Weiss Kreuz/Characters

Characters from Weiss Kreuz include:

Kritiker

Weiss

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Animal Theme Naming - Each of them is code-named for a breed of cat: Abyssinian, Bombay, Balinese, and Siberian. Gluhen adds "Havana [Brown]" and "LaPerm," although unlike the original four these codenames are never used aloud in the anime (they belong to Kyou and Sena respectively)
Cartwright Curse - As a side effect of being Doom Magnets par excellance, nobody in Weiss has much luck keeping girlfriends alive. Yoji has it the worst, but everyone on the team except for Kyou has at least one instance.
Creepy Cool Crosses - A white cross is the team's logo, and they all wear red crosses on their "working clothes" in Gluhen. Both Aya and Youji wear silver crosses with their street clothes (justified in Aya's case, since he's at least shown to read the Bible and talk points on it with nuns).
Dark and Troubled Past
Doom Magnets
Flower Motifs: Each of the boys is associated with a particular flower: Aya is red roses, Omi is freesias, Youji is cattleya (a specific type of orchid), Ken is gentians, Sena is pansies, and Kyou is yellow roses.
Four Is Death - Aside from initially having four members, look at the fates of the Fourth Weiss team: two dead, one amnesiac, one in prison, one stabbed to not-quite-death on a street corner, and their boss giving up everything that makes him a nice person.
Hitmen With Hearts
It's Personal - The Third Weiss team (Aya, Omi, Ken and Youji) all have a fairly plausible reason to want Reiji Takatori dead. Fourth Weiss' new recruits, Kyou and Sena, both have a deeply personal reason to find out what the deal is with Koua Academy. Persia II all but admits he did this on purpose; Persia IV tells Rex outright that he did.
Necessarily Evil - How they perceive themselves.
Ragtag Bunch of Misfits - a failed P.I., a disgraced athlete, an amnesiac student, and a very angry young man out for revenge.
Shoot the Dog
True Companions - Played with. It's plain to the audience that the core four care about each other, but they're all so damaged and wrapped up in their own issues that, by the time they realize it, it's too late. In the OVA, Omi tells Ken not to worry, Aya and Youji will understand what they did because they're nakama; Ken just smiles wryly and thinks how he's never thought about them that way.
We Help the Helpless - And when they get there too late, they enact bloody vengeance.

Aya Fujimiya (Ran Fujimiya)

VA: Takehito Koyasu (JP), Paul Juhn (EN - Kapitel), Dan Green (EN - Gluhen)
Neither the devil nor death, I am just a murderer.

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Adaptation Dye Job - went from bright red hair in AAWS and Kapitel to brown in Gluhen. Might be an actual dye job, as most Side B color art gives him back the bright red color, but the one cover art that shows him as he was in the final episode of Gluhen uses the darker color. On the other hand, flashbacks and old photographs in Gluhen show him having the brown hair the whole time, so it's really anyone's guess.
Aloof Big Brother
A Man Is Not a Virgin - Fight Fire With Fire goes out of its way to reveal that Aya lost his virginity at 16. Otherwise, Aya shows absolutely no interest in sex - which stands out because Youji, Ken, and Omi do.
Asexuality - Ranjatai suggests this is the case with Aya and makes something of a point of his lack of sexual interest in Shizu.
Author Avatar - Of Takehito Koyasu.
Badass Longcoat - Gluhen.
Badass Teacher - Gluhen: Asami-sensei sees him this way after he stands up to S Class to defend Sena. Her perception is not exactly accurate; although Aya would probably have moved himself to defend any other innocent student in danger if given opportunity, the issue mostly never comes up.
Berserk Button - "TA-KA-TO-RIII!" And more generally anything to do with his little sister.
Big Brother Instinct - Compulsively, not just to his actual little sister but also to Taiyou (even though they're the same age), Sakura, Sena, and Yuki.
Big Damn Heroes - Repeatedly. Weiss as a team sometimes manage to play Big Damn Heroes to save the victim of the week, but Aya especially has a way of turning up to bail out his teammates when they're in trouble.
Combat Pragmatist - Best illustrated when Aya pulls a gun in the middle of a sword fight.
Cool Car - His white Porsche doesn't look like much in the original anime's lackluster animation, but is quite snazzy when viewed through the higher production values of Gluhen.
Diagonal Cut
Disney Death
Flower Motifs - His given name, "Ran," means "orchid," a fact played with more than once in the series.
I Call It Vera - according to character profiles, he calls his katana "Shion."
Important Haircut - Gluhen.
It's Not You, It's My Enemies - to both Sakura and his sister.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Katanas Are Just Better - Both played straight and subverted in equal measure.
Knight Templar Big Brother - To Aya-chan, and with good reason
Meaningful Rename - With three different versions between AAWS, Kapitel and the First Mission audio drama.
Older and Wiser - the only member of Weiss to get saner in Gluhen.
Pre-Mortem One-Liner - Aya gets more of these than anyone else in Weiss.
- Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner - Around Gluhen, he's a bit snarkier when he's not delivering the final blow.
The Protagonist - the number of Ran-centric CD dramas make it rather clear who is the main character.
Purple Eyes
Rapunzel Hair - Gluhen, at least up until the aforementioned Important Haircut.
Redheaded Hero - Strictly speaking.
Relative Error - Omi and Sakura both assume the cute, comatose girl he's caring for and using the name of is his lover, instead of his little sister. In Assassin and White Shaman, one of Ran's coworkers assumes Aya-chan is his girlfriend when she drags him away from his job to buy her something to eat.
Save the Day Turn Away - He removes himself completely from Aya-chan and Sakura's lives after saving them both from Essett and Schwarz at the end of Kapitel.
Tall, Dark and Snarky
Tragic Keepsake - takes his sister's name and one of her earrings.
Tsurime Eyes

Omi Tsukiyono (Mamoru Takatori)

VA: Hiro Yuki (JP)
Never forgive the bad ones.

