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Most of the characters are in the same class; first year high school students (10th grade, 15 or 16 years old).

=== Ichika Orimura ===

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The main protagonist and the first ever male able to pilot an Infinite Stratos.

* [[Accidental Pervert]]

** In Episode 1, he stumbles onto Houki getting out of the shower. He later comes across her bra (hanging from one of her wooden katanas) and [[Chaste Hero|almost doesn't recognize what it is]].

* [[Clueless Chick Magnet]]: Most of the time, though at least he knows of the affections of {{spoiler|Charlotte and Laura toward him -- after all, the former snuck onto his bath and gave him a naked hug; the latter gave him a kiss and later snuck naked onto his bed}}.

** Also, he [[Almost Kiss|almost kisses]] {{spoiler|Houki}} after she confesses.

** {{spoiler|That all changes, [[Mid-Season Upgrade]]-style when Byakkushiki second-shifted into the Setsura to save his life giving him a powerful Beam Cannon & Shield combo weapon.}}

* [[The Dulcinea Effect]]: Uhh yeah, check.

* [[First-Name Basis]]: With pretty much almost everyone in his harem. His new name for Charles {{spoiler|after [[Dropped a Bridget On Him|revealing her true gender]]}} is [[Char Clone|Char]].

* [[First-Person Smartass]]: In the [[Light Novel]], especially regarding Chifuyu.

* [[First Kiss]]: {{spoiler|Laura steals it, and declares Ichika to be ''her wife.''}}

* [[Fragile Speedster]]/[[Glass Cannon]]: Byakkushiki can deal a lot of damage and is also way faster than any other IS, but it can't take a ton of hits due to its low energy pool.

** {{spoiler|Of course, it turns to [[Lightning Bruiser]] after Byakkushiki [[Mid-Season Upgrade|second-shifted into the Byakkushiki Setsura.]] It's still an energy guzzler though.}}

* [[Harem Hero]]: Type 2B

* [[The Hero]]

* [[Heroic Self-Deprecation]]: [[It's All My Fault|Blames himself]] and his kidnapping for Chifuyu forefeiting her title defense at the 2nd Mondo Grosso Tournament to save him. Obviously, it wasn't but he still thinks so.

* [[House Husband]]: Has the qualities of one.

* [[Idiot Hero]]

* [[Innocent Cohabitation]]: With Houki, and a {{spoiler|double-}}subversion with Charles {{spoiler|(the "double" part comes once her true gender is revealed)}}.

* [[Jack of All Stats]]: The {{spoiler|Byakkushiki Setsura is armed with a particle cannon, an energy claw, and a force shield, in addition to his standard weapon Yukihira}}.

* [[Katanas Are Just Better]]/[[Laser Blade]]: Yukihira Type-2

* {{spoiler|[[Mid-Season Upgrade]]: Byakkushiki Setsura}}

* [[Nice Guy]]: One reason why the girls fall for him.

* [[Real Men Wear Pink]]: Pretty much is in charge for taking care of their home.

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: The red to Chifuyu's blue.

* [[Running Gag]]: Every single time he's about to deal a finishing blow, his Byakkushiki's energy always seems to run out at the worst possible time.

** {{spoiler|The Byakkushiki is actually a 4th-generation [[Super Prototype]]. However, as a testbed for new technology and concepts, its full of flaws, making it more of a [[Flawed Prototype]].}}

* [[Survival Mantra]]: Naked girl nearby? ''[[Mouthful of Pi|Recite pi in your head]]''.

* [[Trash Talk]]: When Cecilia and him argue in the first episode. He even states that England [[Kick Them While They Are Down|has the worst cuisine in the whole world]].

** However, he was tossed in harm's way after the reveal of the IS, first being kidnapped before he knew he was an IS pilot and now a target of terrorist attacks because they want his IS core.

