List of Undertaking characters

Undertaking is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ikuyo Tagami. The series is set in Victorian England and follows a teenage undertaker and assassin with a strict code of ethics named Ulysses Grimsby, who is the head of the Grimsby Funeral Parlour and buries his many victims in his family's cemetary, doing so with the help of his homunculus companion Fritz, who masquerades as a gravedigger working under Ulysses.

Ulysses Grimsby

 * Voiced by: TBA

Ulysses Jonathan Grimsby (ユリシーズ・ジョナサン・グリムズビー, Yurishīzu Jonasan Gurimuzubī) is the main protagonist of the series. He is a teenage undertaker who doubles as a hitman, the biggest in London, having inherited both careers from his late parents, who were supposedly killed by a highwayman, though their deaths are revealed to be more complex than initiall believed. He is characterized as being incredibly intelligent and possessing an inflated sense of ego due to this, with him sometimes choosing more complex menes of going about things out of a want to show off his supposed superior intellect. He is also fascinated by death, which he claims to be beautiful. Though few are aware as his work as a hitman, many know and are disturbed by his profession as an undertaker, his reputation as being someone off-putting being something he both leans into and is upset by.

Ulysses also has a strange dialect, referring to things either in code or in generally odd ways. Some examples include him referring to murdering someone as "burying" them, or his habit of referring to hitman missions as "undertakings", which the series is named for. Despite Ulysses' character flaws and quirks, he seems to possess an odd moral compass, as he will only accept undertakings if he deems the target as deserving of death, often stalking them to find out if they have committed some kind of crime so that he can be justified in murdering them. Ulysses does take some kind of pleasure in his work though, as in the rare cases when he doesn't find a reason to kill the target he becomes depressed, suggesting that Ulysses may just enjoy killing people and wishes to have an excuse to do so.

Fritz

 * Voiced by: TBA

Fritz (フリッツ, Furittsu) is the secondary protagonist of the series. He is a tall, quiet, and lanky man who is referred to as a homunculus, which in the series is a type of artificially made human akin to the Frankenstein monster. He is currently employed as a gravedigger and serves as Ulysses' hitman partner, utilizing his immense strength and speed to quickly kill targets. Fritz prefers not to speak unless he must and expresses little to no emotion, which Ulysses finds humerous. Fritz was found by Ulysses shortly after the death of his parents, having been mysteriously buried in an underground crypt, which Ulysses discovered blocked off from the rest of the cemetary. For most of the series, Fritz is a very mysterious character, having no memories of where he came from or even his real name, "Fritz" having been thought of by Ulysses. Fritz's relationship with Ulysses is unique, as he clearly finds him annoying but is deathly loyal to him and will become enraged if his safety is threatened. Two recurring gags about him are that he is very attractive but oblivious to the fact and he has a love for honey, going as far as to call it "the nectar of the gods".