Characters / Loner Life In Another World

Main Character

Haruka

The main character. A self-proclaimed loner.

• Adaptational Angst Downgrade: Due to being aimed at a younger audience, the manga downgrade a lot of some of the more spine-chilling aspects of Haruka's personality and actions making him considerably brighter and much less cynical. For example in web novel: Haruka executed an unconscious assassin he fought without letting anything of him, to prevent a possible retaliation (in manga seems that Haruka left him unconscious). He also massacred even the last one of a group of riding-horse soldiers by destroying their bodies completely and letting only the horses alive. If it's not enough, some chapters after, he conjured an earth magic skill that transforms the land into a pool of bottomless swamp and let another entire group of soldiers gets buried and drowned slowly in it without caring about their screams and pleadings. (Needs to be mentioned that many if not all of those "soldiers" were plundering and killing villagers of their own kingdom). He tends to recriminate the enemies he ends for being total assholes.
  "Murderers need no graves, so I annihilated him without a trace. Graves are fine for those who have the gratitude of others. Murderers like us can just vanish without a trace after being killed. If you don’t like it, then don’t kill anyone. It’s as simple as that."
• Adaptation Deviation: In the novel, he doesn't ever learn temperature control skills, starting with fire and ice magic through other ways. In the manga, he starts out with a temperature control skill and learns fire magic from using temperature control to raise the temperature of some wood until it catches fire, and learns ice magic lowering the temperature of some water until it freezes.
• Almighty Janitor: Can't even become an adventurer due to his low level, but easily one of the most important and powerful people in the new world.
• Anti-Hero: A light variant. He's absolutely heroic, to the point of saving people without expecting a single thing in return and being entirely humble about it. But he'll totally kick someone's ass the moment they're an enemy he doesn't respect, and then rob your unconscious body for loot to sell off; he's far from a deviant and criminal, but has no hold-ups about doing unsightly things to get along easier. And he'll kill if he absolutely has to. It's actually to the point that when he ends up going against nobility, he decides to fight them by controlling the economy to destroy every ounce of power they have.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: The crux of why everyone comes to respect Haruka along with why so many of the female characters fell for him despite totally willing to give him hell for his weird ideas and habits mostly out of concern for him which he misinterprets as him having low affinity which is not the case. Despite proclaiming he's a loner out for sticking to himself, he's constantly thinking of everyone's well being, working to ensure their safety and improvement, and trying to protect Omui out of his personal time and pocket. This even includes trying to save classmates that had previously blown him off before ending up in bad situations themselves, where he'd have every reason to not help them. He ends up with a Karmic Jackpot beyond his max luck skill by making a great many allies that can cover whatever he can't, especially in the social department.
• Beware the Silly Ones: Haruka is a major odd-ball, to put it mildly. He is also a fearsome engine of destruction, with a very keen tactical and strategic mind, who has absolutely no compunction against totally annihilating anyone or anything that might threaten him or his.
• Beyond the Impossible: By the very rules of the world he's been brought to, Haruka should be a low-level nobody that can't even hope to fight off anything past the most basic of monsters at best. Combined with his multitude of "cheat" skills that are seemingly useless and ineffective for battle, no one expects anything of him at first. Then he straight up breaks the rules and uses all of his abilities in creative ways, starts surviving and defeating massive, supposedly insurmountable threats, and just keeps doing it, over and over. It's to the point that he not only survives the deadliest known dungeon around, but changes the lands of Dorial as the single greatest influence upon all of its people.
• Cane Fu: His primary weapon.
• Cloudcuckoolander: His behavior is very odd, on both sides of the fourth wall.
• Combat Pragmatist: The only one of his class that effectively rejected the RPG Elements of the new world. This includes stuff like using oil to set fire to a tree monster, vinegar to disable a dog monster, or poison fumigation to take out a swarm of insect monsters rather than rushing in and trying to fight them.
