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Here are the chracter features in the anime/manga series Linebarrels of Iron. Beware of spoilers.

Contributions are most welcome.

Koichi Hayase

Voiced by: Tetsuya Kakihara (Japanese) and Josh Grelle (English)

• Accidental Pervert
• Break the Haughty: And boy, does he get broken. Hard.
• Butt Monkey
• Cannot Spit It Out: His feelings for Emi
• Clueless Chick Magnet: The guy has four beautiful girls all after him... and yet, he only appears to be romantically interested in Emi.
• First-Episode Resurrection
• Hot-Blooded
• Idiot Hero
• I Will Protect Her: Towards Emi, mostly. But despite not noticing the other girls' crushes, he's still quite protective towards all of them.
• Jerkass: Before Character Development (though with touches of Jerkass Woobie)
  • Jerk With a Heart of Gold: After Character Development
• Jumped At the Call: Deconstructed. His behaviour in his first battles caused lots of property damage, as he lashes out towards anyone
• My God, What Have I Done?
• Shut UP, Hannibal: To both Kato and Masaki.
• Unstoppable Rage: First, in response to Yajima's death. Then, in response to Emi's.
• What the Hell, Hero?: He receives quite a lot of these, especially at first.

Emi Kizaki

Voiced by: Mamiko Noto (Japanese) and Alexis Tipton (English)

• Cannot Spit It Out
• Catch Phrase: "You're the worst!" / "You make me sick!"
• Chainsaw Good: Episode 6, though it's Played for Laughs
• Clingy Jealous Girl: She's just as clingy and jealous as Risako. She just does a (slightly) better job at hiding it.
• Dojikko: In the first few episodes.
• Fish Out of Water: "What's a Christmas party?"
• It's All My Fault: Mostly in Episode 15, as she thinks that it's her fault if Juda has been scattered and people are dying to protect her.
• Raven Hair, Ivory Skin
• Really Seven Hundred Years Old: Around 650+ years old.
• Tsundere

Reiji Moritsugu

Voiced by: Yuuichi Nakamura (Japanese) and J Michael Tatum (English)

• Ace Pilot: And how!
• Badass
• Curb Stomp Battle: His first two fights with Koichi consist of nothing but him beating the crap out of the poor kid. However, he gets on the receiving side of this trope when Emi gets in Linebarrels' cockpit.
• Fake Defector
• Feel No Pain
• The Stoic
• Stoic Spectacles
• Tall, Dark and Snarky

Kunio Ishigami

Voiced by: Joji Nakata (Japanese) and Barry Yandell (English)

• Big Good
• Bunny Ears Lawyer: Yes, the perverted guy who likes pranking people is the boss of a world-protecting organization, why do you ask?
• Cool Old Guy
• Defector From Decadence: From the Katou Organization
• It Amused Me: The reason for many of his pranks
• Killed Off for Real
• The Judas
• Really Seven Hundred Years Old: Around 70+ years old, old enough to participate in World War II.
• Sacrificial Lion
• Troll

Yui Ogawa

Voiced by: Sayaka Ohara (Japanese) and Tiffany Grant (English)

• Beware the Nice Ones
• Team Mom

Satoru Yamashita

Voiced by: Miyuki Sawashiro (Japanese) and Mary Morgan (English)

• Dude Looks Like a Lady
• Hero Worshipper: For Reiji. So of course the poor kid goes in a complete Heroic BSOD when Reiji turns traitor...
• Ill Boy: When he was younger. He got better after becoming a Factor.
• Nice Guy

Miu Kujou

Voiced by: Aya Hirano (Japanese) and Monica Rial (English)

• Action Girl
• Badass Adorable
• Beware the Nice Ones
• Every Girl Is Cuter With Hair Decs: Her huge pink ribbon.
• Gag Boobs
• Heroic BSOD: After Masaki gives her a nasty "The Reason You Suck" Speech, telling her that she's too weak to be a Factor.
• Nice Girl
• Parental Abandonment

The Endou twins

• Brother-Sister Team
• Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl

Shizuna

Voiced by: Kana Ueda (Japanese) and Cherami Leigh (English)

