Characters from the manga and anime/OVA series Princess Resurrection.
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Hime and her allies
Hime
- And the Adventure Continues: Decides she will use her newfound freedom and life to better Sherwood's chances of survival for the next Fight.
- Battle in the Center of the Mind: Is forced into this against Silvia. With Hiro's help, she wins.
- Brought Down to Normal: She doesn't join up with the Phoenix and eventually she, Silvia and Fuhito lose their Phoenix powers, meaning they no longer have to participate in the Succession fights if they don't want to.
- Chainsaw Good: It's become her iconic weapon.
- Dark Is Not Evil: She dresses in all black, but she is a Nice Girl (really, really underneath)and The Heroine of the story.
- Department of Redundancy Department: Think about it. She's called "Princess Hime" and "Hime" is Japanese for princess.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: Is alive and no longer eligible for the Succession fight at the end of the story.
- Elegant Classical Musician: She's a skilled pianist and a songwriter.
- Fling a Light into the Future: Hime does this to herself, prompting her past self to keep her decision to make Hiro a Blood Warrior.
- Full-Name Basis: Because she is no longer a princess and Severin is dead, Hime goes back to being known by her real name, Lilliane von Phoenix.
- Hair Antennae: After being Brought Down to Normal.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She sometimes acts like a jerk to her friends, but really does care for them.
- The Kirk: Of the Princesses. She rarely seems stressed about anything but people note that some of her actions are quite strange and rash.
- Lady and Knight: The Bright Lady to Hiro's White Knight, especially emphasized in later chapters.
- Mama Bear: To her friends and servants, as quiet as she keeps it.
- Meaningful Name: "Hime" is Japanese for "Princess".
- Mr. Exposition: On occasion, The Stoic one.
- Multi-Melee Master: Wields different types of weapons against monsters.
- My Greatest Failure: Her previous Blood Knights all died to save her.
- Offered the Crown: Emile at least thinks she should become the next ruler. She ultimately declines.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: As she's a Royal.
- Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense: Hime is an Sheltered Aristocrat, so she never helps with any work that doesn't involve killing something. She also didn't know how to use a modern cell phone - Hime stated that Flandre to use it for her. This also explains why she is always reading when everyone else is playing videogames.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: To Severin. It works.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something: Played with. Hime has NO interest in the throne. But when she gets attacked, Hime is just as likely to fight back as Hiro is to protect her. Also, she will protect and assist her "subjects" and the local town.
- Shoo the Dog: Turns Hiro into a Flame Warrior so that he won't have to help her fight anymore since she's very nearly immortal in chapter 83.
- So Beautiful, It's a Curse: Death itself is hunting Hime. At chapter 66, Death’s servant explains why:… You’re quite strong, Your Highness. You still haven’t escaped from the effects on your body… you should be in so much pain that you cannot stand, but your firm posture… You really are wonderful, your Highness...! It’s all because of you. Your soul is so noble, we have to take you in no matter what…!
- The Stoic: Read the whole manga carefully again. No matter if you are trying to kill her, or how dramatic your Big Entrance is, or if you’re explaining her You Have No Chance to Survive. Hime’s only gestures are Perpetual Smiler, Perpetual Frowner and Death Glare. Except when someone is attempting a Heroic Sacrifice for her, that's the only time her face will reveal emotion.
- * Tea Is Classy: Hime is often seen relaxing with a cup of tea in hand. She often compliments Sawawa on her Earl Grey. And she's been known to invite Reiri to join her on the veranda for tea in the moonlight.
- White Sheep: The only royal who has no interest in becoming King.
- Wreathed in Flames: After gaining Phoenix powers. She's still not an adult though.
Hiro Hiyorimi
- Alliterative Name: Hiro Hiyorimi.
- Badass Adorable: The few times he's spotlighted, he's so unsure of himself or worried about Hime.
- Bodyguard Crush: Possibly. Either that or it's just the whole Blood Warrior thing making him a tad clingy.
- Butt-Monkey: At the beginning of the series, at least.
