Ronaldo

Name: Ronaldo.

This is a nickname from his high school days, not his real name.

Real name: Hideo Kinoshita.

His nickname originated from a misreading of his badly written name.

Gender: Male.

Age: Early twenties.

He is confirmed to be no older than 28.

Occupation: Vampire hunter.

He was formerly affiliated with the Shin-Yokohama Vampire Hunter Guild before becoming independent.

Office: Ronaldo Vampire Hunting Office in Shin-Yokohama.

Height: 182 cm.

Weight: Estimated 80 kg.

Birthday: August 8.

Blood type: O.

Family: An older brother and a younger sister.

His older brother served as a parental figure to him.

Weapons: Firearms, mainly a revolver, though he also uses automatic pistols.

He also uses a fly swatter for lesser vampires.

Dominant hand: Basically right-handed, but functionally ambidextrous.

Hobbies: None in particular.

Favorite foods: Banana fritters, fried chicken, omurice, chocolate bananas, and sweets in general.

Favorite ice cream: Chocolate mint ice cream.

Disliked food: Celery.

Favorite movies: Cool action films.

Favorite music: Rock.

School club: Going-home club.

School committee: Cultural committee.

Underwear: Flashy patterned colors.

Voice actor: Makoto Furukawa.

His childhood voice is performed by Yumiri Hanamori.

Other notes: His summer hunter outfit uses thin fabric with mesh lining.

Because he is bad at tying laces, his boots use zippers.

Trainee-era note: During his apprentice days, he wore his hair tied back.

Ronaldo usually refers to himself as “I” in a rough masculine manner.

When dealing with clients, he may use a more polite “I.”

He sometimes calls himself “Lord Ronaldo”, especially when leaning into his public persona.

Guild members generally call him Ronaldo.

Draluc calls him Ronaldo-kun.

Fans and admirers may call him Mr. Ronaldo or Lord Ronaldo.

Draluc’s father, Draus, has also called him Pole-kun due to a strange misunderstanding.

Ronaldo is a young but highly capable vampire hunter who has already earned a strong reputation.

He is known for his excellent marksmanship, athletic ability, good looks, and very poor luck in romance.

At the start of the story, he is hired to deal with Draluc, a supposedly fearsome vampire.

The job ends with Draluc’s castle being destroyed, and Draluc eventually moves into Ronaldo’s office.

From there, Ronaldo’s daily life becomes a storm of vampire incidents, nonsense, property damage, and emotional exhaustion.

He usually serves as the straight man to Draluc’s absurdity and the bizarre behavior of Shin-Yokohama’s vampires.

He is also the author of the autobiographical novel series Ronaldo War Chronicles, commonly shortened to Rona-Sen.

The series is popular among humans and vampires alike.

Ronaldo often looks rough, loud, and quick to anger.

He is also prone to solving problems with violence, especially when Draluc is involved.

Underneath that, however, he is one of the kindest people in the cast.

He is earnest, hardworking, and unable to ignore people in trouble.

His defining trait is his overwhelming good nature.

He is constantly thinking about whether he can help someone, even when the situation is ridiculous.

As a hunter, he prioritizes saving lives above his pride or safety.

When asked whether he would bow his head to save people, he immediately answered that he would.

This attitude is tied to a lesson from his older brother.

A hunter should look cool when possible, but even when that fails, saving lives comes first.

Ronaldo frequently kills Draluc, usually because Draluc provokes him, interrupts him, tricks him, or causes chaos.

Still, when Draluc is genuinely in danger, Ronaldo worries about him.

He is emotionally expressive and reacts dramatically.

Because he cries, laughs, panics, and rages so openly, he is sometimes treated like a five-year-old.

Draluc often calls him a violent gorilla.

That description fits his outbursts, but not his everyday nature.

Ronaldo is also surprisingly fragile mentally.

When hurt or discouraged, he can become deeply negative and call himself worthless.

