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Richter (リヒテル)

Voiced by: Osamu Ichikawa (Japanese), Luciano Roffi/Alessio Cigliano (Italian), Huang Jianqiang (Hong Kong Cantonese), Seongho Shin (Korean)

The son of King Leon and Queen Roji, Erika's brother, and the heir to the Baam throne. Upon witnessing his father's death, he was eager to become the commander of Earth invasion force to avenge his father. He loved his sister, but felt betrayed when he found out about her forbidden love with Kazuya - after all, the Earthlings killed their father. Richter grew an obsession with defeating Kazuya to restore his and Erika's pride as true Balmians. His noble side prevailed when he found out about certain Awful Truths from within his people, especially about Olban who had something to do about his father's death - just not how he imagined.

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• Abusive Offspring: To Margarete, the woman who raised him and Erika after their mother's death, alongside King Leon. He is furious at her for sympathizing with Erika, and when she helps her escape from the Undersea Castle to Earth, he has Raiza torture her. He redeems himself in her eyes when he attempts to assassinate Olban and praises Erika for doing the same.
  Richter: "The death penalty would be too comfortable for you! Your wings will be cut off and you will live as a slave! You will die in pain. This is what awaits traitors in the undersea castle."
• Adaptational Hairstyle Change: The Noboru Sakaoka manga shortens his hair significantly.
• Agent Peacock: Richter is a feminine-looking man with long blonde hair and thick eyelashes. His Roman attire includes a skirt. However, he's also a Proud Warrior Race Guy that enjoys duelling for fun, is a Master Swordsman, as well as a Master Marksman, and is a military leader.
• Alien Prince: Richter is the Prince of the Baam and wants the best for his people. His entire motive is securing a home for them so that the Baam culture can prosper once again.
• All There in the Manual: The Roman Robo Anime Climax Selection reveals that Richter's age is 19.
• Aloof Big Brother: Richter cared about Erika but was too duty-bound to set an example for his own people. While he disowned her, he was actually grief-stricken that he could only cope by thinking that the Erika he knew was dead. He gets better by the final arc, but he's still very aloof.
• Animal Motifs: Lions.
  • His hair is untamed and grows downwards and backwards covering most of the head, neck and shoulders, much like a lion's mane.
  • Lions in ancient Mesopotamian culture were associated with kingship, and Richter is Baam's Alien Prince.
  • Episode 25 of Daimos is called Proud Young Lion Richter.
• Appeal to Force: He threatens Margerete with execution for aiding Erika, and also warns his underlings that he will do the same to him if they try to befriend the humans.
• Anger Born of Worry: He's furious at Erika for going behind his back to join the military, but he feared she wouldn't make it back alive, due to his ideals that it is better to die than surrender.
• Arch-Enemy: Kazuya Ryuzaki, the pilot of Daimos and the lover of Erika. Richter spends most of the series blaming him for the misfortune of the Baam people, and the two battle one-on-one in Episodes 16 and 25.
• Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Both Richter and Aizam were nominated to lead the Earthern Invasion Force, and they both have a history of sparring in colosseums for sport. However, while Richter followed through with the fighting route, Aizam chose to pursue science.
• The Atoner: After helping Kazuya avert the crash of Small Balm to Jupiter, he silently commits suicide by setting himself to crash into Jupiter, knowing that peace would never come as long as he, who used to be the face of the Balm invasion, is still around, and he has to atone for that.
• Backstab Backfire: Georiya reveals his true colours to Richter after believing that Richter was too weak to oppose him, arranging his death afterwards. Richter survives, and travels to Small Baam to hunt down Georiya and kill him.
• Bad Boss:
  • Richter often hits Raiza as punishment for frustrating him. He once slapped her even after she tended to his injuries because she suggested that they seek aid from the humans.
  • Gurney also faced similar abuse from Richter, the Prince ordering for his Execution after repeatedly hitting him with his staff.
• Beauty Is Bad: While he's certainly a Pretty Boy, he strongly averts Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold by being a revenge-obsessed Warrior Prince. Though his actions in the Grand Finale play it straight, where he takes the hit of several lasers for the sake of saving the remaining Baam-seijin on cryostatis. He also admits to Kazuya that he has moved past his bigotry and accepts his relationship with Erika. Unfortunately, what happens next can only be described as nothing less of gruesome.
• Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Horrifically averted when Georiya kicks him out of the Undersea Castle through a Humongous Mecha that later explodes, and when Miwa shoots at him and Raiza. They're both left with bloody wounds all over their bodies.
