SSS-Class Suicide Hunter Characters: The Full Cast Guide

TL;DR: SSS-Class Suicide Hunter characters, checked against AniList's official cast data rather than forum guesswork: Kim Gong-ja, the Sword Emperor and Flame Emperor, the guild leaders who actually run the hunter association, and the tower's floor bosses and constellations.

Search "SSS-Class Suicide Hunter characters" and the results disagree with each other. Is the world's strongest hunter named Raviel or Ivansia? Is Aegim a surname or a title? Is "Soo-Ha" the same person as "So-Ha"? Fan summaries and scanlation-community threads flatten names that AniList's character database keeps distinct, and at least one name gets attached to the wrong title entirely in casual recaps. This guide traces each character back to that database rather than repeating the spelling that happened to show up first in a search result.

That matters more here than in most system fantasy, because SSS-Class Suicide Hunter's cast maps directly onto the world's power structure. Kim Gong-ja's death-copy ability, covered in full in the review, only works on hunters strong enough to kill him, so who's who in this cast is also a map of who's dangerous enough to be worth dying to.

Key Takeaways

• Kim Gong-ja is the confirmed protagonist (AniList main character, alt names "Zombie" and "The King of Death")
• The Flame Emperor is Yoo So-Ha, the #1-ranked hunter Gong-ja envies at the story's start, not a name attached to any other character
• The Sword Emperor is Geom-Je, the series' only other AniList-billed main character
• Guild Leaders run the hunter association's real power structure: Anastasia Zelenska ("Black Witch"), Patricia ("Paladin"), Nisha ("Countess"), Liaofan ("Viper"), Bambollina ("Heresy Inquisitor"), Baek-Hyang Seo ("Heavenly Demon")
• Raviel Ivansia isn't a rival hunter at all: she's the villainess of an in-story novel called "The Tale of Sormwyn Academy"
• Floor bosses (Preta, Hellfire Maiden) and the constellation Hamustra round out the tower cast outside the guild system

SSS-Class Suicide Hunter Characters: Series Overview

SSS-Class Suicide Hunter (official Tapas title: SSS-Class Revival Hunter) is a Korean manhwa written by Neida with art by Bill K, adapting a web novel by No-A Sin. The manhwa runs 154 chapters through Season 4, currently on a scheduled season break; the source novel is complete at roughly 400 chapters. The premise, covered at length in the reading guide, is a death-copy mechanic: F-rank hunter Kim Gong-ja copies a skill from whoever kills him, then wakes up 24 hours before his death with the new ability and full memory of what happened.

That mechanic is why this cast guide exists. Nearly every named character below is either someone Gong-ja has died to, someone running the guild system he has to navigate, or a threat inside the tower he's climbing. None of the names here are pulled from memory or a competitor's list. Every one is checked against AniList's character database for the series, which lists role classification, alternate titles, and (for some entries) a short official description.

Kim Gong-ja: The Protagonist Everyone Underestimates

Kim Gong-ja starts the series as one of the lowest-ranked hunters in the world: an F-grade climber with no particular standing among the tower's guilds. AniList's own summary of him is blunt about his starting point, describing an "aspiring hunter" whose admiration for the world's #1-ranked hunter, the Flame Emperor, "later turned into envy." That's the emotional starting position the death-copy mechanic eventually inverts.

Two alternate names attached to Gong-ja on AniList are worth flagging: Zombie and The King of Death. Neither is explained in the character's short bio, but both read literally as nicknames that track the mechanic already covered in the SSS-Class Suicide Hunter review. A hunter whose entire kit depends on dying repeatedly and coming back with more than he started with earns names like that. Whether other characters use these nicknames on-page, or they're purely a naming convention AniList applies from the source material, isn't confirmed by the available data, but the pattern is consistent enough to be worth noting rather than ignoring.

Gong-ja is the only character in this cast whose motivations are laid out in any detail through an official source. Everyone else below is defined mostly by title, rank, and guild affiliation, which says something about how this series structures its world. Power and position come first; interiority is Gong-ja's alone, at least in what's been made public outside the chapters themselves.

Kim Gong-ja's official character portrait, via AniList.

For the full arc-by-arc breakdown of where these characters enter the story, including the chapter ranges for each season:

SSS-Class Suicide Hunter Reading Guide →

Rank Analysis: The Sword Emperor and the Flame Emperor

The reading guide's rank-system section covers the hunter hierarchy from F up through S, then notes a separate tier above S "for exceptional individuals." This cast is where that top tier gets names attached to it.

