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* FiveManBand: Stride teams need five runners and a relationer to support them to avoid obstacles. The Honan Stride team works in such way:
** TheLeader: Riku, being the most energetic out of all of them.
** TheLancer: Takeru, considered TheAce, the one most driven into stride and whose efforts help the team the most.
** TheBigGuy: Heath, who despite being the captain is the tallest out of all the team and the one who started it. His parts in the track usually is the longest, or the steepest slope, that needs extra stamina to maintain the lead.
** TheChick: Nana, the only girl and the only one to have a position other than runner.
** TheTrickster: Hozumi, who loves jokes and pranks and acts as TheLancer when associated with Heath.
** SixthRanger: Ayumu, the odd one out, being the only not to be specially interested in stride (he's actually the sole member of the Shogi club) and being dragged into the team to complete the five runner number. In the game, he's also the only teammate that can't be romanced. [[spoiler: After getting injured in the race against Mihashi, he's replaced by Kuga.]]
** TheLeader: Riku, being the most energetic out of all of them.
** TheLancer: Takeru, considered TheAce, the one most driven into stride and whose efforts help the team the most.
** TheBigGuy: Heath, who despite being the captain is the tallest out of all the team and the one who started it. His parts in the track usually is the longest, or the steepest slope, that needs extra stamina to maintain the lead.
** TheChick: Nana, the only girl and the only one to have a position other than runner.
** TheTrickster: Hozumi, who loves jokes and pranks and acts as TheLancer when associated with Heath.
** SixthRanger: Ayumu, the odd one out, being the only not to be specially interested in stride (he's actually the sole member of the Shogi club) and being dragged into the team to complete the five runner number. In the game, he's also the only teammate that can't be romanced. [[spoiler: After getting injured in the race against Mihashi, he's replaced by Kuga.]]
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* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Surprisingly, with the amount of TechnicolorHair and TechnicolorEyes running rampant. This foreshadows his odd one out characteristic. Specifically, [[spoiler: Ayumu is the only member of Honan team that you can't romance.]]
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* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Surprisingly, with the amount of TechnicolorHair and TechnicolorEyes running rampant. This foreshadows his odd one out characteristic. Specifically, [[spoiler: Ayumu is the only member of Honan team that you can't romance.]]
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* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Surprisingly, with the amount of YouGottaHaveBlueHair and TechnicolorEyes running rampant. This foreshadows his odd one out characteristic. Specifically, [[spoiler: Ayumu is the only member of Honan team that you can't romance.]]
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* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Surprisingly, with the amount of YouGottaHaveBlueHair TechnicolorHair and TechnicolorEyes running rampant. This foreshadows his odd one out characteristic. Specifically, [[spoiler: Ayumu is the only member of Honan team that you can't romance.]]
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* PrincessesPreferPink: The [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses princess motifs are present considering her dad's title.]] She is often associated with the color pink.
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* PrincessesPreferPink: The [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses princess motifs are present considering her dad's title.]] title. She is often associated with the color pink.
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* CharacterTitle: Technically, since whoever ends up with Nana falls under this. With Joe Sakurai known as "King of stride", which makes Nana "Princess of stride", therefore her love interest would be considered "Prince of stride".
* CherryBlossomGirl: One of the meanings behind her surname is cherry blossom.
* DudeMagnet: Even if you don't pursue their respective routes, it's pretty clear that Riku, Takeru, and Reiji are interested in Nana. You also have Hozumi, Heath, and Kyosuke for consideration.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Yamato and Leica, Takeru's and Reiji's dogs respectively, take an immediate liking to her, which is unusual for the former's dog.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Yamato and Leica, Takeru's and Reiji's dogs respectively, take an immediate liking to her, which is unusual for the former's dog.
* HairColorDissonance: Her hair is either a very dark shade of blonde or a very light shade of brown.
* ObliviousToLove: She's unaware of her own feelings towards her love interest until someone else (usually Riko) has to point it out to her.
* PassionateSportsGirl: Despite not actively competing in races, she takes great pride in being the relationer and manager, alongside taking both roles seriously.
* PrincessesPreferPink: The [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses princess motifs are present considering her dad's title.]] She is often associated with the color pink.
* PrincessesPreferPink: The [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses princess motifs are present considering her dad's title.]] She is often associated with the color pink.
