List of supporting Romeo X Juliet characters

This is a list of supporting characters from Gonzo's Romeo x Juliet anime series.

Capulets

;nihongo|Lord Capulet|キャピュレット|Kyapyuretto anime voices|Satoshi Taki|:Juliet's father. He was killed in Lord Montague's coup d'état fourteen years before the story starts, as a part of Montague's scheme to take over Neo Verona and achieve revenge on the whole Capulet clan for the suffering and pain he and his mother went through for them.

;nihongo|Cordelia|コーディリア|Kōdiria anime voices|Miyu Matsuki|:Juliet's best friend since childhood and another survivor of the Capulet massacre. She tends to Juliet as a maid, acting as her private confidante. She marries Romeo's friend, Benvolio late in the series. Seems to be a stand-in for Juliet's Nurse from the play. Her name may be a possible reference to the fiercely loyal character from King Lear.

;nihongo|Conrad|コンラッド|Konraddo anime voices|Katsuhisa Houki|:Captain of the Capulet Guards who saved Juliet and Cordelia from their family massacre. Now a priest, he looks after Juliet and is exasperated by her antics. He is often the one to urge Juliet to take arms against Lord Montague. He later plans an assassination attempt on Lord Montague and barely survives betrayal by his friend, Camio.

;nihongo|Francisco|フランシスコ|Furanshisuko anime voices|Hirofumi Nojima| :Childhood friend of Curio and the more refined of the duo. A ladies' man and expert archer, he also takes part in underground sabotage and intelligence. Out of all of Juliet's comrades, he is the one who openly vouches for Romeo's love for Juliet.

;nihongo|Curio|キュリオ|Kyurio anime voices|Kōsuke Toriumi|:A close friend of Francisco and Juliet's fencing teacher. His scarred visage originated from protecting a younger rebellious Juliet from receiving punishment from members of the Carabinieri; her frustration at the time gave birth to her alter ego, The Red Whirlwind. His preferred weapons are axes or polearms.

;nihongo|Antonio|アントニオ|Antonio anime voices|Ryō Hirohashi|:Conrad's grandson and a sidekick to Juliet. His arsenal of choice revolves around trickery including various bombs and firecrackers. After the formation of the new Capulet faction, Antonio works as a spy and helps Curio and Francisco rescue Juliet when she is captured by Montague. He has a crush on Regan.

;nihongo|Emilia|エミリア|Emiria anime voices|Ayako Kawasumi|: An actress infatuated with Juliet's disguise, Odin. Pretty and youthful, she invites Odin as Juliet to the Rose Ball where Juliet meets Romeo for the first time. She remains unaware of Odin's true identity until much later in the series. Her name is a possible reference to a character in Shakespeare's Othello.

;nihongo|William|ウィリアム|Wiriamu anime voices|Kazuhiko Inoue|:A flamboyant playwright whose works have not been well-received by audiences. He's nicknamed "Willy" by his actors and stagehands. He allows Juliet and her entourage to use his theater for shelter. He knows that Juliet is deeply and painfully in love, calling her "the maiden who gave up on love", and wants to make a tragedy where both lovers die. The character itself is a caricature of William Shakespeare, and there are several allusions to the work of his namesake in his own plays.

;nihongo|Ariel|エアリエル|Earieru anime voices|Yoshino Ohtori|:Present head of the noble Farnese family. She is also an old friend of Conrad's and one of the few outside her party to know Juliet's secret. She offers her home in Mantua as a sanctuary for Juliet, Curio, Francisco, and Antonio after Juliet is rescued from Montague, where they are attended by Ariel's butler, Balthazar, and his granddaughter, Regan. Her name may be a reference to the sprite from the Tempest, who acts as the eyes and ears for one of the main characters.

;nihongo|Balthazar|バルサザー|Barusazāanime voices|Ikuo Nishikawa|:One of Ariel's butlers, he passes on information from his master to Juliet and company. Like any loyal butler, he is apt to serve his guests and never questions their orders.

;nihongo|Regan|リーガン|Rīgananime voices|Chiwa Saito|:Balthazar's granddaughter and frequent helper around the mansion. Unlike other girls her age, she cares little for aesthetics and is blunt to those who offend her. She likes to bully Antonio when she drags him along on chores. Her name may be a reference to one of King Lear's daughters from the Shakespeare play. ;nihongo|Lancelot|ランスロット|Ransurotto anime voices|Keiji Fujiwara|:A doctor who is an ally of the Red Whirlwind, whom he attends and counsels after each skirmish with the city guards. Posing as the Red Whirlwind, he dies via self-immolation to avoid capture and to free wrongly accused victims. He leaves behind a wife (who knows Juliet's secret and doesn't blame her for Lancelot's death) and two daughters who have yet to be told of his fate.