* [[Unwanted Harem]]: So far, he has gained the affection of Houki, Cecilia, Rin, {{spoiler|Charlotte}}, Laura, and Ran. Not to mention, ''a lot'' of his female admirers in school. Despite all that, he's still [[Oblivious to Love]].

 

=== Houki Shinonono ===

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Ichika's childhood friend ever since they're little kids. Although she moved away during their grade school years (due to tight security surrounding her older sister Tabane, chief developer of the IS, and her family), he still remembers a lot about her, and is happy that they're in the same class. Due to an extreme coincidence, they also end up sharing a dorm room, though Ichika doesn't see any harm in this. Later, Charles Dunois gets paired up with him, but Houki still keeps close contact with her old friend.

* [[Action Girl]]

* {{spoiler|[[Almost Kiss]]: With Ichika.}}

* [[Cute Bruiser]]: She trained in kendo prior to the introduction of the IS suits, and her IS suit is melee oriented.

* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]: Already melted and down the drain by Episode 5.

* [[Dual-Wielding]]: {{spoiler|Aka Tsubaki has two [[Katanas Are Just Better|katanas.]]}}

* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Struck with one when {{spoiler|Ichika made a [[Diving Save]] to shield her from Silver Gospel.}}

** Rin, [[Yandere|of all people]], reminds her that they can still win, proceeding to [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!|slap her to her senses]].

* [[Innocent Cohabitation]]: With Ichika, until Charles, the other male ({{spoiler|or is she?}}), comes in.

* [[Irony]]: Her sister created the IS but she doesn't get her own personal IS until the story is well underway.

* [[Patient Childhood Love Interest]]: In a rarity among harem novels/manga/anime, she's also the first girl to be introduced in the series.

* [[Perpetual Frowner]]

* [[Rapunzel Hair]]: Most apparent after her post-shower mishap with Ichika.

* [[Serious Business]]: How she takes [http://www.mangareader.net/infinite-stratos/10/3 cooking].

* [[Sword Beam]]: {{spoiler|One of the attacks of Aka Tsubaki.}}

* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]]: Her seiyuu is [[Youko Hikasa]], after all.

* [[Tsundere]]: Type B

* [[Unskilled but Strong]]: {{spoiler|Aka Tsubaki is a 4th-generation [[Super Prototype]] and the most powerful IS in existence. However, she's not a skilled pilot, so she can only be as powerful as the rest of Ichika's girls.}}

* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]: Her school uniform exhibits this.

** And like ''all'' girls in their IS suit.

 

=== Cecilia Alcott ===

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Official representative of the United Kingdom for the IS Academy. Although tension initially sparked between her and Ichika due to the latter's lack of knowledge about her impressive history, she warms up to him after he almost defeats her in a duel.

* [[Action Girl]]

* [[Beam Spam]]: All but one of the Blue Tears' weapon systems are beam-type weapons. In fact, Blue Tears was designed from the ground up as a test bed for IS-carried beam weapons.

* [[Black Bra and Panties]]: When she wants to seduce Ichika, she comes prepared.

* [[Leotard of Power]]

* [[Lethal Chef]]: Shown when she gave Ichika some sandwiches. Her cooking can be described as "[[Food Porn|looking exactly as depicted in the cookbook]], but tastes just like the cookbook". Then again, there's that joke about British culinary skills...

* [[Ojou]]: Makes a big point of her noble birth and upbringing.

* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Her parents died in a train accident.

* [[Those Two Guys|Those Two Girls]]: With Rin.

* [[Tsundere]]

* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]: In her IS pilot Suit.

 

=== Lingyin "Rin" Huang ===

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Representative of China for the IS Academy and Class 1-2 Representative. She and Ichika were friends since grade school, some time after Houki left. They have fond memories of eating together in her family's restaurant, though it seems that Ichika doesn't remember things quite the same way Rin does...

* [[Action Girl]]

* [[Bright Slap]]: Gives {{spoiler|Houki}} one of these to snap her out of her [[Heroic BSOD]].