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Adaptation Dye Job - went from dark blond hair in AAWS and Kapitel to a grayish color in Gluhen. As a possible justification: The Takatori family doesn't want it recognized that Omi Tsukiyono and Mamoru Takatori are the same person. Change the color, change the style, instant unrecognizable look.
The Archer - His preference is for a crossbow, but he uses everything from hand-thrown darts all the way up to a large compound bow.
Automatic Crossbows
Blue Eyes
Break the Cutie
Demoted to Extra - Side B
Deuteragonist - in Kapitel
Goggles Do Nothing - Lampshaded in the outtakes: "Finally an use for this goggles I've been wearing for 24 episodes!"
Laser-Guided Amnesia
Older Than He Looks - According to Forever White, Omi could easily pass for middle-school age.
Luke, I Am Your Father - Oh, where do we start? Let's see. Two of Weiss' targets are his older brothers, the man behind it all is his father, his potential love interest, Ouka, is his half-sister--but wait! His mother was sleeping with her brother-in-law on the sly, so his father is really his Uncle Shuichi--AKA Persia. So Ouka is actually his cousin. Parodied in the "Wish A Dream" CD drama, when Omi has a nightmare that not only is Ken his older brother but Youji is his father and Aya is his mother.
Manipulative Bastard - In and following Gluhen: "Hey, I know how I'll find Epitaph! I'll hire a confused, ticking-time-bomb of an amateur, teenage assassin whose mother murdered the rest of his family, and let him run wild. If he screws up enough times, they won't be able to resist the bait!"
Meaningful Name - "Mamoru" means "protection."
Meaningful Rename - Shuchi Takatori renamed Mamoru Takatori "Omi Tsukiyono" after rescuing him from his kidnappers. Tsukiyono Castle was the vacation home of the Takatori family and as of Dramatic Precious is the private residence of Saijou Takatori, the first Persia; "omi" means "retainer" or "servant."
Odd Name Out - Hirofumi, Masafumi, and... Mamoru? Possibly foreshadowing to the fact that Reiji already knew the kid wasn't his.
Parental Abandonment - Or is it?
Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: to Ouka Sakaki.
Shipper on Deck - Seems to be a Sakura/Aya fan.
Shorter Means Smarter
The Smart Guy - He's also the team's go-to guy for anything related to computers or other technology.
Significant Birth Date - Leap Day, February 29.
That Man Is Dead - Beginning with the end of Dramatic Precious, he gives up his identity as Omi and with it his remaining innocence, in order to take up his father's former position in Kritiker as Persia. The other members of Weiss still call him "Omi," but he lays that identity to rest for good after rejoining them for one more mission in Gluhen, and identifies himself as Mamoru Takatori thereafter.
Tyke Bomb - Persia took him in as a child following his kidnapping, and raised him to be an assassin.
Wise Beyond Their Years

Youji Kudou (Ryou Itou)

VA: Shinichiro Miki (JP)
Woman's enemy is my enemy.

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Adaptation Dye Job - Went from dark hair in An Assassin and White Shaman to blond hair in the anime.
Badass Longcoat - Gluhen.
Cartwright Curse - Yoji has the worst luck with women of anyone in Weiss, with at least seven women that we know of dying after he gets involved with them. This is partly the result of his role as a Honey Trap for Kritiker, but as Dramatic Precious proves, even nameless one-night-stands aren't safe.
Chivalrous Pervert - Deconstructed. He's got the personality type in full force - and because of that, his Cartwright Curse and his role as a Honey Trap take a heavy toll on him emotionally, leading to a protracted breakdown that starts in Dramatic Precious and reaches its culmination in a near-Face Heel Turn in Gluhen.
Cool Car - The Super 7.
Dead Person Conversation - Spends much of Gluhen talking to Asuka's ghost. Sometimes on the phone.
Demoted to Extra - Side B.
Tritagonist - Gluhen
Failure Knight
Florence Nightingale Effect
Gadget Watches - Hides his wire in his diver's watch.
Green Eyes
Handsome Lech
Honey Trap - Rare case where it's a man pulling this trick on women. And he pays for it since he tends to get emotionally involved.
Jade-Colored Glasses
Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Kill the Ones You Love - Three girlfriends that we know of (admittedly, at least with Tsujii the honeymoon was definitely over).
Knight in Sour Armor
Ladykiller in Love
Leave Her To Me - Near the end of Gluhen. It doesn't go all that well.
Love Makes You Crazy
More Than Mind Control - Tsuji does a number on him in Gluhen.
Polyglot - can speak Italian, read English, and probably teach art/flirt in German, as well.
Private Detective - his back story.
Razor Floss - His garrotte wire sometimes functions as this, although more often he simply strangles or restrains people with it.
Smoking Is Cool
Spell My Name with an "S" - Yoji, Youji, or Yohji? Variations in romanization aren't usually notable enough for the trope, but not even the official source material can keep the spelling straight.
Significant Birth Date - March 3rd, Girls' Day.
Sunglasses at Night - Kapitel.
Victory-Guided Amnesia / Identity Amnesia - Following his Disney Death at the end of Gluhen, he has a case of complete amnesia which allows him to forget about his past trauma and the things he did as a member of Weiss.
Walking Shirtless Scene - Mainly Gluhen, where his mission clothes lack a shirt. He occasionally forgets to do up the top three buttons on his shirt, though.
What the Hell, Hero? - He calls Ken out for thinking he can just run off with Yuriko: "How many people have you killed? And you can hold her with those arms?"
Wouldn't Hit a Girl - per Word of God. He actually kills three women over the course of the series (Neu, Schelle, and Tsuji) but only after each of them beats the crap out of him and leaves him with no alternative, and it emotionally destroys him every time, leading directly to the very bad place he's in during Gluhen.