• Dark and Troubled Past: He's lost all of his family in different events (his father in a fire, his mother to a reckless driver, his sister to a murderer) where he tried to save them and suffered grave injuries in the process. This is what causes both his attempts to distance himself from others by not remembering people's names and his need to save people in spite of the former.
• Did I Just Say That Out Loud?: Has a constant habit of saying whatever comes to his mind, whether it's about a situation around him or simply even his own internalized thoughts, as if he has to narrate his considerations to put them into context. This actually gets him called out more than a few times, but it also tends to be one of the only ways his classmates can actually tell how deeply worried and concerned he is for those around him behind the happy-go-lucky Chuunibyou loner persona. And he even exploits it occasionally, making someone think he's too wrapped up in his own little world only to round about on them fully aware of their intentions.
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: Played straight at first, in that he does try to help Omui and the villagers but isn't really respected because he's simply too low level to be an official adventurer. Then flip-turned on its head entirely when he gets so good at saving the village out of every other pinch in such a short period of time that the mayor defers to his judgment, the shopkeepers admire him (and his ludicrous amounts of money he acquires), and the guild wishes he'd stop bringing in proverbial mountains of legendary monster drops that would bankrupt them.
• Giver of Lame Names: Cannot remember anyone's names, so he just names them like Non Player Characters inside of an RPG. This includes classmates he's known for years.
• Good Is Not Soft: If you are a threat to people he considers precious, or have actively harmed them, and he comes after you, it would be in your best interests to immediately stop and beg forgiveness, promising to never do it again, and mean it. Because if he has to deal with you, it's not going to be pretty, and it certainly is not going to be pleasant.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: All the problematic skills Haruka got stuck with actually have some rather impressive hidden perks. For example, he uses "wrapping" on a class-mate's lighting spell and immediately picks up the "lightning magic" skill.
• Hikikomori: One of his skills, as well as his stated life goal.
• Humble Hero: He can totally think his creations are great and that he might overcome other's abilities with his own craftiness, but the moment it comes time for rewards or even just the acknowledgement of his capabilities that continuously keep saving everyone around him, he immediately goes to downplay it all thinking he's not really worthy of being praised whatsoever. Mostly because he is heavy on Self-Deprecation and doesn't think much of himself as a person whatsoever.
• Insane Troll Logic: To the point that the locals often drag the Class Rep over to interpret what he's trying to say.
• It's All My Fault: He has a guilt complex the size of a skyscraper about anything he fails to do. Whether it be his early inability to stop a small village from being destroyed by monsters, or his failures with Tanaka and the deceased Delinquents, making him dwell on what he thinks he screwed up on is a quick trip to invoking a Heroic BSoD. He actually did manage to save a good number of the villagers in the former case, something the Store Manager explicitly pushes him into discovering to help soothe the guilt.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Invoked, in that he continuously claims he's just a loner who was just doing things for his comfort and that he isn't the hero everyone makes him out to be as a sort of reputational image. Except everyone can see that the supposed "loner" is a kind, perverted dork with No Social Skills that is only vaguely a jerk by doing things without thinking or asking most of the time.
• Lethal Joke Character: Almost no health and stamina, with low magic and strength as well... But has luck that is "beyond maximum" and speed that breaks the laws of physics.
• Likes Older Women: At the very least when the Kingdom briefly arrests him for his rudeness, he's bored about the men doing it— and then completely turns into a compliant pervert when knightly older women take over the task instead, much more blatantly than he ever acts with any of his classmates. Angelica technically fits thanks to being a resurrected lich that's far, far older than he is.
• Master of None: One of his skills. It allows him to obtain skills easily, but drastically slows their growth.
• Meaningful Name: His "Blockhead" skill. It causes him to level up slower, in exchange for being able to manipulate his body like a puppet, something he uses to great effect to counter Tanaka's "Meddle" skill.
