This article is a list of characters from I Got Caught Up in a Hero Summons, but the Other World Was at Peace!, a light novel and manga series, written by Toudai. The novels are based on a web novel, started in 2016, written by the same author, consisting of more than 2,100 chapters. The series revolves around a 21-year-old former third-year college student Kaito Miyama who was accidentally involved in a hero summoning and was brought to the Kingdom of Symphonia in the world of Trinia.
To date, the series is compiled into 14 novels and 9 manga volumes. While the novels are only published in Japan, the manga received official localization in English and French.
Characters The character information are taken from the official English-localized version of the manga series published by Seven Seas Entertainment. Please note that despite each volume features a table of contents, the pages in the manga volumes are not numbered. Also be aware that information given from the manga can be different in the original source, the web and light novels. Main characters
The stories' protagonist. A 21-year-old former college student who was accidentally summoned to Trinia while on his way home.Vol. 1, Chapter 1, pp. 3–7. Seven Seas Entertainment During the time at high school, Kaito was a hikikomori who had bad grades at school, played video games and isolated himself from his environment. His parents died in a traffic accident when he was 12 years old.Vol. 1, Chapter 2, p. 39. Seven Seas Entertainment Until his accidental summoning Kaito was raised by his aunt and uncle.Vol. 8, Chapter 43, p. 71. Seven Seas Entertainment In the new world, Kaito has the ability to sense emotions through magical streams in his surroundings.Vol. 2, Chapter 8, pp. 12–13. Seven Seas EntertainmentVol. 2, Chapter 9, p. 42. Seven Seas Entertainment After being summoned to Trinia, Kaito started to write all of his experiences he made in the other world in a diary.Vol. 3, Side Story 2, pp. 168–169. Seven Seas Entertainment Because Chro helped him feel joy in his life again, Kaito began to fall in love with her. On learning that polygamy is the norm in Trinia, Kaito starts accepting the affections of the other girls in love with him.
A female protagonist in this story. She is one of the so-called six kings who rule over the demon realm. She has a carefree and friendly characterVol. 1, Chapter 3, p. 69. Seven Seas Entertainment but can show an evilish side when people she likes are treated disrespectfully.Vol. 1, Chapter 7, pp. 162–164. Seven Seas Entertainment Chromeina is a demon who has lived several hundred years and is known as Hades in the mortal realm.Vol. 1, Chapter 1, p. 24. Seven Seas EntertainmentVol. 1, Chapter 6, p. 150. Seven Seas Entertainment She only has superficial knowledge of the human world which she amassed through conversations with former heroes. Kuromueina hates her true self as it shares similarities with Shellow Vernal. It is revealed that Kuromueina was once a part of Vernal's soul which developed its own personality and appearance. She is called Chro by her friends. Chro has short silver-colored hair and goldish eyes. According to Shilo-Vanal, the goddess of creation, Chromeina does not have a biological gender, and can switch between male and female.Vol. 2, Side Story 1, p. 156. Seven Seas EntertainmentVol. 2, Side Story 1, p. 164. Seven Seas Entertainment Kronoa, the goddess of time, told that Chro invaded the celestial realm 20,000 years ago, took the appearance of a young girl after the conflict ended and acts as though the invasion had never taken place.Vol. 3, Chapter 17, pp. 101–104. Seven Seas Entertainment
Next to Chro, Lilia is the second female main protagonist. She is a noblewoman of Symphonia. She is gentle and friendly. Alicia is a talented sword fighter who earned herself the title of White Rose Valkyrie in the second division of the royal knights when she was 14 years old as well as several military honors.Vol. 1, Chapter 2, pp. 56–57. Seven Seas Entertainment Sigelinde, an 11-year-old girl, taught Lilia how to use a sword. She blames herself for Sigelinde losing her voice after being severely injured during a monster ambush.Vol. 4, Chapter 20, pp. 35–36. Seven Seas EntertainmentVol. 4, Chapter 21, pp. 51–60. Seven Seas Entertainment. Lilia has problems in dealing with high-ranked non-human authorities such as the Six Kings or high-ranking gods.Vol. 1, Chapter 6, p. 133. Seven Seas Entertainment She is the younger half-sister of the King of Symphonia and as such, Lilia was the former Princess of Symphonia.Vol. 1, Chapter 1, p. 29. Seven Seas EntertainmentVol. 3, Chapter 18, p. 119. Seven Seas Entertainment She is the biological child of the former king and queen, while her half-brother's mother was a concubine. The nobles disputed as to who should become the next ruler of Symphone. When Lilia declined the throne, her older half-brother became the new king. Lilia was the person responsible for the hero summoning.Vol. 1, Chapter 1, p. 7. Seven Seas Entertainment
Otherworlders
A high schooler who was summoned to Symphonia as the hero. As part of a large festive ceremony which is held once every ten years to celebrate the victory over the demon king, Seigi received the decorative title of the hero.Vol. 1, Chapter 1, pp. 7–10. Seven Seas Entertainment That title made him rather arrogant.Vol. 1, Chapter 4, p. 95. Seven Seas Entertainment On his travels around the world, Princess Cattleya Lia Symphonia became irritated by his attitude and slapped him. This incident led him to fall in love with the princess and become a more humble person. As of chapter 1.263 in the web novel he is married to Cattleya. Seigi is Hina Yuzuki's cousin who was summoned to the other world with him. He had a crush on Aoi Kusunoki in the past.