- Character Development: In the manga. He went from a wimp only useful as Human Shield to a Determinator, full of Undying Loyalty towards his Royal, enough to deny himself of dying to prolong his life in a Bad Future, not going away even when his Royal gives him the capacity and option to do so and Time Travel back the whole storyline to reunite the other Himes's power to aid the current; all for the sake of saving Hime. He at the end, is acknowledged as the greatest Blood Warrior.
- Color Failure: An interesting version (at least in the manga). All the colour is "drained" out of him whenever Hime is in danger. This is due to him being a blood warrior. His hair and skin actually becomes albino pale and obtains Glowing Eyes of Doom in active blood warrior mode.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Can be plenty badass when the time calls for it.
- Flat Character: There isn't much character development to him outside of learning the ways of the monster world. Half the time he's just following Hime around or happens to be in an area of monster activity.
- Future Badass: You better believe it. If the bad future is anything to show.
- Gondor Calls for Aid: In chapter 86, Princess Princess, when Hiro sees Hime losing the Battle in the Center of the Mind against Silvia and Fuhito, he decides to traverse the series' timeline and acquire help from all of the Himes who died such as the pod-person Hime, the Bad Future Hime and the Bad Past Hime…
It works and Hime overwhelms Silvia. - The Heart: The need to protect Hiro is the thing that let all the girls work together.
- Hellish Pupils: Whenever Hime is in danger.
- Immortal Life Is Cheap: He dies at least once a chapter.
- Lady and Knight: The White Knight to Hime's Bright Lady, especially emphasized in later chapters.
- Mr. Exposition: He's a Butt-Monkey, but still manages to deduce something and explain it.
- Nice Guy: He's pretty much of a nice guy in this series. Due to his caring and selflessness, some of the beautiful girls such as Hime, Reiri, and Sherwood develop feelings for him.
- Playing with Fire: Hime turns him into a Flame Warrior like Emile did with Keziah. Hiro then burns Kiniski alive back to death.
- Psychic Link: Between him and Hime.
- UST: Not sure how to look at this with Hime, but a possible interpretation.
Riza Wildman
- Action Girl: By virtue of being a werewolf warrior.
- Badass Adorable: She may be cute, but she rips monsters apart like they're nothing.
- Badass Biker: Occasionally.
- Bare Midriffs Are Feminine
- Bash Brothers: Frequently teams up with Hiro.
- Butch Lesbian: With all the Ship Tease she and Reiri have...
- Catchphrase: I am Riza Wildman, daughter of the great warrior, Volg Wildman!
- Comically Missing the Point: she attempts to make Sasanaki's dog population into warriors to defend themselves from vets and dogcatchers. It doesn't work, usually.
- Cute Bruiser: Doesn't look as dangerous as she really is, up until her arms turn into massive wolf arms.
- Gamer Chick: Plays with Hiro sometimes. Ironically, she Doesn't Know Mortal Kombat (Hiro says she never bothered to read the instructions). She even lampshades the irony that Hiro is good at the game but, at this point in time, is useless in real life.
- Half-Breed Discrimination: Riza gets this from time to time from full-blood werewolves, such as the trio that attempted to attack the mansion. One of them even asked her if her father was in wolf-form or human-form when she was conceived. Her brother, however, willingly gave his life to protect her (he was full-werewolf), and Keziah, also a full werewolf, seems to treat her with respect. She gets some taunts from full-blooded werewolves in monster jail, until she EARNS their respect by taking down a powerful vampire.
- Half-Human Hybrid: Half-human, half-werewolf.
- Hot-Blooded: Not actually stupid but she occasionally does things on impulse that, had she actually stopped to think about them, she'd never do.
- Idiot Ball: Lampshaded by Riza herself in the second OVA when preparing to ram the train. She remarks that if she thought about it, it would be a bad idea, but that thinking about it wasn't her thing.
- Proud Warrior Race Guy: If her catchphrase where she boasts about her father being a great warrior wasn't indicative enough.
- Sir Swears-a-Lot: Swears like a sailor,and practically uses no feminine vocabulary whatsoever in her speech in the Japanese version save the gender-neutral "watashi."