Geom-Je (Sword Emperor) is AniList's second and final main-character billing, alongside Gong-ja himself. The name is close to a direct translation of the title: Geom-Je's hanja alt-name, 劍帝, reads literally as "Sword Emperor," and AniList lists that exact English phrase as an alternate name. Being one of only two main-billed characters in a cast this size is a strong signal of how central this figure is to the story, even without a public plot summary to confirm specifics.

Yoo So-Ha (Flame Emperor) is the name worth getting exactly right. This title gets misattributed more than any other name in the cast. AniList's bio for Kim Gong-ja says Gong-ja envies "the #1 ranker: the Flame Emperor," and names that ranker as Soo-Ha Yoo. So-Ha Yu's own AniList entry lists "Flame Emperor" as an alternate title too. That's two separate points in the same database, pointing at the same person. It's the strongest verification standard used anywhere in this guide. A different character, Raviel Ivansia, sometimes gets attached to the Flame Emperor title in casual fan recaps. Per AniList, that's a mismatch. Ivansia's own entry covers a completely different role, further down this page.

Both Emperor titles sit outside the standard F-through-S ladder, informal names for hunters strong enough that a letter grade stops being the useful description. That fits how the review frames the Flame Emperor's relationship with Gong-ja: adversarial at first, and reshaped over the run by a mechanic where Gong-ja can only gain power from someone strong enough to actually kill him.

Geom-Je (Sword Emperor, left) and Yoo So-Ha (Flame Emperor, right) are two separate characters, not one identity split across two names. Portraits via AniList.

SSS-Class Suicide Hunter Characters: Guild Leaders and the Hunter Association

The hunter world in SSS-Class Suicide Hunter isn't run by a single central authority. It's carved up between guilds, and AniList's character list makes that structure visible through six named Guild Leaders.

Anastasia Zelenska, Guild Leader of Black Dragon, carries the alternate title Black Witch (흑색마녀). Patricia, Guild Leader of City Security, doubles as a Paladin. Nisha, Guild Leader of the United Merchants, holds the title Countess. Liaofan, Guild Leader of the Heavenly Order, is known as the Viper (독사). Bambollina, Guild Leader of Pantheon, carries the title Heresy Inquisitor (이단심문관), a detail worth pausing on, because it lines up with an arc the site has already covered from a different angle. The reading guide's Season 4 breakdown names the Heretic Inquisitor Arc as running from roughly chapter 120 to 154, introducing "the Inquisitor as an antagonist class." Bambollina's AniList title is the same role under a slightly different translation of the same Korean term, which is the strongest available link between this guide's verified cast and the reading guide's confirmed antagonist for that arc.

Baek-Hyang Seo rounds out the guild-tier figures, though her position is distinct from the others: she's the leader of the Demonic Faction, introduced on the tower's 22nd floor, and carries the title Heavenly Demon (Cheon Ma). She's a faction leader rather than a guild leader in the conventional sense, but operates at the same power tier.

Six guild-and-faction leaders, six distinct titles, none of them redundant. That's a wider power structure than most system fantasy bothers building below its single strongest antagonist, and it's part of why a dedicated cast guide is useful for this series specifically: the hierarchy has more moving pieces than "protagonist versus final boss."

Tower Threats: Floor Bosses and Constellations

Below the guild leaders, AniList's character list includes figures tied specifically to the tower's floor structure rather than the guild hierarchy: the obstacles and overseers Gong-ja has to get past rather than align with.

Hamustra is listed as "the constellation who manages from tower's 21st floor until 30th floor," with the alternate title Corner Librarian. Preta, also known as the Demon King of Fall Rain, is described as "the enemy boss of Tower's 20th floor," with a second alternate identity, Ester, and the title Saintess of the Outskirts. Hellfire Maiden is the boss monster on the tower's 10th floor, with no additional alternate name listed.

Two more figures round out this tier without a clean guild or floor label attached. Marcus Calenbury carries the title Sword Saint (검성), a rank distinct from Geom-Je's Sword Emperor but clearly related in the same martial hierarchy. Yakjesa, whose name is literally the Korean word for pharmacist, holds the title Master Alchemist, the cast's one confirmed non-combat specialist role.

The floor numbers matter for calibrating scale: if Hellfire Maiden is a floor-10 boss and Hamustra oversees floors 21 through 30, that places most of the guild leaders and both Emperors well above the range this guide can currently map floor-by-floor. The tower's structure clearly extends further than what's been named publicly so far.