Ken Hidaka

VA: Tomokazu Seki (JP)
It's too late to confess now.

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Adaptation Dye Job - Has Brown Eyes in the manga adaptations, but his eye color is inconsistent (brown, blue, and green at various different points) in the anime. The Gluhen redesign settles on green.
Badass Biker
Beleaguered Childhood Friend - Rather cruel variant, as Ken is an assassin ordered to kill his friend, Kase. Kase is a really sucky friend.
The Big Guy
Blood Knight - Dramatic Precious through Gluhen, though he seems to more or less get over it by Side B.
Break the Cutie
Cartwright Curse - His record is better than Yoji's, but not by very much. At least Yuriko got Put on a Bus...
Deliberate Injury Gambit - The former Trope Namer, back when it was named I Have Two Kidneys.
Deuteragonist - Side B, arguably Dramatic Precious. He's even the Protagonist of Verbrechen and Strafe.
Establishing Character Moment - in Assassin and White Shaman, when his reaction to "Remember this guy who attacked you yesterday? He's your new teammate!" is to punch Aya in the face, and then say "It's nice to meet you." Youji says this was how Ken "greeted" him, too.
Fingerless Gloves - While riding his motorcycle, and later, for his bagh nakh.
Goggles Do Nothing - The orange shirt around his waist, and not actually the goggles.
Horrible Judge of Character
Hot-Blooded
In Love with the Mark - In Dramatic Precious, he falls for Reika, who turns out to be one of Weiss's targets.
It's Not You, It's My Enemies - to Yuriko
Japanese Christian
Kill the Ones You Love - In Holy Children and Dramatic Precious.
Out of Focus - See here. The later installments of the series attempt to make up for it... with angst. Lots of angst.
Raised Catholic - Ken's religious upbringing is hinted at in the anime series, but much more apparent in the Drama CDs.
Self-Restraint - At the end of Gluhen he gets himself put into prison of his own volition, apparently via Takatori connections, in order to have "time to think."
Sunglasses at Night - Gluhen.
The Masquerade Will Kill Your Dating Life
Wolverine Claws - modified bagh nakh, retractable "tiger claws" hidden in his gloves. Very, very messy, up close and personal method of killing, and in the drama CDs, this is part of why he goes crazy.

Kyou Aguri

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

An Axe to Grind
Badass Longcoat / Fingerless Gloves - the one and only time we see him in mission clothes.
Big Brother Instinct
Dead Little Brother
Fatal Flaw - Sympathy for Sena, because he reminded Kyo of his younger brother.
Knight Templar Big Brother
Replacement Goldfish - Sena for his brother, indirectly leading to his death. A psychotic break that causes him to confuse Todo for his brother directly leads to it.
Sacrificial Lamb - Episode 5.

Sena Izumi (Takeru Kisaragi)

VA: Kappei Yamaguchi (JP)

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Blue Eyes
Died in Your Arms Tonight - Aya's.
Fatal Flaw - Not thinking things through and not being able to Shoot the Dog.
Kill the Cutie
Mysterious Parent - Has one.
New Transfer Student - his cover.
Sacrificial Lion
Weapon of Choice - Chakram.
Wide-Eyed Idealist - as much as a sixteen-year-old assassin can be.
What the Hell, Hero? - Aya yells at him for killing Inagaki without orders. Ken yells at him for getting Kyou killed.

Kritiker Agents

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

High Turnover Rate - Kritiker personnel have a pretty high mortality rate. Very few named members survive to the end of Gluhen, and unnamed Kritiker agents only appear to get slaughtered by the villains.
Theme Naming - Most Kritiker agents are known by their code names. Weiss and their handlers are named for cat breeds, the Aoba Center agents are named for flowers, and Crashers and their handler are named for chess pieces.

Persia II (Shuichi Takatori)

VA: Jurota Kosugi (JP)
White hunters of the night, deny these dark beasts their tomorrows.

