Umineko: When They Cry/Characters/1986 Humans

This page lists the human characters of Umineko no Naku Koro Ni in the island of Rokkenjima from the year 1986, which includes the Ushiromiya family, servants, and guests. Be warned that from here on, there are unavoidable spoilers from Arc 2 onward.

Voiced by: Daisuke Ono
""Ahh, it's useless! It's all useless!""

The protagonist and 18 year-old son of Rudolf and Asumu and 7th in the line of succession. After Asumu died six years ago, Battler became angry with his father for remarrying Kyrie so fast and went to live with his maternal grandparents. Because of this, he's been fairly out of the loop as to the affairs of the Ushiromiya family. Often, he is teased about being similar to his father for his tendency to try to grope girls. He now has a half-sister named Ange who does not come to Rokkenjima.

After the first arc, he is trapped by Beatrice in time loops where the murders occur over and over again. In order to win, he must explain those murders rejecting the use of magic in them. At the end of Arc 5,. In Arc 8, it is revealed that

"Ange: Save the jokes for your hairstyle."
 * Agent Scully:
 * : Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the new.
 * Animal Motifs: The witches compare him a few different times to The Phoenix. Maybe makes sense, given the nature of his Fate Worse Than Death combined with his Determinator personality.
 * Anime Hair: Lampshaded.

"Battler: Battler Ushiromiya. Incredible. Also incredible are the parents who stuck that name one me, and the public official who accepted it. They're all on the top of my must-kill list."
 * Anti-Magic: His ability to resist magic of up to godlike scale is classified as Endless Nine.
 * As Long As It Sounds Foreign: With all of the plausible, if not necessarily likely, names of the rest of the Ushiromiya family, one must wonder what possessed Ryukishi to name his main character "Battler."
 * Unless Ryukishi saw our Tarot Motifs page (specifically the section on ) and said "Ooooh! There's a name to hide a plot twist behind!"
 * Battler is only one letter away from Battle.
 * Badass Bookworm: Battler "it would be arrogant for somebody who only reads about a hundred books a year to call himself well-read" Ushiromiya.
 * : He wears one as . At first just a Fanon idea, but became canon in EP6.
 * And its an.
 * Bat Deduction: "And then...I...knew."
 * More like Battler Deduction.
 * *ba-dum tshh*
 * Battle Couple: With.
 * Big Brother Instinct: To the extent that there are quite a few corners of the internet that take his relationship with Ange to creepy, creepy places.
 * Bishonen
 * Bookworm: Becomes quite apparent by the time the core arcs begin.
 * Bring My Red Jacket: Flip this one and White Shirt of Death around, and you've got Battler's outfit: white jacket, red shirt. And yes, his luck sucks.
 * Catch Phrase: "Ah, it's useless. It's all useless!"
 * : It's confirmed in EP8 that.
 * Chewbacca Defense: Hey, anything to fight off Beatrice and Bernkastel.
 * Chick Magnet: Largely an Informed Attribute. It is implied that Battler is quite popular with girls, though it seems he's not entirely aware of it himself. However, most of the female cast is already either married or paired off with someone else.
 * However, if this is to be taken seriously...
 * Chivalrous Pervert: It seems like he'll try to grope anyone (Even his cousin!), and at one point even tells little Maria to let him grope her when she gets older, but the one time a girl actually tries to let him, he freaks out and scolds her (after being punched by aforementioned cousin). Note: He thanked the cousin for punching him. He even tells Maria to promise she'll let him "eat her" once she's legal, in the EP2 Tea Party.
 * Hell, he even has a whole Image Song devoted to his love of large-breasted girls. It is called OPPA in Love!, and it is essentially Battler's playing up his own lecherousness to hilarious extents.
 * One of his special moves in the fighting game, the "Sommelier Finger", is a groping attack.
 * He even says it's okay over and over again by  because they have nice breasts and from then on normally refers to them as 'the ass nee chans.'
 * Creepy Cool Crosses: Battler wears one as a fastener for his jacket.
 * Cute Little Fangs
 * : Subverted because he actively fights to remain as the . And in the end, he has earned it.
 * Determinator: See the first tea party for just one example. Averted in the second arc, however, when he does give up and is explicitly shown why that isn't an acceptable option.
 * Devoted to You: Dear lord, six year later, and Beatrice still can't get over him. Whatever cologne he wears, he needs to share with the rest of the world. A lot of guys would thank him.
 * Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: If slamming Beatrice's head on a table in EP2 or slapping her in EP3 don't count, then might.
 * Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: During his Heroic BSOD in the anime, and.
 * Evil Counterpart: from Ogon Musokyoku Cross.
 * Expy: The guy is half-Adell, half-Phoenix Wright, with a dash of Keiichi. And that's an awesome combination.
 * A Fate Worse Than Death: Battler gets a few of these, one of them actually tying in with A Fete Worse Than Death.
 * Trauma Conga Line: Just the first arc would probably be enough to qualify him for this, and it just gets worse from there.
 * Fiery Redhead
 * Flat Earth Atheist
 * Flung Clothing/The Coats Are Off: In EP8,
 * Generation Xerox: His plays this theme hard with regard to Kinzo.
 * Giving Someone the Pointer Finger: His way of Throwing Down the Gauntlet at Beatrice.
 * Gratuitous English: Battler loved this trope back in 1980. In 1986 he's just embarrassed about it and doesn't want to remember.
 * Guile Hero:
 * The Heart: At least in the early arcs, he wound up frequently jumping in between two people who were at each other's throats to point out why person X wasn't necessarily the culprit.
 * Heavy Sleeper: Comments by Ange in Twilight allude to Battler being this.
 * Heroic BSOD: Freaks him out so badly that not only does his brain shut down, but he physically disappears.
 * Identical Grandson: He looks identical to Kinzo as he appeared in his youth, save for the hair..
 * Improvised Weapon User: Whenever Piece Battler is in a situation where he might possibly have to fight, he always seems to go for a hat rack or candlestick as opposed to something a bit more practical.
 * In the Blood: Given his similarities to pre-WWII Kinzo, there seems to be a heavy implication that Battler's just one poorly-ended romance away from going completely nutters like his grandfather.
 * Jerkass Facade: Towards in EP6 to an extent, although it may have to do with the fact that  He even threw away her cookies.
 * Leitmotif: Several, most famously Dread of the Grave.
 * Like Father, Like Son: It's a joke among the family members how Battler's way of handling women is very similar to Rudolf's.
 * Logical Fallacies: Small bombs and cardboard boxes. The thing is, Battler is fully aware all his theories are beyond ridiculous. He was just that desperate to deny witches.
 * Manly Tears: Who wouldn't be crying after all the crap he goes through?
 * Meaningful Name: Bateleur is French for a stage magician, someone who uses mundane means to create the illusion of magic while Battler is not too far from what he actually does: battle (with witches and demons).
 * Missing Mom
 * My Greatest Failure: . CMOSs arguably ensue both times.
 * My Sister Is Off-Limits: Makes some remarks to this effect in Twilight.
 * Nay Theist: Gets into very involved logic arguments with beings he says do not exist.
 * The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: His reason for refusing to play against in EP5 is that this is between him and Beatrice and no one else.
 * Only Sane Man: At least during the first tea party. "Why have you guys stopped thinking?" Doesn't ever seem to have gotten out of the "trying to explain" phase, though.
 * Prophetic Name: There is unusual emphasis placed on how Battler's name is in English, although it's not spelled the same way English names are usually spelled in Japanese.
 * Redheaded Hero
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: Depending on who he's in a dichotomy with, he can be Maria's red or Beatrice's blue.
 * Selective Obliviousness
 * Sympathy for The Devil: Tons, particularly in EP3 and EP5.
 * Talking to The Dead: At least once, Battler addresses his father after Rudolf's corpse has been discovered.
 * / : The mystery ending takes the first tone, the fantasy ending the second.
 * Took a Level In Badass: He gets better every arc, and this especially becomes noticeable at Episode 4's tea party. And in Episode 5, he took all his levels in badass and squared them during the hidden tea party. His badass levels take a dip in EP6 in that he falls into a deep depression and, with a few Badass moments sprinkled here and there.
 * : Only explained at the end. . The entirety of the plot is.
 * Turn Out Like His Father: Just about the last thing he wants, considering his feud with Rudolf, but all his relatives remark on how alike they are. He turns out to be even more similar to Kinzo--in looks, temperament, and circumstances; once he realizes the truth, this is retroactively implied to be one of the reasons Battler's so upset by the reset Beatrice calling him "Father" in EP6..
 * Unexpected Successor:.
 * Upper Class Wit
 * White Shirt of Death
 * What the Hell, Hero?: Kumasawa calls him out on some of his less than admirable behavior towards the resurrected Beatrice in EP6.
 * Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: Battler's not a fan of his name.
 * / : The mystery ending takes the first tone, the fantasy ending the second.
 * Took a Level In Badass: He gets better every arc, and this especially becomes noticeable at Episode 4's tea party. And in Episode 5, he took all his levels in badass and squared them during the hidden tea party. His badass levels take a dip in EP6 in that he falls into a deep depression and, with a few Badass moments sprinkled here and there.
 * : Only explained at the end. . The entirety of the plot is.
 * Turn Out Like His Father: Just about the last thing he wants, considering his feud with Rudolf, but all his relatives remark on how alike they are. He turns out to be even more similar to Kinzo--in looks, temperament, and circumstances; once he realizes the truth, this is retroactively implied to be one of the reasons Battler's so upset by the reset Beatrice calling him "Father" in EP6..
 * Unexpected Successor:.
 * Upper Class Wit
 * White Shirt of Death
 * What the Hell, Hero?: Kumasawa calls him out on some of his less than admirable behavior towards the resurrected Beatrice in EP6.
 * Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: Battler's not a fan of his name.


