammates and the people he helps.
Know When to Fold 'Em: He knows his limits, comically and dramatically:
- He frequently pranks and goads Asta, but not Mereoleona. The first time he tried his stinkbug trick on her, she snatched it out of the air with a fire magic claw and pressed it against his face. He left her alone after that.
- When he saw how powerful the reincarnated elves were, he was all for retreating. Somehow, Asta convinced him to try a risky move.
Lean and Mean: He has a thinner, tall build and is a cynical, disrespectful vigilante who's harshly critical towards those he works with and defeats. He gets better after regaining some idealism from working with Asta and officially declaring himself a Black Bull.
Like Father, Like Son: Although Zora became a much darker person than his upbeat father, he has his father Zara's use of magical traps and love for pranks.
Manipulative Bastard: He's quite fond of using his allies as bait to get his opponents to do what he wants them to do. Becomes a Running Gag in that each time he does this, Asta has been the bait every time.
Meaningful Name:
- His real surname is Ideale, and he is a man with a very strong moral code, despite how he appears to other people.
- Subtle, but his name "Zora" is a feminine Slavic name that means "dawn". His talk with Julius, which concludes the Royal Knights Arc, takes place at dawn, where it's revealed that Zora's father inspired the star merit system and that Zora himself is actually a Magic Knight, with Julius trying to convince Zora to become a true member of the Black Bulls and Royal Knight.
More Teeth than the Osmond Family: Initially, it looks like the teeth are part of his mask, but they are apparently his actual teeth.
Mr. Fanservice: His outfit. If you could call it that. His "jacket" only covers his arms and shoulders, while his chest and midriff are completely exposed.
Mugged for Disguise: After defeating the real Xerx Lugner, Zora took his Purple Orcas robe to pose as him at the Royal Knights Exam.
Mugging the Monster: He was beating up Magic Knights in an alleyway when he ran into Yami, a Magic Knight Captain. Zora picked a fight with him but ended up being beaten instead. Yami found him interesting and gave him the Black Bulls' robe to wear whenever Zora wanted to, scouting him through the back door.
The Prankster: He enjoys causing mischief, tricking others to smell his stinkbugs and setting off his magical traps.
Put on a Bus: Right after the six month time skip, he's off traveling with Magna. As a result, they don't fight against Vanica, her Dark Disciples, or Dante along with the rest of the Black Bulls.
Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Not him, but he did witness a pair of Magic Knights about to rape a barmaid as their "reward" for the heroic deeds they just did. This was the impetus that drove him to become the vengeful man he is today.
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: He likes insulting others by telling them what they did wrong during a battle or whatever as well as any character flaws he sees in them. He does this to enemies, allies, and himself at the end of the Royal Knights Exam.
Red Herring: Zora is seemingly built up to be the villain of the Royal Knights Arc, first seen having brutally defeated the Purple Orcas' Vice Captain and then impersonating him. There's also his intimidating appearance and vendetta against Magic Knights, considering them all to be "the enemy", even the Black Bulls. He has a very understandable motive from his backstory which is revealed, takes part in defeating Langris, and gains some idealism from working with Asta. The end of the arc reveals that he's actually a Magic Knight, and when Zora reappears it turns out he was a Black Bull all along.
Required Secondary Powers: With his fighting style based on setting magical traps all over the battlefield, his allies can be vulnerable to them. He can use his Ash Magic to let them know where they're placed; he just chooses not to in the Royal Knights Exam with Asta to use him as bait.
Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Due to his father's death because of the classism within the Magic Knights and the organization's widespread corruption, he has dedicated his life to taking out corrupt Magic Knights.
Runic Magic: He uses Mana Method for his counter-traps. Unlike the Heart Kingdom style, which requires a large amount of magical power, good instincts, and fast reflexes to cast instantly, he puts his arrays together slowly beforehand and, as a peasant, his runes are so weak that they linger, letting him take a lot of time to create complicated arrays in advance. He teaches his style to Magna.
Scary Teeth: He has very sharp teeth that add to his overall intimidating look.
Sixth Ranger: Zora appears just before a very important arc in the series and is revealed to be a teammate all along.
Smarter Than They Look: He seems like a brutish troll with his rude personality and intimidating appearance, wearing all black and showing off his sharpened teeth through his mask. But he's very intelligent, using the terrain to his advantage whenever fighting, his great intuition to deduce someone's personality and magic, and setting up complex traps beforehand to make the most of his Trap Magic. It's later revealed that he had been studying runes for years with his hideout almost completely covered in his notes, creating his personal style of rune by casting extremely complex arrays beforehand for powerful, one-time spells because his low magic runes are so weak that they just hang around.
The Snark Knight: Are you a friend? Enemy? Mere acquaintance? It doesn't matter. Start any level of conversation with him and he'll definitely have a nice serving of sharply worded insults and/or critique ready for you. Given his dillusionment with the Magic Knights and how many of them operate, he has a very dreary and realistic outlook on the world despite being a Magic Knight himself which leads him to throw quips at anything he can. He particularly loves doing this to his opponents after he's beaten them. He'll give them a sharpy, worded "Reason You Suck" Speech in regards to why the lost (though often the criticism is constructive). And the kicker is that he does not exempt himself from the snark. The best example is after he and Asta's team ties with Langris's team during the Royal Knights Examination. After criticizing everyone else, he then criticizes himself for not having more faith in his comrades.
Strong Family Resemblance: He looks very similar to his late father.
Took a Level in Cynic: His backstory, with his father's murder by his squadmates for being a peasant and the widespread corruption of Magic Knights shattering his idealism about the organization, turning him into a vengeful vigilante.
Took a Level in Idealism: After witnessing the selflessness of the Black Bulls, especially Asta, in the Royal Knights Exam and being convinced by Julius, he tries trusting his companions more and becoming a model Magic Knight himself. This leads him to become a full-fledged Black Bull and Royal Knight.
Tragic Keepsake: The "Super Magic Knight Zora" doll his father made for him when he was a kid. Zora held onto it when he visited his father's grave and used it as an inspiration for his vigilante identity growing up. Years later, he's still seen carrying it around as he shows it to a young peasant, Ina, who dreams of becoming a great magic knight like his late father.
Trap Master: He uses his magic almost exclusively to set traps. They take the form of invisible spell circles on the ground that trigger when anybody is within them and can produce snare traps, landmine-like traps, and pitfalls with minimal effort. It turns out to be something he picked up from his father, who loved to play pranks on him.
Troll: He enjoys pissing off people and he's really good at it. It eventually backfires on him with hilarious results when Mereoleona proves too powerful and angry to try it and get away with it.
Tsurime Eyes: Going with his snarky, harsh personality Zora has eyes that slant upwards. Yami calls him and Nero "team angry eyes".
Used to Be a Sweet Kid: He was a nice, quiet kid. His father's murder by his fellow Magic Knights for being a peasant turned him into the cynical jerk he is now.
Vancian Magic: Crossed with Runic Magic. Zora uses weak runes to create complicated arrays beforehand to cast limited use spells like his powerful counter-trap spell, teaching this to Magna over the timeskip.
Vigilante Man: He has dedicated himself to hunting down and punishing Magic Knights who abuse their authority and power. He based himself off of a doll his father gave him named "Super Magic Knight Zora", a warrior who protects the country behind the scenes.
Walking Shirtless Scene: As aforementioned, his "jacket" only covers his arms and shoulders.
Weak, but Skilled: His magic isn't overtly strong and like other peasants he doesn't have as much mana as nobles. Instead, he uses planning and trickery to make the most out of his counter traps. It's later revealed that Zora's magic takes advantage of the "Weak"; as a peasant his runes are so weak that they just stay around, letting him take a long amount of time to build them into complicated arrays beforehand to come prepared into battle.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: Zora can be considered an anti-heroic version of this. His goal is to take down corrupt Magic Knights, doing so by brutalizing them with his magic. He considers all Magic Knights "the enemy", even the Black Bulls, and antagonizes morally decent ones like Asta because of his hatred for the organization as a whole. He grows out of it after the Royal Knights Exam.
You Are What You Hate: He's technically a Magic Knight, having been given a Black Bull robe by Yami, despite hating them for their corruption. After he's inspired by Asta to become a true Magic Knight, Zora embraces being a Black Bull and joins the Royal Knights.
You Remind Me of X: After the Royal Knights Selection Exam, Julius remarks that Zora is a lot like his father, Zara Ideale.