- Spell My Name Withan S: Riza vs. Liza vs. Lisa etc.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: With Reiri.
- Tsundere: Hiro often gets the brunt of her "dere" side. And Reiri the "tsun".
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Eventually admits that, personality quirks aside, she and Reiri don't really hate each other and are pretty much friends.
- You Can't Go Home Again: Is exiled from the Werewolf society along with her two wolf friends for associating with Reiri. They don't really mind since it means they get to work with Hime forever.
Reiri Kamura
- Action Girl: When she feels like it.
- Adaptational Modesty: Has a good many panty shots in the manga. None in the anime, though. Indeed, foreshadowed by the opening, where her skirt is in danger of being blown up, and she holds it in place.
- An Arm and a Leg: Manga only, but when she was attacked by a large group of vampires sent by Kinsiki, she got her leg cut off. Though being a vampire, it didn't bother her much and she was even able to re-attach it once Hiro retrieved it for it with no ill-effects.
- Animorphism: As a vampire she has the "swarm of bats" variant.
- Cute Little Fang: Comes with the territory.
- Friendly Neighborhood Vampire: And she's really friendly too, especially with Hiro.
- Hypnotic Eyes: And hell are they creepy.
- Lady of War: When compared to Riza, anyway. Not as much as Hime though.
- Lesbian Vampire: Hasn't been actually stated, but there's enough evidence...In fact, when her 'old friend' Greta visits her, she and Reiri greet eachother by clasping hands and stroking one another's faces.
- Lovable Coward: She's braver and a bit more loyal than most vampires, but she is not above fleeing a fight if it's going badly for her. She will, however, always run towards a non-combat solution to the problem. Even if that's "find someone who can fight."
- Magic Skirt: Horribly (or wonderfully, YMMV) averted. See Panty Shot below.
- Minored in Ass-Kicking: Fighting isn't one of Reiri's hobbies. Not that she can't deliver a beatdown anyway.
- Mr. Exposition: The Insufferable Genius type.
- Ms. Fanservice: Due to the several panty shots she gets.
- The Starscream: Subverted; she's rather loyal, even though she'll tell you she isn't. To the point of taking The Slow Path into a Bad Future and getting killed in order to give Hime a message to send back in time. This surprises a lot of Royals, as vampires do not make for loyal servants.
- Ship Tease: TONS with Riza.
- Vampire Detective Series: She is either one or likes pretending to be one. Her specialty is investigation and does solve the mystery she is assigned to.
Nakua
- Voiced by: Hiromi Konno (OVA)
- Defeat Equals Friendship: She tries to trap Hime and her entourage in prehistoric times in response to Riza and Reiri impeding on her human offerings. This fails. Later on, when her temple is destroyed, Hime allows her to set up on her new temple in Hime's backyard. She has two spider servants, Jiroumaru and Taroumaru.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: Nakua protected Reiri’s school and only wanted some girls as a sacrifice. When a super storm threatens the city, Nakua is waiting to get more presents in her Shrine to do something about it. Given she provides a service to the human community, in return that community owes her both respect and sacrifices. She has the same mentality that a Yakuza boss.
- Fantasy Counterpart Myth: She is based on the H. P. Lovecraft creation of Atlach-Nacha from the Lovecraft Mythos.
- Gods Need Prayer Badly: And she's a bit pissed she hasn't been getting any lately.
- Heel–Face Turn: Tried to kill the heroes twice now, but now she's on their side.
- Humanoid Abomination: Usually looks like a young girl with long black hair.
- I'm a Humanitarian: She clashes with Hime, Reiri and Riza on this. Not that it makes her a bad person. She was just taking 'offerings' as she has to eat. Now, she accepts offerings from a little shrine...though she complains about how Sawawa makes them.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: she's not nice but she doesn't eat people out of malice. She also displays genuine, if grudging, concern towards Hime and her group. Plus, she has a soft spot for Sawawa.
- Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Spider limbs sprout out of her head when she decides to fight.
- Mr. Exposition: Another The Stoic one, as Risa compares her with Hime.
