Bokurano/Characters

The Character Sheet for the series Bokurano

The Pilots

Takashi Waku

• Book Dumb
• Calling Your Attacks: Lampshaded

Waku: Can I shout when I attack? Koyemshi: Whatever floats your boat.

• Chick Magnet: In the manga, girls made a point to go to his soccer games just to see him
  • Averted in the anime. The only girls you see at the soccer game are cheerleaders who would have been there whether-or-not Waku was playing.
• Daisuke Sakaguchi
• Death by Falling Over (Subverted. The kids thought that Ushiro accidentally killed him by pushing him off Zearth's shoulder, but Waku was already dead)
• Decoy Protagonist
• I Know Madden Kombat
• 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.

Masaru Kodaka aka "Kodama"

• Anti-Hero: Type V
• Creepy Child
• Jerkass
• Kick the Dog (Or better said, burn the crab to death)
• Madness Mantra ("There's no way my dad could have died... There's no way my dad could have died...")
• Nietzsche Wannabe: Until he accidentally killed his dad.
• Purely Aesthetic Glasses (Wears Kokopelli's glasses like this, and even lampshades the fact when his older brother notices them)
• The Short Guy with Glasses (Subverted. While he is the shortest of the male pilots, the glasses he wears are Kokopelli's and not his', which he uses as Purely Aesthetic Glasses)
• Soichiro Hoshi
• Token Evil Teammate
• Ubermensch: He believed he and his father were this.
• Villain Protagonist
• "Well Done, Son" Guy

Daiichi Yamura

• Death by Adaptation
• Disappeared Dad (Mr. Yamura was helping a friend who ran into some trouble. He comes back toward the end of the series)
• Earn Your Happy Ending (Sorta. While he dies, his siblings are safe.).
• Promotion to Parent
• Tomokazu Sugita

Mako Nakarai aka "Nakama"

• All of the Other Reindeer (due to her beautiful single mother being a bar hostess and ex-prostitute, Mako always faced this from other kids)
• Enjo Kosai (Almost gets into it. Her "client" turns out to be a friend of her mom, and manages to talk her out.)
• Little Miss Snarker
• Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette
• Shorttank
• Daughter Of A Whore
• Sugar and Ice Personality
• What the Hell, Hero?. In the manga, towards the Alpha Bitch who bullies her. After catching said Alpha Bitch and her boyfriend going at it right before her battle.
• 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.

Isao Kako

• All of the Other Reindeer (was heavily bullied at school)
• 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.)
• Dirty Coward
• Dropped a Bridge on Him
• Freak-Out (In the middle of his own fight. Chizu stabs him, then)
• Jerkass
• Power Fantasy (has a disturbing dream in which he takes revenge on everyone who was mocking him)

Chizuru Honda aka "Chizu"

• Beauty Mark (under her left eye)
• Break the Cutie (She was a cute girl with a crush on her school teacher. Then It Got Worse.)
• Broken Bird (Of the Yandere kind)
• Groin Attack (During her fight, she gets Zearth to kick the enemy robot like this)
• 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. Who uses it to injure Hatagai.)
• Good Is Dumb: Her family in the manga Subverted, however, as it is eventually IMPLIED that the would-be car thief was merely trying to return a favor.
• Rape as Drama
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: In the manga. Using half a kilometre tall Humongous Mecha, no less.
• Teen Pregnancy (played very straight)
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds.
• Yandere (and HOW)

Kunihiko Moji

• Big Brother Mentor (to a degree)
• Kouki Miyata
• Love Triangle (with his Ill Boy friend Nagi and a girl named Tsubasa Hiiragi)
  • I Want My Beloved to Be Happy (removes himself out of the picture to make Nagi and Tsubasa happy)
• Shoot the Shaggy Dog (He wants his heart to be harvested and given to Nagi after he dies. However, Nagi dies during his battle. Whoops.)
  • Not in the manga, fortunately.

Maki Ano

• 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 pass away smiling.)
• Bokukko
• Cool Big Sis: In the anime at least, she seems to see herself as this to Kana
• Dying Dream: Maki holding her newborn brother, probably.
• Happily Adopted
• Mama Bear (Do NOT harm Kana in front of her)
• Otaku (Both she and her dad)
• Team Mom
• Tomboy and Girly Girl (With Anko, Kana and Komo)

Yousuke Kirie

• 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: Kirie stabs Hatagai in the stomach after he offers him to teach him his way of life
  • Also his Crowning Moment of Awesome and Shut UP, Hannibal scene. Annoying part is that it turned out to be non-lethal.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass (a surprisingly effective, pragmatic and skilled pilot. Who would've thought of it?)
  • He made Zearth jump.
• Gentle Giant
• Heroic Self-Deprecation (Seeing his Hikikomori cousin suffer so much makes him question his own worth. Same goes to his Ill Girl mom)
• The Stoic in the anime
  • Not So Stoic in the manga.)
• Talking the Monster to Death (Sorta, as he drives an enemy pilot to suicide with words alone)
• Tragic Keepsake In the manga, Chizu gives him her knife before dying. He uses it to stab Hatagai later.
• Wise Beyond Their Years