Henry Legolant

The Mansion Ghost

Voiced by: Mitsuki Saiga (Japanese), Stephen Fu (English)

Debut: Chapter 99 (Manga), Episode 64 (Anime)

Magic Attribute: Recombination

"If you hurt my friends, I will never forgive you."

The true owner of the Black Bulls' hideout who is confined to the squad's headquarters because his illness requires him to siphon magic from living beings. Henry is laidback and speaks slowly. He has secretly been watching over the Black Bulls and been mistaken as a ghost living in the hideout.

His Recombination Magic can restructure the Black Bulls' hideout to his liking.

Abusive Parents: Henry's father who not only wanted to disown him from the moment of his birth to keep him from disgracing the family's name with his illness, but also referred to him as "that".
- Downplayed with his mother who didn't accept him but still regarded him as their child and was initially terrified by her husband's claims.
Barefoot Loon: Henry does not wear any shoes, but while he isn't a loon, he is a quirky shut-in who cannot leave the hideout because of his illness.
Beneficial Disease: To some extent. All the magic he's accumulated from the Black Bulls is used to make the base an upright bull, and this helps them fight off the Eye of the Midnight Sun members, though they still get what they want in the end. And Gordon using his Curse-Worker's Neighbor spell on him lets him target whose magic his curse illness drains.
Beware the Nice Ones: He's one of the peaceful, sweetest Black Bulls. He's also surprisingly determined and ruthless when it comes to his friends' safety and protection.
Blue Blood: Henry was the son of the noble Legolant family, but was disowned by his father for his illness and abandoned by his parents in a mansion that would become the Black Bulls' hideout.
Combination Attack: After half a year of research and training, Gordon can use his Modified Poison Curse Magic: Curse-Worker's Neighbor to choose whose magic power Henry absorbs with his curse.
Cool Plane: He can use his magic to essentially create a small plane from the hideout that flies using mana.
Cursed with Awesome: It's later revealed that Henry's illness is due to a curse. That said, he can use the mana his illness accumulates to transform the hideout into a giant bull that he controls. The potential harm he can cause the others with his illness is soon resolved with Charmy's Sheep Cook, making food that restores others' magic power.
Determinator: Put any of the Black Bulls in danger, and he becomes surprisingly hard to stop for someone bedridden for his entire life.
Disease Bleach: He has long white hair and suffers from an illness that has him siphon others' mana to survive.
Early-Bird Cameo: Easy to miss, but he appears in a small part of Chapter 99, about forty chapters before his proper introduction. His role as the headquarters' ghost is given way earlier, when Asta sees that the interior has changed in Chapter 5.
Energy Absorption: His illness forces him to suck magic from others.
Foreshadowing: The existence of Henry's illness and people that have to live alone like he does becomes important later when its revealed Asta's mother had a much more serious case of the same illness that saps not just magic but life from any human or animal life close to her that forced her to give up her first son.
Eyes Out of Sight: His long hair normally hides his eyes. His eyes are first seen away from his bangs when he introduces himself by name and as a member of the Black Bulls.
Friend to All Living Things: According to the Volume 17 Questions Brigade, he is the character most liked by animals. He's a compassionate person, and the birds that live in his hair like him.
Genius Loci: Henry's Recombination Magic lets him rearrange the Black Bulls' hideout however he chooses. He's able to do so thanks to absorbing a large amount of magic power from his squadmates thanks to his illness, and having lived in the hideout most of his life. He weaponizes it by turning the hideout into a Humongous Mecha.
Has a Type: According to the Volume 31 Questions Brigade, he likes someone who teaches him things he doesn't know.
Heroic Sacrifice: He tries to sacrifice himself to absorb Drowa and Eclat's mana using his illness. He regrets it soon after, but Gordon, Grey, and Asta manage to save him and defeat the elves regardless.
Home Field Advantage: He can't survive outside the Black Bulls hideout, but inside it he can wield enough power to defeat a zombie created from two Magic Knight captains. Gauche provides the exposition - a mage can invest mana into a specific location they have a strong connection to, and the longer they stay there the more mana they can invest. Since Henry has lived in the mansion long before it became the Black Bulls' hideout, he has a tremendous amount of power stored there.
Horrifying the Horror: Parodied. When he first sees Henry, Gordon calls him creepy, with Gauche telling Gordon that he's in no place to say that.
