Kaleido Star/Characters

On-Stage Talent

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

Voiced by: Sayaka Ohara (JP), Sandra Krasa (EN)

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.
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.

Voiced by: Chinami Nishimura (JP), Nancy Novotny (EN)

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

Voiced by: Kaori Mizuhashi (JP), Serena Varghese (EN)

Voiced by: Fumiko Orikasa (JP), Kim-Ly Nguyen (EN)

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.

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: During the second season.
Smug Snake
- Heel Face Turn
Token Evil Teammate: During the first season.
You Killed My Father: Believes Kalos to be responsible for his father's death.

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 - especially 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.

Voiced by: Takahiro Sakurai (JP), Mike MacRae (EN)

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

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.
One of the Kids

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 gofer because his heart illness doesn't let him train and become a performer.

Voiced by: Keiji Fujiwara (JP), Rick Burford (EN)

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

Voiced by: Takehito Koyasu (JP), Jay Hickman (EN)

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