Phantom Thief Red Riding Hood

Name: Phantom Thief Red Riding Hood

Species: Werewolf

Gender: Female

Occupation: Phantom thief

Likes: Splendid things

Dislikes: Things that are not splendid, silver, onions, water

Abilities: Perfectly disguising herself as other people, illusions, high-speed combat

Voice Actor (CV): Yuko Miyamura

Her name is often written as “Phantom Thief Red Riding Hood” or “Phantom Thief・Red Riding Hood” in the game.

Official social media prefers “Phantom Thief Red Riding Hood,” while her German name is “Diebin Rotkäppchen” (literally “Thief Red Riding Hood”).

Phantom Thief Red Riding Hood first appears in Arne no Jikenbo Case 2, “Hotel Pithos Theft Incident,” as a werewolf woman who has become a sensation across society as a flamboyant, showy criminal.

Although she is a werewolf who could easily use her power for pure violence, she prefers to stage elaborate heists that double as performances.

She has silver hair in a ponytail, golden eyes like a full moon, and prominent fangs that underline her werewolf nature.

She wears a red cloak over a predominantly black, flexible outfit decorated with subtle werewolf motifs, while her body itself looks nearly human.

Her core creed is “splendidness” above all.

She wants her steals, entrances, exits, and even conversations to be as stylish and theatrical as possible, and she absolutely believes in her own charm and talent.

Her activities are wrapped in mystery; people know the legend of the phantom thief, but the truth of her motivations and full capabilities is still unclear.

Despite belonging to the werewolf race and being treated as a symbolic figure for their revival, she personally has little interest in that role and lets it happen because it does not get in the way of her own style.

“While obtaining something, I will obtain something even more! That is what this… splendid Phantom Thief Red Riding Hood is all about!”

“Then… until the next full moon night…”

Red Riding Hood is extremely confident, often to the point of absurdity.

She genuinely believes that everything she does should be grand, theatrical, and beautiful.

Her self-indulgence shows up in many quirky habits:

She uses the first-person pronoun in a way that can be translated as “I, the great me,” emphasizing her own magnificence.

When someone is locked in her cell, she still sets up a carpet and sofa to have a comfortable conversation with them.

Her room is filled with photos of herself and even stained glass art featuring her own likeness.

During combat, she has subordinates play the piano as background music.

If you frame a request using the word “splendid,” she is surprisingly easy to persuade.

She values “splendid objects” and “splendid acts” more than money.

If she considers something splendid, she will steal it even if it is not a jewel, or even work to solve an incident instead of causing one.

She is whimsical and easily bored, which makes her both unpredictable and entertaining to watch.

Behind her bravado, however, she is not especially clever and relies heavily on her partner Zisye for planning and strategy.

Red Riding Hood possesses the enhanced physical abilities typical of a werewolf, including superhuman speed, strength, and sharpened senses.

Her speed in particular is extraordinary, leaving blue afterimages in the game and allowing her to fight on equal terms with Arne Neuntöte when he has only one heart.

Her standard weapon is the Apache revolver, a real historical weapon that combines brass knuckles, a dagger, and a revolver into one.

She herself admits it is “incredibly hard to use,” so she cannot fully show her true potential while wielding it, yet her attacks are still devastating.

Her most notable ability is perfect transformation into other people.

She can become an exact copy of another individual to such a degree that even people who know the original very well fail to notice the difference when looking right at her.

This ability has a clear limitation: once she transforms into someone, she must wait one full day before transforming into a different person.

Despite this drawback, it is essentially the ideal power set for a phantom thief, allowing her to bypass security and trick her targets with ease.

She can also create illusionary clones of herself.

In battle, these phantasmal duplicates confuse and overwhelm opponents, making it hard to track the real Red Riding Hood.

When she acknowledges an opponent’s strength, she assumes what she calls her “most splendid form.”

In this state, a wolf-shaped red hood covers her eyes, her arms grow claws, and a tail appears, partially transforming her into a more feral werewolf form.

In this semi-transformed state her power increases dramatically, to the point Arne Neuntöte considers her a troublesome and dangerous foe.

Even so, her intelligence does not improve with her transformation; she still relies on brute force and instinct more than strategy.

Weaknesses

Her in-universe status page rates her thinking ability at only two stars, explicitly pointing out that she is not particularly bright.

Because of this, she leaves almost all planning to her partner, Zisye.

She also has typical werewolf weaknesses.

She is vulnerable to silver, dislikes smoke, and is weakened by the scent of lilies and by onions.

On top of that, she has a notable aversion to water.

These are shared traits of her species rather than personal phobias, but they dramatically affect how and where she can operate.

Zisye

Zisye is her partner and strategic brain, sometimes referred to as a “wolf boy” with the ability to move through mirrors.

His mirror-traveling power is invaluable for scouting security systems and building structures, letting him gather information that Red Riding Hood can exploit.

He carefully creates elaborate plans for their heists, considering every possible detail.

However, Red Riding Hood’s whimsical nature often leads her to ignore these plans on a whim if she thinks a different approach seems more “splendid.”