• Berserk Button: Suggesting that he make peace with the humans. He hates them.
• Big Brother Instinct: When they were children Richter risked his life to save Erika from a fire. Even though Leon yelled at him that it was risky, he didn't care and together, they escaped from the flames.
• Blood Knight: He enjoyed duelling for fun when he was younger. He also challenges Kazuya to a duel when he meets him face to face, and he first befriends Aizam after beating him in a jousting match.
• Blue Is Heroic: Richter mostly wears blue and sees himself as heroic. Even his battle armor is dark blue with a white mascot at the center.
• Bodyguard Babes: Has one in the form of Raiza, even though he finds her annoying and useless as an ally. Nevertheless, she insists on being this because she has an unrequited crush on him. She doesn't let up against him even as she's being repeatedly shot by bullets.
• Break the Haughty: Richter starts off the series confident that he'll win against the Earthlings. As the series progresses, his allies betray him, his sister runs away from him, his best friend dies and the forces of the king he's serving massacre his remaining loyal generals. The final straw is when Richter massacres large swathes of humans under the belief that they're selfish bastards, yet the human race still tries to salvage the remaining populace of Baam from crashing into Jupiter, after which he realizes he was wrong about them. Richter can't cope with the guilt of his actions and kills himself.
• Broken Pedestal: On both ends.
  • Erika used to love her big brother, but she went from adoring him to wanting to be as far away as possible from him because he was consumed by his rage.
  • Richter trusted Olban ever since he was a very young child, since he was the King's Royal Advisor. And then he found out that Olban poisoned his father so he could have the throne.
• Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: Richter is reserved and distant from others, while his sister is more social and open. It also applies to how they interact with others as well, with Erika happily accepting the Earthling's friendship while Richter writes off each attempt as a ploy to weaken the Baam.
• Cain and Abel: Invoked. Before arriving to the Earthern moon to have peace negotiations with the Earthlings, Richter expressed doubt about the kindness of the Earthlings, while Erika and Leon told him to look on the bright side and have hope for the future. Though the resolution to allow the Baam refugees to Earth was approved, King Leon was poisoned, and Richter assumed it was the work of the humans as they had given him the cup that had it. To avenge his father, Richter tried to shoot the Earthern delegates in spite of Leon begging him not to, saying it would destroy all chances of peace between the two nations. He used his final words to beg Erika to stop her brother. Throughout the series, Richter's drive to annihilate the Earth and Erika's desire for peace clash multiple times, driving the two further apart and causing Richter to mourn the sister he once knew and loved as a "traitor". When Richter finds out that it was all Based on a Great Big Lie and it was in fact Georiya, a Baamite, who killed his father (being ordered to do so by Olban so he could have his throne), Richter is Driven to Suicide from the guilt of realizing he took millions of innocent Earthling lives and kills himself. It goes to show that Richter did have some form of good in him, but he was so broken after seeing his father die that he was unable to see reason.
• Can't Take Criticism: Richter reacts to criticism of him by calling for the critics to be executed. It's implied that even his most loyal soldiers, Raiza and Balbas, fear him. While Richter intends to use this to keep his subordinates in line, it has the opposite effect as some Baamites are disgusted by his tyranny and defect to La Résistance.
• Captain Patriotic: He believes that everything he's doing is for the good of the Baam. Olban, who wants him to be a pawn to his ambitions, enforces his behaviour.
  Olban: "Remember, Richter, the fate of one billion Baam-seijin is in your hands!"
• A Child Shall Lead Them: Played with. Richter is 19, but the vast majority of the Baam he commands are middle-aged men that appear to be in their 30s. Combined with his lack of experience in commanding militia, it's not surprising that most of his attempts at destroying Daimos end up with the loss of his men.
• Combat by Champion: Richter is fond of this trope, challenging Kazuya to a fight in episode 16. Even though he's an experienced fighter, it doesn't end in his favour.
• Conquering Alien Prince: Though the Baam did at least first try to negotiate with the Earthlings on sharing a planet. He's even on the page image.
• Cool Crown: Richter, like his father, has a golden crown with a metallic bird statue on the center. It also doubles as a bomb.
• Cool Mask: In his A Day in the Limelight episode, Richter personally manns Grangale into battle, and while preparing himself, he puts on a long, green mask that covers most of his face, sans the eye holes.
• A Day in the Limelight: Proud Young Lion Richter is a look at the events of Daimos from his point of view, and shows how he interacts with the Baam under his command.