* BigYes: Does this when he beats his old senpai, Kazuki, in the quarter finals.
* {{Deuteragonist}}: Shares this role with Riku as those two get the most focus out of the characters after Nana.
* FantasyForbiddingFather: Once his dad finds out that the team lost against Ichijyokan, he wants Takeru to quit the team altogether, study English, go abroad, and learn to become a humanitarian like him.
* MeaningfulName: His given name, Takeru, means revered, valuable, precious, noble, and exalted. This is very fitting since he's considered TheAce.
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* MinorLivingAlone: Similar to Nana's situation, he used to live in Hyogo, a different prefecture in Japan, before moving to Tokyo to attend Honan so could pursue stride. Unlike Nana though, he doesn't have any family there, so he falls under this trope.
* RedOniBlueOni: Riku is the red, Takeru is theblue.blue.
* SuperDrowningSkills: Takeru may be able to run on land just fine, but can't swim to save his life.
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* SuperDrowningSkills: Takeru may be able to run on land just fine, but can't swim to save his life.
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* WallPinOfLove: Subverted. He does this to Nana, not to confess his love, but to confess his unease with the team's future when they have trouble finding a replacement member for Ayumu.
* WhenHeSmiles: Takeru doesn't smile that much, but when he does...
* WhenHeSmiles: Takeru doesn't smile that much, but when he does...
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Hozumi is the sweetest guy on the team, so it's quite damning when Heath has to hold him back from attacking the relationer from Ichijyokan when he admitted to instructing his teammate to tackle Ayumu which led to his GameBreakingInjury.
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* AllLoveIsUnrequited: He was in love with Nana's mom, Akino, back when they were in university. Obviously, his feelings were not reciprocated.
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* GirlishPigtails: Styles her hair like this.
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* HairDecoration: Nana replaces her plain hairties with pink ribbons for stride races.
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* HairDecoration: Hozumi uses hairclips to keep his bangs out of the way when doing stride.
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* HairDecoration: Heath uses a headband most of the time, only taking it off when modeling or taking a bath.
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-> '''Position''': Manager, relationer
-> '''Voiced by''': Creator/KanaHanazawa (Japanese), Natalie Hoover (English)
-> '''Voiced by''': Creator/KanaHanazawa (Japanese), Natalie Hoover (English)
* AffectionateNickname: "Dosanko-chan" by Reiji and "Nana-pei" by Bantaro.
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A freshman who becomes friends with Nana on their first meeting. He is cheerful and friendly, also has good motor skills. He loves all kinds of sports except Kabbadi, and wishes to join all of the sports clubs in the school. His family runs a bakery, and his older brother Tomoe is a famous name in Stride community.
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A freshman first year student who becomes friends with Nana on their first meeting. He is cheerful and friendly, also has good motor skills. He loves all kinds of sports except Kabbadi, and wishes to join all of the sports clubs in the school. His family runs a bakery, and his older brother Tomoe is a famous name in Stride community.community.
-> '''Position''': Runner
-> '''Voiced by''': Creator/RyoheiKimura (Japanese), Austin Tindle (English)
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A famous stride runner in middle school who is always cool and stoic. His only interest is stride. He usually wears glasses with no frames on top, but during practice he uses contacts. He tends to feel people's legs to determine their talent.
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A first-year student who famous stride runner in middle school who is always school. Always cool and stoic. His stoic, his only interest is stride. He usually wears glasses with no frames on top, but during practice he uses contacts. He tends to feel people's legs to determine their talent.
-> '''Position''': Runner
-> '''Voiced by''': Creator/NobuhikoOkamoto (Japanese), Ricco Fajardo (English)
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The caring eldest son of a big family. Looks cute, loves collecting small animal plushies, but actually loves terrible jokes and wants to work in the theater. Even if he's injured, he always carries a smile. His technique is such that he relies more on acrobatic parkour skills rather than running speed to overtake others, thus being touted as "The Trickster of Honan".
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-> '''Voiced by''': Creator/KenshoOno (Japanese), Clifford Chapin (English)
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Leader of the Stride club. Full of manly spirit, he has a dependable aura. He's half British and has two sisters; one is president of a company, the other is a model. Heath himself also models sometimes against his will. He didn't feel practice was necessary since the club doesn't have enough members to even race, and thus was de-registered by the Japanese Stride Association (JSA).
