List of Professor Layton characters

This is a list of the important and recurring characters throughout the Professor Layton video game series.

Artwork from Professor Layton Royale, showing many characters from the series.

Main characters

Professor Hershel Layton

Voiced by: Yo Oizumi (Japanese); Christopher Robin Miller (English)[1][2]

Professor Hershel Layton (エルシャール・レイトン Erushāru Reiton) is the title character and protagonist of the series. He is a stereotypical English gentleman, who enjoys solving puzzles and drinking tea. He is a professor of archeology at London's Gressenheller University. Because of his prowess at solving puzzles and mysteries, he is well known throughout London. His catchphrase is, "That's what a gentleman does." The signature feature of his appearance is his black top hat (given to him by his deceased sweetheart, Claire), which he wears along with an orange shirt under a black high-collared coat with matching pants. As he became a professor at age 27, he is 37 in the first trilogy. He is also adept at fencing, as demonstrated in a sword fight against Duke Anton Herzen in Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box as well as two others with Descole in Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva and Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy.[3]

Luke Triton

Voiced by: Maki Horikita (Japanese), Lani Minella (US English), Maria Darling (UK English)[4][5]

Luke Triton (ルーク・トライトン Rūku Toraiton) is a young boy who accompanies Professor Layton. He aspires to be a gentleman like his professor, though, like many boys his age, he has a tendency to let a cheeky remark slip out. He is fond of puzzles, animals, teddy bears, and the color blue. Luke is also able to understand and converse with animals and has an appetite he can never seem to quench. While he consistently wears a sweater throughout the first trilogy, he wears suspenders in The Last Specter and The Eternal Diva, a vest in The Miracle Mask, and an open coat in The Azran Legacy. Layton is an old friend of Luke's father, Clark.[3]

Flora Reinhold

Voiced by: Mamiko Noto (Japanese), Lani Minella (games), Claire Morgan (Eternal Diva)[6]

Flora Reinhold (アロマ・ラインフォード Aroma Rainfōdo, Aroma Reinford in Japanese version) is the daughter of the wealthy Augustus Reinhold and his wife, Viola (both of whom died before the events of The Curious Village). At the end of The Curious Village, she makes the decision to leave the fortune and allow St. Mystere to remain as it is. She is sweet, shy, and reserved but has been known to show her stubborn side when dealing with others' concerns for her safety. After the events of The Curious Village, she becomes Layton's protégée and joins Layton and Luke on their mysteries. She also loves to cook, but, to Layton and Luke's dismay, she cannot cook well.[7]

Emmy Altava

Voiced by: Saki Aibu (Japanese), Emma Tate (Eternal Diva), Lani Minella (games)[8]

Emmeline "Emmy" Altava (レミ・アルタワ Remi Arutawa, Remi Altava in Japanese version) is Professor Layton's assistant as appointed by the President of Gressenheller University and one of the main characters of the second trilogy. She loves taking pictures, taking her camera everywhere with her. Head-strong and energetic, she is also a martial arts expert, even able to hold her own against Descole and Bronev's henchmen.[3]

Supporting characters

Inspector Chelmey

Voiced by: Shiro Saito (Japanese); Christopher Robin Miller (English), Jonathan Keeble (Eternal Diva)[9]

Inspector Chelmey (チェルミー警部 Cherumī Keibu) is a shrewd detective with London's Scotland Yard, reputable for striking fear into the hearts of London criminals, even though that fear seems to be misplaced. Despite this, it seems that Layton and Luke always manage to be one step ahead of the inspector. When not working, he enjoys his wife's sweet potato fritters. In the European releases of the games, his favourite food is cakes.[7]

Chelmey's assistant, Constable Barton, is a timid man prone to making mistakes, though he has covered up for some of Chelmey's oversights in the past.[7]

Don Paolo

Voiced by: Minoru Inaba (Japanese), Christopher Robin Miller (games), Jonathan Keeble (Eternal Diva)[10]

As Layton's self-declared nemesis and the main villain of the first game (he had a minor role in Diabolical Box and allied with Layton in The Unwound Future), Don Paolo (ドン・ポール Don Pōru) is a brilliant scientist and inventor banished from the scientific community for performing unethical experiments. A genius of machinery and a master of disguises, Don Paolo studied in the same university as Layton, and his unrequited love for Layton's deceased girlfriend Claire caused is his main reason for hating the professor. When he is not plotting evil, Don Paolo enjoys making and listening to music.