He tends to carry problems alone and run in circles.

He also lacks confidence in himself despite his abilities.

He is easily moved by praise.

If someone praises Ronaldo War Chronicles, he may become so flustered and grateful that he agrees to unreasonable things.

He normally speaks politely to clients, though absurd requests often break his composure.

With editors, fans, and publishing staff, he can usually maintain formal speech.

Despite being a professional hunter, his vampire knowledge is biased toward how to defeat them.

Draluc often has to explain vampire traits and abilities to him.

He is not truly stupid, but the story often catches him at his dumbest moments.

When he understands an enemy’s ability, he can respond quickly and effectively.

Ronaldo has an extremely strong professional mindset.

He does not slack off on vampire-hunting work and often participates in local charity activities.

He is bad at resting.

If he has no plans on a day off, he feels guilty and unsettled.

He is also a workaholic.

Even when the job is absurd, he treats the request seriously.

The series often shows him dealing with silly or perverted vampires, but his attitude toward the work itself is sincere.

Serious jobs outside Shin-Yokohama are said to happen offscreen.

Celery

Ronaldo’s greatest weakness is celery.

Seeing it can make him scream, panic, and threaten it as if facing a monster.

Even a single drop of celery juice in food can make him vomit.

Celery-like costumes and objects can also trigger him.

Originally, he only disliked celery normally.

Repeated harassment by his high school classmate Handa worsened it into a conditioned panic response.

He has even had nightmares about his body slowly turning into celery.

That fear left him sleep-deprived.

Cooking

Ronaldo’s cooking ability is disastrous.

When he tries to cook, he may cause explosions or create dishes so awful they require visual censorship.

He can handle simple prepared foods such as instant noodles or ready-made meals.

With practice, he has shown slight improvement.

However, he often fails at measuring ingredients, following steps, or staying calm in the kitchen.

Draluc handles most household tasks after moving in.

Handwriting

Ronaldo has poor handwriting.

It is legible with effort, but the balance of his characters is strange.

His nickname itself came from a misreading caused by this bad handwriting.

He has tried to improve and even practiced penmanship.

His autograph is much more readable.

This appears to be the result of practice and an awareness of his idol-like image.

Ghosts and Supernatural Phenomena

Ronaldo is a vampire hunter, but he is weak against ghosts and hauntings.

Part of the reason is that physical attacks do not work well on them.

If a ghost incident turns out to be caused by a vampire, he becomes relieved.

Once he realizes the truth, he may pretend to stay scared in order to trick the enemy.

Games and Karaoke

Ronaldo enjoys karaoke but is not especially good at it in-universe.

The anime version sounds much better because of Makoto Furukawa’s singing ability.

He is generally bad at video games.

However, he performs extremely well in shooting games because of his outstanding aim.

He is also good at exercise-based games due to his physical ability.

After watching Draluc play too many terrible games, his standards for bad games have started to collapse.

Ronaldo has silver hair and blue eyes.

His body hair is also silver.

He wears a triangular earring on his left ear.

This earring style is shared among his family members.

His older brother wears earrings on both ears.

His younger sister wears one on her right ear.

He is canonically handsome.

Even Draluc, who mocks nearly everything about him, does not insult his face.

Despite this, Ronaldo has never had a proper girlfriend.

He was once confessed to by a girl from another school in high school, only to be dumped after one hour.

He has three faint scars on his back.

They appear when he overheats, such as after a bath.

Those scars came from his apprentice days.

He received them while protecting a civilian from a vampire.

Hunter Outfit

Ronaldo’s hunter outfit consists of a red jacket, a black high-neck shirt, and white pants.

He also wears a wide-brimmed red hat.

The hat decorations include a garlic flower, a skull, and a cross.

He repairs the decorations when they are about to fall off.

His red clothing is influenced by his older brother’s hunter-era style.

His hat was influenced by his mentor, Vamone.

During his rookie hunter period, he tied his hair short at the back of his neck.

