Stratos 4/Characters

The Characters Page for the Stratos 4.

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

Fumiko Orikasa (JP), Stacey Q (EN)

 * Alliterative Name
 * Shy Blue-Haired Girl
 * Third Person Person: Karin uses third person when referring to herself.
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair
 * Third Person Person: Karin uses third person when referring to herself.
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair
 * Third Person Person: Karin uses third person when referring to herself.
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Shiho Kikuchi (Mie Sonozaki, Advance) (JP), Elisa Fiorillo (EN)

 * Armor-Piercing Slap:
 * Fiery Redhead
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Shows her heart in later episodes, along with a Tsundere side when worried.

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...

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.

Kaori Mizuhashi (JP)

 * Bob Haircut:
 * Genki Girl:
 * Meta Girl: Immediately Lampshades their  Main Character status.

Haruhi Terada (JP)

 * Token Minority: The only noticeably dark-skinned character in the series, and (presumably) the only native Okinawan.

Akeno Watanabe (JP)

 * White-Haired Pretty Girl:
 * Deadpan Snarker

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.

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.

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.

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.