- Spider People: Well, a god but still counts.
- Villains Out Shopping: Well, "Noble Demon Gods Out Shopping." In her spare time, she supervises the building of a bridge between worlds. Why? 'Cause. This is more likely to be a reference to her counterpart in the Cthulhu Mythos.
Sherwood
- Voiced by: Ai Shimizu (JP), Hilary Haag (EN)
- And the Adventure Continues: Is the last living Royal at the end of the story, technically making her the winner, though she knows in a decade or so, the fights will start again. So she's preparing.
- Annoying Younger Sibling: At first...in series. YMMV on whether or not her Heel Face Turn made her less "annoying".
- Big Brother Worship: Of Hime, after her Heel–Face Turn.
- Disney Death: In chapter 77 due to exposing her body to the spore cloud and adapting to it, fresh air become lethal to her and she nearly dies if not for Hime saving her with her newfound phoenix power.
- Green Thumb: She controls triffids.
- Heel–Face Turn: In a way. She's no longer out to kill Hime, but she doesn't exactly "help" her either.
- Lady of Adventure: Usually when we see Sherwood in-story, she, Francesca and Ryu-Ryu are off on a field investigation/expedition.
- The McCoy: Of the Princesses. Understandable since she's the youngest Royal and it's shown that when she was around that age, Hime wasn't too much different.
- Mr. Exposition: Another Insufferable Genius type.
- My Sister Is Off-Limits: While it's not so surprising that Hime and Emile refused to kill her, Sherwood muses that the only reason she survived is because most of her siblings were too noble to take the direct route and just straight-up murder her.
- Tomboyish Ponytail: Her ponytail.
- Tomboy Princess: She really likes her field investigations.
- Unexpected Successor: The only Royal who survives.
Flandre
- Voiced by: Shiho Kawaragi (anime), Yuka Iguchi (OVA)(JP), Bree Welch (EN)
- Accidental Heroine: Flandre's anime-only rampage across Sasanaki city unintentionally ends up helping people.
- Drives Like Crazy: Inverted. She's actually a competent driver. Some of the situations in which she has to drive, however...
- In-Series Nickname: Sherwood refers to her as "The Shrimp Maid"/"Shrimpette".
- Robot Girl: Just like her "siblings".
- Robot Maid: Duh.
- Spell My Name With An S: Frandre? Flandore?
- Theme Naming: With the rest of her "siblings."
- Verbal Tic: Hooba / huga / fuga.
Sawawa Hiyorimi
- The Empath: In the anime she often senses when Hiro is in danger. And then dismisses it as nothing.
- Meido: Her job in Hime's mansion.
- Unfazed Everyman: Not that she's aware of it.
- Weirdness Censor: Seriously. Does she ever notice any of the supernatural happenings around Hime's house? The one time she does notice anything weird at all is when Hime gets cloned... which Sawawa passes off as her being tired. Oh well, at least she doesn't get underfoot in the action.
Francesca
- Voiced by: Rika Morinaga (JP), Stephanie Wittels (EN)
- Guns Akimbo: Not really but she tends to flick pebbles and rocks from her hands in this manner.
- Super-Strength: She can flick pellets or rocks at the same speed of a gunshot.
- Verbal Tic: Again, another android that says only "Fuga"/"Hooba." She is smarter than Flandre though.
Ryu-Ryu
- Voiced by: Akio Kato (JP), Leraldo Anzaldua (EN)
- Artistic License – Animal Care: Subverted. Sherwood doesn't even try to hide Ryu, and nobody calls her out on the fact that owning a panda as a pet is illegal. Until chapter 35, where she's arrested for violating the Washington Convention.
- Bash Brothers: With his fellow pandas that Sherwood bought from the zoo. Just go with it.
- Berserker: Very much so. One time he killed a giant snake by landing on it. Only to break his neck from the landing. Even Riza, who isn't known for her tactical prowess, called him wreckless.
- Color Failure: As with all Blood warriors. His black fur even turns white, making some people mistake him for a polar bear at times.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Eucalyptus.