 * Why Did It Have to Be Shakes?: Battler's terrified of any vehicle that shakes when it moves.
 * Wide Eyed Idealist: Battler's tendency to quickly trust and give people the benefit of the doubt tends to bite him in the ass more often than not. In Episodes 6 and 8,
 * Would Hit a Girl: Especially if the girl's name is Beatrice, Erika Furudo, and.

Voiced by: Yui Horie
""Uuuuuu~! Beatrice exists!""

9 year-old daughter of Rosa and eighth in the line of inheritance. Maria is nine in 1986. She has a troubled relationship with her mother and thus became absorbed in the occult as a way to cope. Notable for her repeated catch phrase, a sort of whining ("u") as well as her very creepy laugh.

Her witch alter-ego is "Maria", the Witch of Origins.


 * Agent Mulder
 * Ambiguous Disorder
 * Black Magic: After Sakutaro died, her magic changed from making it rain candy to wishing for the death of her enemies.
 * Book Dumb: She's explicitly stated to have done poorly in school. As she puts it, she's good at doing things she likes, but not "boring" things. Seeing what she knows about magic, she actually shows a very strong intelligence.
 * Broken Record: She has a tendency to repeat one word over and over again: any word, not just her "uu" noise.
 * Calling The Old Woman Out: In the fourth arc. It's not pretty.
 * Cheerful Child: When she's not being creepy.
 * Child Mage
 * Creepy Child: To the point of Flanderization/Narm in the anime.
 * Cute and Psycho: At times, the cutest and sweetest little girl ever. At others, the most terrifying kid you'll meet.
 * Cute Little Fangs
 * Disappeared Dad
 * Elegant Gothic Lolita: The outfit she wears in the flashbacks in the fourth anime arc. Sweet Lolita, to be exact.
 * Enfante Terrible: When she finally snaps, she makes decent competition for Evatrice for the title of this series' queen of the trope.
 * Evil Laugh: Kihihihihihihihi...
 * Expy: Generally considered one of Rena Ryuugu.
 * Faux Symbolism: "Maria" is written "真里亞"--notice how the last character looks like a cross? Battler points it out and seems to consider it stylish.
 * Freudian Excuse: Was shown during EP4.
 * The Gift: Maria's described as having this for magic in the fourth arc. And while she may or may not be evil, she certainly is creepy.
 * Giggling Villain: The "villain" part is debatable, but she is disturbingly prone to laughing at horrible situations.
 * Girls Love Stuffed Animals
 * Hey It's That Voice!: Her similarities to Ayu are made quite pronounced by Yui Horie's performance: just substitute the 'uguu's for 'uuuu~'s.
 * And from the same creator, substitute the 'hauu-auu's for 'uuu~'s
 * Imaginary Friend: Beatrice is actually treated this way to a certain extent in the first arc. Sakutaro later on in, although he's actually a stuffed animal.
 * Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Brutally deconstructed. Maria is "pure and childlike"--which, aside from implying geniality and a loving nature (and letting her retain the imaginative power necessary for being a Creator), means that she acts a few years younger than she is, doesn't understand the concept of doubt, and has next to No Social Skills. As a result, she's bullied and rejected by her mother and her peers.
 * Pure Is Not Good: It's more like Chaotic Neutral, as her reactions to the murders and EP4 demonstrate.
 * Ambiguous Innocence
 * Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: Almost immediately after Rosa destroys Sakutaro, Maria asks Beatrice to teach her magic to . Welcome to The Dark Side, Maria.
 * Lonely Doll Girl: Maria's favorite tactic to combat loneliness was to make her stuffed animals and other dolls into Imaginary Friends. Sakutaro was the most important one.
 * Love Martyr: Maria's relationship with her mother is portrayed this way when Ange talks with her.
 * Mad Dreamer
 * Nightmare Fetishist: Oh yes. Who else would start cracking up at magic circles apparently written in blood?
 * Oracular Urchin
 * Pimped-Out Dress: Witch dress only.
 * Psycho Party Member: Treated this way in the first arc and shown to be this way in the fourth.
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: Blue to Battler's red.
 * Selective Obliviousness: Does her best not to notice that her mother isn't quite qualified for the job.
 * : During the fourth arc, though it's implied to be All Just a Dream.
 * Strange Girl: Relates to her Creepy Child tendencies, but also how young she acts in comparison to how young she is.
 * Third Person Person
 * Troubling Unchildlike Behaviour: Maria is a walking encyclopedia of Western occult lore. Where did a 9-year-old Japanese girl learn all this?
 * Unusually Uninteresting Sight: In the anime, nobody seems to pay much attention to her ludicrously over-the-top Creepy Child moments. In the games, though, they react much more appropriately.
 * Utopia Justifies the Means: Because of her belief that all of the murders will eventually lead to everyone being resurrected in the Golden Land, Maria doesn't even really seem to care much when her own mother dies in the first arc.
 * Verbal Tic: "Uu~". This is later revealed to be what she believes is a spell for happiness.
 * Possibly deconstructed; Maria's verbal tic frequently irritates her mother, who will even hit her for saying it too much, and it's said to be one of the reasons why she's bullied at school.
 * White Magic: Most of her spells were harmless at first.