• Dead Guy on Display: Attempted. He hosts public executions for Erika and Margarete. It's also implied Gurney would have faced a similar fate, had Erika and Margarete not freed him.
• Deceased Parents Are the Best: Richter lost his mother when he was young when she passed out due to smoke inhalation, while his father was poisoned. And it was the latter that made him into the man he is today.
• Demoted to Dragon: Olban, finally fed up with Richter's lack of progress, sends Aizam in his stead. Aizam, however, tells Richter the truth and refuses to replace him. He later dies fighting Daimos, satisfied that he got to die in battle instead of succumbing to his illness.
• Depending on the Writer: Is either a Bad Boss or A Father to His Men. The former is more common.
• Disowned Sibling: When he finds out Erika has fallen for a human, he states that he has no sister. He even sentences her to execution over it.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: Richter has many uncanny parallels to modern white supremacists. While he is an alien, he has long, blonde hair and pale white skin. He also desires an ethnostate, endorses slavery and colonization, believes his race is "the best" and thinks his sister "betrayed" their race because she fell in love with a human.
• Dragon-in-Chief: Demonstrated when Richter and Olban have their final showdown, where Olban can only rely on his underlings to defend him while Richter continues to fight with dedication, eventually killing him.
• Dragon with an Agenda: He didn't have the highest opinion of them in the first place, but most of his actions come from a place of wanting to punish the human race for the loss of his father.
• The Dreaded: Even though he helms the base, Richter is feared amongst a good number of the Undersea Castle because of how far he's willing to go over his nationalist leanings.
• Driven to Suicide: Amongst the vilest of Olban's crimes was breaking Richter by killing Leon, turning him into a vengeful warmonger and revealing the truth only after Richter had killed many innocents in his crusade to avenge him. Richter couldn't live with the shame of his actions and killed himself.
• Dub Name Change:
  • Prince Ulrich in the Philippine-English dub.
  • Prince Roderick in the Starbirds dub.
  • Principe Rikiter in the Italian dub.
• Dumb Blonde: He has long, blonde hair, but his anger overtakes him during his worst moments which leads to some horrible decision making.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Richter is disgusted when Raiza tries to turn Erika's burial into a battlefield and tells her she went against his orders. He is also similarly disgusted when he learns that Olban has been toying with the Baam-seijin in cryostatis for his own personal benefit.
• Evil Is Angular: Averted and played straight. Richter has curly hair and some of his locks are circle-shaped, but his staff and head piece are pointy.
• Evil Is Bigger: He is one of the tallest Baam◊ in the series, second to only Balbas and Olban.
• Evil Is Not Pacifist: Richter is always itching for a fight, whether it's against Kazuya or his own sister. When he thinks his comrades aren't being obedient, he reprimands them with violence too.
• Evil Prince: Richter believes that all of his atrocities are justified because the humans are an inferior race, because the Baam were once wronged in their time of need, and because the safety of the Baam takes priority over everything else. In his conversation with Raiza before he commands Grangale into battle, he tells her that the Baam people in cryostatis still eagerly await their new home.
  Richter: "It is for them that I must complete my conquest of Earth!"
• Evil Sounds Deep: Richter has a commanding, aggressive voice, fit for a Warrior Prince.
• Everyone Loves Blondes: Defied. While Richter seems to have the support of all of the Undersea Castle, the vast majority of them are spies for Georiya or members sympathetic to Erika's cause. By the time he's kicked out, only Raiza and Balbas remain loyal to him, and they later kick the bucket too. On Small Baam, he finds people willing to help him, bit it's only because they have a common cause (oppose Olban) rather than respect for him as a person.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Even though he was angry at Erika for running away, he did feel relief for her when she returned and tried to make her feel better by torturing her "captors". However, when he saw her cry out for Kazuya, he deemed her a traitor. He then ordered her death, only for Melvi to intervene and take her to New Zealand. By the Grand Finale, even though Richter retains his hatred for humanity (at first), him and Erika have made up and work together to stop Olban.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • Richter initially restrained himself from killing Erika when he found out that she had fallen in love with Kazuya. Key word, initially.
  • Every attempt Raiza makes to win his favour (such as sending an army to accompany Erika's burial) is met with disgust because he finds it too cruel/violent.
  • Even as Gust admonished him for overworking his father, Richter held no anger towards him and asked that he be treated by the doctor as well.
  • On Small Baam, Richter co-operated with La Résistance against Olban to overthrow his tyranny.