Nozomi "Buchi" Kobuchizawa
- Voiced by: Naru Kawamoto, Hiroshi Okamoto (OVA) (JP), Greg Ayres (EN)
- Butt-Monkey: Amusing things happen to Buchi.
- Large Ham: Especially when he's playing Mr. Exposition in his videos.
- Redundant Researcher: He knows a lot about the ancient misteries, but he only solves them with the protagonists
- Sealed Inside a Person-Shaped Can: Was once taken over by an extradimensional intelligence that was later sealed inside him by Reiri, which eventually gives him...
- Weirdness Censor: Notably the only recurring human who DOESN'T have one.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: Smart enough to notice something weird's going on, not smart enough to know why.
Prince Severin and his entourage
Severin
- Voiced By: Kenyū Horiuchi (anime), Hiroaki Hirata (JP), Kalob Martinez (EN)
- Bad Boss: His blood warrior, Mikasa, is a woman he killed himself.
- Black Sheep: Hime doesn't always have a winning personality, but she and Sherwood are ultimately kind hearted and noble people. Emile is caring, loyal and brave, and Gilliam is respectful to his followers and an honorable warrior. While she is utterly ruthless, vain, arrogant and a bit cruel, Silvia is not wantonly sadistic and doesn't really cause collateral damage. Severin is a cruel, nasty little coward who causes tons of needless deaths to get what he wants.
- Dirty Coward: Hime has no qualms about calling him as such, pointing out that even little Sherwood was ready to risk her life, while he hid behind his little tricks as to not get in the line of fire.
- Foil: To Hime, Emile and Gilliam: Hime is an occasionally smug but ultimately noble heroine and at their absolute worst, Emile and Gilliam are well-intentioned Anti Villains. Severin is NONE of these things.
- Jerkass: He's unbearably smug and loves to boast about his superiority.
- Killed Off for Real: By Hime.
- The Kirk: Compared to Gilliam and Emile. Not a nice Kirk, however.
- Lady and Knight: Befitting his role as Hime's foil, Severin and Mikasa are an evil genderflipped version with him as the Dark Lord and Mikasa his Black Knight.
- Mistress and Servant Boy: Gender-inverted: He and Mikasa seem to have this dynamic, mixed with Bad Boss. The way he gives her blood is rather... suspect.
- Out-Gambitted: He really underestimated Hime...
- Smug Snake: Lampshaded by Hime herself.Hime: You've always been a weak-minded coward.
- Villainous Breakdown: When he sees that his underhanded tricks don't work on Hime, he gets angry. Just as Hime planned, as his rage causes him to drop his guard and get killed.
Franz
Severin's android bodyguard, he looks like a tall man dressed in a tuxedo with a cybernetic left eye.- Verbal Tic: "Fuga"/"Hooba."
Mikasa
- Voiced By: Sayaka Ohara (anime) (JP), Stephanie Wittels (EN)
- Anti-Villain: Compared to her master anyway.
- Big Sister Instinct: She takes up with Severin and later Silvia, for the sake of her ill little sister.
- Combat Tentacles: After being modified.
- Mix-and-Match Critters: Severin had her body modified while she was his blood warrior. Fly Man is also doing some experiments on her.
Fly Man
An anthromorphic fly scientist. He is first introduced trying to "sell" the fruits of his research to Hime (meaning he took her hostage to force her to buy them from him, or die if she refused). He works for Severin at first, but Silvia eventually becomes his financial patroness, and as such he makes things on her request, whenever he isn't pursuing his own independent research that is.- Captain Ersatz: He essentially a mix of the classic and the Jeff Goldblum-played character of The Fly.
- Enigmatic Minion: He has won Zeppeli's recognition as a brave operator. He is onto something, but nobody is sure what.
- Mix-and-Match Critters: All of his creatures seem to be some form of insects, among other things.
Prince Emile and his entourage
Emile
- Voiced by: Yuuya Uchida (anime), Akira Ishida (OVA) (JP), David Wald (EN)
- Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: His soul left his body as he become a pseudo-phoenix, the discarded body is back from the dead via blood warrior pact.