Aoi was a high schooler who was accidentally summoned to Symphonia. In her old world she and Hina were both members of the track-and-field club at her school.Vol. 3, Chapter 18, p. 120. Seven Seas Entertainment Aoi is a model student and was raised in a strict household. To relieve her stress she started playing videogames,Vol. 1, Chapter 4, p. 96. Seven Seas Entertainment mostly online RPGs where she met another player named "Ciel" who taught her how to play those games. She stated "Ciel" to be her first crush. When Ciel suddenly stopped playing games due to real-life problems, she suspected that Kaito might be "Ciel" after he cited lines from the game she and "Ciel" used to play together. Aoi has an affinity for using earth magic.
Hina is a high schooler who was summoned to Symphonia accidentally alongside Aoi and Kaito. In the new world she has the ability to use magic to enhance her physical abilities. For example she can run almost as fast as a bullet train. Hina received the provisional blessing from Sky the sky goddess. She is Seigi's cousin. Hina has an older brother who was Kaito's classmate in high school.Vol. 1, Chapter 4, p. 94. Seven Seas Entertainment
Six kings
Isis is one of the six kings who are ruling over the demon realm. She is known as Death king as she is surrounded by deadly magic seemingly killing everything in her reach.Vol. 2, Chapter 11, pp. 97–98. Seven Seas EntertainmentVol. 3, Chapter 15, p. 27. Seven Seas Entertainment Therefore, she is feared and ostracized by others even when she does not want her powers to cause harm. Her social isolation led to her feeling lonely. Isis longs to have normal conversations with other people and make friends. Her biggest hobby is reading which is why she has a considerable book collection with books gathered from all over Trinia.Vol. 8, Chapter 45, p. 152. Seven Seas Entertainment Isis was envious of the other six kings as they were able to move freely and got to make friends unlike herself and which is why she distanced herself from them.Vol. 3, Chapter 17, pp. 94–95. Seven Seas Entertainment Isis has long white hair and blood-red eyes. Usually, she wears a gothic-like black dress.
Like Kaito, Seigi, Aoi and Hina, Alice is an otherworlder who was summoned to Trinia a long time ago. It is unclear from which world she was summoned. She is timid, hiding her face behind a mask and wearing a cat-costume. She runs a store in the human realm where she sells high-quality goods produced by herself.Vol. 2, Chapter 13, pp. 136–141. Seven Seas Entertainment Alice has long, wavy blonde hair and sapphire-like eye color. When she is wearing her cat costume she looks like a brown fluffy cat.
Lillywood is a spirit and like Chro, one of the six kings with a kind nature. As the Earth king,Vol. 1, Chapter 4, p. 92. Seven Seas Entertainment she is worshipped in the mortal, where humans, beastmen and elves reside.Vol. 3, Chapter 16, p. 54. Seven Seas Entertainment She cares for Isis a lot which is why she is visiting her as often as possible to help ease her loneliness.Vol. 3. Chapter 16, p. 51. Seven Seas EntertainmentVol. 3, Chapter 16, p. 69. Seven Seas Entertainment She sees Isis as her best friend.Vol. 5, Chapter 25, p. 7. Seven Seas Entertainment Lillywood has long green hair and emerald-like eye color.
Megido is one of the six kings ruling over the demon realm as War king. Depending on mood, Megiddo can take on a different human form. One of these forms looks very similar to Kuro's appearance. Megiddo is very combative which can intensify depending on his opponent's strength.Vol. 7, Chapter 40, pp. 149–156. Seven Seas Entertainment If a fight cannot be won using fists, the fight is carried out as a drinking competition.Vol. 8, Chapter 41, pp. 8–12. Seven Seas Entertainment
He is the Dragon king and one of the six kings. Magnawell is more than 5,000 metres tall and considered to be the biggest creature in the universe. His dragon scales are very valuable and are used to create high-quality adventurer equipment. He has a grandfatherly view on life.
Gods
She is the goddess of creation. She created TriniaVol. 2, Chapter 11, p. 83. Seven Seas Entertainment in order to figure out what emotions are; after living so long she is unable to feel any emotion as she never experienced them once in her lifetime. To her, one life is equivalent to another which is why she cannot show love towards any of her creations.Vol. 1, Chapter 6, pp. 136–137. Seven Seas Entertainment Shallow is the antagonist of the main story. Shallow has white-silverish long hair which reaches to her knees and gold-colored eyes. Her nickname is Shiro.
Kronoa is a higher god ruling over space and time.Vol. 1, Chapter 5, p. 102. Seven Seas EntertainmentVol. 2, Chapter 10, p. 55. Seven Seas Entertainment Most of the time, she shows a serious character. Out of the three higher gods, Chronois is the most hard-working. She has long, dark blueish hair.
She is the second highest ranking god and, as her name suggests, the ruler of fate.Vol. 3, Chapter 19, p. 147. Seven Seas Entertainment Due to her being very powerful, she looks down on other creatures who are weaker than her. She is bored by her current state. She can foresee and manipulate the fate of every being, except for Shilo and Chro.Vol. 3, Chapter 19, p. 162. Seven Seas Entertainment Furthermore, she is able to create fate at will. Fate longs for a carefree life without any obligations and strives to become a NEET.Vol. 3, Chapter 19, p. 144. Seven Seas Entertainment Due to her regular escapades she causes trouble for Kronoa.Vol. 3, Chapter 19, p. 148–151. Seven Seas Entertainment Fate has a small figure and purple-colored hair tied into twintails.
She is the third of the higher gods and, as her name suggests, she is the goddess of life. Instead of working on her duties as a god, she is always sleepy. If the work comes from Shallow however, she is hardworking. Life seems to have an aversion against Isis. It turns out that Raifu deeply cares for Isis's well-being which led to her testing Kaito to see if he really cares for Isis.