• Execution: Richter has this in store for anyone who "betrays"^note Read: opposes the Baam-Earth war and wishes for peace, and orders the execution of his own sister, the nanny that raised him, said sister's best friend, Gurney Halleck and several others for the crime of "betraying" the Baam Empire.
• Expy:
  • To an extent, Richter is this to Kenichi, The Leader of the Voltes Team and The Rival of Prince Heinel, The Hero of Voltes V, being the antagonistic blonde older brother of Erika, Deuteragonist of Tosho Daimos as opposed to being the slightly antagonistic dark-haired younger brother of Prince Heinel, The Hero of Voltes V and an aloof rival with some noble sides. However, while Kenichi was ultimately motivated by Thou Shalt Not Kill, Richter is motivated by Revenge.
  • Also of Tybalt from the original Romeo and Juliet story. Tybalt was Juliet's violent, short-tempered, vengeful cousin who strongly opposed her courtship of Romeo, and took every opportunity he could to undermine it.
• Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: Quite literally. Richter may look like an angel, but his actions are far from angelic. He started a genocide of humans and selfishly took the lives of Baam with theirs.
• Fallen Prince: Richter initially enjoyed the distinction of being recognized as the Baam Prince until he was caught trying to assassinate Olban (and killed his body double) in public. Olban used his royal powers to sentence Richter to death. It didn't go through.
• Faking the Dead: Just as it seems like Olban's got the last laugh over him, it's revealed the executioner who was meant to kill Richter was a part of the growing anti-Olban faction of Small Baam, and kept him hidden from the public until the time was right.
• A Father to His Men: As Richter oversees the construction of Grangale, he instantly becomes concerned when one of the chief engineers faints and calls for a doctor. As he lays in Richter's arms, he tells him that he's made peace with his death, but his wife and daughter are sleeping on Small Baam and he wants Richter to wake them soon. Richter promises that he will see it through. As his son, Gust, grieves for him, Richter tries to console him as well, only to be spurned and blamed for his death.
• Friendless Background: Played with. Richter mentions growing up with Melvi, and some promotional imagery implies◊ that Raiza was a childhood friend of his. However, he mentions that Erika and Aizam are the only ones who he's close to, until their differences in philosophy made him grow apart from the former.
• Forced to Watch: Richter orders Erika and Margarete to be executed in public, as many Baam onlookers cheer. Before it can happen, a group of rebels cause a dam to leak, creating a diversion that buys them enough time to rescue Erika and take her to Earth. Margarete, unfortunately, has her wings clipped and is Made a Slave, until she is saved by a separate group of rebels under Barandock's orders.
• Glass of Chianti: Richter is seen holding one when he's observing his forces attack New Zealand, where the Baam refugees are.
• Good Princess, Evil Queen: While he has some politically incorrect views, Richter ultimately isn't evil. However, it was the lengths he went to that truly cemented his status as a villain. Olban, on the other hand, masterminded the death of his father, brainwashed and killed several Baam because he desired nothing but mindless slaves and tried to force Erika to kill Kazuya.
• Guyliner: Richter has thick lashes and what appears to be eyeliner (it's never said if he wears it or if his lashes are just naturally thick).
• Hair-Trigger Temper: So many examples.
  • Upon seeing his father die, he instantly tried to murder several innocent civilians to avenge him.
  • He slaps Margarete because she told him she was worried for his sister and implored him to find her. He abuses her again when Erika escapes Execution and he blames her for having a hand in it, even though she was innocent.
  • He is angered when Erika serves in the army even though Olban ordered her to. However, that was likely a case of Anger Born of Worry.
  • He hits Raiza because she asked him to consider her for an important position. He smacks her again because she called to the humans for help, though in this case, it proved to be a bad move as it attracted Miwa's goons/
• The Heavy: He was assigned to invade the Earth by Olban. It helps that he already despised the Earthlings, so he's more than happy to leave mountains of their charred corpses around.
• His Own Worst Enemy: At many points in the story, it's suggested that Richter abandon the war and make peace with the Earthlings, but he refuses due to his own pride and his bias that Humans Are Bastards. Had he given up on the war earlier, he wouldn't have been Driven to Suicide out of guilt in the finale.
• Hot-Blooded: He has an intense temper and would rather use violence than communicate things over. In the anime's OP, he debuts by brandishing his sword, flying and scowling at Kazuya.
• How the Mighty Have Fallen: Goes from being the Baam Prince and Admiral to being at the mercy of the humans after he's straneded on Earth, and then sent to the gallows for his desire to slaughter Olban.