Inspector Clamp Grosky

Voiced by: Houchu Ohtsuka (Japanese); Stuart Organ (Eternal Diva) (English)[11]

Inspector Clamp Grosky (クランプ・グロスキー Kuranpu Gurosukī) is a police inspector from Scotland Yard who plays a role in the second trilogy similar to Inspector Chelmey's in the first. He has a younger sister named Amelie who goes on to marry Chelmey, making Chelmey Grosky's brother-in-law. The energetic Grosky has a fiery passion for mysteries that require his expertise and is also very athletic, apparently able to run faster than cars and swim faster than sharks. His distinguishing features are his chest hair and his pompadour hairstyle.[12]

Hanna, an admirer of his, is the self-proclaimed president and sole member of a fan club called the Groskettes. She uses her remarkable tracking skills to follow and sometimes even precede Grosky on the scene of a crime.

Jean Descole

Voiced by: Atsuro Watabe (Japanese), Walter Rego (games), Jonathan Keeble (English - Eternal Diva)[13]

Jean Descole (ジャン・デスコール Jan Desukōru) is the main villain of the second trilogy and The Eternal Diva.

Desmond Sycamore

Voiced by: Atsuro Watabe (Japanese), Walter Rego (games), Jonathan Keeble (English - Eternal Diva)[13]

Desmond Sycamore, is a passionate researcher and a gentleman. Not much is known about the man.[3]

Granny Riddleton

Granny Riddleton (ナゾーバ Nazōba) is a recurring character, first appearing chronologically (though not present for the rest of the game) in The Last Specter. Most characters view her as a witch, presumably due to her pointed hat and distinctive laugh. She gathers all the puzzles players could potentially miss as they progress through the games, storing them in a small hut to solve later.[14] In The Unwound Future, she retires and is soon succeeded by her granddaughter, Puzzlette (ナゾリーヌ Nazorīnu), who swats a substitute guard and talking bee named Beasley upon her succession. Riddleton's pet cat, Keats, appears in the prequels except for The Miracle Mask, wherein she appears disguised as "Nana Grams" (a portmanteau of "nana" and "anagrams")/"Elizabeth" with thick eyeglasses.[15][16]

Dr. Schrader

Voiced by: Rokuro Naya (Japanese)[17]

Dr. Andrew Schrader (アンドルー･シュレーダー Andorū Shurēdā) is Professor Layton's old mentor from Layton's college days. A polite and intelligent man, he falls victim to the Elysian Box as a result of researching its rumored curse in The Diabolical Box. He sends a letter to Layton before falling victim to the curse, leading Layton and Luke to find the cause behind his "death". Layton soon finds out that Schrader only fell unconscious after experiencing a series of hallucinations and is on his way to recovery.

Supporting characters in the first trilogy

Katia Anderson

Voiced by: Suzuka Ohgo (Japanese); Cynthia Geary (English)[18]

Katia Anderson is the teen granddaughter of Duke Anton and Sophia Herzen. As the daughter of the mayor of Dropstone and his wife (Anton's daughter), she is well known in her town.

Anton Herzen

Voiced by: Takao Osawa (young, Japanese), Fumito Yamano (old, Japanese), Matthew Mercer (English)[19]

Anton Herzen is the duke of the town Folsense, rumored to be a vampire inhabiting the family estate, Herzen Castle. As the main antagonist of The Diabolical Box, he has a strong connection to the Elysian Box. Although he is actually very old, he appears to not have aged for half a century because of hallucinogenic gases found in his father's gold mine.

Anton's brother is Mr. Beluga (born Friedrich Herzen), the owner of the Molentary Express.

Sophia Herzen

Voiced by: Suzuka Ohgo (Japanese); Lani Minella (English), Yuri Tabata (old, Japanese)[20]

Sophia Herzen was the wife of Anton and grandmother of Katia Anderson in The Diabolical Box.

Clive Dove

Voiced by: Shun Oguri (Japanese); Yuri Lowenthal (English)[20]

Clive Dove (Klaus in Japanese) is the primary antagonist of The Unwound Future.