• Action Girl
• Berserk Button: Do not call her "bobcut".
• Butt Monkey: Whenever the mood of the show turns comedic, it's often at her expense.
• Cry Cute: Normal Shizuna - a tough, aggressive tomboy who takes crap from no one. Crying Shizuna - a total and complete Woobie.
• Every Girl Is Cuter With Hair Decs: Actually invoked when Koichi gives her his necktie holder as an hairpin. Shizuna's response is... quite spectacular.
• Genki Girl: Aw yeah!
• Jerk With a Heart of Gold: Beneath all that arrogance and bluster, Shizuna is actually a very warm person.
• Kansai Regional Accent
• My Brother Is Off Limits
• Tsundere: Bonafide Type A

Izuna

Voiced by: Rie Kugimiya (Japanese) and Aaron Dismuke (English)

• Ax Crazy: When trying to link with Central's Hive Mind.
• Beware the Nice Ones: After all, he's the one who controls the Deceive's Nerve Crack cables...
• Dude Looks Like a Lady
• Nice Guy

Rachel Calvin

Voiced by: Chiwa Saitou (Japanese) and Tia Ballard (English)

• A Day in The Limelight: Episode 25.
• Cry Cute: After Ishigami's death.
• Genki Girl
• Girlish Pigtails
• Improbable Age
• Insufferable Genius
• Little Miss Snarker
• Meganekko

Hisataka Katou

Voiced by: Jun Fukuyama (Japanese) and Todd Haberkorn (English)

• Affably Evil: Always polite and respectful, even to a bitter enemy.
• Anti-Villain: Type III on the sliding scale.
• Big Bad
• Blond Guys Are Evil
• Bunny Ears Lawyer: A villainous example.
• The Chessmaster
• Easily Forgiven: Subverted. Koichi does not forgive him for his crimes, but accepts to put his resentment aside and work with him for the greater good. Played straight in the manga, where Koichi does forgive him, and even offers to help him. Admittedly, his goals in the manga are different from the anime.
• Fashion Victim Villain
• Heroic Sacrifice
• Killed Off for Real
• Emi, I Am Your Older Brother
• Non-Action Guy
• Red Eyes, Take Warning
• Self-Made Orphan: At his father's request, no less.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: He wants to save the Earth from Central's invasion by stirring people's imagination. The means he uses to do that, though, are quite debatable.

Masaki Sugiwara

Voiced by: Susumu Chiba (Japanese) and Tony Patterson (English)

• The Dragon: But not to Kato. To Central.
• Hannibal Lecture: He gets rather fond of these as the ending of the series comes close. Works on Miu. Not so much on Koichi.
• Nice Hat
• Peek-a-Bangs: Justified. He needs it to hide his cybernetic eye, which would reveal that he's a Machina Human.

Takuro Sawatari

Voiced by: Tetsu Inada (Japanese) and Bryan Massey (English)

• Blood Knight
• Hot-Blooded: Complete with Hotblooded Sideburns
• Karma Houdini

Demitri

Voiced by: Tomoyuki Shimura (Japanese) and Kent Williams (English)

Yurianne Faithful

Voiced by: Emi Shinohara (Japanese) and Stephanie Young (English)

• Best Beer Ever
• Boobs of Steel
• Chainsaw Good: Her Arma, the Tsubaki-Hime, has a couple of arm-mounted buzzsaws.
• Dark Action Girl
• Evil Redhead
• Karma Houdini
• Mysterious Woman
• The Vamp: Just ask Izuna...

Soubi Nakajima

Voiced by: Hirofumi Nojima (Japanese) and Ian Sinclair (English)

Jack Smith

Voiced by: Yoshikazu Sato (Japanese) and Bob Carter (English)

Riku Ousei

Voiced by: Daisuke Sakaguchi (Japanese) and Sonny Strait (English)

Risako Niiyama

Voiced by: Noriko Shitaya (Japanese) and Carrie Savage (English)

Hideaki Yajima

Voiced by: Go Shinomiya (Japanese) and Joel McDonald (English)

Makoto Domyouji

Voiced by: Jun Konno (Japanese) and Jerry Jewell (English)

Eiji Kiriyama

Voiced by: Show Hayami (Japanese) and Vic Mignogna