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-> '''Voiced by''': Creator/DaisukeOno (Japanese), Jason Liebrecht (English)
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A former member of Honan's stride club. He's considered as a somewhat scary person because an incident where he took the blame for and quit stride club. Kuga has a mysterious vibe to him and may often appear as a loner.
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A third-year student and a former member of Honan's stride club. He's considered as a somewhat scary person because an incident where he took the blame for and quit stride club. Kuga has a mysterious vibe to him and may often appear as a loner.loner.
-> '''Position''': Runner
-> '''Voiced by''': Creator/JunichiSuwabe (Japanese), Ivan Jasso (English)
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* AffectionateNickname: Bantaro calls him "K".
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* HiddenDepths: Kyosuke [[spoiler: being at first unwilling to clear his name and only becomes motivated to do it with the help of Kaede and Kaede's father. Despite school rumours, he is a very kind and gentle person, having being resigned to his slandered name before the start of the game. ]]
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He is a passionate Shogi player first, self-proclaimed "King" and leader of the Shogi club (the only true member), reluctant runner second. He was a relationer last year, and relayed information to Heath and Hozumi in the 2-on-2 race. He then contemplated quitting the team and the Shogi club because he has no talent as a runner.
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A second-year student. He is a passionate Shogi player first, self-proclaimed "King" and leader of the Shogi club (the only true member), reluctant runner second. He was a relationer last year, and relayed information to Heath and Hozumi in the 2-on-2 race. He then contemplated quitting the team and the Shogi club because he has no talent as a runner.runner.
-> '''Position''': Runner
-> '''Voiced by''': Creator/HiroShimono (Japanese), Micah Solusod (English)
-> '''Position''': Runner
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* AffectionateNickname: Bantaro calls him "Wakki".
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The coach and advisor of the Stride team. He often speaks using four-character idiomatic phrases. Somehow, he never uses the same ones.
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The coach and advisor of the Stride team. He often speaks using four-character idiomatic phrases. Somehow, he never uses the same ones. Yujiro was a former athlete along with Joe, Ms. Sakura and Koichi, so he does have experience both as a runner and as a relationer.
-> '''Position''': Coach, advisor
-> '''Voiced by''': Creator/RyotaroOkiayu (Japanese), J. Michael Tatum (English)
-> '''Position''': Coach, advisor
-> '''Voiced by''': Creator/RyotaroOkiayu (Japanese), J. Michael Tatum (English)
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!Honan Stride Team in general
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Honan Academy's designated color is blue. For the members, Nana is pink, [[RedOniBlueoni Riku is red when Takeru is blue]], Heath and Ayumu are green (although with different shades), Hozumi is yellow, and Kuga is black.
* FiveManBand: Stride teams need five runners and a relationer to support them to avoid obstacles. The Honan Stride team works in such way:
** TheLeader: Riku, being the most energetic out of all of them.
** TheLancer: Takeru, considered TheAce, the one most driven into stride and whose efforts help the team the most.
** TheBigGuy: Heath, who despite being the captain is the tallest out of all the team and the one who started it. His parts in the track usually is the longest, or the steepest slope, that needs extra stamina to maintain the lead.
** TheChick: Nana, the only girl and the only one to have a position other than runner.
** TheTrickster: Hozumi, who loves jokes and pranks and acts as TheLancer when associated with Heath.
** SixthRanger: Ayumu, the odd one out, being the only not to be specially interested in stride (he's actually the sole member of the Shogi club) and being dragged into the team to complete the five runner number. In the game, he's also the only teammate that can't be romanced. [[spoiler: After getting injured in the race against Mihashi, he's replaced by Kuga.]]
* FreudianTrio: The current Honan first years trio, as well Honan Golden Trio in the past.
** Honan current first years trio:
*** Superego: Takeru, that is calm and only think on how to improve for the sport.
*** Id : Riku, hot-blooded and cheerful, and is very prone to mental game.
*** Ego: Nana, connects both and when she is very nice, she is also pretty tactical by herself. There is a reason why she's the relationer, you know.
** Honan Golden Trio:
*** Superego: Tomoe. Albeit is more prone to feels upset than Kuga, his actions is more based on logic with less consideration on moral, for example [[spoiler: Pushing Riku to his limits and belittling him to develop his talent.]]