Casual Clothing

On days off, Ronaldo often wears a red tracksuit from his high school days.

His closet also contains clothes with very unusual taste.

When going out, he is often seen wearing a blue cardigan.

His private clothes tend to include more blue tones, contrasting with his red hunter outfit.

He likes flashy pajamas and underwear.

Draluc often mocks his fashion sense.

Ronaldo also likes items that others find questionable.

For example, his Daibutsu-kun keychain is unpopular with people around him.

One-Shot Version

In the one-shot version, his basic concept is the same.

However, his clothing design and hairstyle differ slightly from the serialized version.

Ronaldo is one of the strongest active vampire hunters of his generation.

With some exceptions for truly abnormal beings, he ranks among the strongest fighters in the series.

His main weapon is a revolver.

He can fire three shots so quickly that his draw is barely visible, and each shot hits the target precisely.

As the story progresses, he often defeats enemies with punches, slaps, flying kicks, or a fly swatter.

This is partly because many enemies are absurd enough that immediate violence becomes practical.

He has defeated dangerous A-rank vampires largely on his own.

When serious, his demeanor changes dramatically.

In work mode, Ronaldo becomes calm, expressionless, and efficient.

His eyes are drawn differently in the manga during these moments, appearing darker and sharper.

Against Aranea, he pretended to fall for her seduction while secretly luring her away from civilians.

He then guided her to a construction site where his allies were waiting.

Shot noted that Ronaldo might have been able to defeat her alone.

Ronaldo’s concern was not victory, but preventing civilians from being caught in the battle.

He has a habit of attacking troublesome vampires before they can activate their strange abilities.

Draluc calls this harsh but correct experience-based judgment.

Ronaldo’s physical strength is extraordinary.

He can send enemies flying with a single punch.

He can climb using walls and utility poles with acrobatic agility.

He once reached John after the armadillo became stuck high up.

His flexibility is also remarkable.

He has won a Twister-like contest through sheer flexibility.

Because of his body and fighting style, Draluc frequently calls him a gorilla.

He has even been loved by a female gorilla and once partly transformed into one.

Ronaldo is also willing to embarrass himself if it helps resolve a crisis.

He is not as image-conscious in emergencies as some enemies expect.

Ironically, his high physical ability once made humiliation unnecessary because he could avoid every attack.

He regretted realizing that only after committing to an embarrassing tactic.

Due to a lie by Draluc, Ronaldo once introduced himself to Draluc’s relatives as a pole dancer.

The lie involved the name “Pole McCartney.”

This strange misunderstanding gradually became reality.

Ronaldo actually grew skilled at pole dancing over time.

He even developed a good mentor-student relationship with a world-class pole dancer.

This is one of the clearest examples of how nonsense in his life somehow becomes a real skill.

Ronaldo’s first spoken word was “big brother.”

This reflects how important his older brother was to him from the very beginning.

As a child, he was a mischievous and pure-hearted boy.

If he stayed still and quiet, he looked like a beautiful child.

He was frightened easily even when young.

After hearing a scary story from his brother, he could not close the toilet door for half a year.

He was also kind from childhood.

He played with his younger sister and once placed food on her stomach because he thought she might be cold.

As a middle schooler, he saved all the New Year’s money he had received from his brother.

He later gave the entire amount back to his brother as New Year’s money, making him cry.

Ronaldo did not understand why his brother cried.

The incident shows both his kindness and his tendency to take self-sacrifice too far.

Ronaldo is the second son of three siblings.

He has an older brother, Hiyoshi, and a younger sister, Himari.

Information about his parents is notably scarce.

The story implies that his older brother played a major parental role.

Hiyoshi

Hiyoshi is Ronaldo’s older brother and former hero figure.

He was once a vampire hunter, and Ronaldo deeply admired him.

Ronaldo believed Hiyoshi had left hunting due to a serious injury from fighting vampires.