Humongous Mecha: Essentially turns the base into one thanks to his Recombination Magic, and gets into a Behemoth Battle with Sally's creation. Exaggerated with the Ultra Giant Bull when Gauche multiplies Grey who transmutes parts of the Spade castle into new parts of the Black Bulls base, making it as large as the amalgation of first and second Qliphoth gate devils formed by Lucifero.
I Owe You My Life: The reason for his love for the Black Bulls. Thanks to their presence in the hideout, he was able to siphon mana from them which saved him from nearly dying.
Mana Drain: He passively siphons mana from those around him, due to his curse, building a large reservoir of mana to use for his impressive abilities.
Meaningful Name:
- Henry means "ruler of the home". He's the owner of the Black Bulls' hideout and his Recombination Magic changes its layout.
- Henry's last name is Legolant, which sounds similar to Legoland. This is fitting for the person with Recombination Magic and is in charge of maintaining the base.
Megaton Punch: Using the Raging Black Bull he can rotate its arm to deliver a spinning punch strong enough to knock out some elves.
Messy Hair: So much so that birds mistake him for a tree and live in it.
Mistaken for Undead: Thanks to his pale features, long, unruly hair, and rearranging the hideout, he was thought to be a ghost by Vanessa and Charmy.
Mundane Solution: Due to his illness, Henry can't be around others without draining their magic. This is solved simply with the Black Bulls eating Charmy's food made by her Cotton Magic. Her food restores mana, allowing Henry to be near them so long as they eat it.
Mystical White Hair: Although his long white hair is likely due to his illness, his condition lets him absorb others' mana and use his magic to rearrange the entire hideout.
Odd Friendship: Asta is the only person who can regularly be around him without risk, since he has no magic for Henry to drain. The two get along well because of this.
Parental Abandonment: His parents left him in the secluded house to live in because of his illness and never returned.
Power Makes Your Hair Grow: Inverted. Gordon's Curse-Worker's Neighbor spell which he learns after the time skip lets Henry control who is affected by his curse, which in the process alleviates its effects on his body and turns his long hair into a shorter, cleaner cut.
The Power of Friendship: He refers to his magic, and specifically the mansion's Raging Black Bull form as the manifestation of his friendship with the Black Bulls as it's cast through having absorbed their magic all this time. This is something Gordon immediately agrees with. The guidebook even gives Henry a 5/5 in "Friendship".
Remember the New Guy?: Asta knew who he was long before the rest of the Black Bulls did. Everyone else except Yami, who recruited him, didn't even know he existed and thought he was a ghost. However, this is slightly justified due to the nature of his disease making him dangerous to be around for long periods of time for a magic user and why Asta already knew him was because he's the only one who can safely be around him due to his lack of magic.
Riches to Rags: Henry was born the son of the noble Legolant family, but because of his illness he was disowned by his parents and abandoned in a mansion.
Rocket Punch: The spell is even called Mana Rocket Punch, launching a part of the hideout as a fist that he can even recall back.
The Shut-In: Because of his illness, he shouldn't leave the Black Bulls' hideout. Whenever he does leave, his magic absorption becomes more erratic.
Special Person, Normal Name: Has one of the most mundane names in the cast, but is actually the owner of the Black Bulls base and been living there the other time unbeknownst the others, was one of the squad's first members, and has the power to rearrange the base however he likes.
Stealth Pun: The guy whose last name is "legolant" has the ability to control, recombine and toy with a mansion however he desires.
Supernatural Gold Eyes: Henry has yellow eyes on top of his white hair, fitting for him having a curse illness that drains mana from anyone near him, and a magic that uses all the mana he's amassed to remodel the entire Black Bulls base, such as as a giant mecha.
Superpower Lottery: With his Recombination Magic, Henry can turn the hideout into a giant bull with incredible attack power so long as he has enough magic absorbed, allowing him to easily beat a corpse formed from two former Magic Knight captains. When the others first see it in action, they wonder what insane magic it is.
That Thing Is Not My Child!: On the receiving end of this by his nobleman father, who thought that his illness made him a disgrace to the Legolant name. As a result, his parents left him in an empty mansion.
Transforming Mecha: Thanks to his magic he can transform the hideout into a humanoid bull to fight or a four-legged bull for transportation.
Verbal Tic: He talks really slow to Gauche's annoyance.

