Irresponsible Captain Tylor/Characters
Characters from Irresponsible Captain Tylor include:
The Crew of the Soyokaze
Note that nobody in this crew is the Only Sane Man aboard ship. Everybody gets a chance to make a bad call, and everybody gets a chance to make the right call.
Justy Ueki Tylor
- Voiced by Kouji Tsujitani (Japanese), Crispin Freeman (English), Gabriel Gama / Carlos Iñigo (Spanish), Nicola Bartolini Carrassi (Italian)
The story's protagonist. He's a 20-year-old with a degree from an economics school, who signed up with the military because it looked like an easy life. For him, it was.
- All There in the Manual: A large amount of Tylor's backstory is in the liner notes of the final disc in the Right Stuf box set. (For example, his father's name is "Average Ueki Tylor".)
- Alternate Character Interpretation: Obfuscating Stupidity or just regular stupidity? Who knows?
- This trope is invoked and the tree is actively cultivated by the characters themselves. Summed up nicely by one of the final scenes in the TV series, where Tylor clumsily tosses a dart behind his back, only to have it hit a dead bullseye.
- Brilliant but Lazy: Maybe.
- Casanova Wannabe: Certainly.
- The Charmer: Tylor, who manages to gain the attention of every woman on his ship and similarly let them down gently (albeit, unintentionally) and also makes an android and a computer AI fall in love with him, despite the fact that neither of them were built with that ability!
- It's not just the women. He convinces the chief petty officer to support him for enlisting with the 'I'll pay you back when I hit it big!' line and at the beginning of the next episode flatters someone into holding back against him in a game.
- It's not even just human. He somehow charms a computer program into self-destruction by talking to it and blind luck. Maybe.
- The Chessmaster: Maybe.
- Expy: Captain Tylor is a much less serious version/interpretation of Yang Wen-li.
- He wears sunglasses at the end! Triangle Shades, no less - fourteen years before Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.
- The Fatalist: "When it's time to lose you lose no matter what you do."
- The Fool: Maybe.
- Genius Ditz: Maybe.
- Guile Hero: Whether or not you believe him to be a Magnificent Bastard, you have to admit he's got a bit of a silver tongue.
- Idiot Houdini: Maybe.
- Idiots Cannot Catch Colds: But Justy Ueki Tylor did, in episode 13.
- Invincible Incompetent: Nobody can decide if Tylor is an example of this trope, or if he's just that good but prefers to look like it.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: Maybe.
- The Pornomancer: Tylor not only manages to get every female on the ship to confess their sexual desires for him, and an alien princess to fall for him, but even gets the recruitment computer when he wanted to join the military in the first place to confess her love for him against all logical functions it was built with!
- Take a Third Option: Tylor always finds a third option out of a situation, whether it's intentional or not.
Lt. Cmdr. Yuriko Star
- Voiced by Yuri Amano (Japanese), Rachael Lillis (English), Ana Teresa Bengoetxea / Laura Ayala (Spanish), Marina Thovez (Italian)
Intelligence officer of the Soyokaze, and the story's deuteragonist.
- Love Freak: Yuriko wanders into this trope occasionally.
- Tsundere: A rare example of a Tsundere whose behavior is due to environment rather than nature or issues; being as much the Straight Man (well, Straight Woman) as Yamamoto, yet lacking his reluctance to physically assault a superior officer, it's only natural she acts the way she does around an irritating, flirtatious goofball like Tylor. She's debatably the healthier one of the two - Yamamoto spends far too much of the series far too high-strung.
Lt. Makoto Yamamoto
- Voiced by Sho Hayami (Japanese), J. David Brimmer / Michael Alston Baley (English), Martin Soto (Spanish), Marco Balzarotti (Italian)
The Soyokaze's Executive Officer. Very by-the-book, and competent in a setting that lets him go by-the-book ... but that makes him a laughingstock aboard the Soyokaze.
- The Comically Serious
- Military Brat: Yamamoto remarks that he was raised in a strict military household.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: Yamamoto, like most of the UPSF staff, has the right mindset for a Wooden Ships and Iron Men tale of Japanese-style militarism -- and then Tylor makes them look like idiots.
Lt. Kim Kyung Hwa
- Voiced by Kotono Mitsuishi (Japanese), Jill Seifers (English), Rocio Prado (Spanish), Elisabetta Spinelli (Italian)
The Soyokaze's communications officer. While she's the bridge officer who's most likely to wear stylish clothes instead of a uniform, she's also the most level-headed bridge officer and the one most likely to make the right call in an emergency situation.
- Bridge Bunnies: Along with Katori.
- Desperately Looking for a Purpose In Life: Lt. Kim joined the UPSF because she felt putting her life on the line would put it into focus.
Lt. Harold Katori
- Voiced by Ken Narita (Japanese), Eddie Paul (English), Carlos Hugo Hidalgo (Spanish), Francesco Orlando (Italian)
The Soyokaze's helmsman.
- Ace Pilot
- Bridge Bunnies: Along with Kim. Okay, so Katori isn't female, but he's pretty enough to count anyways.
- Oddly enough, Katori is bald.
Dr. Hidesaburo Kitaguchi
- Voiced by Jouji Yanami (Japanese), Stan Hart (English), Riccardo Rovatti (Italian)
The Soyokaze's ship's doctor. Tylor's drinking buddy, and the first person aboard ship to realize Tylor is not what he seems to be. He never says what Tylor is, though.
- The Alcoholic: Claims to be a Drunken Master of medicine. Nobody actually dies under his care... at least, not because of his drinking.