The truth was far less heroic, but Hiyoshi hid it because he worried how Ronaldo would react.

Ronaldo built an exaggerated image of his brother in his mind.

Even after some misunderstandings are cleared up, Hiyoshi still tries to appear brotherly and dignified around him.

Himari

Himari is Ronaldo’s younger sister.

Ronaldo is somewhat overprotective of her.

As children, Ronaldo often bothered her during pretend hunter games.

She frequently fought him off with painful counterattacks.

Their sibling relationship is still portrayed as good.

Himari also trusts Ronaldo more than Hiyoshi in matters involving women.

Draluc

Draluc is Ronaldo’s freeloading vampire roommate and chaotic partner.

Ronaldo originally tried to drive him out while keeping John.

Those plans failed partly because readers loved the Ronaldo-and-Draluc partnership in Ronaldo War Chronicles.

Fukuma’s editorial pressure also made removing Draluc nearly impossible.

Ronaldo and Draluc constantly insult, provoke, and kill each other in slapstick fashion.

Even so, they function surprisingly well as a duo.

Their relationship has also affected their speech.

Both became more foul-mouthed through their mutual influence.

John

John is Draluc’s armadillo familiar.

Ronaldo adores him and often buys snacks for him.

He becomes angry when Draluc uses John as a shield, a ball, or a tool.

At one point, Ronaldo secretly hoped to drive out Draluc and keep John.

John, however, is loyal to Draluc.

He refuses to be separated from his master.

Despite that, John and Ronaldo have an excellent relationship.

John seems to view Ronaldo almost like a younger brother.

John sometimes enjoys teasing Ronaldo.

However, if Ronaldo is truly in danger, John worries about him sincerely.

Mebiyatsu

Mebiyatsu is a strange hat stand-like object brought in by Draluc.

Ronaldo rejected it at first.

Because Ronaldo is kind and fond of cute things, he eventually began talking to and caring for it.

Mebiyatsu became more attached to Ronaldo than to its original owner.

Ronaldo trusts Mebiyatsu as one of his few unconditional allies.

Mebiyatsu often supports him immediately and wordlessly.

Fukuma and Autumn Publishing

Fukuma is Ronaldo’s editor at Autumn Publishing.

Ronaldo is terrified of him but also trusts him.

Fukuma’s pressure is one reason Draluc cannot easily be removed from the office.

Draluc becomes both protected and endangered by Fukuma’s involvement.

Sanzu, Fukuma’s junior editor, has feelings for Ronaldo.

Ronaldo, having no romantic experience and fearing Autumn Publishing’s staff, fails to notice.

Shin-Yokohama Vampire Hunter Guild

Ronaldo was once part of the Shin-Yokohama Vampire Hunter Guild.

He still visits often, partly to promote Ronaldo War Chronicles.

He is old friends with Satetsu and Shot.

Together, the three often form either an excellent team or a trio of fools.

Satetsu admires Ronaldo as a hunter.

Ronaldo once protected him during Satetsu’s delinquent days, which influenced Satetsu’s path.

Maria and other hunters also rely on Ronaldo’s skills.

His mentor Vamone is one of the guild’s veterans.

Handa Momoi

Handa Momoi was Ronaldo’s high school classmate.

He now belongs to the vampire countermeasures division.

Ronaldo considers Handa a friend.

Handa, however, constantly harasses him due to personal reasons.

The celery trauma became much worse because of Handa’s repeated teasing.

Even so, their relationship is oddly close.

Handa, Ronaldo, and Kameya often hang out together.

They have even held Christmas parties as a trio.

Kameya

Kameya is another high school classmate.

He now works as a reporter for Weekly Vampire Hunter.

He often tricks Ronaldo into visiting strange locations for article material.

Despite this, he remains one of Ronaldo’s long-term friends.

Draus

Draus is Draluc’s father.

He initially disliked Ronaldo because of how often Ronaldo destroyed his son.