Dimitri Allen

Voiced by: Takaya Kamikawa (Japanese); Liam O'Brien (English)[21]

Dimitri Allen (アラン･ディミトリー Aran Dimitorī, Alan Dimitri in the Japanese version) is the partial antagonist of The Unwound Future. Dimitri was once the friend of Bill Hawks in college and became his rival from then on. He and Bill invented the time machine along with their assistant, Claire Foley. Like Don Paolo, Dimitri was secretly attracted to Claire, so he chose her to first test the machine, but Dimitri found a calculation error and begged Bill to stop. Bill refused, however, because a large budget was put forward in the invention. His love of Claire resulted him to seek revenge against Bill for the destruction that the future prime minister did not prevent.

Claire Foley

Voiced by: Yoshino Kimura (Japanese); Lani Minella (English)[20]

Claire (クレア・フォーリー Kurea Fōrī) was Professor Layton's love interest from his university days. Before her presumed death, Layton was prepared to ask for her hand in marriage. She was also admired by other men, including her work partner Dimitri Allen and the evil genius Don Paolo. Ten years prior to the events of The Unwound Future, Claire gave Layton his trademark top hat just before she left for work, where she was killed in a failed time machine experiment.[22]

Supporting characters in the second trilogy

Arianna Barde

Voiced by: Nao Minamisawa (Japanese); Lani Minella (English)[23]

Arianna Barde (ユラ･アランバード Yura Aranbādo Yula Alanbard in the Japanese Version) is the heir to the late aristocrat Evan Barde's fortune in The Last Specter. She is referred to as the "Calamity Witch" by the citizens of Misthallery, Luke's hometown. Rumor has it that she seeks to destroy the town and torture whoever speaks ill of her. In truth, her younger brother Tony Barde (トニー･アランバード Tonī Aranbādo Tony Alanbard in the Japanese Version) invented this scheme to protect her, only to worsen her already poor reputation.

Loosha

Voiced by: Kurumi Mamiya (Japanese)

Loosha (らぐし Ragushi, Lagushi in the Japanese version) is a plesiosaur-like creature who lives in the lake near Barde Manor, home to Arianna and Tony, in The Last Specter. Many years before the game takes place, Loosha was born in the Golden Garden, a lost paradise created by the Azran Civilization hidden at the bottom of the lake on whose shores Barde Manor was constructed. After her parents died, Loosha became only survivor of the Golden Garden and left the garden to meet Arianna and Tony.

Janice Quatlane

Voiced by: Nana Mizuki (Japanese); Emma Tate (English)[24]

Janice Quatlane (ジェニス・カトレーン Jenisu Katorēn, Jenis Quatlane in the Japanese version) is a famed opera singer who requests the aid of her ex-teacher, Professor Layton in The Eternal Diva. She is known to have a beautiful voice.[12]

Oswald Whistler

Voiced by: Iemasa Kasumi (Japanese); Robbie Stevens (English)[25]

Oswald Whistler (オズロ・ウィスラー Ozuro Wisurā, Ozlo Whistler in the Japanese version) is the pianist who runs the music in the opera house. He built the Crown Petone around the same time his daughter, Melina died.

Melina Whistler

Melina Whistler (ミリーナ・ウィスラー Mirīna Wīsurā) is Oswald's daughter and Janice's best friend who died due to an incurable illness a year prior to the start of the film. But she strangely reappears as a young girl.

Amelia Ruth

Voiced by: Megumi Toyoguchi (Japanese); Claire Morgan (English)[26]

Amelia Ruth is a chess champion who was given a free ticket to the opera by Oswald Whistler. She was hoping to save her grandfather from death.

Randall Ascot

Voiced by: Yūsuke Yamamoto (Japanese); Yuri Lowenthal (English)[27]

Randall Ascot is an old friend of Hershel Layton. Randall was the person who sparked the interest of archeology in Layton, but, during his long-awaited first expedition into the Azran civilization's ruins of Akbadain, one misstep opened a giant chasm. Despite Layton's best efforts, Randall fell in the chasm and was believed by everyone to have died.