• The Nicknamer: As he is very bad at remembering names, he assigns lame nicknames to everyone around him, even his classmates. The fact that he identifies Tanaka by name makes it obvious how dangerous he knows the other boy is. Him identifying Angelica by name is a sign of how important she's become for him, well before he realizes he's in love with her.
• Oblivious to Love: Several of the girls from his class and the new world hold a torch for him, but he never figures it out. He realizes Angelica's feelings for him only because she actively pushes him down.
• Only I Can Kill Him: When Tanaka went after the Jocks, Haruka had them hide out in his cave and went to confront the psycho, alone. The jocks, battered and bloody, agreed they would just get in his way, despite how much they wanted to help.
• Power Incontinence: Using his skills takes quite a bit of getting used to. He first tried to jump over the tree line but wound up jumping so high, the landing almost killed him (good thing he had plenty of healing mushrooms). When he tries running to the rescue after seeing the people of Omui surrounded by wolf monsters, he winds up crashing into the field boss with so much force, the poor thing just exploded taking out several other wolves with shrapnel coming from its own body!
• Refusal of the Call: Deconstructed. Because he tried to get out of the class when the summoning circle appeared, and even went so far as to break into the ceiling and hide in the attic, the deity involved with the summoning is only aware of him after all the rest of the classmates have already been sent to this new world, and Haruka himself is stuck looking at all the problematic skills they left behind. And because the deity was pressed for time, with Haruka being very uncooperative, just said "screw it" and threw all the leftover skills at him at once.
• Reluctant Warrior: Haruka absolutely hates killing, but he will murder and even finish unconscious enemies off it if it means saving his people and innocent ones from danger. This affects him subconsciously to the point he is unable to sleep well.
  "While there is nothing Haruka can do aside from killing, he doesn’t belong to this side, and yet he kept killing. A mass murderer, who hates murder more than anyone."
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: In the manga version, when he's at economic war with the capital, to oust the corrupt second prince and his noble backers, all of whom are conspiring with the Merchant Union to bring to existence a brutal slaving ring, he notices that, despite his efforts to bring the slums out of poverty, certain orphanages are still in dire straits, children locked behind chain-link fences, starving. He learns that those orphanages belong to said nobles, who have cut them off, now that they need that money "for more important things." Haruka openly ignores the law, climbs over the fences, and hands the starving kids food anyway, to Class Rep's delight.
• Sleep Deprivation: After being forced to kill Tanaka, knowing about some villages being destroyed with hundreds of deaths he thinks could save, and keeping killing hundreds of human enemies he sees as a threat, Haruka barely can sleep, but he tries to make it seems that everything is fine with him. His friends don't buy it.
• Terrifying Rescuer: The very first time Haruka rescues the townsfolk of Omui, he comes running in like a heat-seeking missile, crashes into the wolf field boss, and the impact is so strong, the wolf boss explodes with the shrapnel killing several other wolves. And he's still too low a level to legally become an adventurer...
• Tranquil Fury: Don't screw with the rights and lives of other people. He'll put on a smile, keep his jovial attitude usually, but everyone around him can instantly feel the intensity in his emotions as soon as someone crosses that line. Tanaka became unforgiveable for it, those trying to exploit Omui learned this the hard way, and the second prince of the Kingdom promoting slave trading instantly has Haruka become even more determined to bring him to justice.
• Unreliable Narrator: Blatantly lies in his narration, often revealing chapters or entire books later that he recognized something but was ignoring it, or was doing something for completely other reasons than his stated goal.
• Weak, but Skilled: Haruka should be the weakest of any of the class, unable to do anything, based on the stats system that the RPG Mechanics 'Verse the class finds themselves in. Instead, he is significantly stronger than everyone else, often because he does not rely on cheat skills and the RPG Elements of the new world. For example, while he cannot use weapon skills, he doesn't need to, and anyone trying to use them against him would find him simply moving out of the way. Despite being 3 times faster than him according to the status screen, the Class Rep can't even keep up when observing Haruka and Armor Pres sparring due to both of their absurd skill in actually using their weapons.