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Byronic Hero: Oh my.
Cain and Abel - With his older brother, Reiji Takatori
Catch Phrase - See above.
Corruption of a Minor - He raised Omi to be an assassin after rescuing him from his kidnappers.
I Have Many Names - each team calls him by a different code name; aside from Weiss, who know him as Persia, he is "Marigold" to the Aoba Center team and "King" to Crashers.
Face Framed in Shadow
Not So Different - right before killing him, Reiji points out that the way he used Masafumi and Hirofumi is no different from the way Persia uses Weiss.
Omi I Am Your Father
Sunglasses at Night
Vigilante Man
What the Hell, Hero? - You know you've screwed up when it's the villain of the piece calling you out. More exactly: "You tell ME I use my sons to my advantage?! Look at the way you treat your four subordinates, you hypocrite! Specially the little guy whom you thought he was my kid... and who happens to be YOUR illegitimate son! Bye bye!"

Manx (Hanae Kitada)

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Almost-Dead Guy - In Dramatic Precious, after being fatally injured by La Mort, she holds on to life long enough to inform Weiss that Birman has been taken hostage and to give them their mission.
The Handler
Princess Curls
Sexy Secretary
Subordinate Excuse - She turns out to be in unrequited love with Persia II.

Birman

VA: Kikuko Inoue (JP)

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Driven to Suicide - After she is tortured by Ayame in Dramatic Precious, when Weiss insist on trying to rescue her rather than killing her as per their orders, she shoots herself in the head rather than allow her injuries to slow down their escape.
The Handler
I Will Only Slow You Down
Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette
Subordinate Excuse - Birman is in Unrequited Love with Persia III, Karasuma.

Botan

VA: Fumihiko Tachiki (JP)

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Fatal Family Photo
The Handler
Improbable Weapon User - Paper airplanes.
Odd Name Out - The only person working with Weiss to have a flower-themed codename (it means "peony"), instead of a breed of cat.

Persia III (Yoshirou Karasuma)

A description of the character goes here.

Rex

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

The Handler
Sempai-Kohai - Rex refers to Queen as her sempai.
Subordinate Excuse - Keeping the tradition alive, Rex seems to possibly have feelings for Persia IV, Mamoru Takatori.
Suspiciously Similar Substitute - You can make an argument for her being one of Birman.
The Watson - Persia sometimes explains his plans to her.
You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Persia I (Saijou Takatori)

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Dirty Old Man
Manipulative Bastard
Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant
Wife Husbandry - To Sano and Uno, two girls that he bought as children, enslaved and trained to be deadly bodyguards, used as sex toys, and was planning to have Mamoru marry one of them to ensure heirs.

Crashers

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Chess Motifs - The members of Crashers are code-named for chess pieces.
Five-Man Band - The inclusion of Aya into the previously four-man team turns them into this, as well as averting Four Is Death.

Knight (Yuushi Honjou)

VA: Toshihiko Seki

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Big Brother Instinct - has his own Ill Girl little sister, Taiyou.
The Hero - To Aya's Lancer. Or possibly The Lancer to Aya's Anti-Hero, depending on your mileage.
Vitriolic Best Buds - With Aya, mutually. Best example is when Aya asks how things are going, Knight says he's being weird, and Aya snarks back that he's not asking about Knight, he's asking about Knight's sister.
What the Hell, Hero? - In the last episode of Gluhen he calls out Persia IV for apparently sacrificing Weiss.
Whip Sword - his "cordon de argent."

Bishop (Reiichi Shirasagi)

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Mission Control
The Smart Guy - He's Crashers' mission planner.
Smart People Wear Glasses

Rook (Masato Tanuma)

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

The Big Guy
Cowboy Cop - Though Crashers aren't cops, he otherwise qualifies; he's put on suspension and Ran is brought in as his replacement after he gets hurt while disobeying orders during a mission.
Perma-Stubble
Shout-Out - Named after Takehito Koyasu's brother.
Smoking Is Cool

Pawn (Naru Uhyou)

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

VA: Koichi Tochika

The Chick
Stuff Blowing Up - Pawn is an explosives and demolitions expert.

Queen

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Catch Phrase - "Crashers is always awaiting your orders. Checkmate."
The Handler
You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Aoba Center

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Floral Theme Naming - Their codenames are the names of flowers: Kikyou means Chinese bellflower, Tsubaki means camellia, and Kuroyuri means black lily.

Kikyou

VA: Kaneto Shiozawa

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Big Brother Mentor - to Aya, compared to Shion's more aloof form of mentorship.
Dead Little Sister
Face Heel Turn - Kikyou's betrayal results in the eradication of Kritiker's Aoba Center team.
Faking the Dead
Foil - to Shion and to Aya.
I Am Your Opponent - When Weiss first confronts him, he notices that Aya wields a katana and announces that he'll be his opponent.
Long-Haired Pretty Boy
Mad Artist - Kikyou becomes the sensei of the "Art of Death" Cult which murders women, dismembers them, and arranges their body parts as an "art form."
The Obi-Wan - to Aya in Endless Rain. And, like Shion, subverted when Kikyou also turns out to have betrayed Kritiker and has to be killed by Aya.
Paper Fan of Doom - subverts Katanas Are Just Better by defeating Aya with a paper fan.
Spirit Advisor - to Aya via dreams. An evil Spirit Advisor who appears in Aya's nightmares to tell him how happy he is that Aya will be coming to join him in hell.

