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== The Pilots ==

 

* [[Book Dumb]]

* [[Calling Your Attacks]]: [[Lampshaded]]

'''Koyemshi''': Whatever floats your boat. }}

* [[Chick Magnet]]: In the manga, girls made a point to go to his soccer games just to see him

** Averted in the anime. The only girls you see at the soccer game are cheerleaders who would have been there whether-or-not Waku was playing.

* [[Daisuke Sakaguchi]]

* {{spoiler|[[Decoy Protagonist]]}}

* [[I Know Madden Kombat]]

* {{spoiler|[[Posthumous Narration]]}}: It's presumably Waku's voice that we hear in the opening of epsiode 1 where said voice talks about the game as if it's already happened.

 

* [[Anti-Hero]]: Type V

* [[Creepy Child]]

* [[Kick the Dog]] (Or better said, burn the crab to death)

* [[Madness Mantra]] ("There's no way {{spoiler|my dad}} could have died... There's no way {{spoiler|my dad}} could have died...")

* [[Nietzsche Wannabe]]: {{spoiler|Until he accidentally killed his dad}}.

* [[Purely Aesthetic Glasses]] (Wears Kokopelli's glasses like this, and even lampshades the fact when his older brother notices them)

* [[Soichiro Hoshi]]

* [[Token Evil Teammate]]

* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]

 

* [[Disappeared Dad]] {{spoiler|(Mr. Yamura was helping a friend who ran into some trouble. He comes back toward the end of the series)}}

* {{spoiler|[[Earn Your Happy Ending]] (Sorta. While he dies, his siblings are safe.).}}

* [[Tomokazu Sugita]]

 

* [[All of the Other Reindeer]] (due to her [[Hot Mom|beautiful]] single mother being a bar hostess and ex-prostitute, Mako always faced this from other kids)

* {{spoiler|[[Enjo Kosai]] (Almost gets into it. Her "client" turns out to be a friend of her mom, and manages to talk her out.)}}

* [[Son of a Whore|Daughter Of A Whore]]

* [[Sugar and Ice Personality]]

 

* [[All of the Other Reindeer]] (was heavily bullied at school)

* {{spoiler|[[Attempted Rape]] (In the manga, he tries this on Chizu soon after he learns he's next in line to pilot. She fends him off, of course.)}}

* [[Dirty Coward]]

* [[Freak-Out]] (In the middle of his own fight. {{spoiler|Chizu stabs him, then}})

* [[Jerkass]]

* [[Power Fantasy]] (has a disturbing dream in which he takes revenge on everyone who was mocking him)

 

* [[Beauty Mark]] (under her left eye)

* [[Break the Cutie]] (She was a cute girl [[Hot for Teacher|with a crush on her school teacher.]] Then [[It Got Worse]].)

* {{spoiler|[[Knife Nut]] (After being "broken", in the manga she carries a knife for self-defense. She uses it to kill Kako, and before dying she gives it to Kirie. [[Chekhov's Gun|Who uses it to injure Hatagai]].)}}

* [[Good Is Dumb]]: {{spoiler|Her family in the manga}} Subverted, however, {{spoiler|as it is eventually IMPLIED that the would-be car thief was merely trying to return a favor.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Teen Pregnancy]]}} (played ''very'' straight)

* {{spoiler|[[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]].}}

* {{spoiler|[[Yandere]] (and HOW)}}

 

* [[Big Brother Mentor]] (to a degree)

* [[Kouki Miyata]]

** Not in the manga, fortunately.

 

* {{spoiler|[[Birth-Death Juxtaposition]] (Her battle happens at the same time as the birth of her baby brother. She manages to witness it right before passing away, even getting to hug the baby and [[Go Out with a Smile|pass away smiling.]])}}

* [[Bokukko]]

* [[Mama Bear]] (Do NOT harm Kana in front of her)

* [[Otaku]] (Both she and her dad)

* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]] (With Anko, Kana and Komo)

 

* {{spoiler|[[Achilles in His Tent]] (In the anime, after surviving his first duel by pretty much driving the other pilot to suicide, he seriously ponders to not return. When he sees that his family and specially his mother is doing well, though, Kirie comes back to the fight, wins his duel, unmasks Youko and then dies.)}}

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]], manga only: {{spoiler|Kirie stabs Hatagai in the stomach after he offers him to teach him his way of life}}

* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]] (a surprisingly effective, pragmatic and skilled pilot. Who would've thought of it?)