Class Rep Group

Class Rep

• Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: She tries to keep Haruka's weirdness at a manageable level. Tries being the key word.
• Everyone Calls Her "Barkeep": Only known as "Class Rep", even by her fellow classmates.
• Got Me Doing It: Accidentally calls Oda "Nerd A".
  “You told me to stop calling the nerds ‘nerds,’ but you just called one of them ‘Nerd A’ a minute ago,” I said.
  “I did?! Agh, please forgive me, Oda-kun, I’ve been brainwashed!”
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: She has feelings for Haruka, and when she sees Angelica is a real beauty, because she got to see her under the armor before Haruka does, she briefly considers trying to keep Haruka from finding out, but then realizes that even if she succeeds this time, it's only a matter of time before Haruka realizes the truth, so just lets the two of them be together however this becomes slightly subverted when told by one of her classmates that polygamy is allowed in this world.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Chestnuts. She's said to go crazy over any food that has them.
• Victor Gains Loser's Powers: How her "hijack" skill works.
• Weapon Specialization: Wields a whip in later volumes.

Vice Rep A

Vice Rep B

• Buxom Beauty Standard: She has a large chest and Haruka frequently comments on how they're "bouncing".
• Kung-Fu Wizard: Atleast in the light novel. Haruka frequently complains that, even though B is an Archsage with the best spells and highest MP, she rarely uses magic except for physical enhancement and bashes monsters with her magical staff.
• Shock and Awe: Uses lightning magic.

Vice Rep C a,k,a Tiny Tanuki

• A-Cup Angst: gets annoyed when Haruka asks why she even needs a bra.
• Older Than They Look: She is in the same high school class as Haruka and the others, but can looks like an elementary schooler. Gets angry when called out for her height or figure, but uses her appearance to get candy alongside real children.

Mean Girl Group

Shimazaki/Queen Bee

• The Atoner: She and her group try to make amends with "The Otaku group." Their results are a mixed bag.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Regrets pushing the chores (though Tanaka's "Meddle" skill may have had a hand in this) onto the Nerds, and sets out to find them and apologize.

Mean Girl A

Mean Girl B

Mean Girl C

Mean Girl D

Nerd Group

• Beyond the Impossible: The nerds try to make a halberd (a long stick with an axe on the end).The result is a functioning steamship. They can't explain how it happened. Haruka claims it is impossible. He also the upgrades the ship, turning it into a functional warship.

Oda/Nerd A

• Beware the Nice Ones: Once his group stumbles across the horribly-treated slaves that the Merchant Nation were bringing forth, Oda flips his lid so hard that he goes off-track to burn everything down and render their trading operations irrecoverable, all the while stuck in a non-stop Tranquil Fury as he rescues the slaves. Haruka explicitly acknowledges that Oda is probably one of the most dangerous people around if he really gets pushed to act, as he's not far off from Haruka himself in reinterpreting the world's logic to powerful ends.
• Crazy-Prepared: Studied survival techniques and always carried a flashlight just in case he got sent to another world.
• Genre Savvy: They are well aware of the tropes and cliches regarding isekai stories, and are fully prepared for when they found themselves in one.

Nerd B

Nerd C

• Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: Uses a shield when he fights.

Nerd D

• Ninja: The character class he picked.

Jock Group

Kakizaki/Jock A/Big, Dumb Jock

• Dumb Muscle: All he's really got going for him is raw strength, and that applies to all the jocks.
• Improbable Use of a Weapon: Uses a boomerang as a club rather than throwing it in the Light Novel, much to the dismay of Haruka. This becomes a Running Gag.

Jock B/Judo Jock

• Bit Character: About the only appearance he gets in the manga is the picture at the start of the chapters with the deity going "this is who I summoned."

Jock C/Running Jock

• Bit Character: About the only appearance he gets in the manga is the picture at the start of the chapters with the deity going "this is who I summoned."

Jock D/Swimming Jock

• Bit Character: About the only appearance he gets in the manga is the picture at the start of the chapters with the deity going "this is who I summoned."

Jock E/Soccer Jock

• Bit Character: About the only appearance he gets in the manga is the picture at the start of the chapters with the deity going "this is who I summoned."