Liebe

Anti-Magic Devil

^{Click here to see his familiar form}

Voiced by: Ken'ichirou Matsuda, Nobuhiko Okamoto (Episodes 169-170) (Japanese), Cris George, Bryce Papenbrook (Episodes 169-170) (English)

Debut: Chapter 1 (Manga), Episode 1 (Anime)

Magic Attribute: Anti-Magic

"I'll never forgive them. This malice will never disappear. Devils are scum. Every last one of them. And so I'm gonna kill them all!!! Even if I have to steal your body to do it!!!"

The devil inside Asta's grimoire. He rarely appears for most of the manga, only speaking occasionally to Asta, before we finally get his character and backstory in the Spade Kingdom Raid arc.

All of the Other Reindeer: As a devil born without any magic, and devils liking to terrorize those beneath them due to the boredom of the underworld, he was abused every day until a high-ranking devil threw him at the gate of the underworld, which he could pass through thanks to having no magic.
Anti-Hero: He's a terrifying, rude, and occasionally cruel devil who wants to take over Asta's body, but as revealed he wants to use said body to kill all other devils and free the world of their cruel manipulations, and beyond that he turns out to be honorable and true to his word.
Anti-Magic: He has no magic at all, and is the source of Asta's anti-magic.
Bash Brothers: He becomes this with Asta, his actual adoptive brother at that. They defeat Lilith and Naamah together, with Liebe grateful for Asta for letting him do so, complete with a wrist bump after their time in Devil Union runs out.
Boomerang Bigot: Despite being one himself, he considers all devils scumbags. Not without good reason, since all the devils abused him during his childhood, tried to kill him by throwing him against the gate to the human world and the strongest devil, Lucifero, murdering his mother, Licita, when he would've been content living in peace with her:
Liebe: I'll never forgive them. This malice... ...will never disappear. Devils... are scum. Every last one of them. And so... I'm gonna kill them all!!! Even if I have to steal your body to do it!!!
Cain and Abel: Downplayed, as they share the same goals, but he was the Cain to Asta's Abel, being Asta's mother Licita's adoptive son. He's trying to take over Asta's body to kill every devil to avenge her death. After Asta defeats him, he wants to befriend Liebe out of gratitude for having empowered him all this time and refuses to make him his servant. Liebe, because of Asta's kindness and relation to Licita, returns Asta's gesture.
Commonality Connection: He accepts Asta's friendship out of their shared goal of defeating the devils and, unbeknownst to Asta, because they're both the sons of Licita.
Dark Is Evil: A devil who uses black Anti-Magic that appears as a large, shadowy figure in Asta's mind when speaking to him and wants to take over his body. Later subverted when he formally appears — he's not evil so much as he is desperately vengeful, which is really understandable given his tragic backstory.
Dark Is Not Evil: Despite being a devil with the power of dark anti-magic, Liebe himself turns out not to be a truly malevolent entity but understandably wants revenge on all devils and Asta's body to do so. However, after Asta defeats him he offers to become friends with Liebe, who's touched and realizes that he's his adopted mother's son, and accepts.
Deal with the Devil: He makes a "devil's bargain", lending Asta his true power so he can help Yami defeat Dante in exchange for taking control of Asta's right arm, which Asta agrees to.
Defeat Means Friendship: Asta offers to befriend Liebe after defeating him, telling him that they'll defeat the devils together. Touched by this, and realizing that Asta is Licita's son, Liebe accepts and they form an equal devil contract.
Demonic Possession:
- Defied. When Liebe attempts to take Asta's body during their Battle in the Center of the Mind and deliver a Curb-Stomp Battle to the resident villain, Asta puts his foot down, climbs up said devil's body, and is implied to have punched said devil into submission, taking the power for himself.
- Asta agrees to let Liebe take over his right arm in exchange for sharing with him his true power to help Yami defeat Dante.
- What Liebe wants to do to Asta after being released from the grimiore. His end goal to kill every devil in revenge for his adoptive mother's death.
Didn't Think This Through: When fighting Asta, he plans on taking over Asta's body by defeating him to get his revenge on the devils. What he fails to factor in is that his power, anti-magic, is useless against someone who has no magic whatsoever, that Asta himself is still a physically powerful, trained swordsman, and Liebe himself has no fighting experience whatsoever. The result is Asta, after some difficulty against Liebe's control of the anti-magic swords, defeating him with Yami's katana. Lampshaded by Asta later on when they train together, with him calling Liebe out for not knowing anything despite talking like a big shot.
Disability Superpower: Was the only devil without magic in the underworld, which let him cross the gate to the human world when he was thrown into it by devils that were tormenting him. This also let him manifest Anti-Magic through The Power of Hate while sealed in the five-leaf grimoire.
Emotional Powers: The more out of control Asta's emotions get, the more the devil's power encroaches onto its host.
Enemy Mine: Asta appeals to Liebe's anger at Dante for beating his host, and surmises that, like himself, he wants to beat Dante too. Asta asks the devil to lend him his true power, which Liebe agrees to with Asta's right arm as payment.