* [[Cannot Spit It Out]]

* [[Catch Phrase]]

* [[Childhood Marriage Promise]]: She made a promise with Ichika in which she'd treat him to food everyday if she got better at cooking (the implication being that they'd get married). Ichika, ever [[Oblivious to Love]], took her words literally.

* [[Chinese Girl]]

* [[Multiform Balance]]: Her Shenlong IS, armed with a pair of Impact Cannons on the shoulder armor and the aforementioned Souten Gangetsu.

* [[New Transfer Student]]

* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Both parents divorced due to differences, and the restaurant Ichika usually visits has closed down, forcing her to return to China, where she was scouted as an IS pilot.

* [[Patient Childhood Love Interest]]

* [[Yandere]]: Busting through a wall and attempting to kill Ichika after {{spoiler|Charlotte admits to her true gender (with most of the school knowing that she and Ichika took a bath together the previous day)}} counts as this. She also seems to have no qualms about hitting Ichika with her IS weapons even when he's unarmed.

** Then there's this conversation between her and Cecilia while peeping at {{spoiler|Ichika and Charlotte going shopping together}}.

'''Rin:''' "Let's kill them!" }}

* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]: Grade S in her IS pilot suit.

 

=== Charles{{spoiler|1=/Charlotte}} Dunois ===

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Representative from France and the only other male in the world that can pilot an IS... {{spoiler|Or is [[Bifauxnen|he?]]}}

* [[Ace Custom]]: Rafale Revive Custom II is actually a heavily modified 2nd-generation mass production IS.

* {{spoiler|[[Action Girl]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Hidden Buxom]]: Trope Picture. As Charles, she wears something akin to a girdle to suppress her breasts.}}

* [[Hyperspace Arsenal]]: His Rafale Revive Custom II isn't nearly as fast or powerful as other personal ISs, but has a massive capacity for weapons and equipment specific for any situation. Normal ISs can carry around two or three different weapons. Rafale Revive II can carry over twenty, and he can also unlock their access for other IS users.

* {{spoiler|[[Lady of War]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Leotard of Power]]: Post-[[Dropped a Bridget On Him|Bridget Drop]], a standard female outfit.}}

* [[Nice Guy]]{{spoiler|1=/[[Nice Girl]]}}

* [[Noodle Incident]]: {{spoiler|Ichika stripping Charlotte of her panties while trying not to look at her while changing together in their room. The DVD releases rectify it, showing that Ichika stumbled onto her, accidentally taking a grab of her panties.}}

** {{spoiler|Unless one of them tries to kiss him... just ask Houki.}}

* [[Parental Abandonment]]: [[Heroic Bastard|The illegitimate child of a French IS company CEO and a country woman]], [[Missing Mom|who already died]]. And the father doesn't care about him one bit.

** {{spoiler|Justified since her father had her memorize the masculine dialogue.}}

* [[Purple Eyes]]

** In Episode 9 {{spoiler|(as in post-[[Dropped a Bridget On Him|Mass Bridget Drop]]), Ichika begins calling her [[Char Clone|Char]], which is both a shout out to the obvious as well as the [[Cool Plane|Sea Harrier]]}}.

** {{spoiler|She shares a family name with The '''''Bastard''''' of Orleans, Count of '''''Dunois'''''.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Sweet Polly Oliver]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Tranquil Fury]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Unsettling Gender Reveal]]: To Ichika on Episode 5, and three episodes later, to the entire class via Yamada-sensei. Obviously some girls (''especially'' [[Yandere|Lingyin]]) didn't take the implications well, especially considering it was known to everyone that she (as Charles) bathed together with Ichika the previous day!}}

* [[Weak but Skilled]]: Rafale Revive Custom II is a heavily modified 2nd-generation mass production IS. However, his skill allows him to keep up with the rest of the main cast, all of whom use 3rd-generation prototypes upwards.