** He made Zearth ''jump''.

* [[Heroic Self-Deprecation]] (Seeing his [[Hikikomori]] cousin suffer so much makes him question his own worth. Same goes to his [[Ill Girl]] mom)

* [[The Stoic]] {{spoiler|in the anime}}

** [[Not So Stoic]] {{spoiler|in the manga.)}}

* [[Tragic Keepsake]] {{spoiler|In the manga, Chizu gives him her knife before dying. [[Chekhov's Gun|He uses it to stab Hatagai later]].}}

* [[Wise Beyond Their Years]]

 

* {{spoiler|[[Disappeared Dad]] (in the anime, Congressman Komoda gets killed off.)}}

* [[Elegant Classical Musician]]: Is an accomplished piano player {{spoiler|Turns out to be a plot point in the manga, where she wins ''without'' fighting via luring her rival into her last recital.}}

* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]]

 

* [[Armor-Piercing Slap]] (In the anime she applies ''several'' to {{spoiler|Youko}} while giving {{spoiler|her}} a heartfelt [[What the Hell, Hero?]] after {{spoiler|Kirie outs her before dying.}})

* [[Dance Battler]] (Manga only, where she uses her dance experience to catch upon her elusive opponent)

** {{spoiler|She dies in her father's arms in the manga, but not smiling.}}

* [[Freak-Out]] (After the aforementioned incident with {{spoiler|Youko}}, {{spoiler|Koyemshi punishes the girl by choosing her as the next pilot.}} Understandably, she shuts down. {{spoiler|And then she gets better}})

* [[Idol Singer]] (What she wanted to be, at least in the manga.)

* [[Out of Focus]] (In the anime. She didn't received as much attention as other pilots during her episode, which focused a great deal of time on the media exploits regarding Zearth. Her TWO crowning moments of awesome were also missing on the adaptation.)

* [[Token Romance]] (With {{spoiler|Kanji}}, but only in the anime. Since it occurs [[Last-Minute Hookup|with no build up prior to the episode where it happens]], it comes as kinda awkward.)

 

* [[Ho Yay]] (with Ushiro, in the manga)

* [[Kenji Nojima]]

* [[Wise Beyond Their Years]]

 

* {{spoiler|[[Becoming the Mask]] (She was raised in our Earth, comes to truly love our world and, in the anime, she sacrifices herself for us. Her crush on Ushiro helps a bit, too.)}}

* {{spoiler|[[Dead Little Sister]] (in the manga, for Koeyemshi)}}

* {{spoiler|[[Redemption Equals Death]]}} (in the anime)

* {{spoiler|[[Snow Means Death]]}}

* [[Unrequited Love]] (for {{spoiler|Ushiro}})

* [[Wham! Episode]] ( {{spoiler|Before she can fight her battle in the manga, she gets shot in the head.}})

* [[Yuko Sanpei]]

 

* [[The Danza]]: Voiced by [[Kana Asumi]].

* [[Girlish Pigtails]]

* [[Love Martyr]]: She goes through all kinds of shit at her older brother's hands, but still loves him and tries to take care of him.

* [[The Woobie]]

* [[Wise Beyond Their Years]]

* [[Yamato Nadeshiko]] (One in training)

 

* [[Aloof Big Brother]]: More like Abusive Big Brother to Kana.

** [[Big Brother Bully]]: ''Not'' [[Played for Laughs]]

* [[Asexual]]

* [[Four Eyes, Zero Soul]] --> [[Defrosting Ice King]]

* [[Junko Minagawa]]

* {{spoiler|[[Luke, I Am Your Father]] (Ushiro, Captain Tanaka is your true mom. She's dying, though. Eeeh...)}}

* [[Oblivious to Love]]: Poor {{spoiler|Youko}}

* [[Stoic Spectacles]]

== Others ==

 

* [[Hiroki Tochi]]

* [[My God, What Have I Done?]] ("I'm sorry", he says when the kids leave his cave. [[It Got Worse|And with good reason]])

* {{spoiler|[[Sacrificial Lamb]]}}

 

* [[Akira Ishida]]

* {{spoiler|[[Aloof Big Brother]] (To Youko)}}

* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]