Enemy Within:
- He has this role, trying to take over Asta's body when the Witch Queen removes his body's anti-magic limits. Asta refuses and instead uses his power to enter his Black form for the first time.
- When Asta is unsuccessful at helping Yami fight Dante, he willingly speaks to the devil, and enters a bargain with him, gaining his true power by letting him take over his right arm.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: His desire to take control of Asta's body to kill all devils stems from his love for his adoptive mother Licita, who died protecting him from Lucifero. Asta's decision to befriend him and defeat the devils together, combined with him being Licita's son, turns Liebe over to the side of good.
Facial Markings: He has black lines crossing over his red eyes.
Familiar: Liebe becomes Asta's after making a devil contract with him, taking on a diminutive form when Asta uses his power.
Family of Choice: A devil who was adopted by the human Licita and came to consider her his mother. He accepts Asta's friendship in part because he's Licita's son.
Fangs Are Evil: Has noticeably sharp teeth and is a devil trying to steal Asta's body.
Foil: To his adoptive brother and host Asta. Both were born as outcasts without any magic, both of them defied the odds and became strong and they are both the sons of Licita; one by birth, the other by adoption.
From Nobody to Nightmare: Neither Lucifero nor Zagred had any idea who he was. The former seems to believe that he's a low-ranking devil because of his anti-magic, while the latter was slain by his host Asta. Flashbacks show that he was at the bottom of the devil hierarchy in the underworld for having no magic.
Fusion Dance: While training with Nacht, he momentarily uses Devil Union with Asta. They fully enter the form to save the Clover Kingdom from the rampaging ancient Spade Kingdom demon sent by the Dark Triad.
Grand Theft Me: He tries to take over Asta's body when the Witch Queen removes his body's anti-magic limits, with Asta successfully refusing. He attempts to do so again when Nacht summons him to the living world for Asta to defeat him and gain his true anti-magic power.
Happily Adopted: He was adopted by Licita, who he described as having changed his world, with the two seen doing mother-son activities. He called her "mom" before she sealed him in the grimoire and died.
Heel–Face Turn: When Asta defeats Liebe, he chooses to befriend him instead of making Liebe his servant, telling him that they want to take down the same people. Liebe accepts Asta's gesture and makes an equal contract with him.
Hour of Power: His Devil Union with Asta is only able to last 5 minutes. Despite this, it's long enough for him to defeat the ancient demon let loose on the Clover Kingdom by the Dark Triad.
Hunter of His Own Kind: He wants to kill all devils, despite being one himself, in revenge for his adoptive mother's death.
Hypocritical Humor: In their first meeting, Liebe takes the appearance of a giant and mocks Asta over his height. However, when he’s forced to manifest in the real world, it's revealed that his true form is just as short as Asta. Asta wastes no time calling him out on this.
Interspecies Adoption: Licita, a human woman, took in and raised Liebe, a devil, because as a devil with no magic he was impervious to her body's condition.
It's All My Fault: Liebe blames himself for Licita's death, as if he had magic and didn't leave the underworld he wouldn't have met her and she wouldn't have been killed by Lucifero when he tried to take over her body. When he can't defeat him he cries Tears of Remorse while apologizing to her, with it taking Asta's words for him to snap out of it.
Karmic Jackpot: After a lifetime of being abused by devils in the underworld for having no magic, he's able to attain revenge against said devils through Devil Union with Asta, gloating to Lilith and Naamah that the emotion that they're feeling is fear before killing the supreme devils.
Living Shadow: As he has no body of his own, he appears to Asta and others as a mass of black shadows with glowing red eyes and a mouth, vaguely in the shape of a demon.
Logical Weakness: Being a devil with no real fighting experience who uses anti-magic, it doesn't take long for Liebe to begin to lose to Asta, who doesn't have any magic to be affected by anti-Magic and is a physically strong, skilled swordsman who begins to easily pick up his sword attacks and evade them.
Long-Lost Relative: He's actually this to Asta, being his adoptive brother. Asta's mother Licita abandoned him due to her body stealing magic and life from living things near her, and adopted Liebe as her child because he was immune.
Made a Slave: Defied. Despite Nacht's urging that there wouldn't be any merit in doing so, Asta chooses not to subjugate Liebe in a slave contract after defeating him out of gratitude for letting him fight with his Anti-Magic all this time and because he wasn't actually trying to kill him. Liebe, touched and realizing that he's Licita's son, accepts Asta's friendship and they form an equal contract.
Meaningful Name: Liebe is German for "love", and the name given to him by his adoptive mother, Licita, who treated him with love and care until she was killed by Lucifero.
Messy Hair: Liebe has messy white hair not dissimilar to Asta's ash-blond hair.
Mind over Matter: When fighting Asta, he can telekinetically move the anti-magic swords.
