Characters for The Unwanted Undead Adventurer.
Rentt and his companions
Voiced by: Ryōta Suzuki, Anna Nagase (young)
A 25-year-old Bronze-class adventurer who is eaten by a dragon, but later resurrects as an animate skeleton.
- Achievements in Ignorance: For many years, he thought of himself as a low-ranking adventurer who never made any difference. Unbeknownst to him, the guild depended a lot on his social skills and knowledge for negotiations and counsel to new adventurers. He even helped improve the town's safety by signaling which places were dangerous and crime was greatly reduced thanks to him.
- Authority in Name Only: He is supposedly Edel's master, but Edel mostly does whatever he wants.
- Bishōnen Line: After his death, he comes back as a living skeleton. Through existential evolution, he gradually evolves into more humanlike monsters and starts aiming to become a vampire.
- Can't Catch Up: Rentt's core problem during his 10-year adventurer career is that his body and abilities do not break out of their shell despite training daily and regular exposure to danger via solo adventuring.
- Chaste Hero: His single-minded goal is becoming a Mithril-class adventurer and he seems uncapable of noticing Lorraine's romantic feelings for him, much to her frustration.
- Chronic Hero Syndrome: If there's a job where he can help people, he'll take it no matter how dangerous or badly paid it is.
- Clingy MacGuffin: After evolving into a ghoul, Rina buys him a skull mask that turned out to be cursed and now he can't remove it from his face, not even by using divinity. It's later revealed the mask is actually a divine tool that enhances his divinity.
- Clueless Chick-Magnet: Back in his hometown, Rentt had two girls pining for his affection, but he never noticed their feelings even though they weren't subtle about their advances. He's just as clueless when it comes to Lorraine's love for him.
- Cool Sword: He asks Clope to make him a sword that can channel mana, spirit and divinity.
- Creepy Good: He has become an undead, going from a living skeleton to a ghoul to a type of vampire. His appearance looks scary, but he's a good and heroic guy.
- Dark and Troubled Past: His parents and best friend were brutally killed by a wolf monster in front of him when he was only five years old.
- Dark Is Not Evil: He's an undead dressed completely black and wearing a cursed skull mask, but he's as much of a nice and affable guy as when he was a human and frequently takes jobs to help people.
- Dem Bones: After he dies at the dungeon, he becomes an animate skeleton.
- Experienced Protagonist: He's a veteran adventurer with a decade of experience.
- The Faceless: In the manga, his human face is always obscured in flasbacks before his transformation into an undead.
- Freaky Fashion, Mild Mind: His disguise is an intimidate black trenchcoat or robe with a skull-shaped mask which initially unnerves some people, but Rentt himself is a good-hearted man.
- Green Thumb: His Divinity can grow plants, implying he was blessed by a Nature Spirit.
- Happily Adopted: After his parents were killed by a wolf monster, he was adopted by Ingo and Gilda Faina. He seems to be on good terms with his adoptive parents.
- Heroes Prefer Swords: He's the hero of story and prefers using swords as his weapon of choice.
- Hide Your Otherness: After becoming an undead, he covers his body with a coat and a mask to hide himself and avoid being hunted as a monster.
- Horror Hunger: After he evolves into a thrall, Rentt is overcome by an insatiable thrist for blood and bites Lorraine to drink her blood, with her needing to blast him away with magic to get him to stop and come back to his senses.
- Househusband: He and Lorraine aren't married, but he cooks for her, cleans her house and does laundry after he moves in with her.
- Masking the Deformity: He wears a mask that Rina bought for him to hide that his face, which looks more like that of a decomposing corpse.
- Nice Guy: He's a very kind and friendly guy who easily gets along with others even after becoming an undead.
- Oblivious to Love: He's oblivious to Lorraine's romantic feelings for him, despite having known her for a decade.
- Oh, Crap!: He's shocked when he encounters a Dragon in a low-level dungeon.
- Real Name as an Alias: To hide his identity, he registers at the guild as a new adventurer, but he still uses "Rentt" as his first name.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: He gains red eyes with his evolution into a vampire.