Tsubaki

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

The Big Guy
Get a Hold of Yourself, Man! - he hauls off and slaps Kuroyuri to keep him from rushing off to try to avenge Shion.
Old Retainer - to Kikyou

Kuroyuri

A description of the character goes here.

Essett

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Ancient Conspiracy
Spell My Name with an "S" - Should it be Eszett, Essett, SS, or ÃŸ? Fandom may never agree.

Schwarz

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Chronic Backstabbing Disorder - They backstab everyone they ever work for in the series, eventually backstabbing their way out of Essett entirely.
Karma Houdini
The Power of Friendship - Bizarrely enough, this or something like it is what enables Schwarz to defeat the Rosenkreuz trio in Gluhen, a point clarified by Crawford when he delivers his Hannibal Lecture to Berger: "That's right, we're in my head. But unlike in yours, we're not alone."
The Psycho Rangers

Brad Crawford

VA: Ryotaro Okiayu (JP)

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Battle in the Center of the Mind - With Berger in Gluhen
Combat Clairvoyance
Evil Counterpart - to Aya.
Four Eyes, Zero Soul - Kapitel
Hannibal Lecture - He gets a couple.
High-Class Glass - His character design for Gluhen trades his Scary Shiny Glasses for a monocle.
Scary Shiny Glasses
Spider Sense

Schuldig

VA: Hikaru Midorikawa (JP)

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Evil Counterpart - to Yoji.
Evil Redhead
For the Evulz
Hearing Voices - he complains that it gets hard to tell which thoughts are his.
I Was Just Passing Through - He saves Ken and Omi from Geisel in Gluhen but informs them that he plans to kill them next. Admittedly in Schuldig's case, unlike Nagi's below, this is probably more or less true.
Manipulative Bastard - "People's minds taste like honey."
Mind Control
More Than Mind Control - because he just really likes messing with people's heads in any way he can.
Neck Snap - He kills Geisel this way in Gluhen.
Telepathy

Farfarello (Jei)

VA: Ryusei Nakao (JP)

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Assassin Outclassin' - stands out as the only official target Weiss fails to kill.
Ax Crazy
Evil Counterpart - to Ken, a bit more directly than the previous two: they're both lapsed Catholics who begin to enjoy killing in bloody, up-close-and-personal ways.
Eyes of Gold
Eyepatch of Power
Faith Heel Turn - "Jei" was a devout Catholic until he learned that he was adopted and that his biological mother was the nun who was his teacher. As an adult he claims that his desire is to kill God, and spends his spare time torturing priests to death.
Karma Houdini - Again, it bears repeating. Farfarello is singled out as one of Weiss' targets, kills Ouka, almost kills Tot and arguably gets the happiest ending in the series.
Knife Nut - anything sharp and pointy, really.
Licking the Blade
Mad Love/Mind Game Ship/Rescue Romance - With the local Dark Magical Girl, Sally
White-Haired Pretty Boy

Nagi Naoe

VA: Nozomu Sasaki (JP)

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Alliterative Name
All of the Other Reindeer/Bullying a Dragon - Nagi hates humanity because he was tormented due to his telekinetic powers.
Evil Counterpart - to Omi.
Heel Face Turn - of sorts, in Gluhen
I Was Just Passing Through - He saves Aya from being shot by Shimojima in Gluhen, but informs Weiss he isn't there to help them.
Mind Over Matter
Only Sane Man - Then again, that's not saying much...
Peek-a-Bangs - Of the Emo variety, in Gluhen
Rapid-Fire Typing - via telekinesis, even
The Stoic
- Not So Stoic - at least until...
  - Superpower Meltdown

Schreient

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

All There in the Manual - All That Weiss touches on their backstories.
And Your Little Dog, Too - They try to use Aya-chan to get back at Aya for killing Masafumi. It doesn't work out very well for them.
Amazon Brigade
Bodyguard Crush - Hel, Neu and Schoen are all in love with Masafumi.
Broken Birds
Dark Action Girl - Four of them, specially Neu.
Distaff Counterpart - to Weiss & Schwarz. Lampshaded by Nagi, when he points out that they're Masafumi's attempt to copy Schwarz.
Four-Girl Ensemble - Hel is the smart, serious leader, Schoen is the pretty, vain one, Neu is the tough one, and Tot is the perky, childish one.
Mind Control - According to All That Weiss, Hel is the only not under mind control.
The Psycho Rangers - albeit not as direct a parallel to Weiss as the other examples, beyond being a team of four assassins.

Hel (Chizuru Aoi)

VA: Masako Katsuki (JP)

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Battle Butler
Meaningful Name - "Hel" is German for "bright."
Meganekko
Sexy Secretary
You Gotta Have Blue Hair
Evil Counterpart - to Aya.

Schoen (Karen Kitaura)

VA: Miki Ito (JP)

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Alliterative Name
The Fighting Narcissist
Meaningful Name - German for "beauty." She's a failed model.
Minor Injury Overreaction - Schoen flips out when Ken cuts her face and leaves a minor scar.
Whip It Good
Evil Counterpart - to Ken.

