ANANTA Characters: Confirmed Roster and Vaulted Names

Who is confirmed visible

The official site lists nine named characters beyond the Captain. Each has a role in the city rather than a class label, and that is the key to this roster: the game tells you what someone does for a living before it tells you what they do in a fight.

Two more figures appear in official material without names: a woman in red carrying a staff, and a drummer schoolgirl with a blade. That brings the visible count to roughly sixteen, the number most summaries use. Visible does not mean playable at launch, and NetEase has not published a final launch roster.

The Captain is a role, not a name

Officially the protagonist is just Captain. You choose a male or female body at the start and can name the character, but the male version is the only one that has appeared consistently in marketing. The developers say the female Captain is still being polished and will ship, but she has had no dedicated showing.

Do not file her as a tenth roster slot. Hands-on accounts agree the choice happens at the start of the game and that both options are the same Captain: the same A.C.D. leader, the same gravity kit, the same story. She is a character creation option, not a second protagonist, and she has no separate profile on the official site. A guide that lists her as an upcoming character has confused a toggle with a roster entry.

The Captain's ability set is gravity and telekinesis: pulling objects from a distance, throwing them back, triggering traps, tearing open vehicle doors, and using the same power in traversal. That is why the character works as a systemic toolkit rather than a fixed class.

Chinese articles sometimes give the male Captain a personal name. The official site uses none. A guide that calls him by name is inventing canon.

The four vaulted profiles

Dila, Bansy, Alan, and Mechanika Meg all had official profiles, removed on 23 September 2025. Archive sites still show them. English communities call this group vaulted or unconfirmed, and the label fits: they appeared in older promotional material, their pages were withdrawn, and no current official page lists them.

Hound Master, a figure from an early trailer, belongs in the same bucket. None of these five should be called launch roster members. They may return; they may not. A guide that lists Dila's weapon or Alan's role is drawing on deleted material and community invention.

There is no gacha, so there is no tier list

Characters are not sold. The developers say the roster is part of the story, and that putting characters behind paid random pulls would break the narrative. Instead, characters unlock through story progress and identity activities; each has a personal storyline.

That removes the usual reasons for a tier list. There is no pull rate, no duplicate conversion, and no paid power. Ranking characters by strength means ranking unpublished kits, which is why every "T0" list circulating before launch is fiction.

No official combat roles exist

Chinese guide sites assign roles freely: Alan as a tank, Dila as crowd control, Bansy as ranged damage, Lykaia as a defence shredder, Ringo as a healer. None of that appears in official material. The official profiles give occupation and personality: courier, officer, hacker, temple chief, prime minister, liaison.

The same rule applies to skills. No skill names, multipliers, cooldowns, or elemental affinities are published. Any page with numbers is writing about a game that does not exist yet.

Esper is not a class, and Infinite Trigger is not a race

Two terms get mixed constantly. Esper describes anyone who awakened powers through Chaos exposure; it is a population, not a rarity tier, and many Espers are ordinary NPCs. Infinite Trigger is the A.C.D. title for its top anomaly investigator, and the Captain holds it.

The Captain is therefore both an Esper and an Infinite Trigger, but the two words are not interchangeable. Community sites that use Esper as a star rating have imported a structure from a different genre.

The short version

Nine characters are solid, four are vaulted, and nobody has a published class. Learn the roster by occupation rather than by role, and ignore any guide that ranks characters before the game has shipped.