 

=== Laura Bodewig ===

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German representative and a former member of the Schwarzer Hase ("Black Hares"). Chifuyu used to train her during the former's time in Germany, and despises Ichika for being too weak and causing Chifuyu's early retirement.

* [[Action Girl]]

** In the dub, it's apparently changed to resemble [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|another]] eyepatch-wearing [[Tyke Bomb]].

* [[Adorkable]]: Post-meltdown. Her lack of social skills make almost any social interaction awkwardly cute.

* [[Amazon Brigade]]: Was the CO of [[Gratuitous German|Schwarzer Hase]] ([[Killer Rabbit|"Black Hares"]]), a German IS unit, whose members wear [[Eyepatch of Power|Eyepatches Of Power]] on their left eye.

** It may have worked during her match with Cecilia and Rin, as both went long-range... but not so much with Ichika and Charles, who threw her off-guard by combining melee and long-range.

* [[Ax Crazy]]: She gets better... [[Defrosting Ice Queen|big time]].

** [[Badass Adorable]]: Post-[[Defrosting Ice Queen|meltdown]]

* {{spoiler|[[Bedmate Reveal]]: To Ichika while naked.}}

* {{spoiler|1=[[The Berserker]]: Her Schwarzer Regen's Valkyrie Trace (VT) System was meant to increase an IS's performance by mimicking previous Mondo Grosso champions (e.g. Chifuyu). However it went rogue due to Laura's brief mental breakdown upon realizing that Ichika and Charlotte exploited her AIC's weakness and turned the tide of the battle against her. No wonder research, development and application of the VT System is strictly banned.}}

* [[Bring It On]]: To Rin and to Cecilia.

* [[Cannot Spit It Out]]: Averted. She hates Ichika, so the first thing she does is [[Armor-Piercing Slap|slap him across the face]]. In battle, she always goes straight for him (which he and Charles quickly learn to take advantage of). She worships Chifuyu, and pretty much states it outright. And when {{spoiler|she realizes she's in love with Ichika, she ''does'' state it outright, and [[Forceful Kiss|makes absolutely sure]] [[Wacky Marriage Proposal|it cannot be misinterpreted]]}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Clingy Jealous Girl]]}}

* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]/[[Defusing the Tykebomb]]

* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]: More like having gasoline poured all over her and set alight in a single episode.

* [[New Transfer Student]]

* [[No Social Skills]]: A side effect of being raised by the military since birth.

* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Raised in a military environment, with no parents in sight.

* [[Serious Business]]: ''Swimsuit shopping''. She calls Clarissa Harfouch, her [[The Lancer|second-in-command]] during her days at the Schwarzer Hase, for advice, and it's freely given. [[Amazon Brigade|Which makes sense]].

* [[Super Soldier]]: She was genetically engineered and raised from childhood to fight.

* [[Tyke Bomb]]

=== Chifuyu Orimura ===

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Ichika's 24-year-old sister and herself a retired IS ace, as well as head teacher of IS Academy's Class 1-1, where Ichika, Houki, Cecilia, Charles and Laura are placed. She gained popularity for her skill with a katana, with which she won the 1st Mondo Grosso Tournament, only to disappear after forefeiting her title defense at the 2nd Mondo Grosso to save the kidnapped Ichika; during her hiatus she went to Germany to train IS pilots (one of which was Laura) as repayment for the German army's contribution to her rescue of Ichika.

* [[Ace Pilot]]

* [[Aloof Big Brother|Aloof Big Sister]]: To Ichika.

** {{spoiler|1=To add to that, she is rumored to be the insanely strong IS pilot, 'The White Knight' who saved Japan when the country was being targeted for destruction by rogue ICBMs years ago.}}

* [[Big Brother Instinct|Big Sister Instinct]]: Her little brother is kidnapped!? Screw the Mondo Grosso title defense, time to save Ichika!

