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== The Pilots ==

 

* [[Book Dumb]]

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

* {{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]]

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

 

* {{spoiler|[[Death by Adaptation]]}}

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

* [[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.)}}

* [[The Woobie]]: It's hard not to feel bad for her when she's describing how she behaved well so people would approve of her, even in the face of unprovoked bullying.

 

* [[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.)}}

* [[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]].)

* [[Groin Attack]] (During her fight, she gets Zearth to kick the enemy robot like this)

* {{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]].)}}

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

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

 

* [[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]]

* [[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}}

* [[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)

* [[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)}}

* [[Yuko Sanpei]]

 

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

* [[Girlish Pigtails]]

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

 

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

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

== 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)}}

* {{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]]

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

 

* [[Good-Looking Privates]]

* {{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]]}}

* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]] (He is Morihiro Hatagai in the manga, but Hiroyuki Hatagai in the anime.)

 

 

 

* [[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.)}}

* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]] (He is Kouichi Komoda in the anime, and Tomoe Komoda in the manga. Those two versions could be considered separate characters altogether, as their character designs are different as well: Kouichi looks quite younger than Tomoe, to start.)

 

* {{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)

 

* [[Hooker with a Heart of Gold]]

* [[Hot Mom]]

* [[Sayaka Ohara]]

 

* {{spoiler|[[Death by Origin Story]] (His murder at the hands of other Yakuza sets off the deal with Tanaka, baby!Jun and the Ushiros)}}

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