*** Id: Heath. The most ambitious and emotional of the three.
*** Ego: Kuga. Although initially it's pretty hard to see who is the superego and ego between him and Tomoe because both are very calm, collected and stoic, he is the ego, because he connects both Heath and Tomoe. By the time he's out form the club, Heath and Tomoe lost contact with each other, but both still contacts him sometimes.
!Sakurai Nana
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The player character in the visual novel and the main protagonist of the anime, Nana is a hardworking girl who moved alone from Hokkaido to Tokyo, and has transferred to Honan Academy due to her admiration of the old Stride team, becoming the stride club's manager and relationer. Her father, Sakurai Joe, is known as the "King of Stride".
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* CannotSpitItOut: [[spoiler: Riku to Nana, in the visual novel. Also, Nana to Reiji.]]
* ChildhoodFriends: [[spoiler: Nana, Riku, and Takeru met at one of the annual EOS Pre-Parties while accompanying their parents, ran a race for kids, and [[http://i.imgur.com/YtFRyKE.jpg won]]. They promised each other to meet again in highschool to do stride again. Unfortunately, only Takeru remembers the promise, and the other two don't even recognize him because he got a lot thinner. Unsurprisingly he's not pleased about this, and [[http://i.imgur.com/lrHyVib.jpg flips out]] after Ayumu's injury because Nana was considering giving up.]]
* [[LikeFatherLikeSon Like Father Like Daughter]]: Joe Sakurai, Nana's father, [[spoiler: is the coordinator for most stride competitions and is considered the "king" of the sport". Nana, likewise, participated on stride competitions since she was little and in the Kakyoin match she's called the "princess"]].
* ParentalNeglect: Nana's mom passed away when she was little. Her father left for the US due to [[spoiler: his work being coordinating stride competitions]]: Nana was left in her grandparents' care and later moved with other relatives when she transferred to Tokyo.
* PsychicLink: [[spoiler: Nana's mother passed down her ability to her daughter, presumably. Both of them are so powerful that they can trigger a scenario known as Overflow, where the PsychicLink extends to the audience as well. Everyone can hear each other's thoughts. Nana's mother did it once in their team's race, and Nana does it herself during the final match against Kakyoin regardless of the route chosen.]]
* RaisedByGrandparents
* SatelliteCharacter: Despite Nana being the one that starts the plot, later in the series she doesn't do much other than being the relationer and giving the cast some kind of female presence. The boys don't even pay her too much attention outside of Riku blushing when looking at her a couple of times on episode 1, and in episode 2 they don't react when she's put on a cheerleader outfit. Most of the plot is developed through all the other male characters.
** Subverted in the visual novel, where she is the main character. The entire story is told from her perspective, and we get great insight into her thoughts. She pulls the team together and helps each of the boys solve their backstory problems in their routes.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Nana is the sole girl to be part of a stride team in all the series.
!Yagami Riku
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A freshman who becomes friends with Nana on their first meeting. He is cheerful and friendly, also has good motor skills. He loves all kinds of sports except Kabbadi, and wishes to join all of the sports clubs in the school. His family runs a bakery, and his older brother Tomoe is a famous name in Stride community.
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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Riku feels terribly overshadowed [[spoiler: by his brother Tomoe, who he considers as a genius and thinks no matter how hard he works, he'll never reach his level.]]
* CannotSpitItOut: [[spoiler: Riku to Nana, in the visual novel.]]
* ChildhoodFriends: [[spoiler: Nana, Riku, and Takeru met at one of the annual EOS Pre-Parties while accompanying their parents, ran a race for kids, and [[http://i.imgur.com/YtFRyKE.jpg won]]. They promised each other to meet again in highschool to do stride again. Unfortunately, only Takeru remembers the promise, and the other two don't even recognize him because he got a lot thinner. Unsurprisingly he's not pleased about this, and [[http://i.imgur.com/lrHyVib.jpg flips out]] after Ayumu's injury because Nana was considering giving up.]]
* HairDecoration: Nana replaces her plain hairties with pink ribbons for stride races.
* HiddenDepths: Riku [[spoiler: has his complex out of being shadowed by Tomoe, as well as not understanding Tomoe's fervent dedication to training. It's the reason why he's so determined to get the hell out of doing anything related to Stride, only Nana manages to convince him.]]