• Humans Are Bastards: Richter thinks that they're all conniving bastards and struck his father down when he extended an olive branch.
• Humiliation Conga: After Georiya overtakes the base of operations, he has his spies reveal themselves, who force Richter, Raiza and Balbas on their knees as he re-tells the truth about how he killed Leon. Then, he attempts to kill them by strapping them to a Mecha Warrior that fights Daimos. Then, Richter is shot at by Miwa's forces while injured. The last incident makes Richter toss his crown at them, allowing him and Raiza to escape.
• Hypocrite:
  • He calls Raiza "useless" for not being able to defeat Daimos, as if he's any better. When Olban sends Aizam, someone more competent, to replace him, Richter isn't having it.
  • Richter is furious when he finds out that Olban has been messing with the Baam in cryostatis and executing them, even though he ordered the executions of Gurney, Cindy, Erika, Margarete and many other Baam under the justification of them being "traitors".
• Informed Ability: Richter's skill in battle. While his flashback with Aizam shows that he's supposedly a skilled warrior, he gets beaten by Kazuya, an earthling, in a matter of seconds. Not only does Kazuya break his sword and shield, Richter doesn't manage to land a hit on him. Kazuya punts Richter on the shoulder, causing him to stagger, and would have defeated him had Erika not woking up from her death-like state that Margarete placed her in earlier. Even as an Admiral, Richter lets his emotions get in the way, which unsurprisingly leads to him not getting a single victory over the Earthlings.
• It's Personal: His hatred for the humans is from the fact that they killed his father (they didn't) and denied the Baam-seijin a home when they were displaced.
• Jerkass: Is cold-hearted, bigoted, haughty and prone to flying in fits of rage when things don't go his way. He frequently verbally abuses his subordinates because of their imperfections, and is physically violent when he loses his temper. The only one who he averted this behaviour towards was Aizam, but he was later horrifically killed in battle.
• Jerkass Has a Point:
  • His worry for Erika in the first episode. While she was Just Following Orders, she had no experience on the battlefield, and had Kazuya not found her on the cliffs, the series would have ended very differently.
  • Enforced in another instance: after they're deserted from the Undersea Castle, Raiza calls for aid from Daimos. Miwa intercepts this call and leads his forces to shoot at them. Raiza, who previously held hope that the humans could have mercy on them, concedes to Richter's point that Humans Are Bastards.
• Kick the Dog: While Erika's at the Undersea Castle, he repeatedly shames and scolds her for her actions towards the Baam, and later plans for her Execution. Near the Grand Finale, he even admits that he was planning to kill Erika because he believed her to be loyal to Olban, but was pleasantly surprised when she was Good All Along and was trying to avenge their father.
• Kill All Humans: Richter wants to end the human race because he believes that the Earthlings plotted his father's demise. The ending of the series has the inverse happen - after it's found out that they had nothing to do with it, Richter kills himself to atone for all the blood on his hands.
• The Kingslayer: After making it to Small Baam and infiltrating the wedding ceremony, he kills Olban with his own hands.
• Large and in Charge: He towers over everyone else at the Undersea Castle not named "Balbas" and was chosen by Olban to be the Undersea Castle's Admiral.
• Leave No Survivors: Richter believes that for the Baam race to prosper, every human must be eliminated. He also intended to execute Erika and Margarete for believing in making peace with them.
• Living Emotional Crutch:
  • Erika. Her departure had a great effect on him. He was also hurt when she refused to talk to him after being returned to the Undersea Castle, and asked if she didn't trust him anymore.
  Richter: "Why can't you tell me, your own brother, about it?"
  • After he diverged paths with her, it became Aizam. That didn't end well.
• Let's Fight Like Gentlemen: During a proposed duel with Kazuya, Richter wields a spear and shield and offers Kazuya a pair too, since it'll make the fight fairer. Kazuya refuses and instead proceeds to beat him with just karate, breaking the spear and shield for good measure.
• Liar Revealed: After finding out Erika's true intentions, Richter reveals himself as the "priest" at the wedding and tries to cut down the groom-to-be, Olban.
• Light Is Not Good: He is a handsome, blonde man with angelic wings. While ultimately not an evil person, the death of Leon left him a broken and revenge-obsessed man, so much that he isolated everyone in his life in his conquest to avenge him.
• Lineage Comes from the Father: He inherited his Royal title from Leon.
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy: Richter has long, flowing, curly blonde hair that goes past his knees and almost touches the floor. It covers his shoulders and resemble's a lion's mane. He also has thick eyelashes and a long, red headpiece on his head.