Neu (Asuka Murase)

VA: Kotono Mitsuishi (JP)

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Beauty Mark
Criminal Amnesiac - Guidebooks reveal that Neu is really an amnesiac Asuka, Youji's old partner/girlfriend. She was captured by Liott, drugged, broken down, and forced into prostitution until being sold as a guinea pig to Masafumi Takatori. The amnesia was probably a relief.
Broken Bird - see above description, although Neu presumably doesn't remember this.
Good Old Fisticuffs
Heel Face Mole
Meaningful Name - German for "new."
Sunglasses at Night
You Gotta Have Blue Hair
Evil Counterpart - to Youji.

Tot (Nanami Kyouno)

VA: Yuko Mizutani (JP), Rachael Lillis (EN)

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Abusive Parents - She says that her father was a "bad, bad man" towards her. She never says how bad he was, though.
Bare Your Midriff - her second battle outfit.
Dark Chick
Meaningful Name - German for "dead."
Odango
Parasol of Pain
Perky Female Minion
Psychopathic Manchild - Acts like a little girl, despite being 17.
Third Person Person
What Happened to the Mouse? - Okay. Tot comes back from the dead, presumably from Nagi's powers. Then she gets a five-second cameo in the final episode of Kapitel. So, um, what happened to her relationship with Nagi...?
You Gotta Have Blue Hair
Evil Counterpart - to Omi.

Takatori Family

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Big Screwed-Up Family

Reiji Takatori

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

VA: Norio Wakamoto (JP)

Abusive Parent - Subverted with Omi, as he really is his Evil Uncle.
Action Survivor - See Chekhov's Gun.
But for Me It Was Tuesday - although, after a minute, he does remember Aya... 's father.
Chekhov's Gun - That big shadowy thing that obscures the screen during certain scenes in his office? It's a katana. He knows how to use it. Very well.
Evil Uncle
Four Eyes, Zero Soul
Parental Favoritism - Ouka is clearly his favorite child.
Pet the Dog - His only redeeming quality is his genuine affection for his illegitimate daughter Ouka Sakaki.
Porn Stache
President Evil - Well, Prime Minister Evil. Although the positions are not the same thing, he still manages to fit the trope perfectly for the short time he holds the position before Aya kills him.
You Can Keep Him - When his young son Mamoru was kidnapped, he refused to pay the ransom and abandoned the boy to his kidnappers out of spite over the fact that Mamoru was actually the product of his wife's affair with his brother Shuichi, aka Persia.

Hirofumi Takatori

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

The Dutiful Son: Villainous version
Four Eyes, Zero Soul
Jerkass
Used to Be a Sweet Kid - As a teenager, he seemed to be quite a nice older brother to Mamoru... but after the kidnapping deal, Hirofumi grew into an asshole.
"Well Done, Son" Guy - Believes blindly in Reiji.

Masafumi Takatori

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

VA: Keiji Fujiwara (JP)

Kikuno Takatori

Reiji's deceased wife, matriarch of the family.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Arranged Marriage - To Reiji.
Broken Bird
Driven to Suicide - After Reiji refused to pay the ransom for the kidnapped Mamoru, poor Kikuno lost the will to live and killed herself.
Hot Mom.
Posthumous Character - Having died before the story started, Kikuno only appears in flashbacks.
Star-Crossed Lovers - With the boyfriend she had before having to marry Reiji (his younger brother Shuichi).
Tall, Dark and Bishoujo
Yamato Nadeshiko - From what we can see in the flashbacks.
Your Cheating Heart - She cheated on her husband Reiji with her beloved Shuichi, and Omi was born from that. Then again, Reiji himself had a daughter named Ouka with his mistress, Shizuka.

Koua Academy

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Todou

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Mayumi Tsujii

VA: Atsuko Tanaka (JP)

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Manipulative Bastard - Over the course of Gluhen she manages to do a number on Toudou, Kyou, and Yoji.
Neck Lift - She does this to Suika and later to Yoji.
Playing with Syringes - Less crazed than many scientists in the series, but no less unscrupulous.
You Gotta Have Green Hair

Sagiri and Suika

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Big Brother Instinct - Sagiri furiously attacks Aya for hurting Suika, begs Tsujii to save her even if it means dying himself, and dies to allow Suika to escape. It's a recurring motif.
Brother-Sister Team
Hannibal Lecture - Sagiri and Suika get Sena with this, but not Aya.
Mismatched Eyes - They each have one brown eye and one blue one.

Rosenkreuz

Berger

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

VA: Katsuyuki Konishi (JP)

Mind Control - He causes Ken, Sena, and Omi to see illusions, drags Crawford into a Battle in the Center of the Mind, and...
People Puppets - ...physically controls Shimojima, giving him a nasty Psychic Nosebleed in the process.
You Gotta Have Green Hair - Justified in his case due to extensive genetic engineering.

Geisel

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Playing with Fire
Pyromaniac
You Gotta Have Blue Hair - Justified in his case due to extensive genetic engineering.

Layla

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Mind Over Matter
You Gotta Have Pink Hair - Justified in her case due to extensive genetic engineering.