Momma's Boy: He loves his mother Licita a lot, describing her as the human that changed his world by giving him the love and care he never had in the Underworld. It was her death that set his goals in the story. His volume profile states that his favorite things are Licita and her cooking.
My Species Doth Protest Too Much: Despite Nacht's and his own statement that devils have no principles, Asta notes that he isn't trying to kill him and is not like Zagred.
Mystical White Hair: White hair and has the unique power of anti-magic.
No Name Given: His name isn't given until Chapter 268, which reveals his adoptive mother Licita gave him the name "Liebe".
Not Always Evil: Despite being a devil and even agreeing with Nacht's sentiment that all devils are scum, Liebe himself doesn't fit the purely malevolent nature of devils who want to harm others out of their sadism, having been abused by devils all his life as the lowest in the underworld's hierarchy and later raised by Licita, whom he wants to avenge through taking Asta's body. Asta points this out and that Liebe wasn't actually trying to kill him during their fight as reasons for why he wants to make an equal contract of friendship with him:
Asta: Just because someone's a devil doesn't necessarily mean they're a bad guy!!
One Degree of Separation: Liebe had been cared for by Asta's mother Licita as though he were her own child after she left Asta at the church to protect him from her body's tendency to absorb magic and life. While Liebe notices the resemblance, he doesn't say a word of this to Asta, who is in the dark about his parentage. Asta later figures it out himself when he sees into Liebe's memories, thanking him for letting him see his mom and learn that she did love him.
Orc Raised by Elves: Despite being a devil from the underworld, Liebe himself has a hatred for his own race due to their constant torment and abuse of him in the underworld for having no magic, and was later taken in and raised by Licita when he came to the human world. Although he claims that all devils including himself are scum, Asta points out that Liebe is different, inferring that his inability to kill Asta is because of his compassion, which comes from the maternal love he received from Licita.
Pay Evil unto Evil: He gets taunting and sadistic with other devils, but given how said devils were being infinitely worse and are responsible for a load of misery, especially his own, it's hard to blame him.
Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Despite calling Asta a shrimp, he's about the same height as Asta. He's still a powerful devil who can move the giant anti-magic swords to fight him.
The Power of Hate: He claims his anti-magic manifested from his intense hatred for the other devils.
Power Tattoo: After making an equal contract with Asta that lets him use his true power, Liebe gains a marking of runes around his left wrist.
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: When Yami is captured by Zenon, Asta asks the devil for more power, even offering more of his body. Liebe tells Asta he's too weak to handle any more power.
Red and Black and Evil All Over: Subverted. His appearance while inside the grimoire is as a tall, black demonic figure against a red backdrop in the anime. And when he finally appears in the living world, he's shown to have black sclera with red irises and his right arm, along with most of his body, is black with jagged red lines from the bargain with Asta. And although he wants to take over Asta's body, his backstory reveals that it's to gain revenge for his adopted mother Licita's death. And he later allies with Asta and accepts his friendship when learning that he's Licita's son and that they share the goal of defeating all devils.
Red Eyes, Take Warning: When Liebe appears in the human world, he's shown to have red eyes, and is a devil trying to take over Asta's body.
Red Is Heroic: Many of his powers have a red aura mixed with them, as does his Devil Union with Asta. He also stands out as a steadfast ally of Asta by that point, a rare amount of morals in a Devil.
Red Right Hand: When he finally appears in the living world, his right arm resembles the one he took from Asta in their bargain during the battle against Dante, being much more muscular and with red cragged markings compared to his left arm.
Roaring Rampage of Revenge: He wants to take over Asta's body to kill every devil due to Lucifero taking over his body and killing his adoptive mother. After Lucifero is killed, he thanks Asta for helping him avenge Licita's death, saying it's now his turn to make Asta's dream come true.
Rugged Scar: He gets a big one across his chest matching with Asta after Lucius strikes him in Devil Union while he's shocked from a controlled Sister Lily asking him to die.
Scary Teeth: He has a mouth full of jagged, pointy teeth, to add to his whole look as a monstrous devil.
Sealed Evil in a Can: A devil who's the source of Asta's Anti-Magic, sealed inside his five-leaf grimoire. It's later subverted, Liebe himself turns out to have been the abused, lowest-ranked devil in the underworld instead of an all-powerful devil, who accidentally came to the living world where he was adopted by Licita, Asta's mother, until her death when Lucifero tried to take over his body, with Licita herself having sealed Liebe inside the grimoire for his protection. His reason for desiring Asta's body is actually to kill all devils in revenge for her death, and as Asta points out Liebe may be a devil but he isn't a bad guy, with the two later forming an equal contract of mutual friendship.
