Kaleido Star/Characters

Sora Naegino
"Voiced by: Ryo Hirohashi (JP), Cynthia Martinez (EN)"


 * Break the Cutie: Has to go through lots of hardship as the performing world isn't half as pretty and rose-tinted as she thought it was.
 * Genki Girl
 * Happily Adopted: After her biological parents died, she was taken in by her dad's cousin and his wife, who loved her as much as if she was their real child.
 * The Heroine
 * Heroic Self-Deprecation
 * The Messiah
 * Broken Messiah: When at her lowest points.
 * Plucky Girl: Big time.
 * The Pollyanna
 * Ship Tease: Mostly with Ken, Layla and Rosetta.
 * Shorttank
 * Romantic Two-Girl Friendship: With Rosetta.
 * Wide-Eyed Idealist: And one who manages to not become a Knight in Sour Armor!
 * Woman in White: Sorta, her leotard is white.
 * You Gotta Have Raspberry-Hued Hair

Layla Hamilton
"Voiced by: Sayaka Ohara (JP), Sandra Krasa (EN)"


 * Armor-Piercing Attack
 * Blue Eyes
 * Broken Bird: The death of her mother and her emotional distance from her good-hearted yet Workaholic dad have left deep scars in her heart.
 * Brutal Honesty: She never ever sugarcoats her words and actions.
 * Defrosting Ice Queen
 * Hair of Gold
 * Knight in Sour Armor
 * The Lancer: First season.
 * Lethal Chef: Can't even handle a coffee machine.
 * The Mentor: Second season.
 * The Ojou
 * Plucky Girl
 * Tall, Blonde and Bishoujo
 * "Well Done, Daughter" Gal: Her mother is dead, and her father is kind but always at work. Young Layla swore to make her dad proud.

Fool
"Voiced by: Takehito Koyasu (JP), Jay Hickman (EN)"


 * Butt Monkey
 * Cool Mask
 * Handsome Lech
 * Fairy Companion: A Deconstructed Trope. Sora thinks she has lost her mind when she starts seeing him, his advice isn't exactly flawless,.
 * Team Pet

Mia Guillem
"Voiced by: Chinami Nishimura (JP), Nancy Novotny (EN)"


 * Badass Bookworm
 * Fiery Redhead: Mostly averted, though she has her moments as well.
 * Girlish Pigtails
 * The Smart Girl
 * Straight Man
 * Tomboy and Girly Girl: Girly girl to Anna and Cathy's Tomboy.

Anna Heart
"Voiced by: Akeno Watanabe (JP), Kira Vincent-Davis (EN)"


 * Bifauxnen
 * The Big Girl
 * Disappeared Dad: Jack "Baron Jack" Heart.
 * Like Father Like Daughter: She and Jack are very similar.
 * Even the Girls Want Her: Has BUTTLOADS of female fans in-story, specifically due to her Bifauxnen-ness.
 * Sad Clown

Rosetta Passel
"Voiced by: Kaori Mizuhashi (JP), Serena Varghese (EN)"


 * The Cutie
 * Calling the Old Man Out: Genderflipped, as she calls out her Stage Mom.
 * Defrosting Ice Queen: It took her only one episode to melt.
 * Feminine Women Can Cook: Inverted, she can't.
 * Fiery Redhead
 * Plucky Girl
 * Romantic Two-Girl Friendship: With Sora.
 * Shorttank
 * Sixth Ranger

Marion Benigni
"Voiced by: Fumiko Orikasa (JP), Kim-Ly Nguyen (EN)"


 * Bratty Half-Pint: Also for one episode.
 * Circus Brat: Her dad is the lead of the stagehands, her dead mom was a Kaleido artist..
 * Tagalong Kid
 * "Well Done, Daughter" Gal: To her Missing Mom.

