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Ayumu Aikawa

Voiced by: Takuma Terashima (Drama CD), Junji Majima (Anime) [Japanese] and Austin Tindle [English]

The protagonist of the series. An Ordinary High School Student killed by Kyoko before the start of the series and revived as a zombie by Eucliwood Hellscythe. Technically he is now under her servitude, but more often than not he's the one running the household.

  • Accidental Marriage: With Maelstrom, after accidentally kissing her.
  • Alliterative Name
  • Amusing Injuries
  • Ass Shove: Twice in the OVA, causing temporary Wimpification. He also gets one with a flower in the first ending theme and a bunch more in the Of the Dead's ending theme.
  • Back Stabbed with Extreme Prejudice: How he died in his Backstory.
    • He's been stabbed four times since becoming a Zombie, including once by Sera as part of his own Batman Gambit against Kyoko.
  • Badass Cape/Frills of Justice
  • Barehanded Blade Block: Pulls one against Kyoko.
  • Butt Monkey: Not as severe as some examples, but Ayumu usually gets the short end of the stick at any given moment.
    • Taken Up to Eleven at the end of Episode 1 of Of The Dead -- he was forced to fight a Squid Megalo in broad daylight to save Taeko, where most of his schoolmates can see... they quickly take shots of him and his exploits even made headlines across the internet. And as if that wasn't bad enough, the Mystletainn broke up after the fight, rendering him naked and unable to wipe out his schoolmates' memories!
  • Chainsaw Good
  • Covert Pervert
  • Crossdresser: Both as a Masou-Shoujo and as a Kisugi sister parody. The former mode puts him in a pink frilly dress, and the latter mode (seen in the OVA) puts him in a unitard. Apart from those examples, episode 6 of season 2 has him crossdressing to advertise the tsundere cosplay cafe per popular demand.
  • Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Not exactly a moron per se, but Ayumu is mostly a servant to his ladies. But beware: given the chance, he can rip a Whale Megalo's head off, tear Kyoko to shreds with the Mystletainn, or punch the King of the Night out of immortality.
  • Cursed with Awesome: Being a zombie grants him functional immortality, regeneration and Super Strength. Becoming a masou-shoujo gives him even more powers. However, he lacks a number of Required Secondary Powers, meaning his body will tear itself apart if he uses his super strength too much, and his masou-shoujo outfit is intensely humiliating (but thank God for that memory-wash ability taken from Haruna).
    • In Of The Dead, he loses his Laser-Guided Amnesia ability since he broke Mystletainn.
      • He actually popularize the outfit after the incident.
  • The Dead Can Dance: By proxy since becoming a zombie hasn't affected his ability to breakdance.
  • Death by Origin Story
  • Death Is Cheap: Naturally comes with his new lease of (undead) life.
  • Detachment Combat
  • Explosive Overclocking: Ayumu can push his body past its human limits. This tends to leave him crippled afterwards, however.
  • Expy: Doesn't he look like Maebara Keiichi to you?
  • Genre Savvy: During the Tsundere challenge.
  • Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!: After blowing himself up, Ayumu blames himself for being too weak to protect Eu. Haruna (whom Ariel helped mind-dive into his subconscious) knocked some sense into him, convincing him to come back to life.
  • Harem Hero: Type 2.
  • Heroic BSOD: Episode 10 of the first season.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: He always gets better (even from otherwise fatal injuries), but this is still played straight at the end of Episode 10, when he takes the time bomb the King of the Night placed on Haruna's head, allowing it to explode in midair, literally tearing himself apart. His Heroic BSOD at that moment also made his "death" a little bit longer. Haruna, Seraphim and Maelstrom reassemble him at the start of Episode 11, but it took Haruna's mind-dive to finally convince him to come back to life.
  • Hidden Depths: He can breakdance.
  • Imagine Spot: Once A Episode with Delusion Eu.

"This is the fantasy of our weak-hearted protagonist, Aikawa Ayumu."

Eucliwood Hellscythe ("Eu")

Voiced by: Yukari Tamura (Drama CD), Midori Tsukimiya (Anime - Main), Kotono Mitsuishi, Mika Kanai, Tomoko Kaneda, Yuko Minaguchi, Satomi Koorogi, Sakura Tange, Yuki Matsuoka, Noriko Hidaka (Anime [Season 1 Delusion]), Fumi Hirano (OVA [Delusion)], Aya Hisakawa (Season 1 [Episode 0 Delusion]), Kikuko Inoue, Omi Minami, Kimiko Koyama, Mariko Kouda, Etsuko Kozakura, Chisa Yokoyama, Mayumi Iizuka, Sumi Shimamoto, Yui Horie (Anime [Season 2 Delusion]) [Japanese] and Cherami Leigh [English]

A necromancer and possibly the most powerful masou-shoujo ever, able to both kill and revive a person with her voice alone. As a result, she only speaks through writing words on a notepad, and constantly wears plate armor just to prevent her powers from going out of control.