- Back from the Dead: As a blood warrior. Thanks, Silvia.
- Batman Gambit: Well, when you know the future...See Shoo the Dog.
- Birds of a Feather: He and Hime seem to get along well. He's arguably her Spear Counterpart.
- Big Brother Instinct: He sincerely cares about Hime and Sherwood.
- The Chessmaster: To a degree. Being able to see the future helps.
- Empty Shell: His blood warrior corpse.
- Humongous Mecha: Flanders.
- Pet the Dog: Aloof, stoic, not above putting his life on the line to save his subordinates or innocent bystanders. Also a Sugar-and-Ice Personality.
- Playing with Fire: He seems to have turned his soul into an Energy Being Wreathed in Flames.
- Psychic Powers: Seems to have telekinesis. He uses it to deflect a Wave-Motion Gun from hitting an Afterlife Express. Using it really takes a toll on him. He can also see into the future for a limited amount of time.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: He's been made into a blood warrior.
- Shoo the Dog: Thanks to his Psychic Powers, he seems to do this twice in one shot: upon realizing that his plot to become an adult and end the succession fights failed, Keziah and Sledge are killed, the mermaid becomes Silvia's blood servant. Emile resurrects Keziah with fire magic for the express purpose of making the mermaid into a Flame Warrior. When Keziah fulfills his purpose, royal blood becomes useless to the mermaid and Keziah himself dies immediately afterwards. Thus none of his servants are in play for the upcoming war between the Royals.
- The Spock: Of the three Princes.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: He eventually attacks Keziah and Sledge with his powers. Considering he was Silvia's blood warrior by then, it may not count.
Keziah Bold
- Voiced by: Hiroki Touchi (anime), Yūichi Nakamura (OVA) (JP), Jay Hickman (EN)
- Chekhov's Gunman: We meet Keziah as another stranded traveler on the Ghost Ship.
- Fantastic Racism: Against vampires but no one's shocked.
- Friendly Enemy: Keziah and Riza get on very well.
- Killed Off for Real:
- Subverted as he shows up in Chapter 77 and 78. Turns out Emile saved him by turning him into a fire warrior, giving him some phoenix powers.
- Played straight as of 83.
- Our Werewolves Are Different: Also, a Voluntary Shapeshifter.
- Scars Are Forever: Keziah has claw marks on his forehead.
- Shirtless Scene: After he transforms.
Sledge
- Voiced By: Satoshi Hino (OVA)
- Blood Knight: No surprise from Keziah, though Sledge is also like this.
- Bodyguard Betrayal: Sledge is the one that kills the already-dying Emile so that Silvia can claim Madeline.
- Karmic Death: Sledge is killed by the Blood Warrior-turned Emile, shortly after he had betrayed the latter to Silvia.
- Satellite Character: Sledge has very little characterization outside of his loyalty to Emile, being able to fly and arguing with Keziah.
- Winged Humanoid: Sledge.
Flanders
Flanders is the robot bodyguard assigned to serve Emile. Unlike his "siblings" Flandre and Francesca, Flanders is a Humongous Mecha on the scale of kaiju-sized monsters. He is later upgraded to Flanders G.- Foreshadowing: The fact that Flander's head-mounted photon cannons are used by Gilliam is a big clue that Emile has already died
- Verbal Tic: "Fuga"/"Hooba."
- Wave-Motion Gun: His eyes also double as twin Photo Cannons.
- We Can Rebuild Him: Flanders is actually destroyed twice, but rebuilt without issue (relatively anyway) afterward.
Ningyo/Madeline
- Voiced by: Ai Kayano (OVA)
- Adaptation Dye-Job: Despite her hair being a dark color in the manga, it becomes pink in the first anime. The OVA rectifies this somewhat, turning her hair back into a very dark blue.
- Color Failure: Much like Hiro, she suffers this at times.
- Hellish Pupils: Again, much like Hiro.
- Last of Their Kind: Mermaids are mentioned by Riza as being "almost extinct".
- Only Known by Their Nickname: She is referred to through the manga and the OVA simply as "ningyo", which literaly means mermaid. It is only later in the manga that we learn that her real name is Madeline.