Takami Komoda aka "Komo"

• Disappeared Dad (in the anime, Congressman Komoda gets killed off.)
• Elegant Classical Musician: Is an accomplished piano player Turns out to be a plot point in the manga, where she wins without fighting via luring her rival into her last recital.
• Go Out with a Smile (Manga)
• Lonely Rich Kid
• Mamiko Noto
• The Ojou
• Plucky Girl ("Compared to the loneliness and frustration that Father felt, I feel nothing for falling into a hole!")
• Tall, Dark and Bishoujo

Aiko Tokosumi aka "Anko"

• Armor-Piercing Slap (In the anime she applies several to Youko while giving her a heartfelt What the Hell, Hero? after Kirie outs her before dying.)
• Dance Battler (Manga only, where she uses her dance experience to catch upon her elusive opponent)
• Darkskinned Blonde (Partially. Her hair is light brown, but her skin tone is darker than the other kids)
• Died in Your Arms Tonight and Go Out with a Smile (anime, when she perishes in Kanji's embrace)
  • She dies in her father's arms in the manga, but not smiling.
• Freak-Out (After the aforementioned incident with Youko, Koyemshi punishes the girl by choosing her as the next pilot. Understandably, she shuts down. And then she gets better)
• Caught with Your Pants Down (By Koyemshi, in the manga. It wasn't anything sexual, mind you! Just her indulging into her Idol's fantasies.)
• Idol Singer (What she wanted to be, at least in the manga.)
• Out of Focus (In the anime. She didn't received as much attention as other pilots during her episode, which focused a great deal of time on the media exploits regarding Zearth. Her TWO crowning moments of awesome were also missing on the adaptation.)
• Plucky Girl (Specially in the manga, where she continues fighting even after having her legs burned off)
• Rousing Speech (In the manga, before dying)
• Ship Tease (Her interactions with Kanji in the anime can be seen as this, to a degree)
• Stepford Smiler ( In the anime, when her dad is caught in an affair and her Hot Mom goes Lady Drunk mode, Anko hides her distress at both this and her position as the next pilot. She acts happy and sweet, but when she and her friend Kanji are alone, she cries in his arms.)
• Taking the Bullet (In the manga, she pushes Machi out of the way of corrosive substance that an enemy robot injected into the cockpit. Because of it, she got her legs burned off.)
• Token Romance (With Kanji, but only in the anime. Since it occurs with no build up prior to the episode where it happens, it comes as kinda awkward.)

Kanji Yoshikawa

• Ho Yay (with Ushiro, in the manga)
• Kenji Nojima
• Snow Means Death
• Wise Beyond Their Years

Youko Machi

• 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.)
• Dead Little Sister (in the manga, for Koeyemshi)
• Dying Alone (in the anime)
• It's All My Fault (Blames herself for the whole mess as she's the one who brought the kids to Kokopelli's cave.)
• The Mole
• Nice Hat (Has a very cute white one)
• Not Funny Anymore (In the manga, Machi says the kids might have assassins sent after them, which causes a pretty funny effect on the kids. She's shot to death some episodes later, and Koyemshi has to kill her to ease her suffer.)
• Plucky Girl
• Redemption Equals Death (in the anime)
• Snow Means Death
• Spanner in the Works (in the anime, upon Ushiro's request she out-gambits and kills Koyemshi, undoing his cruel manipulations on him and Kana and forcing her way into the contract.)
• Tomato in the Mirror (She is Koeyemshi's little sister)
• Unrequited Love (for Ushiro)
• Wham! Episode ( Before she can fight her battle in the manga, she gets shot in the head.)
• Yuko Sanpei

Kana Ushiro

• The Danza: Voiced by Kana Asumi.
• Girlish Pigtails
• Love Martyr: She goes through all kinds of shit at her older brother's hands, but still loves him and tries to take care of him.
• Moe (Her first scene in the anime has Anko, Maki and Komo gushing over how cute and sweet she is. They looked like they were this close to ask Ushiro "Can we take her home, Ushiro-kun? Pleeeeeease?")
• Sole Survivor and Spared by the Adaptation (only in the anime)
• The Woobie
• Wise Beyond Their Years
• Yamato Nadeshiko (One in training)

Jun Ushiro

• Aloof Big Brother: More like Abusive Big Brother to Kana.
  • Big Brother Bully: Not Played for Laughs
• Asexual
• Defrosting Ice Queen: Though he really took his time.
• Dying Alone (anime)
• Four Eyes, Zero Soul --> Defrosting Ice King
• Junko Minagawa
• Luke, I Am Your Father (Ushiro, Captain Tanaka is your true mom. She's dying, though. Eeeh...)
• Missing Mom (He abuses Kana because their mom succumbed to Death by Childbirth. Or so he thought)
• Oblivious to Love: Poor Youko
• Stoic Spectacles
• Vomit Indiscretion Shot ( in the manga, during his battle. He's in an Heroic BSOD because of the stress and throws up on his lap, so he has to put on a custom uniform.)
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds (In the manga, AND HOLY SHIT HOW! And for worse, it's not our world he's trying to single-handedly destroy - he has to kill every single inhabitant of the other Earth if he wants to save ours. And he does.
• Yakuza Prince (In the anime, then subverted. His father Ichiro was a Yakuza heir, but after he was killed by his enemies, his mom Miko (later, Misumi Tanaka) gave Ushiro away to her cousin so he'd have a normal life.)