* {{Keet}}
* LoveAtFirstSight: [[spoiler: In the visual novel, Riku falls for Nana literally on the first day of school. There are traces of this in the anime as well.]]
* RedOniBlueOni: Riku is the red, Takeru is the blue.
* SiblingYinYang: Riku is blonde, light-hearted and energetic. Tomoe, however, is black haired, aloof and gloomy. Their only similarity is their eye color.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Yakisoba bread. Because it is his family bakery's specialty, it is often sold out and he don't have the chance to bring it to school, but he eats it often enough to be called his trademark favorite food.
!Fujiwara Takeru
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A famous stride runner in middle school who is always cool and stoic. His only interest is stride. He usually wears glasses with no frames on top, but during practice he uses contacts. He tends to feel people's legs to determine their talent.
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* AdaptationalSexuality: Takeru is a bachelor in the original game. In the anime he has no romantic interest in Nana and instead is implied to have a crush on Riku.
* CanineCompanion: Takeru and his dog train together, with his dog running alongside him whenever he goes out jogging. Before he entered Honan and met Nana, it was his only friend.
* ChildhoodFriends: [[spoiler: Nana, Riku, and Takeru met at one of the annual EOS Pre-Parties while accompanying their parents, ran a race for kids, and [[http://i.imgur.com/YtFRyKE.jpg won]]. They promised each other to meet again in highschool to do stride again. Unfortunately, only Takeru remembers the promise, and the other two don't even recognize him because he got a lot thinner. Unsurprisingly he's not pleased about this, and [[http://i.imgur.com/lrHyVib.jpg flips out]] after Ayumu's injury because Nana was considering giving up.]]
* {{Expy}}: The anime doesn’t even try to pretend that Takeru isn’t [[Anime/{{Free}} Nanase Haruka]] with glasses. He even has a RunningGag of doing something inappropriate related to his sport (groping people’s legs and stripping respectively) in public. When he takes off his shirt and glasses in episode 7, the transformation is complete.
* HiddenDepths: Takeru [[spoiler: has his own personal dreams conflict with that of his father's expectations. He left his home to study in Honan to pursue his own dreams, so he is a boarding student. His loner tendencies are out of a lack of social communication proficiency, which led to conflicts time and again with his father. Nana teaches him how to take better care of himself.]]
* {{Megane}}
* RedOniBlueOni: Riku is the red, Takeru is the blue.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Protein spread. He is often spreads that to whatever he is eating.
!Kohinata Hozumi
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The caring eldest son of a big family. Looks cute, loves collecting small animal plushies, but actually loves terrible jokes and wants to work in the theater. Even if he's injured, he always carries a smile. His technique is such that he relies more on acrobatic parkour skills rather than running speed to overtake others, thus being touted as "The Trickster of Honan".
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* DraggedIntoDrag: Hozumi is forced to wear a dress when the team is modeling for Heath's sister brand.
* DudeLooksLikeALady
* GirlishPigtails
* HairDecoration: Hozumi uses hairclips to keep his bangs out of the way when doing stride.
* HiddenDepths: Hozumi [[spoiler: is from a broken family and tries his hardest to care for his siblings. He holds great resentment for his father whom he thought ditched his mother and him, but the truth was that his father's business was crumbling and he didn't want them to get involved. In an even more cruel twist, Hozumi only finds out after his father dies.]]
* OlderThanTheyLook: Hozumi looks like a middle school student, but is a second year, one year ''older'' than Riku, Takeru and Nana.
* RedOniBlueOni: Ayumu is the red, Hozumi is the blue.
* TokenMiniMoe
!Hasekura Heath
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Leader of the Stride club. Full of manly spirit, he has a dependable aura. He's half British and has two sisters; one is president of a company, the other is a model. Heath himself also models sometimes against his will. He didn't feel practice was necessary since the club doesn't have enough members to even race, and thus was de-registered by the Japanese Stride Association (JSA).
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* ButNotTooForeign: Heath and his sisters are half-British.
* HairDecoration: Heath uses a headband most of the time, only taking it off when modeling or taking a bath.
