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".

Abraham Carcos

 * Voiced by: TBA

Abraham Carcos (エイブラハム・カルコス, Eiburahamu Karukosu) is one of the main antagonists of the series. He is around 18-years-old and is shown to be an intelligent and sadistic young man who has made a name for himself in the criminal underworld of Britain. He is a crime lord and serial killer, as well as being a former member of a traveling circus where he was a knife thrower. He is also supposedly the last of the Carcos family, who have had a long ongoing mysterious blood fued with the Grimsby family, which Ulysses believes causes Abraham to harbour a grudge against him. Though shown in silhouette in previous chapters, he makes his first full appearance in the Gang War Arc, in which he serves as the primary antagonist and reveals that he was the highwayman who shot Ulysses' parents. For the subsequent arcs and storylines following his introduction, Ulysses becomes obsessed with killing Abraham as well as discovering the truth behind the Carcos/Grimsby fued.

Leather Apron

 * Voiced by: TBA

Leather Apron (レザーエプロン, Rezāepuron) is a major antagonist in the series and the main antagonist of the House That Jack Built Arc. They are the series' rendition of the real life serial killer Jack the Ripper and are a murderer of prostitutes, all of whom had their organs removed. In their arc, they are later revealed to be a homunculus like Fritz who has gone mad at the fact they are not truly human and began murdering women and sewing their organs into themself in an attempt to become a "real" person. Leather Apron, also referred to as "Jack", is similar to Fritz in personality and abilities, though Leather Apron is much more willing to express emotions.

Jock Marlow

 * Vociced by: TBA

Jock Marlow (ジョック・マーロウ, Jokku Mārou) is one of the main antagonists of the series. He is often referred to by his title "The Viscount of Crimson" and is the current leader of the Hellfire Club. He is an occultist, serial killer, and would-be revolutionary who has an obsession with the club's motto, "do what thou wilt", believing that his own freedom and autonomy are more important than anyone else's and hoping to overthrow the monarchy and create a completely unregulated country.

Oscar Theroux

 * Voiced by: TBA

Oscar Theroux (オスカー・セロー, Osukā Serō) is a game hunter who is shown to have an overly polite way of speaking but which he drops during his hunting activities, becoming more excitable and mad. He is the main antagonist of the Hunting Arc, in which he reveals that he has become so good at his craft that he has grown bored and wishes to hunt another "worthy" opponent, getting word of Ulysses and traveling to London in hopes of hunting and killing him. However, Theroux also confesses that he would view Ulysses killing him instead as a good ending to his hunting trip, believing that he would have fallen to someone more worthy than himself. Theroux is a major antagonist in the series despite dying fairly early on in it, as it's later revealed he has ties to Abraham Carcos and is a Hellfire Club member, with Ulysses actually first learning of the club followng Theroux's death.

Holden Farmitten

 * Voiced by: TBA

Judge Holden Farmitten (ホールデン・ファーミトン, Hōruden Fāmiton) is an American who, some years prior to the story, hunted and scalped a number of Mexican soldiers during the Mexican-American War. He is the primary antagonist of the Scalphunter Arc and is loosely based on a supposed real scalphunter. In the story, during the Mexican-American War, Holden scalped a total of 70 soldiers and left them to bleed to death. In the present day, the shaman brother of one of these soldier summoned a supernatural monster to hunt and kill Holden, accidentally bringing Holden out of retirement in the process. Holden himself is presented as a large, sadistic man who speaks with an accent and longs for his "glory years" in the war.