- Our Mermaids Are Different: Similar to 'The Little Mermaid' variety: as mentioned, she gave up her voice as a payment to a sorcerer to be able to walk. The moment she speaks a word however, she dies.
- Token Mini-Moe: Of Emile's entourage.
Princess Silvia and her entourage
Silvia
- Voiced by: Kikuko Inoue (OVA)
- The Baroness: Sexpot version.
- Chekhov's Gunman: The first time we see her, she is being held hostage by Duke Kiniski.
- Cool Big Sis: Seems this, at first.
- Dark Action Girl: When she actually bothers, she's every bit as capable of fighting as Hime is.
- Evil Counterpart: To Hime.
- Fantastic Racism: Seems to dislike Keziah for some reason.
- Manipulative Bitch: Even Sherwood calls her out on this.
- Onee-sama: Always referred to as "Silvia-onee-sama."
- Perpetual Smiler: Enough so that when she doesn't smile, it's cause for worry.
- Pet the Dog: Hime's earlier memories of her.
- Playing with Fire, Wreathed in Flames: After gaining Phoenix powers, like Hime.
- Spell My Name With An S: "Silvia" or "Sylvia?" The official English translations go with "Silvia."
- The Spock: An evil Spock.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Has absolutely no problems getting rid of useless subordinates.
Francette
- Voiced By: Yuka Iguchi (OVA)
- This Is a Drill: One of her arms.
Prince Gilliam and his entourage
Gilliam
- Voiced by: Joji Nakata (OVA)
- Cloudcuckoolander: Implied, mostly through his rather unusual blood warriors.
- Collector of the Strange: His blood warriors include:
- Cool Sword: His weapon is his sword blood warrior.
- Flash Step: He is very fast.
- Hoist by His Own Petard:
- On the giving and recieveing end. He blasts Hime's mansion with a particle cannon for fighting him earlier, using the very weapon she used then on him. He then is about to blast Sherwood's mansion, proclaiming "karma's a bitch", only to be blasted, but not killed, by Hime with the same cannon.
- By chapter 78 and 77, he gets desperate and willingly exposes himself to an alien spore cloud in hopes of fighting and defeating Fuhito. This winds up backfiring as prolonged exposure means he can't survive in fresh air. The spore uses him to explain to the others that they meant no harm and were just trying to find a new home before heading out into space. Clearing away the mist and killing Gilliam in the process. He is graceful about it though and, like Emil, wishes for Hime to be the next ruler as she gave him a royal death.
- The McCoy: So far, the most openly emotional of the princes and princesses.
- Noble Demon: He uses some underhanded tricks but he does care for Fratellus and even respected that it was willing to sacrifice itself to help him.
- Properly Paranoid: He insists Dr. Franken is secretly helping Emile to be the winner, And That's Terrible. Guess what? he's right
- Serious Business: The Succession Crisis. He's right, though.
- Warrior Prince: He's pretty skilled with that Cool Sword.
Fratellus
- Voiced by: Yuka Iguchi (OVA)
- Cool Shades: Or whatever those goggles are on his face.
- Heroic Sacrifice: To destroy Flanders for Gilliam's sake. Being an android, he gets better.
- Verbal Tic: "Fuga"/"Hooba."
Prince Duken and his entourage
Prince Duken/Franken
The oldest royal sibling alive, Duken was supposedly the winner of the previous generation's succession war by default, as his only other remaining rival had gone into hiding. However instead of being elevated to maturity, he was instead passed over by the other Elder royalty, which indirectly leads to the current succession war. In reality Duken had been killed decades before by his brother Prince Fuhito, and the "Duken" seen by the other siblings is simply another android.- Battle Butler: To Prince Fuhito.
- Fusion Dance: With Frank to turn into Franken, Prince Fuhito's bodyguard.
- Ridiculously Human Robot: What Duken is eventually revealed to be.
- Verbal Tic: Once revealed as an android "Duken" starts speaking in the same way as all the other mechanical bodyguards.