For the full verdict on how these power dynamics play out across 154 chapters, including the mechanic's tactical and emotional stakes:

SSS-Class Suicide Hunter Review →

Raviel Ivansia and the Story-Within-a-Story Cast

Not every named character in this cast is a hunter, a guild leader, or a tower threat. A handful occupy stranger positions in the story, and getting their roles right matters as much as getting their names right.

Raviel Ivansia is the character most likely to get folded into a different identity by mistake. Her AniList description is specific: she's "the villainess of the story named 'The Tale of Sormwyn Academy,'" with the alternate title Lady Silverlily. That phrasing points to a story-inside-the-story device: a novel that exists within SSS-Class Suicide Hunter's own fiction, with Ivansia as a character inside it rather than a hunter operating in the primary cast. She is not the Flame Emperor, not a guild leader, and not confirmed to interact directly with Gong-ja's main hunter-world plotline based on the available public data.

Ai-Gim Repanta, more commonly listed under the alternate name Lefanta Aegim, carries two more titles: Constellation Killer and Salcheonseong (살천성). A separate character, Bohoui Yeosin ("The Goddess of Protection"), is described on AniList as "Lefanta Aegim's Holy Sword of Protection." So Lefanta Aegim isn't just a named character. This is someone important enough to have a named weapon tied to their identity. A third character, Sarbast Aegim, shares the Aegim name. AniList lists this person separately, and only as an NPC. AniList does not confirm a family link between Sarbast Aegim and Lefanta Aegim. The shared surname is worth a mention, but treating it as confirmed kinship would be the kind of guess this guide is trying to avoid.

How This Cast Stacks Up Against Solo Leveling and ORV

System fantasy readers coming from Solo Leveling or Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint will notice this cast is wider than either. Solo Leveling's hierarchy runs mostly through S-rank hunters and the Monarchs. ORV's cast is built around constellations and the in-universe novel Ways of Survival. SSS-Class Suicide Hunter borrows a bit of both. Guild leaders hold real institutional power. A constellation, Hamustra, is embedded in the tower system. And now there's a confirmed story-within-a-story cast, Raviel Ivansia's novel, that works a little like ORV's nested fiction, just on a smaller scale.

That layering is part of why the manhwa like SSS-Class Suicide Hunter list points repeatedly at ORV as the closest structural cousin. Both series ask the reader to track more than one register of reality at once: the primary hunter world, and something embedded inside it that isn't quite the same thing.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who is the protagonist of SSS-Class Suicide Hunter?

Kim Gong-ja, an F-rank hunter whose death-copy-and-reset ability drives the entire series. AniList lists his alternate names as Zombie and The King of Death.

Who is the Flame Emperor?

Yoo So-Ha (also romanized Soo-Ha Yoo), the world's #1-ranked hunter. Confirmed independently through AniList's Kim Gong-ja bio and Yoo So-Ha's own alternate-title listing.

Who is the Sword Emperor?

Geom-Je, whose name translates directly to "Sword Emperor" and who holds main-character billing alongside Gong-ja.

Who is Raviel Ivansia?

The villainess of an in-story novel, "The Tale of Sormwyn Academy," not a hunter or guild leader. A separate character from the Flame Emperor.

Who is the Black Witch?

Anastasia Zelenska, Guild Leader of the Black Dragon guild.

Who is the Heresy Inquisitor?

Bambollina, Guild Leader of the Pantheon guild, the same title behind the Heretic Inquisitor Arc covered in the reading guide's Season 4 breakdown.

How were these names verified?

Every name and title in this guide is checked against AniList's character database for SSS-geup Jugeoya Saneun Hunter (SSS-Class Revival Hunter), which lists role classification, alternate names, and short descriptions sourced from the official release. Names without an AniList entry or independent confirmation were left out.

Related Reading

• SSS-Class Suicide Hunter Review: the full verdict on the death-copy mechanic and the Flame Emperor relationship.
• SSS-Class Suicide Hunter Reading Guide: arc-by-arc chapter ranges, including where the Sword Emperor, Flame Emperor, and Heresy Inquisitor each enter the story.
• Manhwa Like SSS-Class Suicide Hunter: where to go next if the guild-and-constellation power structure was the draw.
• Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint Review: the closest structural cousin for its own story-within-a-story cast.

References

• SSS-Class Suicide Hunter character database on AniList
• SSS-Class Revival Hunter on Tapas
• r/SSSClassSuicideHunter community