However, Draus does acknowledge him as Draluc’s friend.

Their relationship later becomes surprisingly comfortable.

Ronaldo and Draus have even gone out together for café drinks and ramen.

The distance between them is awkward but not hostile.

Ronaldo is handsome, but he has no romantic experience.

He has never had a proper girlfriend.

He becomes awkward around women and does not know how to act on dates.

During a date project with Akemi Handa, he struggled to keep conversation going.

Draluc once joked that if Ronaldo lost his virginity, his very existence would vanish.

This reflects how strongly the series treats his inexperience as part of his identity.

When Aranea targeted him, Ronaldo appeared to react to her attractiveness and searched for date spots.

In truth, he was acting in order to lure her away from civilians.

Even when faced with attractive women or revealing situations, Ronaldo usually prioritizes the job.

He worries about allies, protects civilians, and attacks enemies without hesitation when necessary.

He also avoids calling female helpers into situations that might become sexual harassment.

This shows that beneath the awkwardness, he is considerate.

Ronaldo War Chronicles, also known as Rona-Sen, is Ronaldo’s autobiographical novel series.

It began as a blog used to promote his hunting work.

Fukuma discovered the writing and turned it into a published series.

It became popular among humans, vampires, adults, children, and even many people who know Ronaldo personally.

The stories are based on his real vampire-hunting jobs.

However, because many of his actual enemies are absurd perverts, he often has to rewrite events to seem cooler.

The result is a heroic and dramatic version of his life.

Even then, the core victories are real.

Draluc initially resisted reading the books.

After actually reading them, he admitted they were interesting.

Draluc’s father was moved by the volume covering the destruction of Draluc’s castle.

Other members of Draluc’s family also praised the series.

The books have inspired fans, events, and promotional projects.

Examples include autograph sessions and a “half-day date ticket” for female readers.

When Ronaldo misses deadlines, Fukuma uses terrifying confinement methods.

These include an iron maiden-like writing room and later a conveyor-belt room where failure means being fried like food.

Ronaldo sometimes enters a strange post-deadline high after finishing a manuscript.

In that state, he behaves so bizarrely that even Draluc becomes exhausted from reacting.

Ronaldo’s real name is Hideo Kinoshita.

The name was revealed in the second official fanbook.

The nickname “Ronaldo” came from a Japanese language quiz in high school.

He scribbled his name in the final two seconds before the test ended.

Because his handwriting was so bad, his given name was misread as something like “Ronaldo.”

His surname was nearly unreadable.

The author has stated that the real name was not deliberately hidden.

There simply had not been a good chance to reveal it earlier.

His given name can also evoke the idea of a “hero.”

That fits his role as a protector of people from harmful vampires.

Ronaldo is a smoker, though he usually tries not to smoke.

He tends to smoke when nervous or under pressure.

He is bad with alcohol.

When drunk, he starts speaking in a strangely feminine manner.

When affected by personality-reversing pollen, he became a refined, nonviolent young lady who enjoyed afternoon tea.

This is one of the series’ many bizarre transformations.

He is also weak in erotic conversation-based battles.

At first, his vocabulary in such situations collapsed into repeating only one word.

After talking deeply about preferences with Draus, his ability in that area suddenly improved.

He later managed to win a verbal battle against a vampire who loved strip rock-paper-scissors.

Ronaldo is admired as a handsome, young, talented hunter and author.

Fans may call him “Lord Ronaldo” and remain loyal even after seeing his embarrassing side.

He is aware that he does not really match his cool public image.

Part of his persona comes from trying to embody the heroic ideal represented by his older brother.

His novel persona, sometimes called “Lord Ronaldo,” is not his natural self.

It is tied to his admiration for Hiyoshi and his own insecurities.

Despite all the shouting, crying, bad cooking, celery terror, and Draluc-related chaos, Ronaldo remains a fundamentally heroic person.

He is a loud disaster of a man who will still jump into danger first if someone needs saving.