* [[Cool Big Sis]]

** [[Onee-Sama]]: Most said girls refer to her as this.

* [[Harem Nanny]]: In the anime, more or less... she keeps Ichika's harem from going wild on him, for the most part. Mind you, it's something that is purely coincidental due to her patrolling around the school and needing to safe guard the class in general.

* [[Hot Teacher]]

* [[Lady of War]]

* [[When All You Have Is a Hammer]]: Chifuyu won the first Mondo Grosso with nothing but a Yukihira Type-2... and now she's passing on her technique to Ichika.

 

 

=== Maya Yamada ===

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Sub-teacher of Class 1-1 and herself a former national candidate whose skill never waned even after years on the sidelines.

* [[Adult Child]]

* [[Badass Adorable]]

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]

* [[Curtains Match the Window]]

* [[The Cutie]]

* [[Friendly Sniper]]

* [[Gag Boobs]]

* [[Gainaxing]]

* [[Genius Ditz]]

* [[Hot Teacher]]

* [[Kawaiiko]]

* [[Meganekko]]

* [[Nice Girl]]

* [[Retired Badass]]

* [[Sensei-chan]]

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|You Gotta Have Green Hair]]

 

 

 

 

=== Tabane Shinonono ===

 

Houki's older sister and inventor of the IS suits.

* [[Adult Child]]: She's quite childish compared to Houki, much to her and Chifuyu's chagrin. She might as well be mistaken for Houki's ''younger'' sister.

* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: She sports mechanical bunny ears on her head that are quite [[Expressive Ears|"expressive"]].

* [[Dynamic Entry]]: Apparently her favorite method of crashing a party, but usually with a lot of noise (which subverts this trope's surprise element). One of her attempts was pacified by Chifuyu, with just one hand.

* [[Fiery Redhead]]

* [[Hot Scientist]]

* [[Hyperspace Arsenal]]: Summoning ''a missile launcher out of nowhere'' counts.

* [[Stealth Hi Bye]]: On occasion.

* [[Strange Girl]]

 

=== Dan Gotanda ===

 

Ichika's friend from back in middle school up until the time he transfers to IS Academy.

* [[Bromantic Foil]]: To Ichika.

* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: With Ichika, and their friendship never seems to have waned long after the latter transfers to the IS Academy.

* [[Nice Hat|Nice Bandana]]

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|You Gotta Have Red Hair]]

 

=== Ran Gotanda ===

 

Dan's younger sister and a third-year junior high schoolgirl.

* [[Fiery Redhead]]

* [[Nice Hat|Nice Bandana]]

* [[Unkempt Beauty]]: Her usual getup at home.

** [[She Cleans Up Nicely]]: She only resorts to this whenever Ichika shows up.

 

=== Natasha Fairs ===

Light Novel-only Official Representative to the IS Academy from America. She is the pilot of {{spoiler|Silver Gospel}}, an IS co-built with Israel.

* [[Eagle Land]]

* [[Hair of Gold]]

* {{spoiler|[[I Owe You My Life]]: Kisses Ichika on the cheek -- in the presence of the rest of his [[Unwanted Harem]], no less -- in gratitude for stopping her Silver Gospel's rampage.}}

 

=== Tatenashi Sarashiki ===

Light Novel-only Official Representative to the IS Academy from Russia (though apparently half-Japanese) and currently the strongest IS fighter in the Academy, warranting her the position of [[Student Council President]]. She's the pilot of Mysterious Lady, a third-generation cerulean IS.

* [[The Ace]]

* [[BFS]]: Mysterious Lady's main weapon is a giant laser lance.

* [[Bodyguard Crush]]: For {{spoiler|Ichika, unto whom she was temporarily assigned to protect after the Silver Gospel incident}}.

* [[Screw the Rules, I Make Them]]: {{spoiler|Used her position to become Ichika's new roommate.}}

* [[Spoiled Sweet]]

* [[The Tease]]: {{spoiler|Which doesn't sit well to Ichika.}}

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]

 

=== M {{spoiler|adoka Orimura}} ===

 

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