* {{spoiler|[[Good Scars, Evil Scars]] (As Shirou, he has a huge scar on his face)}}

* {{spoiler|[[Out-Gambitted]] (In the anime, by Ushiro and Youko)}}

* [[Nay Theist]]: Manga only-- {{spoiler|Koyemshi believes that it's better to think of the mecha battles as natural phenomena and [[God]] as a yet-undiscovered law of physics, because "it's better that way" ... Probably because the idea that God might be behind the pruning is not a comfortable thought.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Perpetual Smiler]]: His human form in the manga.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Redemption Equals Death]] (In the manga becomes the last pilot of Zearth)}}

* {{spoiler|[[Sadistic Choice]] (His treatment of Kana and Jun by the end of the anime, when he tries to manipulate Kana into becoming a pilot and threatening her with forcing Ushiro to do so if she hesitates. Ushiro, however, had asked Youko for help behind his back, and she out-gambits and kills him)}}

* {{spoiler|[[Stern Teacher]] (In the manga he retakes his human form, becomes the new Kokopelli and goes to another Earth with Zearth. When he recruits the new pilots, he straightforwardly tells them that they'll die after piloting (unlike Garaku/Kokopelli, who couldn't bring himself to do so), but then he adds that ''he'' will be the first pilot and show them how to do it right, which triggers the [[Redemption Equals Death]] mentioned above.)}}

* [[Trickster Mentor]]: Subverted in the anime; Koyemshi is such a [[Jerkass]] that he torments the children simply because he enjoys seeing them suffer.

 

* [[Action Girl]]

** [[Action Mom]]

* [[Cool Big Sis]] (to the girls of the group, despite being older than the standard)

* [[Hot Mom]]: Reveals that she has a daughter Kana's age. {{spoiler|Also, she's Ushiro's mother}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Daddy Had a Good Reason For Abandoning You|Mommy Had A Good Reason For Abandoning You]] (To Ushiro. With different per media reasons, but still damn good).}}

* [[Team Mom]] {{spoiler|Oh, the freaking irony.}}

 

* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]] (He willingly becomes a living target to help Kanji in his battle)}}

* {{spoiler|[[Scars Are Forever]] (In the TV series he loses an arm after threatening Koyemshi, then has it replaced with a prothesis)}}

 

* [[Complete Monster]] (He was such one in the manga that he had to be ''toned down'' in the anime... and ''still'' remained above [[Jerkass]] level)

* {{spoiler|[[Karma Houdini]]}}

* [[Kenichi Suzumura]] ([[Playing Against Type]], AND HOW)

* [[Moral Event Horizon]] (Everything he did to {{spoiler|Chizu. In the manga, he sets her to be gangraped by his friends and doesn't give a shit when she gets pregnant because of that. In the anime, he takes pictures of their sex activities and posts them to the internet.}} )

 

 

 

* [[Adults Are Useless]] (Averted in the anime, where he works with other adults (Komo's dad, Kanji's mom, etc.) to find out what is going on and try saving the kids. In the manga he still tries to support Anko as much as he can.)

* [[Intrepid Reporter]]

* {{spoiler|[[Your Cheating Heart]]: (In the anime)}}

 

* {{spoiler|[[Fingore]] (Threatens Koyemshi with a gun, gets his fingers severed. He later gets them reattatched.)}}

 

* [[The Alcoholic]]

* [[Canon Foreigner]] (appears only in the anime)

* [[Plucky Comic Relief]]: Says a lot about the show when the funniest character is an ex-con.

 

* [[Adults Are Useless]] (Averted, as mentioned)

* {{spoiler|[[My Greatest Failure]] (Komo's death is this for him, in the manga.)}}

* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]] (in the anime, he's a congressman. In the manga, he's in the military)

 

* {{spoiler|[[Go Through Me]] (Attempting to snap Chizuru out of her [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]], she stands between Zearth's arm and Hatagai and tells her little sister to kill ''her'' instead, dumping the blame on herself. Chizu stops, but Ichiko can't save her from dying.}})

* [[Horrible Judge of Character]] (she's dating ''Hatagai'', 'nuff said)

* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]] (The tomboy to Chizu's girly girl)

 

* [[Hot Mom]]

* [[Sayaka Ohara]]

 

* {{spoiler|[[Disappeared Dad]]}}

* [[Kenjiro Tsuda]]