Voiced by: Marina Inoue
""People are capable of creating another part of themselves inside themselves at any time. A part that they can truly like.""

18 year-old daughter of Krauss and Natsuhi and fifth in the line of succession. Jessica has a lot of pressure put on her by Natsuhi, being the first heir after Kinzo's sons and daughters. She falls in love with Kanon.


 * Cerebus Retcon: During the School Festival in the second arc, Jessica gets pissed off at a classmate and Megaton Punches her with a brass knuckle. That was just a gag, right? She pulls them out again during the fourth arc and they quickly become conduits for Supernatural Martial Arts.
 * Cosplay Otaku Girl: Not ordinarily so, but considering that her episode 2 school festival performance consisted of singing the Touhou song Tsurupettan while dressed up as Marisa...
 * Up to Eleven in the fighting game... MASTER SPARK!
 * Cute Bruiser
 * Cute Little Fangs
 * Dead Person Conversation: With Kanon in the third arc.
 * : In the sixth arc, when.
 * Expy: Tsundere heiress to a Big Screwed-Up Family that acts like a tomboy but wants to be girly? Sounds like Mion to me.
 * Ill Girl - Jessica has asthma which often acts up and incapacitates when she's under stress.
 * In Spite of a Nail: Despite Lion existing and thus becoming the second child, her personality never changed. If at all, this fueled her rebellious spirit.
 * Heroic Sacrifice: In order to save Kanon, she took Asmodeus In the Back. ...Too bad it didn't really, well, work.
 * Megaton Punch
 * Power Fist
 * Plucky Girl: At a bare minimum in the fourth arc.
 * Determinator: She says it herself; "'Give up' isn't written anywhere in my dictionary!"
 * Shipper On Deck: For George and Shannon.
 * Shout-Out: Jessica Meta-Super is the Master Spark, complete with Marisa costume.
 * Her alternative colors for Marisa Costume are Red and White, referring to Reimu (her brown hair also fits in too, since Reimu hair tends to shift between brown and black).
 * : A gender-bent version, since  Maybe.
 * Tomboyish Ponytail
 * Took a Level In Badass: Between being Kanon's Damsel in Distress in the second arc and putting up a strong fight against Ronove in the fourth arc.
 * Tsundere: Though like Mion, she is not the classic example of one in that she's neither overly tsun nor overly dere.
 * Upgrade Artifact: Having a little trouble dealing with your target? No problem! Just make a little contract with, call up Bronove to stick some barriers around, and Min Max your way through that yandere-off.
 * Tsundere: Though like Mion, she is not the classic example of one in that she's neither overly tsun nor overly dere.
 * Upgrade Artifact: Having a little trouble dealing with your target? No problem! Just make a little contract with, call up Bronove to stick some barriers around, and Min Max your way through that yandere-off.

Voiced by: Kenichi Suzumura
""Marriage means becoming your wife's ally for your entire life. From the moment I did that, I was prepared to have the whole world as my enemy.""

23 year-old son of Eva and Hideyoshi, George is sixth in the line of succession. He has been working as a junior worker at his father's company, but hopes to eventually be able to own his own business. He falls in love with Shannon against his mother's wishes. Being in his twenties, he is by far the oldest of the four cousins, and tends to serve as an older-brother figure to the others. He's very good with young children.


 * Arranged Marriage: Eva was trying to arrange an omiai for George. He wasn't particularly interested and got incredibly sheepish as soon as she brought it up.
 * Barrier Warrior: Using softer light than Shannon. His adds the force of any attacks aimed at him to his own attacks, rather than just plain repelling the enemy.
 * Big Brother Mentor
 * Calling The Old Woman Out: In Episode 6,
 * The Conscience: Usually winds up playing a supporting role to Battler here.
 * Gentleman and A Scholar
 * Killed Mid-Sentence: Second arc.
 * Kung Fu Wizard
 * Nice Guy: He used to be one in the most unflattering sense possible (which Shannon trolls him about even now), but now he's much closer to the genuine article.
 * The Power of Love: George invokes this trope in the fourth arc when he and Gaap fight.
 * Scary Shiny Glasses: Feeds onto theories he's the culprit, along with the weird new expressions he gets in EP4.
 * : Sixth arc, sorta.
 * Took a Level In Badass: Similar to Jessica.
 * The Wise Prince: Amply demonstrated in his lectures on leadership in Ep 4 and 6, complete with shiny rapefaces and levels in badassery.
 * Badass Creed: See the above quote.
 * Suddenly Always Knew That
 * Suddenly Always Knew That

Voiced by: Jurota Kosugi


First successor to Kinzo's fortune, father of Jessica, and husband of Natsuhi. He has poor intuition for investment, and so has squandered a lot of the Ushiromiya family's wealth on failed projects. He is largely resented by his siblings for being very manipulative.


 * Bound and Gagged: Apparently done to him in the fifth arc (well, bound, anyway), as part of a ploy to for the murders that occur.
 * The Dutiful Son
 * Horrible Judge of Character: Even after he gets swindled, he's still singing the praises of a few of the swindlers.
 * Inadequate Inheritor
 * Jerk With a Heart of Gold: Introduced as not much more than a manipulative jerk to his siblings, but in arcs three and four, he shows a much softer side with a Pet the Dog moment or two. For all the sexist attitude he can show when he's upset, he really does care about his family.
 * Manipulative Bastard: He shows this very effectively in the first arc, where he successfully turns the tables around in his negotiation with the other parents.
 * Pet the Dog: In episode 17 of the anime he laments that due to being Kinzo's successor he was never as nice to his siblings (especially Eva) as he should have been. Cue Eva-Beatrice strangling him and Natsuhi.
 * Punched Across the Room: In the fourth arc Krauss literally punches a goat man so hard it ends up falling right on top of Virgilia.
 * Stay in The Kitchen: Alienated Eva and Rosa with sexism when they were younger and he was competing with Eva over the headship qualifications. Much later, he refuses to let Natsuhi have anything to do with the family funds until it's too late to get out of the hole he dug himself into--very unfortunately for him, as she's got all the common sense.
 * Upperclass Twit: He seems like a good guy, but lacks any business sense whatsoever.
 * A big hint towards his complete lack of business foresight appears early in EP1 when Krauss remarks that Japan will become the economic center of the world. Unfortunately for him, the collapse of the Japanese asset price bubble would have likely completely wiped him out only four or five years later.
 * "Well Done, Son" Guy: Gotta feel sorry for the poor idiot to some extent. Although he was the heir apparent, Kinzo never really had any faith in him (for good reason) to begin with, and so he was struggling for Kinzo's approval just like Eva. The only difference is that Eva actually deserved it.
 * "Well Done, Son" Guy: Gotta feel sorry for the poor idiot to some extent. Although he was the heir apparent, Kinzo never really had any faith in him (for good reason) to begin with, and so he was struggling for Kinzo's approval just like Eva. The only difference is that Eva actually deserved it.