• Manly Tears: Richter isn't afraid to cry when situation calls, such as the death of his best friend Aizam who fought because he'd rather die in combat than in bed, fighting for Richter and the Baam cause to the bitter end.
• Meaningful Name: Dub-specific, but they stick the landing each time.
  • Richter is German for "Judge", and in the anime, Richter judges who is allowed to live and die in the Undersea castle, massacaring anyone who refuses to support his cause or listen to him.
  • In the Starbirds dub, his name is changed to Roderick, which means "famous ruler" in Old German. Roderick is the Prince of the Baam, and his name is famous amongst Earthlings and Baamites alike for the terror he unleashes.
  • In the Philippine-English dub, his name is changed to Ulrich, which is derived from the element uodil ("heritage") and rih ("ruler, king"). Richter/Ulrich indeed inherited the title of future ruler of Baam from his father, Leon.
• Messianic Archetype: With his long blonde hair and wings, Richter can pass off as this. It helps that he's already under the (misguided) belief that he's doing right by his people. However, when he realizes all he's done is lead them into further doom, he feels like he doesn't deserve to live anymore.
• Misplaced Retribution: King Leon's death had nothing to do with the humans, but the entire race was scapegoated for his demise thanks to Olban's manipulation. Even Leon begged Richter not to unleash his wrath on them, only for his son to ignore it and open fire on them instead.
• Morality Pet:
  • For a short while, Erika. Though he disagrees with her philosophy and was enraged when she departed from the Undersea Castle, he was happy when she returned and tried to make her feel better. Even after she betrays him for Earth, he feels conflicted about punishing her, before deciding that capital punishment is what she deserves.
  Richter, after having a flashback of him and Erika's childhood: "Erika....why did you betray me?"
  • However, after Erika escapes execution, he's hell-bent on finishing her, subverting this trope.
  • Also Aizam. He's Richter's childhood best friend, and they reunite when Olban sends Aizam to replace him. However, Aizam assures Richter he doesn't want to take his place, and co-operates with him in upgrading the Mecha Warriors. Unfortunately, this is short lived as Aizam dies while piloting his masterpiece, the Gimmeria, leading Richter to go on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
• Moral Myopia: Richter is fine with eliminating humans and treating them like slaves, but when the same thing happens to Baam, he becomes furious and declares the humans to be hateful.
• My God, What Have I Done?: In his last words, he mourns the losses he's caused and says that he has to punish himself to atone.
  Richter: "Farewell Erika...Farewell Kazuya Ryuzaki...I killed too many Earthlings to beg forgiveness from the Earthlings who helped Baam...I will judge myself with my own hands! …Farewell…"
• My Sister Is Off-Limits: A villainous case as he does not approve of Erika being romantically involved with Kazuya, a human. He's also furious when Melvi announces he is to marry Erika, though that was because he wanted to subject Erika to capital punishment for betraying the Baam Empire (and now he can't because Melvi has more power than him as Olban's nephew).
• Near-Villain Victory: His very own A Day in the Limelight episode has him destroy Daimos' major circuits, making the robot unable to perform it's Fire Blizzard attack. While he has Daimos on the ground, Grangale shoots two projectles...that miss, and then shoots two other projectiles that Daimos grabs and attacks it with. Richter is left humiliated by the loss.
• Noble Demon: He's more or less very gung-ho when it comes to invading the Earth, but he's still a honorable, caring prince to his people and puts their safety above all else.
• Noble Male, Roguish Male: On both ends. He's the Noble to Balbas' Roguish, but the opposite with Aizam. He also plays this role to Erika, who's the calmer noble to his wrathful one.
• No One Could Survive That!: Apparently this runs in the family. Richter is first presumed dead when Georiya takes over the Undersea Castle and sentences him, Raiza and Balbas to death, but thanks to some quick thinking on Raiza's end, the three are able to make it out alive. When Richter tries to singlehandedly get revenge on Olban, Raiza stops him and insists on doing it herself, getting killed in the process. Richter is then scheduled for Execution, but the executioner is part of La Résistance and helps Richter escape.
• Not Afraid to Die: One of his ideals is this. Even as he finally commits suicide, he doesn't look scared or worried. He faces Jupiter and gladly accepts being vaporized by Jupiter's pressure.
• Oblivious to Love: Raiza loves him, glowering in every bit of praise he gives her, but he doesn't realize it until she dies.
