Kämpfer/Characters

N


Natsuru was an Ordinary High School Student. Then one night, he was chosen to be a Kämpfer. He found himself to be a girl with a mysterious blue bracelet that can change him into his Kämpfer form. He is chosen as blue side kämpfer by Moderator.

The bracelet changes him into a striking high school girl (complete with gender appropriate school uniform) who uses a magic capable of using fire attacks.

Since his Kämpfer form is a pretty teenaged girl who's tall and has big breasts, who attracts attention from the male and female students of his highschool.


 * Accidental Pervert: Natsuru cops a feel while struggling to get Akane under control, does not get called out for it.
 * Action Girl
 * Attractive Bent Gender
 * Badass Adorable
 * Just a longcoat: He wears one in the Christmas Episode.
 * Bishounen: Both his identities are very easy on the eyes.
 * Blue Eyes
 * Brainwashed: In his male form.
 * Brainwashed and Crazy: In his female form.
 * Brainless Beauty: A rare protagonist example. It gets more exaggerated with each adaptation; by the anime, you begin to wonder how Natsuru remembers to breathe.
 * Chaste Hero
 * The Chew Toy
 * The Chick: Natsuru holds this role amongst the group for most of the series despite being male half the time. He doesn't even participate in the final battle!
 * Chick Magnet: The irony is that he attracts girls better as a girl. It's not all bad since some of characters know he's a guy despite the gender bending.
 * Clueless Chick Magnet: No more needs to be said.
 * Cross Dresser: Happens only once in the midst of all this genderbending, right when near the end of episode 6. It also happens in the manga, but since he was wearing pants at the time there, it's a bit less obvious.
 * Cross Dressing Voice:
 * Crouching Moron Hidden Badass: Natsuru in the light novels and manga is pretty wish-washy, but gets much more competent during those those moments when s/he's trying to save someone's life. Natsuru in the anime, however, is just a moron.
 * Faux Action Guy: Only in the anime. Which unfortunately, anyone who just watches the anime will probably hate him being rescued every single time by other Kämpfers.
 * A Day in The Limelight: Well per se, his normal male form in episode 8. This is the only episode (so far) that features him as his own self instead of his Kampfer!Self. No Transformation Sequence, no nothing. Just plain ol' Natsuru.
 * Dogged Nice Guy: He's been one-sidely in love with Kaede Sakura since middle school.
 * Don't You Dare Pity Me: Said quite unconvincingly after
 * Even the Girls Want Her: Natsuru has major case of this.
 * Gender Bender
 * Gender Vocabulary Slip: Natsuru has to correct herself mid-sentence on serveral occasions, as she routinely forgets that girls are meant to use the gender-neutral/feminine pronoun ''watashi" when referring to themselves, not the masculine form "ore."
 * Girly Girl to Akane's Tomboy: When both are in Kampfer mode.
 * Harem Hero: Natsuru, even in his/her chick form, he/she still has his force of Kampfers supporting him/her.
 * Hot Amazon
 * How Do I Shot Web: At first, Natsuru doesn't know how to control his zauber magic or transformations. Later in the light novels and manga, Natsuru does gain the ability to change at will. In fact, he learned to do that faster than Akane.
 * Huge Schoolgirl: Despite changing into a girl, Natsuru keeps much of his height.
 * Idiot Hero: I don't care how much in love with one girl he is it would not kill him to at least try to enjoy himself in the presence of another girl. Dammit!
 * Wanna add the idiocy? This picture will prove it to you.
 * Too Dumb to Live: Natsuru deciding to talk to the Big Bad by himself, resulting in him being brainwashed by the Big Bad.
 * Joshikousei: In his female form
 * Just Friends
 * Kawaiiko: Chaste when it comes to love, so endearingly innocent she gets embarrassed looking at her own naked form in the shower, and that squee of her's... absolutely adorable.
 * Les Yay: With the exception of 3/4ths of his harem who know his real gender, almost everyone loves him in his female form.
 * Love Makes You Dumb
 * Loves My Alter Ego: Oh hell yes!!! To the point that he's competing with his female form for Kaede's affections.
 * Magical Girl Warrior
 * Man I Feel Like a Woman: Averted; she's so pure that she's gets frightened to death with embarrasment just looking at her new female parts, much less try to find out what they feel like or even go to the restroom with them.
 * Meido: He served tea to Shizuku and Kaede in his Kämpfer form.
 * Mind Control Eyes
 * Morality Chain: To Kampfer!Akane.
 * Ms. Fanservice: A rare bloke who also qualifies for this trope... and usually always against his will.
 * My Girl Is Not a Slut: Natsuru him/herself being the girl in question. No one buys it.
 * New Transfer Student: While Natsuru isn't really this, his Kämpfer side is introduced as this.
 * Nice Guy
 * Oblivious to Love: God damn. So much that Natsuru's stupidity/density is practically a meme.
 * Playing With Fire: Natsuru's Zauber ability lets him shoot fireballs.
 * Pinball Protagonist
 * Red Oni Blue Oni: Natsuru is the blue oni to Akane's red oni. The twist is that Natsuru has blue hair and uses fire magic.
 * Sacred First Kiss: In the anime,
 * Shallow Love Interest: Natsuru has no motivation or goal of any sort beyond dating Kaede and he can't even explain why he likes the girl. Then again, recent developments could suggest that this behavior is a result of.
 * Shy Blue Haired Girl
 * Single Target Sexuality: The driving force behind the now patented Natsuru's Stupidity. Almost certainly justified by.
 * Stupid Sexy Flanders: Some people apparently forget that Natsuru is a guy since he's in his Kämpfer form most of the time. Heck, even some tropers refer to Natsuru as a "she". Can't really blame them since Kämpfer Natsuru is a genuine girl (physically AND emotionally ) at that point.
 * Talking To Herself: For some weird reason in the Christmas Episode, both male and female forms of Natsuru are split apart and are like a married couple. Then again, it may not be Natsuru but just some other person. Heck, the supposedly Male Natsuru with a mustache STILL is voiced by Marina Inoue.
 * Took a Level In Dumbass: Very true in the anime, but subverted in the light novels and the manga.
 * Unlucky Everydude: Let's face it. The guy is REALLY unlucky even in his kämpfer form.
 * Unwanted Harem: Let's see, one Meganekko with an Ax Crazy alternate personality, one tease, one Genki Girl, and one . Plus how many men and women out there that are too insignificant to mention. And still he insists that he's not popular with women...
 * To be fair, his female side is Even the Girls Want Her, whereas his male side only has one person that we know of attracted to it. Considering he doesn't like his female side much and would much rather be male 100% of the time, he's sort of justified when he says he's not popular with women.
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair
 * Zettai Ryouiki: He has this in his Kämpfer form.