Voiced by: Miki Ito


Second in the line of inheritance and George's mother. She has a lot of resentment against her older brother, Krauss, and has a rivalry with his wife, Natsuhi. She is also the wife of Hideyoshi. In order to keep her placement in the line of successors, she married Hideyoshi and had him adopt the name of "Ushiromiya".

In the meta-world, Eva-Beatrice is the manifestation of all the theories which place her as the culprit of the Rokkenjima incident. In Arc 3, it is revealed that. In Arcs 7 and 8, it turns out that.


 * Action Mom
 * : Episode 3. Turns out not to be true.
 * Ambition Is Evil
 * Break the Haughty: Expected when George or Hideyoshi are found dead and she is still alive.
 * Leads to Unstoppable Rage in EP5 ; after the trial, Eva loses it in the real world and begins to beat her up in a fit of rage. Not that anyone tries to stop her, besides Battler.
 * Sanity Slippage: arc only, where you can really start to see her lose it after Hideyoshi is killed, until the end, where she ultimately goes...
 * : Or so it seemed.
 * Cain and Abel
 * Chekhov's Skill: Her martial arts prowess is discussed at the beginning of the first novel. A slightly different example in that the callback turns out to be the fact that she taught those skills to George, allowing him to be a Badass Normal in the fourth novel. Aside from that, it also explains the reason Eva-Beatrice is a melee fighter in Ougon Musou Kyoku.
 * Evil Stepmother: Ange sees Eva this way,.
 * Eye Scream: Once in the fourth arc, she holds   at gunpoint. Then, the rifle blows up on her face, and said injuries are so horrible that.
 * Happily Married: She genuinely loves her husband and arguably has the most stable relationship with her spouse among her siblings.
 * Female Misogynist: Becomes this, to some extent, in her attempts to wrest the succession from Krauss, as she sees the genders of their children as an advantage to her. She feels plenty guilty about it, though.
 * Incurable Cough of Death: . Huh. That must have been some cough.
 * Truth in Television: Heart failure patients tend to develop chronic coughs from fluid in the lungs.
 * My Beloved Smother: To George.
 * Parental Marriage Veto: Eva disapproves of George falling in love with Shannon and makes that very clear.
 * In Episode 6, George calls her on it. The resulting argument has her causing a major case of My Beloved Smother before finally
 * Pet the Dog: She genuinely seems to love her husband Hideyoshi, and gets a touching scene with him in episode 3 of the anime. . Also, despite (and because of) what you'll hear about Eva-Beatrice, the third arc serves as a giant Pet the Dog moment for Eva., or something.
 * Resentful Guardian: To.
 * : A lot of the reason that she becomes so miserable toward Ange is because.
 * Rich Bitch: She acts equivalent to the trope, but usually over position in the hierarchy, rather than actual money, since everyone's filthy rich.
 * Skirt Over Slacks
 * Split Personality
 * Stay in The Kitchen: How she was treated by her brothers in her childhood.
 * Unexpected Successor: . Although she's not actually that far down the chain, there was no reason to expect Krauss to pass away, and after he does, the hope would be that Jessica's husband could succeed after him. In addition, Eva has the Heir Club for Men baggage to deal with.
 * "Well Done, Daughter" Girl
 * Split Personality
 * Stay in The Kitchen: How she was treated by her brothers in her childhood.
 * Unexpected Successor: . Although she's not actually that far down the chain, there was no reason to expect Krauss to pass away, and after he does, the hope would be that Jessica's husband could succeed after him. In addition, Eva has the Heir Club for Men baggage to deal with.
 * "Well Done, Daughter" Girl
 * "Well Done, Daughter" Girl

Voiced by: Rikiya Koyama


Husband of Kyrie and father of Battler and Ange, Rudolf is third in the line of succession. He's an admitted philanderer. His relationship with Battler has been strained since his first wife, Asumu's, death, due to his quick remarriage to Kyrie.

"Rudolf:"
 * : EP7, at least, where he declares that
 * Badass Normal
 * Break the Haughty: EP6.
 * Cannot Spit It Out: After EP4's revelation that it was believed that Rudolf was aware of this. And in EP5 it is highly implied during the 19th person talk that Rudolf was going to tell Battler in EP1 after the letter reading, thus his 'I'm going to die' stint. However, he is never actually seen telling Battler nor is he seen telling anybody.
 * He finally does tell Kyrie in EP8 that.
 * Duel to The Death:.
 * :in Episode 7.
 * : To Eva in EP7
 * : To Eva in EP7


 * Harem Seeker: In his youth. He later got over it...for the most part...
 * Handsome Lech
 * Hey, It's That Voice!: His voice actor for the anime is the same as the dub voice for Jack Bauer. This is played with in the sound novel's fifth episode, where he sings the first line of Bauer's song.
 * Also played with in the preview for the 16th anime episode, when Rudolf is making calls, has a 24 ringtone, slips up and refers to himself as Jack.
 * Hot Dad: Hey, you can't say that Rudolf hasn't aged well.
 * : With Episode 7,
 * Manly Tears: Sheds them when
 * Millionaire Playboy
 * Overprotective Dad: To Battler in EP7. Fanon turns it Up to Eleven in doujinshi.
 * Papa Wolf: Toward Battler despite constantly mocking him.
 * In EP6
 * Parent With New Paramour
 * Smoking Is Cool
 * Taught By Television: "Don't underestimate the western-loving generation!"
 * This actually plays a big role in EP7.
 * You Wouldn't Believe Me If I Told You: EP1 he tells Battler and Kyrie that he's going to get killed. Battler doesn't believe him.
 * Your Cheating Heart
 * Your Cheating Heart

Voiced by: Ami Koshimizu
""I'm sorry for having been such a bad Mama...""

Mother of Maria and fourth in the line of succession. Although Battler describes her as a calming figure, her relationship with Maria is very troubled.