Petty Officer Nurse Harumi Nakagawa
- Voiced by Maya Okamoto (Japanese), Carol Jacobanis (English), Maria Fernanda Morales (Spanish), Roberta Gallina Laurenti (Italian)
The Soyokaze's ship's nurse. Also a Raalgon spy and an android.
- Hello, Nurse!: Pretty much the entire crew fakes sick just to be treated by her.
- Instant AI, Just Add Water: Exposure to Tylor leads to android Harumi developing emotions.
- Ridiculously-Human Robots
- Robot Girl
- Tsundere: Once she starts to figure out what all those emotion things are.
- Younger Than They Look: Harumi is only three years old. Which sort of makes sense, considering she's also an android.
Ensign Kojiro Sakai
- Voiced by Mitsuo Iwata (Japanese), Buddy Woodward (English), Eduardo Garza (Spanish), Patrizio Prata (Italian)
The Soyokaze's fighter pilot.
- Ace Pilot
- He-Man Woman Hater: The liner notes say this is a phobia. In the novels, he discovers Harumi is an android because his phobia doesn't trigger.
Pilot Trainees Emi Hanner and Yumi Hanner
- Emi voiced by Mika Kanai (Japanese), Lisa Ortiz (English), Estívaliz Lizárraga / Christine Byrd (Spanish), Sonia Mazza (Italian)
- Yumi voiced by Mika Kanai (Japanese), Lisa Ortiz (English), Ana Begoña Eguileor / Mayra Arellano (Spanish), Alessandra Karpoff (Italian)
Pilot Trainees, and twin sisters. (Yumi is the older twin.) Always seen together.
- Fan Service: They supply the only female nude scene in the entire TV series. (Blink and you'll miss it.)
- Puppy Dog Eyes
- Single-Minded Twins
- The Ugly Guy's Hot Daughters: Although Admiral Hanner's only ugly because he's really old; when he was younger, he was reasonably good looking. The twins are definitely attractive.
- Twin Threesome Fantasy: Played with, in that it's their fantasy to become Tylor's lovers. When they offer, he turns them down... possibly by accident, possibly on purpose.
Lt. Karl Björn Andressen
- Voiced by Hiroyuki Shibamoto (Japanese), Joe Dopico (English), Giorgio Bonino (Italian)
The Soyokaze's dropship pilot.
- Real Men Wear Pink: Andressen is a Badass who likes nude modeling.
Mstr. Sgt. Mickey Crybun
- Voiced by Kazuhiro Nakata (Japanese), Nathan Price (English), Vittorio Bestoso (Italian)
Leader of the ship's Marine squad.
- Boisterous Bruiser
- Real Men Wear Pink: Literally. Cryburn's mecha is bright pink, while everyone else in the squad gets yellow mechs.
UPSF Admirals
Vice Admiral Sesshu Mifune
- Voiced by Mugihito (Japanese), Robert O'Gorman (English), Kepa Cueto (Spanish), Mario Zucca (Italian)
Tylor's direct superior.
- Insane Admiral: Mifune carries a sword, and has a tendency of trying to use it on either himself or his underlings after every setback.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: "Reasonable" compared to Fuji. Admiral Mifune only wants to kill Tylor. Or himself.
Vice Admiral Susumu Fuji
- Voiced by Tomomichi Nishimura (Japanese), Ross Charap (English), Marco Balbi (Italian)
Chief of Staff and technically not supposed to give orders directly to Tylor... so he gives Tylor those orders by convincing Vice Admiral Mifune to issue them.
- General Ripper: Admiral Fuji, the most dog-kickingly gung-ho of the UPSF military leadership -- he thought firing missiles at a hostage situation involving a war hero was a good idea because he didn't want the UPSF to look weak.
- Insane Admiral: The two admirals, Mifune and Fuji. Their arguments always end with them trying to kill each other, but they really are friends.
The Raalgon
Azalyn d'el Kran Rykun, Goza XVI
- Voiced by Hiroko Kasahara (Japanese), Lisa Ortiz (English), Rossy Aguirre (Spanish), Giovanna Papandrea (Italian)
Empress of the Raalgon Empire. She ascended to the throne on the death of her father, and was still young enough that she doesn't know how to avoid being manipulated by the people in the imperial court... but she's smart enough to know that she isn't being told everything.
Azalyn has a favorite movie: Roman Holiday. This is an insight into her personality.
- Bare Your Midriff: Azalyn's outfit when acting as Empress.
Nack la Wang
- Voiced by Masaaki Tsukada (Japanese), Oliviero Corbetta (Italian)
Prime Minister - one heartbeat away from the throne, and not above trying to stop that heartbeat. Very pro-war.
Wang is the only truly evil character in Irresponsible Captain Tylor. (Considering how Vice Admiral Fuji acts, that's saying something.)
Ru Baraba Dom
- Voiced by Toshihiko Seki (Japanese), Josh Mosby (English), Pedro Arrieta (Spanish), Lorenzo Scattorin (Italian)
The only Raalgon ship captain who comes anywhere close to understanding Tylor. He becomes Azalyn's advisor by actually telling her what's happening in his reports to the court.
Shia Has
- Voiced by Yūko Mita (Japanese), Veronica Taylor (English), Isabel Romo (Spanish), Elda Olivieri (Italian)
Dom's trusted assistant, and a ship captain in her own right. Willing to use underhanded tactics... but that made her the only person to ever actually defeat Tylor.
- Stripperiffic: Her outfit doesn't seem to actually cover, so much as support, her... assets.
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