• Pet the Dog: One of his few moments of kindness is when a Baam worker faints from exhaustion and Richter asks that he stop working so he can receive adequate healthcare. When his son starts screaming at Richter and blaming him for the incident, Richter asks that he also be dismissed from duty. To contrast, in an earlier scene, Raiza was seen whipping the workers and demanding they work faster.
• Pitiful Worms: When Raiza suggests that they turn to the humans for help after it's found out that Olban is a traitor, he vehemently refuses and compares the human race to worms.
  Richter: You idiot! Raiza, what a naive idea! You've really lost the plot, Raiza! Do you think they'll abandon their hatred for us!? Even if we temporarily co-operated with them, as soon as we guide them back to their home, there is no doubt that they will eradicate our homeland together with Olban! Don't say such things! I will never let the Earthling worms kill the people of Baam!
• Prince Charmless: Raiza likes him and keeps trying to get into his good books, but he regards her with annoyance and at many points, hits her. The case in point is when Richter was thrown underwater thanks to Georiya's Mecha Warrior, and Raiza rescues him. He then proceeds to treat her terribly for it]].
• Princess in Rags: By the Wedding arc, he is this, being forced to hide his true identity due to being wanted for Olban's "assassination". Yet, he retains enough social popularity to be supported by the dissenter's of Olban's cabinet.
• Properly Paranoid: While Richter is a plain bigot, humans such as Miwa (that massacre innocent Baam and don't even feel sorry for it) give his arguments against them some form of leeway.
• Proud Warrior Race Guy: The epitome of the trope for the Baam-seijin. Richter knows that the Baam-seijin, him included, were also born for combat and holds that trait with pride, alongside other ideals such as "Better die than to be taken prisoner".
• Redemption Equals Death: After Richter puts his body through hell to stop Olban's device from crashing Small Baam, he apologizes to Kazuya for opposing him. He then enters a shuttle, and announces that he cannot live with his sins and has to die to atone. Even though Kazuya tries to save him and Erika, though tears, pleads with him to stop and says that the war is over, Richter refuses to listen and says that he must punish himself with his own hands.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Richter is snarky and hot-tempered; Erika is serene and clear-minded.
• Revenge: Richter wasn't born evil, and even though he held some prejudices towards the human race (badmouthing them before departing to the meeting), he was willing to co-exist alongside them for the sake of the Baam people. When his father was suddenly assassinated, Richter blamed the humans for his death, when it was actually Georiya who did the deed.
• Revenge Before Reason: Richter. Or maybe we should say revenge INSTEAD OF reason. He was so full of fury and hatred all he could think of was taking revenge, refusing to heed the advice of whoever tried talking him into making peace with the Earthians.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: After the death of Aizam, Richter decides that the humans must pay and orders many more invasions and attacks on their planet.
• Royal Blood: Richter's is from King Leon and his wife Queen Roji. However, personality wise, Richter and Leon couldn't be more different from each other if they tried, until Richter's atonement.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: Richter actively participates in the Baam military and oversees the operations of the Undersea Castle. Even before the Baam invasion, he was trained in fighting and warfare.
• Quirky Curls: He has blonde, coily, curly hair that loops up on top of each other and is wildly untamed. He also has a really bad hot temper and is fatally violent.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Richter disobeyed Leon's orders to stay put when the Baam temple was on fire because he prioritized saving Erika. Leon would later join him and carry his kids to safety.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: Richter is a Hot-Blooded Ares-caliber Warrior Prince who believes that it's better to fight to the death and die trying rather than negotiate with a race such as humans that can't be trusted. Erika is someone who rejects the use of violence, even when wronged, and believes that co-operation will bring stability.
• Signature Headgear: For Richter, it's his iconic red-cloth headpiece. Spoofed◊ in one OUT issue where he's seen without it.
• Single-Species Nations: Richter's end goal is to annihilate the humans, leaving Earth free for the Baam to take. He's also willing to kill Baam that aid them or oppose the war.
• Sour Outside, Sad Inside: He may be a Jerkass on the outside, but on the inside all he can think about is his father's death and Erika's abandonment. He also feels like a failure because of the numerous Baam soldiers he's lost at the hands of Daimos.
• Staff of Authority: Richter's is metallic with a giant, blue bird on top. See here◊.
• Strong Family Resemblance: He has a heavy resemblance to his mother Roji, down to the minute details. He also has Leon's eyes and muscles.
• The Proud Elite: Richter puts his royal duties above everything else and believes that he has to behave in a way that the Baam can follow. He doesn't understand why Erika doesn't do the same.