 * Abusive Parents: The weird case when it overlaps with... Mama Bear.
 * Badass Normal
 * Black Blood: Used to chilling effect when kills her.
 * The Chew Toy: is getting off easy compared to the hell she goes through in later arcs. Rosa has only survived past the second twilight once, and that's just things involved with the murders. Outside of that, Rosa's life is practically a personalized hell for her.
 * Where do we begin? Being the youngest, she got picked on by her older siblings, according to Rudolf. In addition to that, if EP3 is to be believed, then she watched Beatrice die and blamed herself for the incident, which both ends up being what drives Kinzo off the edge of insanity and is something she has to be reminded of every time Maria references Beatrice. And then on top of all that, the man she had Maria with runs off to have a family of his own while burdening her with a debt that gives her the futile hope that he'll come back to her if she pays it off, leaving Rosa to raise Maria by herself while taking up a management job she never wanted. Rosa's life is probably the most screwed up among the main siblings bar none, and second only to poor Natsuhi.
 * Though she has her Crowning Moments Of Awesome. At the very least, it shows that the only way to really stop Rosa once she's pissed is to practically gib her.
 * Christmas Cake: In some of the EP4 flashbacks, this seemed to be a large concern of Rosa's, especially because any potential husbands would need to be okay with a daughter who isn't theirs.
 * Cruel and Unusual Death: Oh, boy, she does deserve a special entry for this. Due to quantity, at least.
 * Curtains Match the Window
 * Cute and Psycho: Like mother, like daughter. Rosa can switch from the sweetest mother to the most abusive one with such ease...
 * Fantasy-Forbidding Mother
 * Good Girls Avoid Abortion: ...Or something. As the series goes on, it becomes more apparent that Maria's birth was, at best, an accident, and an unwelcome one at that. Justified in that the series takes place in 1986, when abortion would have been illegal in Japan except under special circumstances.
 * Guns Akimbo: In Ougon Musoukyoku X and Cross, Rosa's Meta-super move involves Maria giving Rosa and extra gun so that Rosa can launch a mega-combo against her opponent like this.
 * Hime Cut
 * Hoist By His Own Petard: Fourth arc, when she's.
 * Hot Mom
 * Improvised Weapon User: Although in the second arc, she has a rifle, some of her other defensive moves when she wasn't armed included a pen and a chair, to varying degrees of effectiveness.
 * The Pen Is Mightier
 * Kick the Dog: When she . Does not end well.
 * Knight Templar Parent: To some extent, although there are a few questionable things she does that just don't seem to fall into that category.
 * Laser-Guided Karma: The main reason she's The Chew Toy, at least as far as her deaths in the main story goes. It's most direct in the fourth arc, though...
 * Leitmotif: worldend dominator is heavily associated with Rosa, having played on her best moments.
 * Love Martyr: The reason that Rosa's in debt is that.
 * Magical Girl: She, as Magical Rosa, and Eva-Beatrice, as Magical Eva, form the Magical Girl duo "Magical Beatrice" at the end of their scenario in Ougon Musou Kyoku.
 * Mama Bear: Her last act in the second arc is to mow down goat-headed butlers with a rifle and Maria at her side.
 * My God, What Have I Done?: Her general reaction after beating or neglecting Maria (not that it stops her).
 * Truth in Television: It's rather common to have abusers of all kinds regret their actions upon seeing the consequences they bring to their victims, and try to compensate the abuse by acting nicer. Sadly, it's also very usual to restart the abuse cycle with one little mistake...
 * No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine: . ETT'S PAAFEKUTO!
 * : The banquet.
 * A Glass of Chianti: Beato has Rosa drink this. Too bad the above trope also comes into play here.
 * I'm Not Hungry: Poor Rosa.
 * Obfuscating Stupidity: Despite being frequently called the dumbest of the siblings, she had, but didn't pursue her suspicion until later.
 * Parental Neglect: When she's not abusing Maria, she leaves her on her own to visit her boyfriend.
 * Pistol-Whipping: Rosa does this a lot on Ougon Musoukyoku, but it is justified due to the game mechanics; before Rosa can fire her rifle, she has to charge it first.
 * Resentful Guardian: Maria definitely imagines that this is the case. While it may be true in some part of Rosa's psyche, it's still pretty apparent that she genuinely loves her daughter.
 * Tears of Blood:.
 * Used to Be A Sweet Kid: Battler says that Rudolf said this about Rosa a lot, but because of the age difference between her and the rest of her siblings, she got treated pretty nastily by them a lot of the time. Now, of course, she treats Maria quite harshly.
 * Villain Protagonist: The Rosa/Battler scenario on Ougon Musoukyouku ends with.
 * Use Your Head: One of Rosa's many attacks in Ougon Musoukyouku.
 * You Are Too Late: Rosa's practically made of this one. In Episode 2, she and Maria reconcile...just in time for them to die. In Episode 3, . In Episode 4, she almost takes out but hesitates a little too long.
 * Villain Protagonist: The Rosa/Battler scenario on Ougon Musoukyouku ends with.
 * Use Your Head: One of Rosa's many attacks in Ougon Musoukyouku.
 * You Are Too Late: Rosa's practically made of this one. In Episode 2, she and Maria reconcile...just in time for them to die. In Episode 3, . In Episode 4, she almost takes out but hesitates a little too long.

Voiced by: Emi Shinohara
""Without fail, I will protect all of the Ushiromiya family's honor and glory!""

Mother of Jessica and wife of Krauss, she is ninth in the line of succession. Natsuhi is under a lot of pressure, since it is her and Krauss's responsibility to take care of both Kinzo and the house, and yet she married into the Ushiromiya family, putting her at a fairly low rank on the hierarchy. She gave birth to Jessica after twelve years of being unable to have a child, a fact that Eva attempted to take advantage of.

In Arc 5, it is revealed that. In an alternate world shown in Arc 7, she becomes the mother of two children, Lion and Jessica.


 * Anime Hair: Her lower/head hair and her upper/ponytail hair are noticeably different shades of brown. In the novels, the ponytail actually seems to fade to red.
 * Berserk Button: Don't insult the Ushiromiya family name, head, her husband, or her own standing in the family honorably given to her by Kinzo,.
 * Break the Haughty: Natsuhi is oftentimes far too proud for her own good. Pretty much the whole fifth arc is one long Trauma Conga Line for her.
 * The Chew Toy: In addition to Break the Haughty and Trauma Conga Line above, she gets verbally abused by Eva in EP1 to the point Natsuhi ends up running away in tears. Suffice to say, Natsuhi is the series punching bag alongside Rosa. To add to the insult,
 * Dead Person Conversation: A few with, although it's implied that it's because , rather than it being a genuine conversation with a ghost.
 * Duel to The Death: In EP1.
 * Eyes Always Shut: Most of the time in the first novel.
 * Hair-Trigger Temper: And with all the stress Natsuhi has to deal with, you'd be a little high-strung too.
 * Honor Before Reason
 * I Wished You Were Dead: Her exposition about indicates this trope in action.
 * Impoverished Patrician: Natsuhi's birth family.
 * Law of Inverse Fertility: Feeds into succession tensions, as she and Krauss can't conceive a kid and heir for many years.
 * Mama Bear: Kumasawa refers to Natsuhi as this trope by name in the first arc.
 * Maternally Challenged:.
 * : Whether or not it actually happened is a subject of controversy, but Erika suggests this in the fifth arc. Later proven false, though.
 * Pride: Her Fatal Flaw is that she can let her desire to uphold the honor of her husband and the Ushiromiya family as a whole get the best of her.
 * : Poor woman seems to have somewhat.
 * Stepford Smiler: Natsuhi's goal is similar, although she seems to have some trouble with the "smiler" part.
 * Tall, Dark and Bishoujo
 * Yamato Nadeshiko: Tries her hardest to be this, but she ultimately has too much of a Hair-Trigger Temper to truly play this trope straight.
 * Tall, Dark and Bishoujo
 * Yamato Nadeshiko: Tries her hardest to be this, but she ultimately has too much of a Hair-Trigger Temper to truly play this trope straight.

Voiced by: Masashi Hirose


Father of George and husband of Eva, he is tenth in the line of succession. He owns a successful restaurant chain and is a fairly cheerful and sociable man. He was married into Eva's family and took on her family name on a technicality.


 * Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Or more accurately, in anime episode 16: Did you just give the witch a noogie? It was remarkably more serious in the original game, and was more like
 * Happily Married: Seeing as how he's one of the genuinely kindest members of the family, he has no regrets for marrying Eva or changing his name to Ushiromiya.
 * Kansai Regional Accent: But it's actually fake, (apparently he thinks it helps him with business) and he drops it around real people from Kansai.
 * Morality Pet: He's arguably this to Eva.
 * Morality Chain: Don't let him die, or Eva will go apeshit on you.
 * Nice Guy
 * Satellite Character: Usually, he dies too early to do much not related to Eva.
 * Smoking Is Cool: Although maybe he should think when he smokes.

Voiced by: Atsuko Tanaka
""Flip the chessboard around.""

The business partner and second wife of Rudolf. Kyrie is Ange's mother and Battler's stepmother. She is dead last on the chain of succession as far as is known (there is confusion over Maria's father). She is known to have a very strong "flip-the-chessboard" mentality about how to tackle problems, and indeed, seems to have inspired Battler's own.

She was actually in a relationship with Rudolf before Asumu was and is intensely jealous of her, not just for having married Rudolf first, but also for having had a child early: although Kyrie was also pregnant at the time, the pregnancy resulted in a miscarriage. She overall has a good relationship with Battler, although she privately resents him as well, since had her own child lived, they may have had Battler's position.

In Arc 8, it is confirmed that.


 * Action Mom
 * Badass Longcoat
 * Badass Normal and Badass Bookworm
 * Convenient Miscarriage
 * Cool Big Sis: Her relationship with Battler is like this.
 * The Chessmaster: While being good at actual chess,.
 * Creepy Cool Crosses
 * Even the Girls Want Her: Leviathan gives chocolate to Kyrie for Valentines Day, in the Extra Tips "Stakes Valentine Day".
 * EP6:
 * Firing One-Handed: She's the only one to wield the rifles this way.
 * Foe Yay:, random Ship Teases with Leviathan ensue.
 * Formulaic Magic
 * Hot Chick in A Badass Suit
 * : As of Episode 7,
 * Love Hurts: Of course, it also gives you enough envy to overpower envy-incarnate, so it all evens out.
 * Mafia Princess: The Sumadera clan can be more-or-less summed up as Expies of the Sonozaki family, and Kyrie herself has plenty of scary moments, particularly in later arcs.
 * Meaningful Name: Possibly, as "Kyrie" means "Lord" in Greek, in addition to being a Japanese name.
 * Or it could just be part of the Christianity-based Theme Naming of the series, as the Kyrie is a Christian prayer.
 * No Guy Wants an Amazon: Kyrie says that Asumu probably drew Rudolf in due to the fact that she was very good at acting the traditional female role. Kyrie tended to serve as a business partner for Rudolf, which she feels probably overwhelmed him to a certain extent.
 * Power Levels
 * Leads to Green-Eyed Monster in Episode 3, where she basically.
 * Runaway Fiance
 * The Smart Guy: Gender flip'd
 * White-Haired Pretty Girl
 * Yandere: Considering the entire Asumu talk, Kyrie's not too far from this for Rudolf.
 * Confirmed in EP6.
 * Chekhov's Gun: Whether or not, which is why it is possible for her piece to act as it does in EP7 (pieces cannot be out-of-character).
 * In addition to this, it's hinted that.
 * The Smart Guy: Gender flip'd
 * White-Haired Pretty Girl
 * Yandere: Considering the entire Asumu talk, Kyrie's not too far from this for Rudolf.
 * Confirmed in EP6.
 * Chekhov's Gun: Whether or not, which is why it is possible for her piece to act as it does in EP7 (pieces cannot be out-of-character).
 * In addition to this, it's hinted that.
 * In addition to this, it's hinted that.

Voiced by: Mugihito (elderly), Daisuke Ono (younger)
""BEATORIICHEEEEEEE!!!!!!""

The head of the family, Kinzo is expected to die soon, given his fairly poor health. He is suggested from the beginnning of the series to be mentally unstable, having devoted all of his time to black magic in his study. He is obsessed with reviving the Golden Witch, who claims that she gave him his entire fortune. Adopts the name Goldsmith in the fourth arc, when he shows his powers as a magician.

Arc 4 reveals that


 * Abusive Parents: Despite his children being adults already, he still has enough power to pull it. And just in case the emotional (and literal) beatdowns weren't enough for you, he also
 * : In.
 * : Turns out the whole deal with the epitaph was actually his wild gamble to.
 * Xanatos Roulette: Kinzo is well aware that this is a huge gamble, even Lampshading it with the quote at the top of the chapel.
 * Badass Grandpa: If the fourth arc is to be taken at face value, he managed to summon two of Beatrice's more powerful furniture as well as her mentor. At once.
 * Byronic Hero
 * Call Back: The name "Goldsmith" was from a gag in the first EP, where Battler jokes that Kinzo should join in the Western Theme Naming.
 * But not in EP7.
 * Deal With the Devil
 * Death Seeker: During World War II, he joined the army hoping to be killed in battle, only to be assigned to an engineering job far from the front lines. He got over it when he met Beatrice.
 * Despair Event Horizon: He was implied to have crossed it
 * Distinguishing Mark: Kinzo was born with six toes on each foot. This fact is almost always used to identify.
 * Drowning My Sorrows
 * Evil Is Not a Toy: Reviving a witch who requires your entire family to be sacrificed doesn't seem like a good idea to begin with, and sure enough, he's found as one of the sacrifices in most of the early arcs..
 * Evil Sorceror: Particularly in the fourth arc. is he a sorceror. Completely out of his mind, yes, but then, who in this family isn't?
 * Evil Old Folks: Well, according to the fourth arc, he sics Beatrice's demons on his entire family..
 * Flanderization: In parody works involving him, his eccentricity, drunkenness, frivolous spending, and Crazy Awesomeness are cranked Up to Eleven.
 * Formulaic Magic: His magic is said to be based heavily in probability.
 * Generation Xerox: His young sprite has Battler's face.
 * Grumpy Old Man
 * Jerkass: Full stop. Even in Eva's flashbacks in Arc 3. The candidacy of most of his descendants for, at least Jerkass Woobie can largely be laid at Kinzo's feet.
 * Kick the Dog: Nearly every scene we see him interact with anyone that's not Beatrice is a Kick the Dog moment for him. Even taking into account that
 * Large Ham: Most of the scenes he appears in, he is screaming at the sky like the insane man he is.
 * "BEATORIICHEEEEEEE!!!!!!"
 * Leitmotif: "la divina tragedia", as far as fans are concerned.
 * Yami wo kirisaku OH DESIRE! / Sacrifice sheep TO GOD!
 * Love Makes You Crazy/Love Makes You Evil/Love Hurts
 * Mad Love: Given how crazy he is over Beatrice, it's telling that he just about never comes up in any of her speech, except how he relates to the murders. Heck, she actually has her Mooks eat him alive in one ending.
 * Madman In The Attic: He may have locked himself in there, but he still fits pretty darn well..
 * Murder By Cremation:.
 * Necromantic: Kinzo had a mistress a long time before named Beatrice, and he seems to be engaging in the ceremony in order to bring her back to life after she died years earlier..
 * Not So Above It All: The stern and scary Kinzo of arcs 1-7 gives way to a Kinzo genuinely delighted to see his children and grandchildren to the extent that Genji winds up refraining whenever he says hello to anyone to remember his dignity.
 * Ominous Opera Cape
 * Pater Familicide: Through the summoning of Beatrice..
 * The Patriarch
 * Pet the Dog: The scene in the first arc where he tells Natsuhi that even though she isn't qualified to wear the family crest on her clothes, that it's in her heart and to not listen to the family members who would mock her.
 * His behaviour towards Lion in EP7 could also count towards this.
 * Phrase Catcher: "I wouldn't put it past father/grandfather." Whenever they talk about him doing something Crazy Awesome.
 * Self-Made Man
 * Sharp-Dressed Man: Kinzo is revealed to be particularly fussy about his clothes in Twilight.
 * Straw Misogynist: In particular, his behaviour towards Eva in EP3. Dude has some serious issues with women.
 * Summon Magic: The TIPS say that this is his specialty.
 * : He served as this for Natsuhi within . So did Beatrice.
 * Unexpected Successor
 * : A late scene in EP7 . Nowhere does this show up in.
 * Used to Be A Sweet Kid: Not as a kid, but EP7 shows that he was nothing less than a nice guy in his youth, and The Woobie to boot. It Got Worse, horribly, when.
 * Weak but Skilled: Is stated to have utterly no talent in magic whatsoever. However, through absurd amounts of hard work he managed to become a master summoner. The tips discribe him as a magican who can't even cast a spell to heat water, yet can summon a demon that can boil away an ocean.
 * White-Haired Pretty Boy: Apparently, in his youth. If there's another season of the anime, lord only knows how they'll handle that, since they already drew him with dark hair.
 * White-Haired Pretty Boy: Apparently, in his youth. If there's another season of the anime, lord only knows how they'll handle that, since they already drew him with dark hair.

