Stratos 4/Characters
The Characters Page for the Stratos 4.
Meteor Sweepers (first season)
Mikaze Honjou
Yumi Kakazu (JP), Rachel Kempel (EN)
- Expy: Initally of Shinji, then faces Character Development
- Girlish Pigtails
- In the Blood: She comes from a family of Pilots.
- The Ditz
- The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: With her older sister.
- You Gotta Have Green Hair
Karin Kikuhara
Fumiko Orikasa (JP), Stacey Q (EN)
- Alliterative Name
- Nightmare Fuel: She tried to infect Mikaze.
- People Jars
- Shy Blue-Haired Girl
- Rei Ayanami Expy: Serves as the one here, and largly for the same reasons.
- The Virus
- Third Person Person: Karin uses third person when referring to herself.
- Unwitting Pawn
- You Gotta Have Blue Hair
Ayamo Nakamura
Shiho Kikuchi (Mie Sonozaki, Advance) (JP), Elisa Fiorillo (EN)
- Armor-Piercing Slap: Delivers a particularly painful on to Mikaze.
- Fiery Redhead
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Shows her heart in later episodes, along with a Tsundere side when worried.
Shizuha Doi
Kaori Shimizu (JP), Lisa Enochs (EN)
- Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Due to her photographer father.
- Brainy Brunette:
- Deadpan Snarker: Develops into one during the second season.
- The Generic Girl
- Only Sane Man: In comparison to the others, not that it helps.
- Universal Drivers Licence: Shizuha can do anything... if she has the licence for it!
Meteor Sweepers (Stratos 4 Advance)
The second season featured these three new characters...then promptly stuck the original cast back in. And lampshaded this fact.
Kiriko Aoki
Kaori Mizuhashi (JP)
- Bob Haircut:
- Genki Girl:
- Meta Girl: Immediately Lampshades their temporary Main Character status.
Mana Ninomiya
Haruhi Terada (JP)
- Token Minority: The only noticeably dark-skinned character in the series, and (presumably) the only native Okinawan.
Mirei Tachibana
Akeno Watanabe (JP)
Comet Blasters
An elite team of four Ace Pilots who destroy meteors using Space Planes from orbit. First foes, then friends of the Shimonji Meteor Sweepers.
- Alliterative Name
- Foreign Fanservice: Three of the four.
- Gender Blender Name: Chris.
Shimoji Airbase
Sayaka Kisaragi
Sayaka Ohara (JP), Michael-Ann Rowe (EN)
- Expy: Of Misato Katsuragi of Neon Genesis Evangelion fame.
- Hot Teacher: Unsurprisingly.
- Dojikko: Occasionally.
- Love Triangle: Between herself, Kazuma and Ran.
- Noodle Incident: What brought her to the ground in the first place?
- Veteran Instructor: Like all the Instructors at Shimoji, Sayaka is a Veteran Meteor Sweeper -- of course, that means she occasionally gets Back in the Saddle.
Robert Reynolds
Yousuke Akimoto (JP), Lou Savage (EN)
- Big Good: Despite his appearance he does back up his staff.
- Expy: Shares the beard with Gendo Ikari, but Reynolds is a far nicer and more upright person.
Kouchin Restaurant
Other Notable Characters
Alice "Admiral" Mikuriya
Mayumi Asano (JP, EN)
- Cats Are Mean: And that's why Karin is afraid of her.
- Ensemble Darkhorse: Has one episode dedicated solely to her.
- Intellectual Animal: She's quite intelligent, and very aware of what people are thinking.