- Relatively Flimsy Excuse: He makes himself pass as Lorraine's relative when he registers at the guild as "Rentt Vivie" so no one suspects why they live together.
- She Is Not My Girlfriend: He's quick to deny he's in a romantic relationship with Lorraine when people assume she's his girlfriend, even though she obviously wants to be.
- Sole Survivor: He was the only survivor of the wolf monster attack that took the lives of his parents and best friend.
- Winged Humanoid: After evolving into a vampire, he can sprout bat-like wings from his back.
Voiced by: Mikako Komatsu
A researcher and Rentt's longtime friend.
- Childhood Friend Romance: She has been Rentt's friend since their early teens and she has strong feelings for him.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: She's usually good at hiding it, but she really doesn't like seeing Rentt spending time with other women.
- Damsel out of Distress: As shown in a bonus story, a man tried to assault a teenage Lorraine and planned to sell her into slavery, but Lorraine blew the man away with her magic before Rentt even had the chance to intervene.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: When she was younger, she was rather aloof and uninterested in other people. Meeting Rentt and learning stuff from him gave her a new perspective and she became more open as a result.
- Gadgeteer Genius: She can create all kinds of useful magic tools.
- Idiot Hair: She has a single lock of hair sticking up, which is especially notable in the manga.
- Impossibly-Low Neckline: She wears a black strapless dress with a very low neckline that exposes her shoulders and cleavage.
- Improbable Age: She gained the rank of "Great Professor" at the age of just 14.
- Jerkass Realization: She regrets throwing her first wand at her teacher and instead feels grateful in retrospect.
- Magical Eye: She has an unspecified magical eye. She can examine mana capacities, among other things.
- Ms. Fanservice: She's a beautiful blonde woman with a large chest and always wearing a form-fitting dress which shows her cleavage.
- She Cleans Up Nicely: Rentt praises how pretty she looks when she gets dressed up for disguise.
- Single-Target Sexuality: Rentt is the only man she ever had feelings for. His transformation into an undead doesn't affect her feelings at all.
- Single Woman Seeks Good Man: She has always been attracted by Rentt's kind, friendly and helpful personality.
- The Smart Girl: Rentt relies on her skills as a researcher and scholar to figure out how his undead body works and the progress of his evolutions.
- Voluntary Vampire Victim: After Rentt starts evolving into a vampire, Lorraine lets him drink her blood to satiate his thrist.
- Well-Trained, but Inexperienced: When she was younger, despite her immense spellcasting talent and education, she freezed up during her first time in a real fight against a weak monster.
Voiced by: Chihiro Takaoka
Rentt's Puchi Suri familiar.
- Action Pet: He can channel Rentt's abilities and use them as his own, making him strong enough to kill monsters by himself.
- Big Eater: He loves to eat.
- Bond Creatures: He's mentally and spiritually bonded to Rentt after drinking his blood. He can even channel Rentt's abilities of mana, spirit and divinity.
- Familiar: Rentt makes him his familiar after Edel tastes his blood.
- King Mook: Even before being taken in by Rentt, Edel is noted to be big for a Puchi Suri. He later starts to dominate all the Puchi Suri in Maalt.
- Meaningful Name: Lorraine names him Edel because it means "noble" and he was the leader of his pack.
- Nice Mice: He's a mouse monster and becomes very friendly after Rentt turns him into his familiar.
- Psychic Link: Having drank Rentt's blood, Edel shares a telepathic link with him.
Maalt Adventurer Guild
Voiced by: Ikumi Hasegawa
One of the Maalt Adventurer Guild receptionists.
- Exhausted Eye Bags: When unexpected workloads suddenly pile up, Rentt notes she looks close to collapsing.
- Office Lady: She deals with the guild's routine paperwork.
- Secret-Keeper: She eventually figures out Rentt is hiding his identity and making himself pass as a new adventurer, but doesn't report it to the guild and signs a magic contract where she swears to become his slave if she ever spills out his secret.
Voiced by: Tetsu Inada
The guildmaster of Maalt's adventurer guild.
- Off on a Technicality: He renders Rentt's double registration a nonproblem by making him a guild employee.
- Retired Badass: He retired from being a powerful adventurer due to injury.