Voiced by: Rie Kugimiya
""George-san and I swore our love to each other. As proof, I accepted the ring. ......With that, our eternal vows were completed! No matter how you torture us with your wicked magic and your malice, you cannot disgrace that for all eternity!""

One of the servants in the Ushiromiya mansion. She is a very sweet and shy girl who shares Kanon's belief in their furniture status within the Ushiromiya household. Despite that, though, she actively cultivates a relationship with George.


 * : Very ambiguously.
 * Artificial Human: According to an anti-mystery perspective.
 * Super-Powered Robot Meter Maids
 * Aside Glance: If she wins on Ougon Musoukyouku against anybody but Kanon, Shannon will do this, after setting a small mat on the floor, and setting a small picnic with cake and tea, as if acknowledging how ridiculous it is for her to be winning against anybody.
 * Barrier Warrior
 * Beware the Silly Ones: Shannon in general is underestimated by the Meta-Character due to her status of being a simple maid who only powers are defensive in nature, yet in all the times she actually is able to fight back she has been able to hold back her attackers reasonably well, culminating in EP6 where she kills  without breaking a sweat.
 * Big Sister Instinct: Just as Kanon is protective of her, Shannon is very protective of him and encourages him to get into a relationship with Jessica and break out of his shell. That's why she's disgusted with Beatrice in the second arc for using his body when he's already dead to kill more people. Also she prefers to die with Kanon than have him suffer a gruesome death in EP3.
 * However, subverted in EP6 where she outright tells Kanon that as long as he doesn't get in the way of her love for George, he'll be fine.
 * Bookworm
 * Cute Bookworm
 * Break the Cutie: EP7 is dedicated to breaking her as
 * : Ryukishi revealed in an interview that this is the case with Shannon, though if it's due  is unknown. Not suprising she got nervous when George begun talking about them.
 * Chewing the Scenery: Has her moments in the upcoming fighting game, mainly due to the fact that half of everyone's moves are weird references to the novels. For example, in context, you probably thought the line was fine, but "I KEPT MY PROMISE, LADY BEATRICE!!!"
 * The Chick
 * Deal With the Devil: The second arc opens by stating that she made a deal with Beatrice that she would break a mirror at the shrine that disappeared if Beatrice would make George fall in love with her.
 * I Can't Believe a Guy Like You Would Notice Me: The main obstacle to George and Shannon's romance was the fact that she is a servant to the Ushiromiya family, while he is a member of that very wealthy family.
 * Dojikko: When upset and flustered, she will instantly take several levels in clumsiness, which tend to get progressively more severe until she's rendered completely ineffectual. Of course, this tends to get her in a lot of trouble with Natsuhi, poor girl.
 * : In EP6.
 * : By Word of God.
 * Fighting Clown: On Ougon Musoukyouku Shannon is pretty much a big joke. On most of her stage intro she trips face-in, her normal attack involves attacking with girly slaps and things like carpet beaters yet Shannon is still about as effective as anybody else, using her shields and her normals long range to keep the enemy away from her, playing more defensively that most characters.
 * Fragile Flower
 * Gag Boobs: In the anime and manga, at least.
 * Shannon is the only character on Ougon Musoukyoku with an animated Meta-Declaration, guess what it's used for.
 * : In EP7, she when Will asks her to get Kanon, complete with.
 * Hidden Depths: We start getting hints that she's more than she seems way at the beginning of EP2, with such gems as the fact that her idea of "cute" runs towards hammerhead sharks.
 * Hyperspace Arsenal: On Ougon Musoukyouku Shannon can pull-out carpet-beaters, pulling carts, mats, serving trays, Seagull Feed, umbrellas and endless supply of tea-sets to drop out of nowhere, unlike Virgilia, who clearly uses magic to make her weapons appear.
 * I Just Want to Be Loved
 * Last Kiss:
 * Lethal Harmless Powers: She manages to precisely because rather than attacking her, she's "defending herself"... it's only incidental that  winds up smashed against the wall in the process.
 * Luminescent Blush
 * Meido: Her outfit is actually pretty tame (her skirt is to her knees, even!), but the fetishization aspect smacks you in the face once you realize there's a slit in that skirt that totally bares her thigh, showing off her one-winged bird tat.
 * Meaningful Name: Shannon's (real) name can be read as 3, 4.
 * Only Known By Their Nickname: Shannon's real name is Sayo, but the only one who ever calls her that is George. When she became a servant for the Ushiromiya family, she changed her name to end in the Japanese character for sound, read as "on."
 * Playing Against Type: One of Rie Kugimiya's non-Tsundere roles.
 * : It's not explicitly stated, since, this trope comes into play.
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: Red to Kanon's blue.
 * Shipper On Deck: For Jessica and Kanon.
 * Shrinking Violet: Played straight at the beginning but by EP 6 it's an obvious subversion.
 * Took a Level In Badass: In EP1, she's fairly close to the stereotypical maid archetype; timid, kind, polite... cue EP2 when she's utterly determined to be with George at all costs and stands up to Beatrice, being one of the only people to successfully press the witch's Berserk Button to date. She does it again in the third arc.
 * And another one or two in EP6, where she
 * Tranquil Fury: Her character sprite doesn't allow her to show anything but an expression that shows disgust but never outright anger like Kanon's sprite.
 * Troll: Much, much more subtle about it than Beato and the metaverse crew because of her Fragile Flower nature, but she mercilessly picks on George and Battler about their embarrassing pasts.
 * : EP6 . What's more,
 * Shipper On Deck: For Jessica and Kanon.
 * Shrinking Violet: Played straight at the beginning but by EP 6 it's an obvious subversion.
 * Took a Level In Badass: In EP1, she's fairly close to the stereotypical maid archetype; timid, kind, polite... cue EP2 when she's utterly determined to be with George at all costs and stands up to Beatrice, being one of the only people to successfully press the witch's Berserk Button to date. She does it again in the third arc.
 * And another one or two in EP6, where she
 * Tranquil Fury: Her character sprite doesn't allow her to show anything but an expression that shows disgust but never outright anger like Kanon's sprite.
 * Troll: Much, much more subtle about it than Beato and the metaverse crew because of her Fragile Flower nature, but she mercilessly picks on George and Battler about their embarrassing pasts.
 * : EP6 . What's more,
 * Tranquil Fury: Her character sprite doesn't allow her to show anything but an expression that shows disgust but never outright anger like Kanon's sprite.
 * Troll: Much, much more subtle about it than Beato and the metaverse crew because of her Fragile Flower nature, but she mercilessly picks on George and Battler about their embarrassing pasts.
 * : EP6 . What's more,
 * : EP6 . What's more,