• Tsurime Eyes: Richter has big, brown ones that reflect his stand-offish personality. They're very prominent when he's mad. Erika has the opposite.
• Together in Death: After Raiza dies, Richter remarks that he will join her soon. Considering he's heavily religious, he likely means that the two will reunite in the afterlife.
• Token Religious Teammate: In an early episode, Richter is seen praying. The religion he subscribes to has a heavy resemblance to Christianity. In episode 36, while he's stranded on Earth, he prays once again to the Baam religion.
• Tyrant Takes the Helm: Under Leon, Baam was peaceful and unified. Under Richter, it's more divided and chaotic. Not helping matters is that Richter's desire for bloodshed is heavily infectious amongst his fellow Baam.
• Upperclass Equestrian: Richter is an Alien Prince and he knows how to ride a horse, as seen by his flashback duelling Aizam.
• Warrior Prince: He's the Prince of his people and he'll not go down without a fight. Since he's from a Fantasy Counterpart Culture of Rome, he has sparred in colosseums before and he also knows how to use a sword.
• Would Harm a Senior: In the first episode no less, Richter delivers a Bitch Slap to Margarete because she asked him to show concern for his sister. In a later episode, he has her tortured and enslaved. Of course, this doesn't stop him from wincing and looking away from hearing Margarete's screams of pain as a result of having her wings stripped away from her.
• Would Hit a Girl:
  • He smacks Erika once he finds out she's fallen for a human man. Margarete covers Erika with her body, begging Richter to show her mercy, but he punches and kicks her too. He comes near to killing her while repeatedly muttering "I have no sister...", but seeing the reflection of his frenzied expression in his sword makes him reconsider.
  • Richter repeatedly delivers slaps and blows to Raiza, be it from his hand or his staff. He's not averse to maiming his male subordinates the same way, but the poor girl faces the brunt of it.
• Ungrateful Bastard: He is enraged when Raiza suggests seeking aid from the Earthlings (despite this being after he found out that the Earthlings didn't kill his father) and reacts by hitting her in the face and berating her. Keep in mind, this is after Raiza rescued him from Georiya's clutches, drove him to an isolated island in a stolen spaceship (while being injuried herself) and single-handledly bandaged all his bleeding wounds. Even before this incident, Richter was cruel to Raiza and called her "useless" because of her inability to defeat Daimos. This never stopped her from trying to gain his approval because she was secretly in love with him.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: In episode 16, we get a flashback of Richter as a young boy where he rescued Erika from a burning building, hugging her afterwards◊. Later, him, Erika and their father flew to safety. Unfortunately, the fire claimed their mother, Roji.
• Villain Respect: While "villain" is too strong a word as he's reformed by then, he praises Kazuya for proving that he was wrong about humans and they work together to save the Baam-seijin.
  Richter: "Kazuya Ryuzaki! You're a hero who stands out from the crowd! I won't let your courageous deeds go to waste! Eternal glory to your future and the billion people of Planet Baam."
• Villain with Good Publicity: Subverted. While he's well-respected as the Alien Prince of Baam, many are put off by his violent tendencies and choose to defect to Erika's side instead. The finale reveals that many Baam oppose Olban and prefer Richter to him. Even though he's scheduled for Execution, they help him escape and keep him safe until he can successfully infiltrate Olban's wedding ceremony, hoping to kill him.
• Villainous Breakdown: Richter did not take Erika being in love with Kazuya well. He accused her of betraying him, their entire race and being unworthy of being his sister, screaming that he wanted nothing to do with her.
• Worthy Opponent: Richter, full stop. No finer man ever wore a skirt than Richter.
• Wrong Side All Along: Though he later finds out that it was a fellow Baam who killed his father, his hatred for humans is not shaken. Richter's entire worldview changes when a mere human like Kazuya, covered in scars, literally drags himself to aid the Baam refugees (while the Baam King Olban abandoned them). He then realizes why his sister fell in love with the humans.
• You Are What You Hate: Hates the humans for being brutal murderers; by the end of the series he's realized that's what he's become.
• You Killed My Father: What kicks off the plot. Desperate to find a home after a great calamity renders his people unhoused and unable to live, King Leon seeks out Earth as a safe haven for the Baam. To his luck, the Earthern delegates agreed to a meeting to discuss the future of the Baam-seijin. However, during the meeting, King Leon is suddenly poisoned and dies. Richter was so enraged that he didn't bother to verify the details of the situation - had he not acted on his anger, he would have been able to trace the poison to Georiya's ring, instead of misattributing it to the human race.