- Rugged Scar: He has a scar over his missing left eye. There's large scars on his arms as well. These are leftovers of his days as an adventurer.
Voiced by: Sayumi Suzushiro
A Iron-class adventurer. She comes from a family of knights. She's saved by Rentt at the dungeon shortly after his evolution into a ghoul and helps him get back to Maalt incognito.- Adaptational Badass: In the light novel, Rina's swordsmanship is noted to be mostly ceremonial. The anime shows her holding up better against the skeleton.
- Adaptational Modesty: In the anime, her clothes are much less revealing than in the light novel and manga, where she wore Stripperiffic with her cleavage and midriff exposed.
- Alliterative Name: Rina Rupaage. Also her real name, Rina Rogue.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She's a hard-working and kind girl with blonde hair.
- Nice Girl: She's a very sweet and kindhearted girl who is friendly and helpful to Rentt despite him being a ghoul when they meet.
- Rescue Introduction: Rentt meets her when he saves her from a skeleton in the dungeon.
- The Runaway: She belongs to a prestigious family of knights, but ran away from home to become an adventurer.
Voiced by: Genta Nakamura
A rookie adventurer based in Maalt.
- Never Learned to Read: He took the oral adventurer promotion exam. Justified as it is rare for normal people to learn to read.
- Sword and Sorcerer: He's a swordsman who often teams up with the mage Laura.
Voiced by: Aya Yamane
A rookie adventurer based in Maalt.
- Girlish Pigtails: She's a young girl with her hair tied into pigtails.
- Inconsistent Spelling: Her name is spelled as "Lola" in the official manga translation.
- Magic Staff: She wields a staff to cast her spells.
- Playing with Fire: She can cast a fire offensive spell.
- Sword and Sorcerer: She's a mage who often teams up with the swordsman Raiz.
Maalt Citizens
Voiced by: Ken'ichirou Matsuda
A blacksmith based in Maalt. Owner of the Three-Pronged Harpoon.
- The Blacksmith: He works as a blacksmith and forges the swords Rentt uses to channel mana, spirit and divinity.
- Secret Secret-Keeper: He knows who Rentt really is despite him hiding his identity after his transformation into an undead, but he doesn't ask questions because he assumes Rentt must have his reasons to keep secrets.
Voiced by: Sayaka Ohara
Clope's wife.
- Nice Girl: She's a lovely and cheerful woman who understands and supports her cantankerous husband.
- Satellite Family Member: Her only role is being Clope's wife.
Voiced by: Hayato Fujii
Owner of the Red Wyvern Pavilion eatery. Rentt meets him when he went dungeon diving in a desperate attempt to make money.
- Non-Action Guy: He isn't an adventurer, but he still ventures inside the dungeon in a desperate attempt to make money after falling in debt. If he haven't run into Rentt, he would have died.
Voiced by: Sayaka Senbongi
Loris' wife.
- Satellite Family Member: She's married to Loris and worries about him for being reckless enough to go into the dungeon to make money. That's all the charactetization she gets.
Voiced by: Yukina Shuto
A girl who lives in a Maalt orphanage.
- The Apprentice: She becomes Lorraine's magic apprentice at Rentt's recommendation.
- Children Do the Housework: Lorraine has Alize do chores at her house in exchange of training her as a future adventurer.
- The Gift: Lorraine notes she could easily become a Court Mage.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She's a good and sweet girl with blonde hair.
- Hero-Worshipper: She starts idolizing Rentt after he takes a dangerous, low-paid job to get the flowers needed to heal Lillian. She even decides to become an adventurer out of admiration for Rentt.
- Wise Beyond Her Years: She's mature for her age and looks out for the orphans.
Voiced by: Yuko Sasaki
The head of a Church of the Eastern Sky in Maalt. She wields divinity.
- Fictional Disability: She's suffering from a disease called "Malaccumula", caused by the miasma that accumulates in her body whenever she uses divinity.
- Parental Substitute: She's an adoptive other to the children of her orphanage.
Latour Family
Voiced by: Tomori Kusunoki
The head of an influential house near Maalt.
- Alliterative Name: Laura Latour
- Collector of the Strange: She collects magic tools.