Shadow Archetype: He is a demonic looking version of Asta, even being just as short as him and them being the same age. Even more so when it's revealed he was abused by other devils for having no magic, similar to Asta, and adopted by Asta's mother.
Sibling Team: Forms this with Asta, his adoptive brother through Licita, after they make an equal contract with the two learning to go into Devil Union together. Asta learns about their relation when he sees into Liebe's memories with Licita during the fight against Lucifero, with the two resolving to fight together and calling each other brother.
Signature Laugh: He has a unique laugh: "Keh-keh-keh!"
Sleep-Mode Size: After making a contract with Asta, when Liebe gives Asta his power he takes on a tiny form, small enough to stand on Asta's shoulder.
Squishy Wizard: He's a devil who wields an energy able to nullify any magic that comes into contact with it and able to control the anti-magic swords remotely when he manifests in the living world. He still falls to the magic-less Asta, who's not at a disadvantage against anti-magic and has trained and fought with enough powerful swordsmen to become a very skilled one himself, in a few hits.
Superior Successor: At the very least, he aspires to be even greater than Zagred, who was the Greater-Scope Villain of the first saga up to the point of his destruction.
Superpowered Evil Side: Subverted. He may have possessed Asta a few times, but he’s ultimately a sympathetic character who lost his adoptive mother to Lucifero, and when Asta and Liebe were finally able to befriend each other they become Bash Brothers.
Sympathy for the Devil: A literal case, invoked by both Licita and Asta.
Tears of Remorse: Cries these in his mental world when unable to beat Lucifero, repeatedly apologizing to Licita and blaming himself for her death.
Token Heroic Orc: As Nacht puts it, there is no such thing as a devil with principles. Liebe is the exception, having been the lowest-ranked devil in the underworld due to having no magic and tormented all his life. He was later adopted by the human Licita as her son after he was thrown into the living world, with Liebe swearing revenge against all devils for her death at the hands of Lucifero. And Asta's gratitude, kindness, and relation to Licita spurs Liebe to accept his friendship.
Training from Hell: After making an equal contract with Asta when Nacht summons him through a Devil-Binding Ritual for Asta to gain his power, Nacht makes them fight him while using his devils' power, telling them this is the beginning of the training. Liebe manages to momentarily use Devil Union with Asta, so Nacht leaves Gimodelo with them so they can polish it up and then join him and the assault force at the Spade Kingdom.
Trauma Button: Seeing Gauche get stabbed by Dante has Liebe briefly remember a memory of his adoptive mother Licita before going berserk and making Asta react similarly as they try to make Dante a red smear across the landscape.
The Unchosen One: Him and Asta think about how they're this when they use the Demon-Slasher Katana to save Yami — the sword chooses what it cuts and leaves intact what it wants to protect.
"We weren't chosen by mana. And so... we'll make our own choices!!!!"
Unskilled, but Strong: This becomes apparent when he fights Asta. Liebe can release anti-magic that nullifies magic and control the giant anti-magic swords. However, he has no real fighting experience thanks to being abused all his life in the underworld, living a peaceful life with Licita, and then being sealed in a grimoire. Thus, Asta, who has formed a swordsmanship style from fighting with powerful swordsmen, begins to easily read his attacks and gain the upper hand in their fight.
Un-Sorcerer: Similarly to Asta, he was born without any magic whatsoever. This is what allowed him to come to the human world in the first place, as well as be raised by Licita.
Unsportsmanlike Gloating:
- Some fairly justified examples, as all the targets he does this to are either Devils or devil hosts, and with his Dark and Troubled Past, he's clearly relishing the opportunity to make them suffer their impending defeat/death all the more, now he's in a position to return the abuse he was given.
- He mocks Zagred after Asta cuts him in half. Since Asta is using his power, it's basically the same as him beating Zagred and calling him the loser. In the anime, shots of him are shown as Asta finishes Zagred off to symbolize it.
- The anime adds a short scene of Liebe retorting to Dante that this is the end for him before Asta slashes him with Yami's katana, defeating him.
- He gloats to a fused Lilith and Naamah that the unlearned emotion that they're feeling is fear before him and Asta in Devil Union kill them.
Vitriolic Best Buds: Becomes this with Asta out of his desire to befriend Liebe, refusing to force him to become a servant, with Liebe reciprocating out of Asta's kindness and his relation to their mother Licita. They continue to squabble as they bond during their training with Nacht, with Liebe calling Asta an idiot and Asta getting annoyed in return.
White Hair, Black Heart: Subverted. He has white hair and is a devil who's trying to take over Asta's body, but is revealed to not be evil and has a very tragic backstory.
You Killed My Mother: Although he wants to kill all devils, he especially hates Lucifero because his adoptive mother Licita was killed by him while trying to prevent the devil from taking over Liebe's body. When he meets the devil king again after he manifests, Liebe is livid and confronts him about killing Licita.
You Remind Me of X: Asta's statement that the Anti-Magic Devil isn't a bad guy reminds Liebe of Asta's, and Liebe's, own mother.