Others

Kokopelli ( or better said, Garaku-sensei.)

• Hiroki Tochi
• My God, What Have I Done? ("I'm sorry", he says when the kids leave his cave. And with good reason)
• Sacrificial Lamb

Koyemshi/Dung Beetle ( or better said, Shirou Machi)

• Akira Ishida
• Aloof Big Brother (To Youko)
• The Atoner:: In the manga.
• Cluster F-Bomb
• Good Scars, Evil Scars (As Shirou, he has a huge scar on his face)
• I Always Wanted to Say That: Koyemshi at the start of his battle at the end of the manga: "Zearth, take-off."
• The Imp
• Jerkass (to Complete Monster levels in the anime. He's not a saint in the manga either, but Youko's death softens him a little.)
• Manipulative Bastard
• Out-Gambitted (In the anime, by Ushiro and Youko)
• Nay Theist: Manga only-- Koyemshi believes that it's better to think of the mecha battles as natural phenomena and God as a yet-undiscovered law of physics, because "it's better that way" ... Probably because the idea that God might be behind the pruning is not a comfortable thought.
• Pet the Dog: Koyemshi can appear nearly sympathetic in the manga, when he displays some signs of care for Machi.
• Perpetual Smiler: His human form in the manga.
• Redemption Equals Death (In the manga becomes the last pilot of Zearth)
• Robot Buddy: Subverted—Koyemshi doesn't always tell the kids things they really ought to know.
• 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)
• 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.)
• Shoot the Dog (has to put a mortally injured Youko out of her misery in the manga, which lets him show a slightly softer side.)
• Trickster Mentor: Subverted in the anime; Koyemshi is such a Jerkass that he torments the children simply because he enjoys seeing them suffer.

Captain Misumi Tanaka

• Action Girl
  • Action Mom
• Cool Big Sis (to the girls of the group, despite being older than the standard)
• Good-Looking Privates
• Hot Mom: Reveals that she has a daughter Kana's age. Also, she's Ushiro's mother.
• Mommy Had A Good Reason For Abandoning You (To Ushiro. With different per media reasons, but still damn good).
• Naomi Shindo
• Team Mom Oh, the freaking irony.

Masamitsu Seki

• Good-Looking Privates
• Heroic Sacrifice (He willingly becomes a living target to help Kanji in his battle)
• Scars Are Forever (In the TV series he loses an arm after threatening Koyemshi, then has it replaced with a prothesis)

Morihiro Hatagai

• 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)
• Karma Houdini
  • Not quite.
• Kenichi Suzumura (Playing Against Type, AND HOW)
• Moral Event Horizon (Everything he did to Chizu. In the manga, he sets her to be gangraped by his friends and doesn't give a shit when she gets pregnant because of that. In the anime, he takes pictures of their sex activities and posts them to the internet. )
• Spell My Name with an "S" (He is Morihiro Hatagai in the manga, but Hiroyuki Hatagai in the anime.)

Akira Tokosumi

• 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
• Tohru Furusawa
• Your Cheating Heart: (In the anime)

Kunio Shouji

• Fingore (Threatens Koyemshi with a gun, gets his fingers severed. He later gets them reattatched.)

Tamotsu Sakakibara

• The Alcoholic
• Canon Foreigner (appears only in the anime)
• Cloudcuckoolander
• My Greatest Failure: Was a friend of Ushiro's deceased father Ichirou, blames himself for his death
• Plucky Comic Relief: Says a lot about the show when the funniest character is an ex-con.

Kouichi/Tomoe Komoda

• Adults Are Useless (Averted, as mentioned)
• My Greatest Failure (Komo's death is this for him, in the manga.)
• Reasonable Authority Figure (in the anime, he's a congressman. In the manga, he's in the military)
• 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.)

Ichiko Honda

• 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)
• Onee-Sama (to her little sister Chizu)
• Saeko Chiba
• Tomboy and Girly Girl (The tomboy to Chizu's girly girl)

Miko Nakarai

• Hooker with a Heart of Gold
• Hot Mom
• Parents as People
• Sayaka Ohara

Ichirou

• Death by Origin Story (His murder at the hands of other Yakuza sets off the deal with Tanaka, baby!Jun and the Ushiros)
• Disappeared Dad
• Kenjiro Tsuda
• Yakuza (More exactly, a Yakuza heir)