The Delinquents

Tanaka (UNMARKED SPOILERS)

• Adaptation Expansion: The manga expands on his backstory.
• Beneath Notice: Pretends to work with the delinquents before backstabbing them.
• Fatal Flaw: Arrogance. Haruka notes that if he went all out from the beginning, Tanaka could have easily beaten him. However, that would have required admitting Haruka was a threat, which his calculations disagreed with.
• Foil: To Haruka. Haruka is a literary nerd who remains detached from his class, but secretly cares immensely about his classmates; Tanaka is a mathematics nerd who remains detached from his class, but secretly plots to sacrifice his classmates for power. Haruka is Weak, but Skilled, having started the new world with a glorified stick and backpack and clawed his way up from there by constantly practicing his meager skills; Tanaka is Unskilled, but Strong, having used his ability to steal other people's skills to amass a pile of cheats but not mastering any of them.
• Four Eyes, Zero Soul: He wears glasses and is a complete psychopath.
• Manipulative Bastard: Used his "Meddle" skill and other emotional manipulation to break the class into factions, which he then set against each other.
• One-Hit Kill: One of his skills.
• Power Copying: His copycat skill.
• Starter Villain: The villain of the first arc, done in by the end of the first light novel volume.
• The Chessmaster: Manipulated his classmates into breaking off into groups so he could pick them off one at a time.
• The Sociopath: To the point that Haruka is immediately concerned with the idea of him getting superpowers in the new world.
• This Cannot Be!: As he was fighting Haruka, he would repeatedly shout "Impossible, this is outside my perfect calculations!" every time Haruka did something unexpected.
• Unskilled, but Strong: Possesses a large number of powerful skills, but didn't master any of them.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: He thinks that the world runs similar to Earth's physical laws. Haruka, who is more of a literary nerd, knows that stuff is more akin to fantasy tropes, which trips Tanaka at the worst moment.

Other Delinquents

• Asshole Victim: They're gangsters and delinquents who bullied everyone else in the class, and even attempted rape, on screen, which got them exiled, and they retaliated to said exile by trashing the camp of those left behind. No sympathy was had for them when they eventually met their end.
• Japanese Delinquents: Their one and only role in the story.
• Killed Offscreen: Tanaka hunted down and murdered them one by one, although one of them died on-screen just to show that someone was killing the class.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Murdered by Tanaka offscreen.

Other Students

Chika/Fish Girl

• Embarrassing Nickname: Haruka calls her Fish Girl when she helped him to catch fish.

Fukunuki/Nudist Girl

• Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: She sneaks into Haruka's tent when everyone's asleep, is completely naked when he wakes up in the morning, and offers herself in exchange for juice. Haruka has a good and proper Freak Out and literally throws her out of his tent. She's had insecurities about her sex-appeal. That event gets changed in the manga version with her showing off fanservice for juice while outside with everyone but when haruka looks at chest then refuses which then she developed insecurities about her sex-appeal.
• Ignore the Fanservice: Offers her own body to Haruka for juice. Haruka gives the juice to her for free in the manga version this gets subverted.
  “Haruka-kun, lay off Fukunuki-san,” called the Class Rep. “She’s starting to, uh, lose things.”
• Punny Name: Fukunuki is pronounced exactly the same as a Japanese phrase that means "take off your clothes."

Omui City

Meropapa Sim Omui

• Dub Name Change: Went from Merotosam to Meropapa, likely to keep his name from being Lost in Translation.
• Punny Name: He is the father of Merimeri (Merielle), so Haruka calls him Meridad. Which, ironically, is fairly close to his real name.
• Reasonable Authority Figure

Merielle Sim Omui

• Badass in Distress: Retroactively; in volumes 6 & 7 we learn that her father has the moniker War God for his vast achievements. Her mother was one of the strongest adventurers in recent history. And Merielle takes after both, being one of the strongest people in Omui (until Haruka and his classmates arrived). Despite this, she was introduced as a Damsel in Distress.
• Damsel in Distress: She gets the standard isekai princess introduction, the hero happens on her carriage being attacked by bandits and rescues her.
• Living MacGuffin: She was introduced being targeted by "bandits" who were actually soldiers from a neighboring city only to be rescued by Haruka and has been targeted by various figures to try and control the town of Omui.
• Misery Trigger: Being called Merimeri by Haruka.
• You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Cries this out word for word when Haruka off-handedly mentions that her town (and family) name just happens to be a goblin war-cry.