Frank
Prince Duken's robotic canine companion, who accompanies the eldest royal wherever he goes.- Fusion Dance: His head fuses with "Duken" to turn into Fuhito's bodyguard Franken.
Other Characters
Dr. Franken
The creator of the humanoid bodyguards that serve the royal siblings, Dr. Franken considers himself a neutral observer to the succession war. As such his mansion is considered a demilitarized zone where the royal siblings can talk with each other without fear of attack or betrayal.- Badass Longcoat: Used to be the owner of one.
- Brain in a Jar: His state in the present generation.
Prince Fuhito
Another royal prince, Fuhito's unexpected entry into the succession war has shifted the power balance between all his other siblings. Although looking for all the world like a young boy, Fuhito is an extremely powerful esper... and he isn't hesitant in using that power. Fuhito was actually a participant of the previous generation's succession war, though he had to go into hiding due to the toll the battles took on his body. It was he who killed Duken, and had him turned into a robotic body-double, which in turn indirectly causes the current generation's succession war.- Battle in the Center of the Mind: Tries this against Silvia in preparation against the adult Phoenix. He loses.
- Captain Ersatz As a baby, a very obvious one to Ivan Whisky/Cyborg 001 from Cyborg009, down to the pacifier.
- Delicate and Sickly: Much like Ivan, using his psychic powers prior to his revival caused him to fall asleep afterward.
- Horned Humanoid: The way his hair is styled makes it seem like he has two horns sprouting from the top of his head.
- Psychic Powers:An extremely powerful esper even as a baby.
- Smug Super: He really thinks himself unbeatable.
Zeppeli
- Voiced by: Kenyū Horiuchi (JP) Chris Patton (EN)
Zeppeli is a pure-blood vampire, like Reiri, who is in charge of Sasanaki Hospital from the shadows. He is noted for being eccentric, even by Vampire standards. He makes no secret of the fact that he wants to taste Hime's blood, but he also prefers to think of his actions as a form of theater, and even tells Hiro he would prefer if the Princess volunteered her blood freely.
- Affably Evil: Zeppeli is always polite, and even when his plans go south, he never loses his cool or his temper. He has been known to use things like It in his schemes (at least in the anime. The manga never specifies who unleashed It), but he is never wantonly cruel or malicious.
- Bad Boss: Notable for being averted, especially for a vampire.
- Faking the Dead: In an anime only story, he pretends to be killed by a Tanuki vampire hunter, mostly to get rid of him without actually fighting or killing him.
- Friendly Foes: Despite being in competition with Reiri, Zeppeli often has friendly conversations with her, and doesn't seem to bear her any malice, though he is determined to get Hime's blood first.
- Foil: For both Reiri and Kinski. Like Reiri, he makes no secret of desiring Hime's blood, but unlike Reiri he's not in good standing with Hime and thus doesn't have access to her mansion. And like Kinski, he's had Hiro in his clutches a few times, but unlike Kinski, Zeppeli wasn't needlessly cruel with Hiro, and prefers to simply chat with him and was philisophical about tasting Hime's blood.
- For the Lulz / For the Evulz: Many of the actiosn he takes seems to be because he was just looking for a laugh.
- Killed Off for Real: In the later chapters of the manga. Zeppeli was captured and used in Flyman's experiments to make vampire/werewolf hybrids. Hime and the others find his body.
- Mad Artist: Zeppeli sent an android to Hime's house in a scheme to get her blood. He actually wrote an elaborate history and twenty-three years of memories for the android, in part to make his story more convincing, but in part because Zeppeli considered it all part of the theatrical presentation he was orchestrating.
- Mellow Fellow: Zeppeli treats failures as mere setbacks, and doesn't tend to get uptight or angry about much of anything, though at times he does express mild annoyance with his servant, Sanagida.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Zeppeli never pulls a Bad Boss move with the vampires under his command at the Sasanaki Hospital, and doesn't punish failures with cruelty or death. Indeed, he even takes pride in the skills and efficiency of the hospital staff, who, despite being vampires, are consumate professionals when it comes to medical care, something that saves him on at least one occasion.