Voiced by: Yuu Kobayashi
""Because... we are furniture...""

One of the servants in the Ushiromiya mansion. He maintains the belief that servants are to be nothing but furniture in the Ushiromiya mansion, which initially hinders him from having a relationship with Jessica. He and Shannon act like brother and sister, although they are not related by blood.

. Arc 8 confirms in red text that.


 * Aloof Little Brother
 * Artificial Human: Same as Shannon.
 * Pinocchio Syndrome
 * Battle Butler
 * Bishounen
 * Break the Cutie: The second arc has Beatrice doing whatever it takes to have him submit to her. Naturally, it does work (in the manga and the visual novel since how bad he broke was absent in the anime.)
 * The Butler Did It: Whether it's subverted or played straight has yet to be seen, but in one form or another, this trope was applied particularly strongly in the second arc.
 * The Chew Toy: He's probably the servant that is worse off and is probably the third character that has bad luck in the series. Aside from failing to realize his feelings for Jessica until it's too late in all the arcs except EP6, he never survives past the third Twilight contrast to Shannon who easily makes it past the fourth Twilight more often than not. To add to the insult, his body always goes missing in half of the arcs and he's usually accused of being the culprit.  To be fair though, his death is nothing (AKA getting stabbed or shot in the chest) compared to what the other members of the family have to go through.
 * Cry Cute
 * Deadpan Snarker: More so in the actual novel where he won't hesitate to take a crack at Shannon or the other servants every now and then.
 * Dragged Into Drag: By Jessica during their ending in Ougon Musou Kyoku.
 * : In EP1 and EP6
 * I Just Want to Be Loved
 * Kuudere
 * Laser Blade: An elaborate variation.
 * Leitmotif: White Shadow
 * Little Brother Instinct: He's very protective of Shannon and always trying to guide her in the right direction as well as warn her the dangers of throwing away her status as Furniture.
 * : In EP6
 * Never Found the Body: Episodes 2, 4,
 * Nice Hat
 * Not So Stoic
 * Only Known By Their Nickname: See Shannon for elaboration. Kanon's real name
 * Perpetual Frowner
 * Pretend Boyfriend:
 * Pretty Spry for A Dead Guy: In the second Episode.
 * Red Eyes, Take Warning: In EP2, the fake Kanon.
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: Blue to Shannon's red.
 * Troubled but Cute
 * What Is This Thing You Call Love?
 * When He Smiles: It's a very good one but the visual novel makes it come off as a Cat Smile.
 * He manages to pull a real smile when talking to Chick Beatrice
 * : EP6 . What's more,
 * The Worf Effect: He tends to get defeated very easily despite being one of the few characters that can actually use magic. EP 6 reveals though that he is a deconstruction of this trope and
 * What Is This Thing You Call Love?
 * When He Smiles: It's a very good one but the visual novel makes it come off as a Cat Smile.
 * He manages to pull a real smile when talking to Chick Beatrice
 * : EP6 . What's more,
 * The Worf Effect: He tends to get defeated very easily despite being one of the few characters that can actually use magic. EP 6 reveals though that he is a deconstruction of this trope and

Voiced by: Masato Funaki


The oldest servant and Kinzo's most trusted confidante. The only one besides Dr. Nanjo usually let into Kinzo's study. Most of the family doesn't trust him, considering him to be a spy for Kinzo.

His meta-world manifestation is Ronove.


 * Artificial Human: Same as Shannon and Kanon.
 * Extreme Doormat
 * I Owe You My Life: Episode 8 reveals this is why he's loyal to Kinzo.
 * The Jeeves
 * Knife Nut: Most instances of him defending himself involve throwing knives. Not completely clear whether he carries these around or if he's an Improvised Weapon User, but to manage some of the things he does, it makes sense that he has some experience with them.
 * Old Retainer
 * One Steve Limit: "Ronoue" and "Ronove" are more-or-less the same word (ロノウエ versus ロノウェ).
 * Satellite Character: To Kinzo, and later.

Voiced by: Yasuko Hatori


A really old servant at the Ushiromiya house. She loves to make jokes about mackerel.

Her meta-world manifestation is Virgilia.


 * Cool Old Lady
 * Dirty Old Woman
 * Lovable Coward: Moreso in the sound novels.
 * Never Mess With Granny: When Kumasawa is attacked by the Stakes on the first twilight in the third arc, she turns into Virgilia. Doesn't stop her from dying, though.
 * Noblewoman's Laugh
 * Parental Substitute: To Shannon, Kanon,.
 * The Slacker
 * Trademark Favorite Food: Mackerel
 * Trademark Favorite Food: Mackerel

Voiced by: Hitori Bifu


The head chef at the Ushiromiya mansion. Unlike the other servants, he was hired by Krauss, and so most of the servants distrust him. He is also one of the only servants not to wear the one-winged eagle on his clothes, due to Kinzo's lack of trust of him.


 * Break the Haughty
 * Gentle Giant: Although he's a very large man, he is very graceful and polite, if a bit lazy.
 * The Jeeves: A special point is made of this in respect to Gohda.
 * Jerkass: Towards Kannon and Shannon.
 * Jerk With a Heart of Gold
 * Locked Out of the Loop: In EP5, we find out he's the only person living on the island who doesn't know.
 * Supreme Chef

Voiced by: Akihiko Ishizumi


Kinzo's personal physician. He is one of the few people that Kinzo trusts in the present After Kinzo and Beatrice's run-in with the Italians, it was Nanjo who treated their wounds and helped Kinzo hide Beatrice's existence from the military.


 * I Have a Family: Nanjo's plea to Eva-Beatrice before she kills him.
 * Satellite Character: Nanjo's role in some of the early arcs seemed to comprised completely of having Cryptic Conversations with Kinzo and letting everyone know that the corpses they had found were, indeed, dead.
 * Secret Keeper: Initially, he is the one who kept the secret of Beatrice Castiglioni's existence from the military.