La Mort

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Face Heel Turn - They were Kritiker's second Weiss team. Then they went crazy.
Floral Theme Naming - Shion refers to the Tatarian aster; Azami refers to the thistle flower; Ayame means iris; Rindou refers to the Japanese gentian.
Flower Motifs - Aside from the Theme Naming: Shion's initial appearances involve ikebana, traditional Japanese flower arranging; he also goes to the flower shop where Aya's sister works and buys expensive orchids (a play on Aya's given name). Omi's last message to his teammates, notifying them that he's killed Rindou, reads "The gentian ''rindou'' has been plucked."
Four Is Death - Again. Still.
He Who Fights Monsters - Dramatic Precious indicates that their generally Ax Crazy conditions are the ultimate destination of the slippery slope that the present members of Weiss are currently on.
The Psycho Rangers - Weiss has a lot of Psycho Rangers.

Shion

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Big Bad - of the Dramatic Precious drama CDs.
Broken Pedestal
Evil Counterpart - to Aya.
Faking the Dead - in Endless Rain.
Nietzsche Wannabe - in Dramatic Precious.
The Obi-Wan - to Aya in the Endless Rain drama CD, as well as being the namesake of Aya's katana. Subverted when it turns out that Shion faked his own death and has turned against Kritiker.

Ayame

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Evil Counterpart - to Ken.
Precision-Guided Boomerang
Transgender - and very angry about it.

Azami

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Affably Evil - On his off time, Azami comes across as a pleasant fellow and gets along rather well with Yoji until the truth comes out.
Evil Counterpart - to Yoji.
Love Makes You Evil
Mad Love - With Ayame.
Musical Assassin - with a violin as his weapon.

Rindou

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Evil Counterpart - to Omi.
Tarot Motifs

Kryptonbrand

KR (Richard Krypton)

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Nana Mihirogi

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

The Handler
Kick Chick
Lady of War
Lethal Chef
Seven Is Nana: As their handler, she's Side B's seventh member.

Side B

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Domino Mask
Four Is Death - notable aversion; after the many repetitions of the trope in previous installments of the series, Kryptonbrand is a three-man team prior to the additions of Ken, Aya, and Yuki, and a six-man team thereafter. This may be why Kryptonbrand is ever so slightly less screwed up than Weiss.
Multinational Team - Ken & Aya = Japanese; Yuki = Japanese-American; Michel = Irish, raised in England; Chloe = born in Romania; Free = born in Liechtenstein.

Yuki

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

But Not Too Foreign - Yuki, the first of his new teammates that Aya meets after leaving Japan, is Japanese-American.
Kid with the Leash - Of sorts. In order to allow Yuki to keep the promise he made to Alison never to kill, Aya kills for him.
Meaningful Name - "Yuki" meaning "snow."
Mission Control
The Smart Guy
The Stoic
Stoic Spectacles - A head injury he suffers during the fighting between Orphan and Blue Eyes causes him to need glasses; coincidentally, Akagawa's betrayal and Alison's death during the same arc leaves him with an unusually stoic attitude for his age.

Chloe (Edward R. Krotznik)

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

The Beast Master
Dye Hard - Naturally a redhead.
Gratuitous German - and French, and English, and what appears to be Italian...
Green Thumb
Non-Human Sidekick - his owl, Trabant.
Something About a Rose
Stealth Pun - He's Romanian and hates direct sunlight.
Suspiciously Similar Substitute/Expy - Tall, blond, snarky flirt who teases his teammates while obsessing over a girl? He's Youji with an owl.

Michel E. Conrad

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Whip It Good

Free

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Facial Markings
Tarot Motifs
Warrior Poet - Well, a lot of them are a bit like this, but Free with his tarot cards is a particularly notable example.

Side Characters

Momoe

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Aya-chan Fujimiya

VA: Yui Horie (JP), Rachael Lillis (EN)

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Big Eater/Sweet Tooth - implied in a couple scenes, she certainly likes a great variety of foods, and one of radio dramas reveals she wanted to open a bakery when she grew up.
Break the Cutie
Did Sis Just Sell Flowers To Shion?
Genki Girl
Girlish Pigtails
Hidden Eyes - In the last episode of Gluhen and a brief shot of her in Side B. Her only other post-Kapitel appearance is in Dramatic Precious, which is a Radio Drama.
Ill Girl (in a Convenient Coma after being hit by a car in her birthday. And it was not an accident, for worse. She wakes up later, though.)
Living MacGuffin

Ouka Sakaki

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Brother-Sister Incest - Played with. She's believed to be Omi's half sister due to him being Mamoru, the youngest son of Reiji Takatori, who is also Ouka's dad. But wait, there's more! Since Mamoru was actually the son of Reiji's wife Kikuno and Reiji's brother, they're actually Kissing Cousins instead. Or were, considering that Ouka ends up kicking it. Oh wow, what a mess.
Daddy's Girl
Died in Your Arms Tonight - Omi's.
Famous Last Words - "Omi... I'm so glad I met you..."
Heroic Bastard - Reiji's illegitimate daughter.
I Let Gwen Stacy Die - to Omi
Ojou - Played with a little. Her classmates consider her rich and snobby, but she's much louder and more forceful than the typical Ojou. Turns out she's a rich politician's illegitimate daughter and her forcefulness is a result of feeling neglected by him when she was younger.
Plucky Girl
Princess Curls - smaller, face-framing ones.
Recurring Character - pops up in several episodes, hanging around the flower shop and being much more articulate and forward than the usual gaggle of fangirls.
Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl - with Omi.
Wax Museum Morgue - So according to "Tearless Dolls"... after her death, Ouka's lifeless body was pretty much turned into a mannequin and put in display in one of these? By others of the grieving, apparently maddened Reiji? What The HELL?!
You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Shizuka Sakaki