Henry Ledore

Voiced by: Tomokazu Seki (Japanese); Liam O'Brien (English)[28]

Henry Ledore and his family have worked for Randall for his entire life. Randall and Henry had always been very good friends, so much that Henry began to see Randall as his own brother. After Randall disappears, Henry never gave up hope that he would come back. It was this hope that drove him in the ruins where Randall disappeared.

Angela Ledore

Voiced by: Michiko Kichise (Japanese); Laura Bailey (English)[29]

Angela Ledore is a friend of Hershel Layton and Randall Ascot's love interest. She pretends to be married to Henry Ledore, but is really just waiting with him to see if Randall ever comes back.

Leon Bronev

Voiced by: Masachika Ichimura (Japanese), Tim Waston (English)[30]

Leon Bronev is a corrupt archaeologist, with a hidden past.[3]

Aurora

Voiced by: Shiori Katsuna (Japanese), Maria Darling (English)[31]

Aurora is a mysterious girl who is the sole survivor and emissary the lost Azran civilization. Layton and friends find her trapped in ice at the start of The Azran Legacy.[3]

Leonard Bloom

Leonard Bloom is an inexperienced but successful senior detective for Scotland Yard. Layton meets him in The Miracle Mask, wherein he develops a partnership with the professor.

Raymond

Raymond is a Scottish butler who pilots the Bostonius, the airship aboard which Layton's group travels in The Azran Legacy. He is the deeply loyal servant of Descole.

References

  1. ↑ "Professor Hershel Layton". behindthevoiceactors.com.
  2. ↑ Orla Madden (April 13, 2013). "Interview: Meet Christopher Robin Miller - Voice Actor For Professor Layton". nintendolife.com. Retrieved February 23, 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Sato (February 27, 2013). "Who’s Who In Professor Layton And The Azran Legacies". siliconera.com. Retrieved February 25, 2016.
  4. ↑ "Luke Triton". behindthevoiceactors.com.
  5. ↑ William Bibbiani (November 16, 2011). "DVD Review: ‘Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva’". craveonline.com. Retrieved February 23, 2016.
  6. ↑ "Flora Reinhold". behindthevoiceactors.com.
  7. 1 2 3 "Professor Layton and the Lost Future". nintendo.com.au. Retrieved February 28, 2016.
  8. ↑ "Emmy Altava". behindthevoiceactors.com.
  9. ↑ "Inspector Chelmey". behindthevoiceactors.com.
  10. ↑ "Don Paolo". behindthevoiceactors.com.
  11. ↑ "Inspector Clamp Grosky". behindthevoiceactors.com.
  12. 1 2 "Movie Review: Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva". nintendolife.com. October 30, 2012. Retrieved February 28, 2016.
  13. 1 2 "Jean Descole". behindthevoiceactors.com.
  14. ↑ "Professor Layton and the Curious Village" (PDF). nintendo.com.
  15. ↑ "Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy - Review". screwattack.com. March 6, 2014. Retrieved February 28, 2016.
  16. ↑ "Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask Review". screwattack.com. November 1, 2012. Retrieved February 28, 2016.
  17. ↑ "Rokuro Naya". Anime News Network. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
  18. ↑ "Katia Anderson". behindthevoiceactors.com.
  19. ↑ "Anthony Herzen". behindthevoiceactors.com.
  20. 1 2 3 "Franchise: Professor layton". behindthevoiceactors.com.
  21. ↑ "Dimitri Allen". behindthevoiceactors.com.
  22. ↑ Simon Parkin (March 16, 2014). "The story behind Nintendo's detective". eurogamer.com. Retrieved February 25, 2016.
  23. ↑ "Arianna Barde". behindthevoiceactors.com.
  24. ↑ "Janice Quatlane". behindthevoiceactors.com.
  25. ↑ "Oswald Whistler". behindthevoiceactors.com.
  26. ↑ "Amelia Ruth". behindthevoiceactors.com.
  27. ↑ "Randall Ascot". behindthevoiceactors.com.
  28. ↑ "Henry Ledore". behindthevoiceactors.com.
  29. ↑ "Angela Ledore". behindthevoiceactors.com.
  30. ↑ "Leon Brodev". behindthevoiceactors.com.
  31. ↑ "Aurora". behindthevoiceactors.com.
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