- Cute Little Fangs: She has sharp fangs, which are the first hint to her being a vampire.
- Elegant Gothic Lolita: She wears a black Victorian style dress.
- Hide Your Otherness: She's actually a vampire, with her hair hiding her Pointy Ears.
- Mystical White Hair: Her silver hair is a hint to her nonhuman nature since she's actually a vampire.
- Ojou: She's the heiress of a very old and influential family.
- Pointy Ears: Her ears are pointy because she's a vampire.
- Stylish Sunhats: She wears a black sunhat that makes her look classy when paired with her black dress.
- Tea Is Classy: She has a tea set which is actually a magic tool that can magically produce all of her favorite types of tea.
- Vague Age: She looks no older than twelve, but Rentt starts questioning her age when she reveals she has an advanced case of the Malaccumula disease, which should take over a decade to reach its final stages. Her acting very mature and refined supports the idea that she's Older Than She Looks.
- Vampire Lolita Archetype: Laura is the dignified head of a very old and rich family despite having the appearance of a girl between 12 and 14 years old. She has silver hair and wears a long Elegant Gothic Lolita dress. In reality, she's a vampire hiding her true identity from the public to live among humans.
- Vampires Are Rich: She lives in a big mansion, seems to have a large fortune and collects highly valuable magic tools, although her being a vampire is kept a secret to maintain the Latour family's status and influence.
Voiced by: Shun'ichi Toki
Laura Latour's butler
- The Ace: Isaac is a powerful combatant, knows the subtleties of the basics of magic and is Laura's personal butler. He even fixes the orphanage's faulty door knocker.
- Mystical White Hair: Like Laura, his silver hair hints at his true nature as a vampire.
- Pointy Ears: He was pointed ears, which are a hint to him being a vampire.
Hathara Village
Voiced by: Natsune Inui
The only daughter of the mayor of Hathara village. She was Rentt's best friend when he was a child and she wanted to become an adventurer. After she was killed by a wolf monster, Rentt swore to become an adventurer to fulfill her dream in her place.
- Arranged Marriage: She and Rentt were arranged to get married by their parents.
- Death of a Child: She was killed at the tender age of five.
- Died in Your Arms Tonight: She died in Rentt's arms after she sacrificed herself to protect him from the wolf.
- Disposable Woman: She's introduced and killed as part of Rentt's backstory. Her death is one of his main motivations for wanting to become a Mithril-class adventurer and seek revenge against the wolf monster that killed her.
- Half the Woman She Used to Be: The wolf ripped her body in half with its giant claws.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Rentt tried to become a decoy for the wolf to give her a chance to escape, but Jinlin came back and died protecting Rentt from the wolf.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: She once helped a fairy that was stuck in a tree branch. What she didn't know is that getting close to fairies causes disasters for the people involved. As a result, a wolf monster attacked her, Rentt, Rentt's parents, and her grandmother. Rentt was the only survivor.
- Posthumous Character: She has been dead for twenty years when the series begins.
- Puppy Love: It's heavily implied she had a crush on Rentt. While she didn't want to be the next mayor, she wasn't against her engagement to Rentt and wanted to become an adventurer to see the world with him.
The mayor of Hathara village and his wife. They adopted Rentt as their son after a wolf monster killed his parents and their only daughter Jinlin.
- Good Parents: They raised Rentt as their son after he lost his parents and they have a good relationship with him.
- Outliving One's Offspring: Their only daughter was killed by a wolf monster when she was five.
Rentt's adoptive great-aunt. She's a medicine woman and a mage.
- Cool Old Lady: She's a wise old lady who is both a powerful mage and an adventurer despite her old age.
Chief hunter in the Hathara Village.
- Big Ol' Eyebrows: He has very big and hairy eyebrows.
- Stealth Mentor: He challenges Rentt to a fight as a way to teach him about how to use spirit to its full potential.
Two of Rentt's childhood friends from his hometown. They have been in love with him for years, but he has never realized it.
- Bust-Contrast Duo: Riri is flat-chested and Fahri is busty.