A


Akane is a high school girl who goes to the same school as Natsuru. She is a member of the school library committee and is a shy girl who wears glasses and has trouble talking to boys. However, she has a nice figure and she acts very cute. She likes anime and books related to it.

She meets Natsuru when he was walking to school while threatening to shoot him. Since she is a blue type Kämpfer, she's Natsuru's ally. She's very anxious about Natsuru's love towards Kaede, but she's afraid of taking action.

When changing into her Kämpfer form she undergoes a personality change. Her Kämpfer personality is much more militant and prone to acts of violence. Akane's hair and her eyes take on a red color.


 * A Team Firing: Akane shoots very often and hits very rarely.
 * Aren't You Going to Ravish Me: Just about every time she realized that Natsuru wasn't about to do that kind of thing to her
 * Axe Crazy: In Kampfer form.
 * Beware the Nice Ones
 * Blood Knight: In Kampfer form.
 * Bottomless Magazines: Since it's a magic gun, Akane's M1911 never runs out of ammo.
 * Cannot Spit It Out:
 * Celibate Hero: So far and not by choice.
 * Clingy Jealous Girl: She hates it when Natsuru is in female form, since she likes his male form. She also hates competing with the other girls such as Kaede and Shizuku, since he seems to pay much more attention to them. Or in Shizuku's case, is much more aggressive/assertive in pursuing him than she is.
 * Covert Pervert: She always tends to jump to surprisingly perverted conclusions at comments that Natsuru makes. This is especially obvious when Natsuru is just innocently inviting her to his house, and she keeps getting all worked up.
 * Dark Action Girl: In Kampfer form
 * Fiery Redhead: In Kampfer form.
 * Girl On Girl Is Hot: Kisses Mikoto in the 13th episode. It's for practicing.
 * Green Eyes
 * The Gunslinger: In Kampfer form.
 * Handguns: Kämpfer Akane's chosen weapon.
 * Heroic Sociopath: In Kampfer form
 * Hot Blooded: In Kampfer form
 * Hot Librarian
 * Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Akane misses non-moving human-sized targets at blank point range.
 * Jekyll and Hyde: She's a shy and soft-spoken girl who hangs out in the school library, but upon turning into a Kämpfer she becomes a mean, foul-mouthed, trigger-happy bitch with a pair of pistols.
 * Jive Turkey: Kampfer!Akane's dialogue. I mean, "'Sup bitches."?
 * This is actually only one way to render Kampfer Akane's dialogue, which is hideously rude even for a male character, and certainly more so for a female one.
 * Joshikousei
 * Loveable Sex Maniac: And in deep, deep denial about it.
 * Meganekko: Akane's normal mode.
 * More Dakka: Due to having unlimited ammo as mentioned above, she uses her handgun this way. Pity the accuracy...
 * Murder Is the Best Solution: Her Kämpfer personality is willing to kill anyone.
 * Nerds Are Sexy
 * Oral Fixation Fixation: In Kampfer form
 * Otaku
 * Playing Cyrano: Akane. To Akane.
 * Precision F Strike: In normal mode, from episode 11: "What are you doing? Damn you!" Mild compared to what her Kampfer form spews out regularly, but still pretty significant.
 * Red Eyes Take Warning: Given her Kämpfer personality this fits.
 * Red Oni Blue Oni: Akane is the red oni to Natsuru's blue oni.
 * Relationship Voice Actor: Yui Horie as Akane and Yukari Tamura as Seppuku Kuro Usagi. A WAAAAAAAAAY different kind of relationship that you probably know of.
 * Screw Gun Safety
 * Shrinking Violet: Is normally this, until she transforms into her Kampfer form.
 * Strange Girl
 * Tomboy: In Kampfer form