Zisye frequently ends up exasperated by her impulsiveness.

Even so, he clearly likes her, both as a fellow werewolf and as a partner in crime, and he continues to support her.

He is also the only one who calls her by her real name, Lea.

This exclusive use of her true name highlights the depth of their bond and mutual trust.

Lynn Reinweiß

Red Riding Hood meets Lynn Reinweiß after Lynn fails to win the auction for Arne’s heart and falls into despair.

At that vulnerable moment, Red Riding Hood kidnaps Lynn and takes her to her hideout.

At the hideout, she locks Lynn in a cell but then talks to her at length, showing off her “splendid” philosophy and values.

Despite the circumstances, Lynn comes to see her as a basically good person with her own strong sense of justice and style.

Lynn eventually promises that she will absolutely save Red Riding Hood if the latter ever finds herself in dire danger.

This promise indicates that Lynn’s impression of her is overwhelmingly positive, almost admiring.

Arne Neuntöte

Red Riding Hood encounters Arne Neuntöte by chance before her operation at Hotel Pithos.

This unexpected meeting forces a major revision of her original plan.

Arne’s attitude during their first encounter irritates her, and she develops a competitive, rival-like feeling toward him.

From her side, it is part rivalry, part wounded pride, and part excitement at having found a worthy opponent.

At her hideout, the two of them clash in a direct one-on-one fight.

Red Riding Hood manages to push Arne, who at the time has only one heart, to the brink and nearly defeats him.

However, when Arne fights with two hearts, she ultimately loses.

Zisye later concludes that she is still stronger than a single “true ancestor” alone, which underscores just how dangerous she is.

Mysterious Manipulator (???)

At one point, an unknown entity uses Red Riding Hood as a tool to carry out its own scheme.

The details of this figure are described in a separate context in the original material, but what matters here is that she can be pushed or guided by forces behind the scenes.

This suggests that while she is powerful, she is also somewhat easy to influence due to her straightforward nature and desire for “splendidness.”

Her flamboyance makes her both a star and a potential pawn.

Hunter and Red Shoes

In the story “Werewolf and Jewel,” two members of the Supernatural Countermeasures Headquarters First Investigations Division pursue her: Hunter and Red Shoes.

Hunter harbors a deep hatred toward the werewolf race due to a tragic past, and so he relentlessly chases Red Riding Hood as a target representing all werewolves.

Red Shoes, on the other hand, is somewhat of a battle junkie.

She is delighted by Red Riding Hood’s inhuman level of strength and treats her as a potential “friend” in combat.

Red Riding Hood, however, is uncomfortable around Red Shoes, finding her intensity difficult to handle.

Still, she recognizes that both Hunter and Red Shoes are highly capable and evaluates their abilities very highly, even as enemies.

Phantom Thief Red Riding Hood is dramatically introduced in the second promotional video for the anime, listed only as “PV ?????” with her casting initially hidden.

She is eventually revealed to be voiced by Yuko Miyamura.

In the anime itself, she appears starting from episode segment “Part 7.”

She sends a notice that she will steal the jewel known as “Blue Heart,” a gemstone in the possession of a craftsman named Yell.

However, Yell has gone missing, and Arne Neuntöte, who has a personal connection to him, is already investigating the case.

Red Riding Hood boldly declares that she will find Yell before Arne does, turning the situation into a race.

Her battle with Arne is shown with more expressive, non-human facial animations than in the game.

The anime also highlights how awkward the Apache revolver is to use, making it clear that its unwieldiness is a real handicap even for her.

Interestingly, the anime omits the entire “Hotel Pithos Theft Incident,” which in the game is her first major appearance.

The anime’s storyline seems to take place afterward, yet Red Riding Hood shows no visible influence from an unresolved incident that follows that theft in the game.

Because of this, fans generally speculate that the anime’s timeline occurs after that unresolved issue has already been solved offscreen.

This allows Red Riding Hood to appear as her “post-incident” self without the baggage of those events.

Across different parts of Arne no Jikenbo, short status blurbs summarize how other characters, and the story itself, view Phantom Thief Red Riding Hood.

Case 2 (Problem Part 5) – “The Phantom Thief Who Runs Through the Moonlit Night”

Splendidness: ★★★★★

Physical ability: ★★★★★

Self-confidence: ★★★★★

Case 2 (Problem Part 6) – “The Splendid Werewolf Phantom Thief”

Splendidness: ★★★★★

Elegance: ★★★★★

Ability: ★★★★★

Case 2 (Solution Part 7) – “Splendid Werewolf with Great Power”

Splendidness: ★★★★★

Grace: ★★★★★

Thinking ability: ★★

“Werewolf and Jewel” – “The Splendid Phantom Thief and Splendid Werewolf”

Splendidness: ★★★★★

Luck: ★★★★★

Ability: ★★★★★

These status notes emphasize one thing above all:

No matter the situation, Phantom Thief Red Riding Hood is always, absolutely, and overwhelmingly “splendid” in the eyes of her own legend.