About “Guardian: The Lonely and Great God” in a few words:

Guardian: The Lonely and Great God (also known as Goblin) is a fantasy romance about Kim Shin, an immortal goblin cursed to live forever until he finds his destined bride. Alongside a forgetful Grim Reaper and a bright, stubborn girl who can see ghosts, the story blends humor, heartbreak, and destiny. It’s about love that refuses to fade — even when time, death, and fate try really hard to get in the way.

Meet the characters from Guardian: The Lonely and Great God

Kim Sin

Okay, Kim Shin is the tragic, sarcastic immortal who somehow manages to be both solemn and petty — like he will stare at fate for hours and then get mad because someone stole his rice cake. He carries the weight of centuries but also hoards tiny comforts (tea, scarf collection, very particular about his socks) and will absolutely judge your life choices with a single raised eyebrow. He’s noble and infuriatingly principled but also embarrassingly soft in private, which is why he has that one guilty habit of listening to sad songs at 3 a.m. and pretending not to cry.

Ji Eun Tak

Eun Tak is this stubborn little human hurricane — pure-hearted, annoyingly cheerful, and somehow capable of yelling at literal destiny while still being the kind of person who brings soup when you’re sad. She’s loud and honest and cries a lot (which she’ll tell you is totally a strength), but she’s also fierce in a quiet way and will stand between you and trouble even if she’s terrified. Kind of clumsy, kind of wise, and with this habit of humming to herself like it’s a secret superpower — also she eats weirdly spicy snacks at odd hours, don’t ask.

Grim Reaper

The Grim Reaper is the walking deadpan who rules awkward pauses like it’s an art form — blank, impeccably dressed, and annoyingly efficient, and yet he’s got this secret collection of receipts and snacks that makes you question his “no-feelings” policy. He forgets names, forgets things, but not feelings, which is somehow more tragic, and he’s polite to a fault (and then cruelly honest in the most inconvenient moments). He’s a big soft mess under that suit though, like someone who reads romance novels on the sly and can’t admit it; also, he is inexplicably terrible at board games.

Sunny

Sunny is fire wrapped in sarcasm — blunt, warm, and somehow the person who will call you out and patch your wounds in the same breath; she runs things with low-key fury and high-level care. She knows everyone’s secrets (and will use them), but she’s also the kind of friend who’ll bring you stew and a cigarette at 2 a.m., and then scold you for lying about eating cake. She’s fierce, funny, a little chaotic, and very loyal — also has this habit of rearranging furniture at midnight for reasons she won’t fully explain.

Yoo Deok Hwa

Deok Hwa is the loud, flashy chaos child who pretends everything is a joke but has the kind of loyalty that’ll punch a wall for you — he’s rich kid energy with a heart made of gummy candy. He’s impulsive, dramatic, terrible at subtlety, and constantly getting into stupid scrapes (often involving a bad haircut or a worse lie), yet he can be shockingly thoughtful when the moment hits. Also he collects novelty sunglasses, thinks he’s a ladies’ man but is genuinely awkward in romance, and will absolutely bring snacks to a crisis — always snacks.