 * Tomboy and Girly Girl: In normal mode, she's the Girly Girl to Mikoto's Tomboy; in Kampfer mode, she's the Tomboy to Natsuru's Girly Girl.
 * Tsundere: Normal Akane is more "deredere", but Kampfer Akane is more "tsuntsun".
 * When She Smiles: In the manga, Natsuru notes that Kampfer Akane's non-Psychotic Smirk is actually kinda cute.
 * Yandere
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair (bright red as a Kämpfer.)

S


Shizuku is the student body chairman of the Seitetsu Academy. This entitles her to go to the boys' side of the school as she pleases. She is an honor roll student and enjoys the popular support of the students and the teachers. As one of "Seitetsu Academy's beauties", Shizuku charms the male students of school.

When she changes into her Kämpfer form, the inside of her hair normally black turns white. Her weapons are two daggers connected by a chain. Otherwise she doesn't change.

"Shizuku:"
 * Anti Villain: At first.
 * Barehanded Blade Block
 * Boobs of Steel + Big Breasts Big Deal: Type 3
 * Clasp Your Hands If You Deceive
 * Dark Action Girl
 * Dark Magical Girl
 * Dead Little Sister: Shizuku's sister disapeared after being defeated by a blue Kampfer. This is the reason why she is the most interested in getting answers about the Moderators.
 * Defeat Means Friendship: Or at least convinces her that Natsuru is too much fun to kill.
 * Dual Wielding
 * Exotic Weapon Supremacy: Sword-chucks, yo.
 * Femme Fatale
 * Friendly Enemy: Shizuku has more or less decided that Natsuru and Akane are more fun alive. Later it looks like.
 * Genre Savvy: Shizuku has obviously read the Evil overlord list. After Natsuru prevents Akane from killing her, Shizuku puts the life and death combat on hold in favor of teasing Natsuru mercilessly.
 * She's also read the Evil Overlord's Beautiful Daughter's list. No matter how dense Natsuru proves him/herself to be, Shizuku has consistently proven herself to be a clever and reliable ally and has not given into the temptation to murder Kaede.
 * Hidden Depths: Has admitted that she likes making people laugh, and wanted to be a comedian as a child.
 * Hime Cut
 * Implausible Fencing Powers
 * Instant Fanclub: The "Mistress Shizuku, Please Violate Me" club is briefly mentioned but never shown.
 * Japanese Politeness
 * Joshikousei
 * Knife Nut
 * Kuudere
 * Lady of War
 * Magical Girl Warrior
 * Manipulative Bitch
 * Ojou
 * Purple Eyes
 * Rapunzel Hair
 * Raven Hair Ivory Skin
 * Seeker Archetype: Shizuku. Only member of the cast trying to figure out who the moderators are.
 * Shout Out: Her dressing up as Lelouch in his Zero costume. Add to the fact that Shizuku's seiyuu voiced Nunally and the rest of the anime community went whoa. This is said image.
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 * The Smart Girl: Shizuku is pretty much the only character on the show who consistently thinks ahead.
 * Student Council President
 * Sugar and Ice Personality
 * Tall Dark and Bishoujo
 * The Tease
 * Trickster Archetype
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair: You heard me. Her hair turns into an Oreo.
 * Zettai Ryouiki

M


Natsuru's childhood friend, she's one year younger than him. Mikoto only recently reunited with him due to her father being an archaeologist who lives abroad. She's outgoing and innocent. She has the personality of an adventurer, always displaying physical abilities that no one can match. She doesn't have any problems with catching barehanded a snake or a spider, but, to see a man nude, is her biggest weakness and too hard for her to confront.