- Childhood Friend Romance: Both have loved Rentt since their childhood, but he doesn't reciprocate.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: They get pissed when they hear Rentt came back to town with his "wife", although it was just a misunderstanding caused by Lorraine.
- Hopeless Suitor: Rentt has no interest in either of them and doesn't even acknowledge their feelings for him, which only frustrates them.
- Single Woman Seeks Good Man: They feel attracted to Rentt because of his kind nature and determination to become an adventurer.
Todds Village
Voiced by: Shogo Sakata
A young man who lives in Todds village.
- Big Brother Instinct: He asks Rentt to save his younger sister from being made into a Human Sacrifice.
Voiced by: Sayaka Kikuchi
Ryuntus' younger sister who lives in Todds village.
- Damsel in Distress: Rentt saves her from being offered as a Human Sacrifice to the Lord of the Lake.
- Human Sacrifice: She's set to be sacrificed to the Lord of the Lake.
Adventurers
Voiced by: Tomoaki Maeno
A Mithril-class adventurer. Twenty years ago, he saved Rentt from the wolf monster that killed his parents and best friend. Rentt promised to meet him again when he became a Mithril-class adventurer like him.
- BFS: He wields a giant sword.
- Magic Knight: He's a powerful swordsman and very skilled at magic as well.
A Gold-class adventurer who specializes in hunting vampires.
- Badass Longcoat: She's a professional Vampire Hunter who wears a black long coat.
- Magic Fire: She can produce a white holy fire that can give blessings and identify vampires.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Nive has red eyes and she's ruthless when it comes to hunting vampires.
- Scarf of Asskicking: She's an adventurer and Vampire Hunter wearing a white scarf around her neck.
- Vampire Hunter: She hunts vampires for a living.
- Van Helsing Hate Crimes: She was prepared to kill Rentt under the suspicion that he's a vampire and only lets him live because her holy fire didn't burn him as it should do for vampires.
An elven Gold-class adventurer.
- Mentor Archetype: She teaches Rentt techniques to master Divinity.
- Odd Name, Normal Nickname: Her name is Alhildis, but asks to be called "Hilde" for convenience.
- Older Than She Looks: Being an elf, she's much older than she appears despite looking like a young girl.
- Pointy Ears: She has the long, pointy ears that are common in elves.
A Silver-class adventurer who used to live in Maalt. While he's competent at his job, he isn't good at working with parties because of his eccentricities and therefore usually does jobs alone.
- Agent Peacock: He's an extremely flamboyant Long-Haired Pretty Boy, yet he's a strong and competent adventurer.
- Alliterative Name: Augurey Ars
- Awesomeness by Analysis: He's an expert at reading people based on observation alone. Even though he doesn't recognize Rentt and Lorraine, he can correctly guess their occupations and skills at a glance.
- Cloudcuckoolander: He was well-known in Maalt as an eccentric who is obsessed with his own appearance. He always seems live in his own world.
- Fedora of Asskicking: He's a quite strong adventurer wearing a red fedora.
- Large Ham: His behavior and fashion sense make him look like a theatre actor rather than an adventurer. He even uses magic to make himself look even flashier when fighting.
- Long-Haired Pretty Boy: He's a man with very fine facial features and long hair.
- Signature Headgear: He wears a large hat with a giant peacock feather that makes him stand out just as he wants.
- Smarter Than You Look: Despite his eccentricity and showy appearance, he's surprisingly smart and intuitive.
Labyrinth Dwellers
Voiced by: Saori Hayami
A mysterious woman Rentt encountered in the Labyrinth of the Moon's Reflection. She gives Rentt a magic item in exchange for keeping the unexplored area of the labyrinth a secret.
- Navel-Deep Neckline: Her dress exposes her cleavage from her neck to past her stomach.
- No Name Given: Nothing is known about her, not even her name.
- Pointy Ears: Her ears are pointy.
- Sultry Bangs: The right side of her face is sexily covered by her hair.
Church of Lobelia
A saint in the Church of Lobelia.
- Heavenly Blue: She's a saint dressed in blue and white.
- Magic Staff: She wields a staff to use divinity.
- Mystical White Hair: She's a saint and divinity user with white hair.
- White Mage: She specializes in healing and purification.