Stalker Girl

• Comically Small Bribe: While being treated pleasantly by Haruka, the otherworlders and Omui were the majority of the work, the best way to get her on your side is to just feed her sweets. At one point when Haruka threatens to cut her off she freaks, and the girls manage to bribe her with their own sweets supply to spy on Haruka for his safety in turn.
• Heel Realization: When she realizes the nearby noble is setting her up to ruin Omui and has no intention of sparing her village anyway, regardless of how well she completes her mission.
• Hostage Situation: She was forced into spying on Omui by her home village being held hostage. After Haruka and crew rescue said village, she sides with Omui full-time.
• Intrepid Reporter: What she first appears to be, tracking down clues about the "mysterious adventurer" who repeatedly rescues the village of Omui.
• The Mole: She's spying on Omui on behalf of the nearby city whose noble feels his unethical monopoly being threatened by Omui's recent prosperity.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Everyone calls her "stalker girl".
• So Much for Stealth: When Haruka catches on to her stalking him, she completely forgoes any attempt at sneaking around and starts following him openly.

Dungeon Emperors

Angelica / Armor Class Rep

• Badass Adorable: All the other characters (and most of the fanbase) sees her as the cutest girl of the cast. She also happens to be one of the most powerful fighters, strong enough to be Haruka's training partner.
• Catchphrase:Nod nod
• Cute Monster Girl: Formerly, she was a Lich at the bottom of the Labyrinth of Omui, but due to Haruka giving her some rare magical accesories, she has been resurrected as a human.
• Demonic Possession: The reason she attacked Haruka at the bottom of the dungeon was because some dark mass of malice compelled her to. When Haruka defeats this mass, she happily agrees to be "tamed" by him and follows him around.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Blonde and an absolutely adorable woman who treasures and is treasured by Haruka.
• Humanity Ensues: Originally an undead Lich, she was revived as a human due to Haruka's actions.
• I Owe You My Life: After being lead out of the labyrinth she was trapped for that long, she begs Haruka not to cancel his Manipulation Skill on her due to this.
• Meaningful Name: Her name is Angelica, and she's not only an Angelic Beauty, but she's the sweetest and nicest girl in the whole series.
• Pervert Revenge Mode: Haruka's perverted thoughts in light novel cause him to be on the receiving end of her wrath.
• Property of Love: Haruka's "Taming" skill is the first bond with people she's had in centuries. When Haruka offers to set her free, she refuses, and clings to him like a lover. They are Sickening Sweethearts from that point on.
• Really 700 Years Old: She was trapped at the bottom of the dungeon for centuries.
• The Quiet One: Justified, as being trapped as an undead Lich for such a long time has left her with communication problems.
• Sickening Sweethearts: With Haruka. They go on dates, hold hands, snuggle up together, sleep side by side, and awkwardly blush like crazy when someone points out how they're being all "lovey-dovey."
• When She Smiles: Her smile is so adorable, even Haruka under the effect of "Blockhead" melts like putty when he sees it, bending over backwards to see her happy.

Slimey

• Blob Monster: It's a slime.
• Cannibalism Superpower: Gains new abilities by eating monsters.
• Demoted to Extra: Its role in the manga is greatly diminished from the Light Novel.
• The Speechless: On account of being a slime.
• Through His Stomach: A non-romantic example, but it joins Haruka after he feeds it.

Nefertiri / Dancing Girl

• Ambiguously Brown: Her ancestry is unknown and she sports very dark skin.

Kingdom of Dorial

Shariceres Di Diorail

• Anime Hair: See how her hair has two ends sticking out to the sides? Even in a bath, they just naturally lift themselves like that.
• Misery Trigger: After her initial debut, which resulted in Haruka's traps leaving her being presented mostly naked on top of a parade of Golems to the leadership of the Frontier, any mention of nudity, eroticism, or lewdness around her sends her into a spiral.
• Reluctant Fanservice Girl: Ends up in tasteful yet erotic clothing thanks to Haruka, which becomes a running gag.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: The only princess of the kingdom, yet leads a knight order, and after being captured by Haruka, works alongside him to end her brothers' corruption.

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