She appears to have feelings for Natsuru and is more than a bit bothered by the presence of a girl with the same name as his (who in reality is Natsuru in his Kämpfer form). When she was attending the Miss Seitetsu contest of the school festival, she caught a bouquet that Kaede tossed and Messenger was hidden in it. Due to that, she became a Schwert-type Red Kämpfer armed with a Japanese sword. Since she's a red Kämpfer, Natsuru does his best to stay way from her to avoid revealing the fact that male Natsuru and Blue Kampfer Natsuru are one and the same. The question is: How long can he keep up the charade?


 * Action Girl
 * Adventurer Archaeologist
 * Brainwashed
 * Clingy Jealous Girl: She beats up Natsuru in episode 8 because she finds out that he went on a date with Shizuku. Although he tries to deny it was a date, Shizuku plainly tells him that it was just a date, and stuff like looking for White Kampfers was just Natsuru thinking it. Needless to say, she's not happy about it, beats him up some more, and then runs away crying.
 * Crash Into Hello (one of the more funny sequences that happened in this series.)
 * Cry Cute: She looks so adorable when she's biting her "tasty" pillow at the end of episode 8.
 * Fan Nickname: Some circles call her "Curry" for her penchant of cooking curry all the time.
 * Genki Girl
 * Girl On Girl Is Hot: Kisses Akane for the sake of practicing on how to kiss.
 * Hadaka Apron
 * Hair Antennae
 * Hot Chick With a Sword
 * Katanas Are Just Better
 * Joshikousei
 * Licking the Blade
 * Magical Girl Warrior
 * Megaton Punch (OH YES!)
 * Strange Girl
 * Tomboy
 * Tomboy to Akane's Girly Girl: When both are in normal mode.
 * Tsundere
 * Trademark Favorite Food: Just look at her nickname.
 * Unlucky Childhood Friend: So far at least.
 * White Haired Pretty Girl: As a Kampfer
 * Zettai Ryouiki

M


A Gewehr-type Red Kämpfer. Midori is a part of the student council and Shizuku's partner. Midori doesn't like Natsuru for hogging all of Kaede's attention. She was ordered to watch over Shizuku, to keep her from finding out more about the moderators.


 * Bottomless Magazines
 * Demoted to Extra: The anime reduced her already small role into merely being mentioned by name during episode 3 and 4's next episode preview. In a fake narration.
 * Dual Wield
 * Handguns
 * I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
 * Joshikousei
 * Psycho Lesbian
 * The Quiet One
 * Revolvers Are Just Better
 * Stoic
 * Strange Girl

R


A Schwert user. Her Schwert is a kusarigama.

A younger sister of Makie Ueda of the Seitetsu Gakuin Class 5 of the first grade. Therefore, Rika isn't a student of the Seitetsu academy. Her weapon is a sickle and chain.


 * The Danza (Her voice actress shares her surname with the character).
 * Exotic Weapon Supremacy
 * Little Miss Badass
 * Magical Girl Warrior
 * Token Mini Moe

S


Schwert user. Her Schwert is a sabre.

Seitetsu Class 1 of the second grade. Her weapon is a saber. She's a book committee member, but is only eager to do her job after she transforms. She seems as your today's gal-like girl, but she becomes considerably polite when she transforms. (She's type which personality completely changes like Akane.


 * Badass Bookworm
 * The Danza
 * Hair of Gold
 * Hot Librarian
 * Japanese Politeness
 * Joshikousei
 * Magical Girl Warrior
 * Tsundere: She speaks like one.

R


Gewehr user. Her Gewehr is an Ingram MAC-10 machine pistol.

Seitetsu Class 5 of the second grade. She has before transformation a typical young idol face who is suitable for her age, but her appearance is that of a grown-up after she transforms. Ryouka appears for the first time in the municipal library on the second floor.


 * Bottomless Magazines
 * The Danza
 * Gun Slinger
 * Joshikousei
 * Magical Girl Warrior

H


A Zauber user. She can shoot light bullets.

A Seitetsu third grader. She bolts of light thanks to magic (she's a zauber type) which can be used perfectly for both offense and defense. She's the ace of the track and field club. Her hair becomes green when she transforms. She battles against Natsuru in an Italian shop of her father. Currently she's the leader of the white side.