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Absurdly Youthful Mother - She's 34, Ouka is 15. Yeah, she had her when she was just 18-19.
Beauty Mark
Hot Mom - Of Ouka
Supreme Chef - Works as a restaurateur.
Tall, Dark and Bishoujo
The Mistress - To Reiji, in the past.

Sakura Tomoe

VA: Hiroko Kasahara (JP)

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

All Love Is Unrequited - She falls in love with Aya, although he doesn't seem to consider her as any more than a friend/surrogate little sister.
Bedsheet Ladder - She does this to escape from Schwarz's confinement to hide Aya-chan in a closet for Weiß to find.
Damsel in Distress
Expository Hairstyle Change / Important Haircut - She grows her hair long in the vague hope that it will appeal to Aya by increasing her resemblance to his sister. At the closing of Kapitel, however, she has it cut short again.
Modesty Bedsheet
Naive Everygirl
Plucky Girl
Replacement Goldfish - to Aya for his sister, temporarily.
Rescue Romance - She falls for Aya at least in part because he keeps rescuing her, although he doesn't return her feelings.
Twin Switch - Takes advantage of her resemblance to Aya's sister by stashing Aya-chan in a closet and taking her place when she's in danger. Schuldig is not amused when he finds out they've been screwed, but it doesn't stop him from using her to do it again to the Esszet elders.
You Go, Girl! - She's a rather decent athlete.

Asuka Murase

VA: Kotono Mitsuishi (JP)

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Beauty Mark
Boisterous Bruiser - Youji describes her as passionate and violent. You don't see it in the anime, but the one drama track that features her shows it in spades.
Death by Origin Story - Sort of. She didn't quite die, but otherwise fits the trope.
Cool Big Sis
Left Hanging - The series leaves the question of whether or not Neu is really Asuka pretty open-ended. Supplementary materials eventually confirm that she is.
Posthumous Character - Her original identity, at least, is dead and gone. Becomes a full-fledged example in Gluhen.
Private Detective

Maki

VA: Rio Natsuki

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Kouichirou Kase

VA: Yuji Ueda (JP)

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Yuriko Asakawa

VA: Michiko Neya

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Kaori Hibana

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Akira Hibana

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Badass Biker
Better to Die Than Be Killed - Subverted. He's about to kill Kaori and then kill himself, before he changes his mind and suicide charges the Rats so she can escape. He gets shot up and she gets captured.
Cowboy Cop
Foil - To Ken's personality and Aya's choices.
Leeroy Jenkins - Just once, though.

Taiyou Honjou

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Girlish Pigtails
Ill Girl - lost her sight in a car accident.
Meaningful Name - "Taiyou" means "sun."
Morality Pet - for both Knight and Ran.
Ojou

Sally Schumars

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Alliterative Name
All of the Other Reindeer - Her townspeople hated her and her family for their powers.
Burn the Witch - Was about to be burned alive, but Farfarello saved her.
Butt Monkey - For her ties with the Rosenkreuz group. And she doesn't have it easy with Schwarz, either.
Dark Magical Girl
Mad Love/Mind Game Ship/Rescue Romance - With Farfarello.
Shallow Love Interest
Shrinking Violet - considering her story, can you blame her?

Kimika Serizawa

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Broken Bird
Genki Girl
Kawaiiko
Shallow Love Interest - Even she admits it!
Stuffed Into the Fridge
Third Person Person

Nozomi Miyazawa

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Asami-sensei

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

A Death in the Limelight - There's only five episodes until the end, why are we suddenly getting back story...? Oh. Right.
Badass Teacher - She sees Aya this way, and she really wants to be one herself.
Died in Your Arms Tonight - Aya's.
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice - Goddamnit, Tsujii.
Kill the Cutie
Leitmotif - A particularly sweet, bubbly little song that plays whenever she acts cute around Aya.

Asuka Ito

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Kurumi Shinjou

A description of the character goes here.

Tropes exhibited by this character include:

Break the Cutie - She thinks her parents died in an accident, then she's chased by strange men, then it turns out her parents are still alive and had used her as a guinea pig for a strange drug, then her parents are killed in front of her by Side B, and then she goes to live with her parents' murderers and endure more experiments. She doesn't mind that last one too much as KB promised they want to discover the curable properties of the Human Interleukin-3 in her blood.
The Chick
Every Girl Is Cuter With Hair Decs
Feminine Women Can Cook - Compared to Mihirogi at least. Her food is almost edible, as opposed to not edible at all.
Important Haircut - She hacks off her waist-length braids after losing her parents and moving in with KB.
Improvised Weapon - In volume five she smacks Okita with the skateboard Ken had stolen earlier just as he's about to stab her.
MacGuffin Girl

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