Saber Marionette J/Characters

Otaru Mamiya
"Voiced by: Yuka Imai"

The main character of the story, a Japaness inhabitant who awakens the titular Saber Marionettes, each one in the first, third and fifth episode.


 * Curtains Match the Window
 * Dark Skinned Blond: Partially.
 * Even the Guys Want Him: Hanagata loves him, as does Bloodberry, Cherry, and Lime.
 * Eyes of Gold
 * Four Temperament Ensemble: Phlegmatic.
 * Ordinary High School Student: Well, he would be one, if he went to school.
 * : In the last episode of J to X.
 * Perpetual Poverty
 * The Protagonist

Japoness' marionettes

 * : TWICE, in the J and J to X series.
 * : Later in J to X series.

Lime
"Voiced by: Megumi Hayashibara"

J Series

 * Big Eater
 * Bokukko
 * Cute Little Fangs
 * Eek a Mouse: Averted by Lime. Only by Lime, out of all the Marionettes in the series.
 * Fingerless Gloves
 * Four Temperament Ensemble: Sanguine.
 * Genki Girl
 * Green Eyes
 * The Ingenue
 * Lethal Chef: Her food still moves.
 * The Three Faces of Eve: The Child.
 * Tomboy and Girly Girl: She's the Girly Girl to Bloodberry's Tomboy, and the Tomboy to Cherry's Girly Girl.
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Justified in her case, she's a marionette.

Cherry
"Voiced by: Yuri Shiratori"

J Series

 * Beware the Nice Ones: She's very sweet-natured, but when she loses her patience, watch out.
 * Blue Eyes
 * Covert Pervert: Her obsessive sex fantasies involving Otaru.
 * Four Temperament Ensemble: Melancholic.
 * Imagine Spot: She has a lot of these.
 * Keigo
 * Odango Hair
 * Pettanko
 * Small Breasts Big Deal
 * Squee: The weird thing is that this isn't a fan's Squee, it's one of the characters imagining herself shipped with the male lead.
 * The Three Faces of Eve: The Wife.
 * Tomboy and Girly Girl: Girly Girl to Lime and Bloodberry's Tomboy.
 * Yamato Nadeshiko
 * You Gotta Have Purple Hair

R Series

 * Zettai Ryouiki: In the R OVA.
 * Zettai Ryouiki: In the R OVA.

Bloodberry
"Voiced by: Akiko Hiramatsu"

J Series

 * Big Breasts Big Deal: Type 4.
 * Boobs of Steel
 * Curtains Match the Window
 * Fiery Redhead
 * Four Temperament Ensemble: Choleric.
 * Hot Amazon
 * The Ladette
 * Martial Arts Headband
 * Red Headed Heroine
 * The Three Faces of Eve: The Seductress.
 * Tomboy and Girly Girl: Tomboy to Lime's and Cherry's Girly Girl.
 * Tomboyish Ponytail

R Series

 * Bare Your Midriff

Gerhard Von Faust
"Voiced by: Hikaru Midorikawa"

Kaiser (later Führer) of Gartland who seeks to dominate the other 6 city-states of Terra II. He's the fourteenth descendant of the original Faust, one of the six original survivors of the colony ship Mesopotamia.


 * Big Bad:.
 * Blond Guys Are Evil
 * Brain Uploading: Each Faust downloads his memories into his child-clone upon his death, including his obsessive ambitions.
 * Character Development: He starts as the Big Bad,, and in the end of J. By the time of J Again and J To X, he's.
 * Villainous Breakdown: Several times. The last one was his.
 * Villainous Breakdown: Several times. The last one was his.
 * Villainous Breakdown: Several times. The last one was his.
 * Villainous Breakdown: Several times. The last one was his.

Gartland's marionettes

 * Bodyguard Babes
 * Criminal Amnesiac: Inverted in the manga for a while.
 * The Dark Chick: The three of them.
 * Love Martyr
 * Slasher Smile
 * Terrible Trio

Tiger
"Voiced by: Urara Takano"


 * Berserk Button
 * Dark Magical Girl
 * Evil Redhead
 * The Dragon
 * Villainous RROD:
 * Whip It Good

Luchs/Lynx
"Voiced by: Yuko Mizutani"


 * Awesomeness By Analysis
 * Blinding Bangs
 * Covert Pervert: In J Again about Faust.
 * Evil Genius
 * Genki Girl: Sometimes, after the J series.
 * Lethal Chef: Has a habit of using gunpowder as condiments.
 * The Starscream
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Justified in her case, she's a marionette.

Panther
"Voiced by: Kikuko Inoue"


 * Berserk Button: Don't even try to insult Faust, say bad things against him or try to steal the gifts Faust gave to her, or even her poetry book.
 * Blondes Are Evil
 * The Brute
 * Eyepatch of Power
 * Jerk With a Heart of Gold: In J Again.
 * The Ladette
 * Peek a Bangs
 * Straw Feminist: Character trait added in the Tokyo Pop adaptation of the manga.

Hanagata Mitsurugi
"Voiced by: Takehito Koyasu"

The Butt Monkey of the series, he's the son of a wealthy man, but decides to move next door to Otaru. He's obseesed with him. He also helped Otaru and the Marionettes several times with his vast knowledge about Terra II, it's story and it's cultures.

"Hanagata: I've heard everything Otaru.
 * Amusing Injuries: All the time. He falls from impossible heights and such.

Otaru: Shouldn't you be dead or something, Hanagata?"

""Why does this always happen to me!?""
 * Bumbling Sidekick
 * Butt Monkey
 * The Chew Toy: And Genre Savvy about this in J to X.


 * Camp Gay
 * Gay Option
 * Hair of Gold
 * Keet
 * Meaningful Name: His last name, Hanagata sounds a lot like onnagata, a type of Kabuki actor who normally plays female roles. Given Hanagata's personality, it really fits well.
 * Perpetual Poverty: Subverted in that he's not poor; he's the son of one of the richest men at the planet, but he chooses to live next to Otaru.
 * Rich Bastard: At first.
 * Takehito Koyasu

Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu
"Voiced by: Kenichi Ogata"

The fourteenth Shogun of Japoness, named after the real Tokugawa Ieyasu. A direct clone of one of the original survivors of the colony ship Mesopotamia.


 * : Subverted at first,  played straight at the end of the series.
 * Public Domain Character
 * Reasonable Authority Figure

Baikou and Tamasaburou
"Voiced by: Ai Orikasa (Baikou), Maria Kawamura (Tamasaburou)"

The guardians of the Japoness castle. They don't have Maiden Circuits, but seem to be more intelligent than most normal Marionettes.

Lorelei
"Voiced by: Yuri Amano"


 * Girl in A Box
 * Hot Scientist
 * Meganekko
 * Motherly Scientist: Lorelei takes a motherly stance towards Lime - not to mention the fact, that she's both the creator of the Marionettes, AND that they were created on her image.

Marine
"Voiced by: Maya Okamoto"


 * Curtains Match the Window
 * Does Not Like Men
 * Les Yay: She imprints on Lime when they first meet, and spend most of J Again in a Romantic Two Girl Friendship.
 * Bait and Switch Lesbians:
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Justified in her case, she's a marionette.

Apple

 * Canon Foreigner

Genai Shiraga

 * Chivalrous Pervert
 * Cool Old Guy
 * Gadgeteer Genius