Kaleido Star/Characters
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Sora Naegino
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Voiced by: Ryo Hirohashi (JP), Cynthia Martinez (EN) |
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- 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
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Voiced by: Sayaka Ohara (JP), Sandra Krasa (EN) |
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- 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
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Voiced by: Takehito Koyasu (JP), Jay Hickman (EN) |
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- 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, and when Sora goes into borderline Wangst status she actually stops seeing him for a while.
- Team Pet
Mia Guillem
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Voiced by: Chinami Nishimura (JP), Nancy Novotny (EN) |
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- 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
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Voiced by: Akeno Watanabe (JP), Kira Vincent-Davis (EN) |
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- 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
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Voiced by: Kaori Mizuhashi (JP), Serena Varghese (EN) |
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- 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
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Voiced by: Fumiko Orikasa (JP), Kim-Ly Nguyen (EN) |
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- Bratty Half-Pint: Also for one episode.
- Circus Brat: Her dad is the lead of the stagehands, her dead mom was a Kaleido artist. In the second season, she officially joins the Stage.
- Tagalong Kid
- Well Done Daughter Gal: To her Missing Mom.
Jonathan
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Voiced by: Etsuko Kozakura (JP), Tiffany Grant (EN) |
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Yuri Killian
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Voiced by: Susumu Chiba (JP), Illich Guardiola (EN) |
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- The Atoner
- Big Brother Mentor: To Sora, after his Heel Face Turn.
- Bishonen
- Disappeared Dad: His father, Aaron, died on-stage. His death was Yuri's Start of Darkness.
- Reformed but Rejected: Considering that he did pull lots of shit on the Stage, this is understandable.
- Sixth Ranger: Second season.
- Smug Snake
- Token Evil Teammate: First season.
- You Killed My Father: Believes Kalos to be responsible for his father's death.
May Wong
- Voiced by: Mai Nakahara (JP), Hillary Haag (EN)
- Anime Chinese Girl
- Armor-Piercing Slap: To Sora, when she declines Cathy's offer to compete for the role of Juliet. May, already emotionally distraught for a short while, snapped so badly that she started screaming at Sora and then slapped her in front of everyone.
- Break the Haughty: Not only she falls victim to Leon's "curse" when he deliberately injures her to knock her off her pedestal, but later she gets called out more than once on her arrogance - specially 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
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Voiced by: Takahiro Sakurai (JP), Mike MacRae (EN) |
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- The Ace: More like a Broken Ace, tho.
- Bishonen
- Dead Little Sister: Horribly losing his Morality Pet sister Sophie drove him over the edge and very close to the Despair Event Horizon.
- 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 May, not even she deserves to have Leon deliberately dropping her on-stage an causing her to get seriously injured.
- The Lancer
- Long-Haired Pretty Boy
- Troubled but Cute
- White-Haired Pretty Boy
Kenneth "Ken" Robbins
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Voiced by: Hiro Shimono (JP), John Swasey (EN) |
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- 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
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Voiced by: Aya Hisakawa (JP), Luci Christian (EN) |
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- 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
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Voiced by: Keiji Fujiwara (JP), Rick Burford (EN) |
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- The Atoner: For something he didn't do.
- Dark-Skinned Redhead
- I Was Quite a Looker: Invoked by Sora when she sees a photo of his younger self ( alongside a teen!Sarah and their companion Andy) and can't believe the baby-faced youth in the picture is him.
- The Mentor
- My Greatest Failure: Has blamed himself for more than 10 years for the death of Yuri's dad.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: He believes himself to be such, since he asked Aaron if he truly was up to performing the very dangerous Fantastic Maneouver... few before Aaron failed to do it and died, which is the reason why Yuri is pissed off at him enough to try buying out the Stage as Revenge.
- 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
Jerry, aka Mr. Policeman
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Voiced by: Unsho Ishizuka (JP), James Reed Faulkner (EN) |
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Mr. Kenneth
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Voiced by: Mitsuo Senda (JP), Jason Douglas (EN) |
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- Cool Old Guy
- Miniature Senior Citizens
- Obfuscating Stupidity: Seems to be a Cloudcuckoolander, but is much sharper than you'd think
Sophie Oswald
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Voiced by: Miyuki Sawashiro (JP), Jessica Boone (EN) |
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Only appears in Leon's Troubled Backstory Flashbacks.
Cathy Taylor
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Voiced by: Kotono Mitsuishi (JP), Shannon Emerick (EN) |
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- Cool Big Sis: To Sora and especially to Mia.
- Fiery Redhead
- Genki Girl
- Plucky Girl
- The Smart Girl