Jonathan
"Voiced by: Etsuko Kozakura (JP), Tiffany Grant (EN)"


 * Ridiculously Cute Critter
 * Team Pet

Yuri Killian
"Voiced by: Susumu Chiba (JP), Illich Guardiola (EN)"


 * Big Brother Mentor: To Sora,.
 * Bishonen
 * Disappeared Dad: His father, Aaron, died on-stage.
 * Sixth Ranger: Second season.
 * Smug Snake
 * Sixth Ranger: Second season.
 * Smug Snake

May Wong

 * Voiced by: Mai Nakahara (JP), Hillary Haag (EN)


 * Anime Chinese Girl
 * Armor-Piercing Slap: To Sora, when
 * Break the Haughty: Not only, but later she gets called out more than once on her arrogance - especially by Layla, her own idol.
 * Brutal Honesty: Has even less of a thoughts-to-words filter than Layla.
 * Child Prodigy: Subverted. May was an ice skating prodigy as a little girl, as revealed by her coach Meredith, but ultimately decided to ditch skating (thought she still skates once in a while) to focus solely on the Kaleido Stage.
 * Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Her Berserk Button.
 * Hot-Blooded
 * Jerkass: At first.
 * The Lancer: To Sora in second season.
 * Large Ham: Thanks to Loudly Calling Her Techniques, and literally barking at Sora in her earlier appearances.
 * Plucky Girl: When she gets over herself.
 * Spoiled Brat: Until she gets better.
 * Supreme Chef: As long as it's Chinese.
 * Tsundere: Extremely tsuntsun, switches to deredere as she develops.

Leon Oswald
"Voiced by: Takahiro Sakurai (JP), Mike MacRae (EN)"


 * The Ace: More like a Broken Ace, tho.
 * Bishonen
 * Defrosting Ice King: Compare the Jerkass Leon from the second season beginning to the much less constipated one from the last episodes.
 * Jerkass: Initially.
 * Kick the Dog: No matter what you think of, not even she deserves to have Leon.
 * The Lancer
 * Long-Haired Pretty Boy
 * Troubled but Cute
 * White-Haired Pretty Boy
 * White-Haired Pretty Boy

Kenneth "Ken" Robbins
"Voiced by: Hiro Shimono (JP), John Swasey (EN)"


 * Butt Monkey
 * The Chick/Non-Action Guy
 * Dogged Nice Guy: To Sora, though he's not as pushy as others.
 * Hair of Gold
 * Ill Boy: Has a weak heart.
 * Tragic Dream: He's the busboy because his heart illness doesn't let him train and become a performer.

Sarah Dupont
"Voiced by: Aya Hisakawa (JP), Luci Christian (EN)"


 * Adult Child
 * The Chick/Team Mom
 * Hair of Gold
 * Idol Singer: She sings on the KS stage, and it's mentioned she's been offered CD contracts many times but has refused all of them.

Kalos Eido
"Voiced by: Keiji Fujiwara (JP), Rick Burford (EN)"


 * Dark-Skinned Redhead
 * I Was Quite a Looker: Invoked by Sora when she sees a photo of his younger self and can't believe the baby-faced youth in the picture is him.
 * The Mentor
 * My Greatest Failure:
 * Self-Made Man: He started as a self-taught stage magician who performed in the streets. 20 years later he's the owner of the world-famous Kaleido Stage.
 * Sink or Swim Mentor
 * Team Dad
 * Sink or Swim Mentor
 * Team Dad

Jerry, aka Mr. Policeman
"Voiced by: Unsho Ishizuka (JP), James Reed Faulkner (EN)"


 * The Big Guy
 * Gentle Giant
 * Emotional Bruiser
 * Large Ham
 * Scary Black Man: Played for Laughs.
 * Sunglasses at Night

Mr. Kenneth
"Voiced by: Mitsuo Senda (JP), Jason Douglas (EN)"


 * Cool Old Guy
 * Miniature Senior Citizens
 * Obfuscating Stupidity: Seems to be a Cloudcuckoolander, but is much sharper than you'd think

Sophie Oswald
"Voiced by: Miyuki Sawashiro (JP), Jessica Boone (EN)"

Only appears in Leon's Troubled Backstory Flashbacks.


 * The Messiah
 * Plucky Girl
 * White-Haired Pretty Girl
 * White-Haired Pretty Girl

Cathy Taylor
"Voiced by: Kotono Mitsuishi (JP), Shannon Emerick (EN)"


 * Cool Big Sis: To Sora and especially to Mia.
 * Fiery Redhead
 * Genki Girl
 * Plucky Girl
 * The Smart Girl