Haruna

Voiced by: Kaoru Mizuhara (Drama CD), Iori Nomizu (Anime) [Japanese] and Jād Saxton [English]

A self-described genius "masou-shoujo" from Villiers who fights Megalo, though her genius seems based in a whole different universe. Her weapon of choice is a pink chainsaw named Mystletainn, but she accidentally transferred most of her powers to Ayumu while trying to erase his memory. Now only he can wield Mystletainn against the Megalo while she regenerates her powers. In the meantime, she's squatting at his house and cooking fried egg in all its forms.

Seraphim

Voiced by: Shizuka Itou (Drama CD), Youko Hikasa (Anime) [Japanese] and Morgan Garrett [English]

A beautiful, skilled vampire ninja obsessed with her sword technique. She came to ask for Eu's help in a secret war her clan is fighting, but after losing a fight against Ayumu decided to stick around his house instead. She can make sharp objects out of leaves.

  • Actor Allusion: Her cat-ears experience. Amusingly enough, earlier in that same episode, Maelstrom pulls off the "Moe Moe~ KYUN!" stance while her classmates are trying to help her get Ayumu to reciprocate her love for him.
    • The Ninja Maid scene that serves as the season's climax, though, does play this straight, minus the "Moe Moe~~ KYUN!" bit.
  • Anti-Hero: Type III when she's introduced. She's probably Type II by the current point in the story.
  • Arson, Murder, and Lifesaving

"You're a crossdressing piece of shit festering in a bag of rotten garbage, but I believe in your strength."

Maelstrom (AKA Yuki Yoshida/Tomonori)

Voiced by: Mamiko Noto (Drama CD), Hisako Kanemoto (Anime) [Japanese] and Brittney Karbowski [English]

Another vampire ninja (from a faction which rivals Seraphim's) who fights Megalo with bowls of pork ramen. After accidentally kissing Ayumu, she finds herself married to him (becoming the fourth girl in Ayumu's harem) thanks to the traditions of her family, but seems okay with it. She also studies at Ayumu's school under the alias "Yuki Yoshida".

Sarasvati/Kirara Hoshikawa

Voiced by: Aya Gouda [Japanese] and Caitlin Glass [English]

Sera's superior, who goes undercover at Ayumu's school as "Kirara Hoshikawa" and has a part-time idol job as "Lovely Kira".

Kyoko

Voiced by: Noriko Shitaya [Japanese] and Lindsay Seidel [English]

An acquaintance of Orito. The only victim of the serial killer to escape, she spends time in hospital to recover from her injuries. In reality, she is the serial killer herself. Kyoko is a masou-shoujo in disguise who used to be a classmate of Haruna at Matelis.

Orito

Voiced by: Shinya Takahashi (Drama CD), Hiroyuki Yoshino (Anime) [Japanese] and Anthony Bowling [English]

Ayumu's only normal friend at school. Obsessed with girls, but lacks the approach to actually get a girlfriend.

Taeko Hiramatsu

Voiced by: Rie Yamaguchi [Japanese] and Erica Harte [English]

Ayumu, and Maelstrom/Yuki'sclassmate, who holds unspoken affection for the former.


Kanami Mihara

Voiced by: Mina [Japanese] and Emerick Jade [English]

Ayumi and Yuki's classmate and Taeko's best friend.


King of the Night (Yoru no Ou)

Voiced by: Koji Yusa [Japanese] and Eric Vale [English]

The only other zombie Eucliwood raised besides Ayumu. Had to be put down after his heart was stained with malice, but he's still active. He's the one pulling Kyoko's strings.

"If I die, make me a penguin. I like penguins. Forgive me, Eucliwood."

"In time, you will understand the hardships of living an immortal life."

Ariel (Dai-Sensei)

Voiced by: Ai Shimizu [Japanese] and Monica Rial [English]

The teacher of Matelis Magical Academy in Villiers, which Haruna and Kyoko belong to. She's very odd.

Chris/Takeshi Kurusu

Voiced by: Hitomi Nabatame (as Chris) and Daisuke Kishio (as "Takeshi")[Japanese]

A pink-haired girl who often shows up drunken in the school infirmary. In reality, she was a masou-shoujo currently under the Queen's Curse following a failed coup she led (and Ariel concocted) against Queen Lilian Lilith a century before Ayumu's death and subsequent zombification, occasionally turning her into "Takeshi Kurusu", a middle-aged man who happens to be a teacher at Ayumu's class.

Shimomura

Voiced by: Itsuki Takizawa [Japanese]

One of Ayumu's classmates. In reality, he, like Eucliwood, is a denizen of the underworld and himself a Megalo who is very much in control of his own instincts.

Naegleria Nebiros

Voiced by: Ami Koshimizu [Japanese]

A yaoi doujinshi and an old friend of Eucliwood. She is also the one who drafted the concoction Chris uses to temporarily transform her back to her old self, as well as a member of Eucliwood's seven paladins.

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