 * The Ace
 * The Danza
 * Joshikousei
 * Light Is Not Good
 * Magical Girl Warrior
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Other characters == ==

Kaede Sakura


Shizuku's childhood friend and one of the Three Beauties of Seitetsu, she has many admirers, Natsuru being one of them. She loves the entrails animal series' Zumotsu Animal and has a large collection of stuffed Zumotsu Animal dolls and likes to present them to her friends; those who receive the dolls, however, tend to end up becoming Kämpfers. She began to develop a crush on Kämpfer Natsuru after being saved from Kämpfer Akane at the beginning of the series.
 * Cherry Blossom Girl: She's a love interest who fits the personality well.
 * Clingy Jealous Girl
 * Distressed Damsel
 * Does Not Like Men
 * Expy: Well, kinda. Psycho Lesbian version of Shirley Fenette.
 * Joshikousei
 * Les Yay
 * Locked Out of the Loop:
 * Muggles:
 * Nightmare Fetishist: Entrails Animal fangirl. Enough said.
 * The haunted house. When she sees a mannequin hung with a rope on her neck, she says it's cute.
 * Ordinary High School Student:
 * Rapunzel Hair
 * Rescue Romance
 * The Rival: To male Natsuru.
 * Schoolgirl Lesbians: Her infatuation with Kämpfer Natsuru.
 * Smitten Teenage Girl: She's gay for Natsuru's Kämpfer form.
 * Strange Girl
 * : Numerous times.
 * Tsurime Eyes: Sometimes.
 * Ordinary High School Student:
 * Rapunzel Hair
 * Rescue Romance
 * The Rival: To male Natsuru.
 * Schoolgirl Lesbians: Her infatuation with Kämpfer Natsuru.
 * Smitten Teenage Girl: She's gay for Natsuru's Kämpfer form.
 * Strange Girl
 * : Numerous times.
 * Tsurime Eyes: Sometimes.
 * Smitten Teenage Girl: She's gay for Natsuru's Kämpfer form.
 * Strange Girl
 * : Numerous times.
 * Tsurime Eyes: Sometimes.
 * Tsurime Eyes: Sometimes.

Mikihito Higashida


Natsuru's classmate who is the president of the bishoujo research club. Talks with Natsuru most of the time during break time but only when he has nothing to do.


 * Camera Fiend
 * Mr. Exposition
 * Muggles
 * Ordinary High School Student

Masumi Nishino


Masumi is a year younger than Akane. She is also Akane's best friend. A member of the school's News Club, she is always after the scoops and has a habit of exaggerating her findings.


 * Genki Girl
 * Gratuitous English: Masumi "ladys and Gentlemen" while M Cing the contest.
 * Intrepid Reporter
 * Joshikousei
 * Muggles
 * Motor Mouth
 * Ordinary High School Student
 * Playboy Bunny
 * School Newspaper Newshound

"Committee Chairperson"


Nickname given to this classmate by Natsuru. Natsuru just assumes that she's the chairperson but it's really unclear if she's really the chairperson. She leads a trio of girls that makes makes female Natsuru's school life miserable. She generally comes with ways to exploit Natsuru to make money and amusement out of his female side.


 * Blackmail: Main Tactic in getting Natsuru to do what they want.
 * Everyone Calls Him Barkeep
 * Hair Antennae
 * Joshikousei
 * Meganekko
 * Muggles
 * Scary Shiny Glasses
 * Terrible Trio
 * The Trickster

"Assistant Committee Chairperson"
Nickname given to this classmate by Natsuru. Natsuru just assumes that she's the assistant chairperson like the chairperson but it's really unclear if she's really the assistant chairperson. She's part of a trio of girls that annoy Natsuru. She's a little too attracted to Natsuru's female form.


 * Blackmail: Main Tactic in getting Natsuru to do what they want.
 * Everyone Calls Him Barkeep
 * Joshikousei
 * Les Yay
 * Muggles
 * Peek a Bangs
 * Strange Girl
 * Technicolor Eyes
 * Terrible Trio

"Treasurer"


The "Treasurer" dubbed by Natsuru, carries around a calculator and often tries to sell Natsuru something. Like the "Committee Chairperson" and "Assistant Committee Chairperson", it's really unclear whether she's serving as an accountant.


 * Bob Haircut
 * Blackmail: Main tactic in getting Natsuru to do what they want.
 * Everyone Calls Him Barkeep
 * Joshikousei
 * Muggles
 * Terrible Trio