Montagues

;nihongo|Lady Portia|ポーシア|Pōshia anime voices|Aya Hisakawa|:Portia Clemenza di Ebe is Romeo's mother, who reluctantly left him and the Montague name to live at a convent to avoid associating herself with the bloody and cruel ambitions of her husband. She's a kind, intelligent and understanding woman who prays for Romeo's happiness. Her name is possibly derived from Shakespeare's play, Julius Caesar.

;nihongo|Benvolio|ペンヴォーリオ|Benvōrio anime voices|Shinnosuke Tachibana|:One of Romeo's close friends, he is the son of the mayor of Neo Verona, Vittorio di Frescobaldi and one of the few people concerned with Romeo's well-being. He often acts as Romeo's voice of reason and moderation. He and his family are later stripped of their nobility and go into hiding with the help of Juliet and her friends. He weds Cordelia late in the series.

;nihongo|Vittorio|グィシトーリオ|Guishitorio anime voices|Eiji Miyashita|:Benvolio's father, leader of the House of Frescobaldi and an old friend of Conrad's, who held reservations concerning Montague's rule. He was a member of the moderate faction of the Montague dictatorship, with a large amount of administrative authority as the mayor of Neo Verona. He is later stripped of his title and nobility and even slated for assassination by Duke Montague, for allowing the Red Whirlwind to create civil discontent throughout Neo Verona. He is reestablished as the mayor at the end of the story.

;nihongo|Mercutio|マキューシオ|Makyūshio anime voices|Tetsuya Kakihara|:An ambitious and sly noble who wishes to become Montague's heir due to his apparent resentment of his father. He is contemptuous of the common people and is charged by Montague to spy on Romeo. Late in the series, he is adopted as Montague's new heir but is unprepared for the bloody initiation, whose climax was Titus' death at the hands of Montague. His inability to act in his father's defense traumatizes him and later leads to insanity.

;nihongo|Titus|タイタス|Taitasu anime voices|Jin Urayama|:Mercutio's father who is an alcoholic degenerate of the court. He earned his position by secretly ordering the assassinations of nearly everyone with knowledge of Montague's origins. He is killed in a sparring "accident" with Montague. Possibly derived from Shakespeare's most violent, well-known play, Titus Andronicus. ;nihongo|Hermione|ハーマイオニ|Hāmaioni anime voices|Sayaka Ohara| :A young noblewoman of the House of Borromeo, who is betrothed to Romeo in a political marriage at the Rose Ball. Sweet, sheltered and gentle, she appears to be genuinely in love with him though he doesn't reciprocate her feelings for him. However, she's also very passive-aggressive, having the tendency to keep her negative feelings or thoughts for herself, only to unleash them later. Thus, she expresses mild "yangire" traits during Romeo's banishment. She seems to be a stand-in for Count Paris from the play, though she is female and is a Montague ally and Romeo's fiancée instead of a relative to Duke Escalus and Juliet's suitor. Hermione could also be lifted from Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale"; the Hermione of that play is entangled in a conflict over adultery, which almost parallels her situation in RxJ.

Other characters

;nihongo|Ophelia|オフィーリア|Ofīria anime voices|Junko Iwao|:A mysterious woman who tends to the Great Tree Escalus. She has a sad, doll-like face with some marks on her forehead and cheeks, and speaks in a rather polite and mysterious manner. She appears to be ageless as she looks the same as she did fourteen years ago. She mortally wounds Romeo shortly before being vanquished by him. Her name is likely a nod to the heroine of Shakespeare's famous tragedy, Hamlet.

;Camilo anime voices|Saito Jiro|:Conrad's good friend who betrayed him by giving information regarding the Capulets' hideout to the Montagues. He is later found by Juliet, Francisco, and Curio to be in luxurious housing alongside a disgruntled Tybalt, whom he helped to raise. After being threatened by the latter, he flees from his mansion. Camilo's name is likely a nod to the character from The Winter's Tale, a character who defected from his liege King Leontes after Camilo was ordered to kill King Polixenes.

;Petruchio anime voices|Akio Suyama|: A thin boy who works in one of the Montagues' mines and is saved from a beating by Romeo. He and Romeo eventually become friends. Originally sent to the mines for stealing bread for his starving family, he is desperate to return to Neo Verona because his younger brother and sister are still there. Petruchio dies from sickness and leaves Romeo visibly distraught. After Montague's death and his self banishment from Neo Verona, Romeo asks Tybalt to find and care for Petruchio's siblings. Petruchio's name is likely a nod to the character from The Taming of the Shrew, one of Shakespeare's early comedies.

;Giovanni anime voices|Toru Ohkawa|:A miner who looks out for Romeo during his stay at the mines. While he admires Romeo's idealistic dream of creating a world where people can live together without sacrifices, Giovanni also believes that Romeo has chosen a long and difficult path to pursue. He often acts as leader for the village in Romeo's absence.

;Old Man :A mysterious yet sage man who frequently smokes from a long pipe, he is suggested to bear some connection to the Great Tree. He acts as Romeo's spiritual adviser, mentioning that the noble will have to someday shoulder Juliet's fate.