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Finral Roulacase

Voiced by: Jun Fukuyama (Japanese), Brandon McInnis (English)note Other Languages: Miguel Ángel Ruiz (Latin American Spanish)

Debut: Chapter 2 (Manga), Episode 4 (Anime)

Magic Attribute: Spatial

Magna Swing

Voiced by: Genki Muro (Japanese), Ian Sinclair (English)note Other Languages: Roberto Gutiérrez (Latin American Spanish)

Debut: Chapter 3 (Manga), Episode 6 (Anime)

Magic Attribute: Flame

Luck Voltia

Voiced by: Ayumu Murase (Japanese), Justin Briner (English)note Other Languages: José Luis Piedra (Latin American Spanish)

Debut: Chapter 3 (Manga), Episode 6 (Anime)

Magic Attribute: Lightning

Gauche Adlai

Voiced by: Satoshi Hino (Japanese), Risa Kageyama (Japanese, young), Dave Trosko (English), Kate Oxley (English, young)note Other Languages: Gerardo Alonso (Latin American Spanish)

Debut: Chapter 3 (Manga), Episode 6 (Anime)

Magic Attribute: Mirror

Vanessa Enoteca

Voiced by: Nana Mizuki (Japanese), Lydia Mackay (English), Hayden Daviau (English, young)note Other Languages: Betzabé Jara (Latin American Spanish)

Debut: Chapter 3 (Manga), Episode 6 (Anime)

Magic Attribute: Thread

Charmy Pappitson

Voiced by: Kiyono Yasuno (Japanese), Sarah Wiedenheft (English)note Other Languages: Vanessa Olea (Latin American Spanish)

Debut: Chapter 3 (Manga), Episode 6 (Anime)

Magic Attribute: Cotton + Food

Gordon Agrippa

Voiced by: Ken'ichirou Matsuda (Japanese), Mike McFarland (English)note Other Languages: Miguel Ángel Leal (Latin American Spanish)

Debut: Chapter 2 (Manga), Episode 4 (Anime)

Magic Attribute: Poison

Grey

Voiced by: Masayuki Akasaka (Japanese, Transformed), Minami Takahashi (Japanese, True Form), Jarrod Greene (English, Transformed), Megan Shipman (English, True Form)note Other Languages: Mauricio Pérez (Transformed), Alejandra Delint (True Form) (Latin American Spanish)

Debut: Chapter 3 (Manga), Episode 6 (Anime)

Magic Attribute: Transmutation

Zora Ideale

Voiced by: Hikaru Midorikawa (Japanese), Johnny Yong Bosch (English)

Debut: Chapter 112 (Manga), Episode 73 (Anime)

Magic Attribute: Ash

Henry Legolant

Voiced by: Mitsuki Saiga (Japanese), Stephen Fu (English)

Debut: Chapter 99 (Manga), Episode 64 (Anime)

Magic Attribute: Recombination

Liebe

Voiced by: Ken'ichirou Matsuda, Nobuhiko Okamoto (Episodes 169-170) (Japanese), Cris George, Bryce Papenbrook (Episodes 169-170) (English)

Debut: Chapter 1 (Manga), Episode 1 (Anime)

Magic Attribute: Anti-Magic

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