* HiddenDepths: Heath [[spoiler: has to deal with the aftermath of the Golden Trio disbanding, as well as the fact that he is the weakest out of the three of them. As a result, he doesn't really have much hope for the team until Nana came onto the scene. Compared to Hozumi and Takeru, his family dynamics are a lot more positive. ]]
* InformedAttractiveness: Heath is considered the most handsome of the bachelors in the team, and he has been modeling since he was a kid.
* RedOniBlueOni: Heath is the red, Kyosuke is the blue.
!Kuga Kyousuke
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A former member of Honan's stride club. He's considered as a somewhat scary person because an incident where he took the blame for and quit stride club. Kuga has a mysterious vibe to him and may often appear as a loner.
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* CoolBike: Kuga rides a motorbike to school. It makes him look even more like a delinquent.
* HiddenDepths: Kyosuke [[spoiler: being at first unwilling to clear his name and only becomes motivated to do it with the help of Kaede and Kaede's father. Despite school rumours, he is a very kind and gentle person, having being resigned to his slandered name before the start of the game. ]]
* LongHairedPrettyBoy
* MysticalWhiteHair: Kuga has a long mane of white hair and he's easily the most mysterious and "magical" out of the main cast, always analyzing how the wind goes and so on.
* RedOniBlueOni: Heath is the red, Kyosuke is the blue.
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Played with Kuga. Kuga was ''rumored'' as this thanks to his delinquent-like appearance (goes to school with a bike, [[ChainedByFashion a chain dangling from his pocket]], etc), and then there is Heath's incident. Bonus that his hair is not only white, but also long. Also, his [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience character color]] is black. Emphasis on ''rumored'',[[spoiler: that it's not the truth. In fact, he actually is an aversion of this trope. He invoked this trope in people's eyes by taking all the blame for the sake of maintaining the club. Also when you go for his route, you will think of him as "the nicest person you'll ever met" ]]
!Kadowaki Ayumu
[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/char_291778.jpg]]
He is a passionate Shogi player first, self-proclaimed "King" and leader of the Shogi club (the only true member), reluctant runner second. He was a relationer last year, and relayed information to Heath and Hozumi in the 2-on-2 race. He then contemplated quitting the team and the Shogi club because he has no talent as a runner.
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* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Surprisingly, with the amount of YouGottaHaveBlueHair and TechnicolorEyes running rampant. This foreshadows his odd one out characteristic. Specifically, [[spoiler: Ayumu is the only member of Honan team that you can't romance.]]
* GameBreakingInjury: In episode 4, [[spoiler: Ayumu injures himself during the race against Mihashi when he jumps into a tree. He's unable to join in any stride races since then.]]
* {{Megane}}
* RedOniBlueOni: Ayumu is the red, Hozumi is the blue.
!Dan Yuujirou
[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/char_291958.jpg]]
The coach and advisor of the Stride team. He often speaks using four-character idiomatic phrases. Somehow, he never uses the same ones.
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* PassingTheTorch: [[spoiler: From the parental generation to the children's generation. Nana's parents were part of a stride team during their university days, with Nana's mother being the relationer and Nana's father, Yujiro and Sakura-chan being runners. Presumably this is why Yujiro is the supervising teacher for the Honan team. Throughout the game, Sakura-chan and Yujiro give Nana advice, and Nana's father also trying to get her under his wing.]]
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Honan Academy's designated color is blue. For the members, Nana is pink, [[RedOniBlueoni Riku is red when Takeru is blue]], Heath and Ayumu are green (although with different shades), Hozumi is yellow, and Kuga is black.
* FiveManBand: Stride teams need five runners and a relationer to support them to avoid obstacles. The Honan Stride team works in such way:
** TheLeader: Riku, being the most energetic out of all of them.
** TheLancer: Takeru, considered TheAce, the one most driven into stride and whose efforts help the team the most.
** TheBigGuy: Heath, who despite being the captain is the tallest out of all the team and the one who started it. His parts in the track usually is the longest, or the steepest slope, that needs extra stamina to maintain the lead.
** TheChick: Nana, the only girl and the only one to have a position other than runner.
** TheTrickster: Hozumi, who loves jokes and pranks and acts as TheLancer when associated with Heath.
** SixthRanger: Ayumu, the odd one out, being the only not to be specially interested in stride (he's actually the sole member of the Shogi club) and being dragged into the team to complete the five runner number. In the game, he's also the only teammate that can't be romanced. [[spoiler: After getting injured in the race against Mihashi, he's replaced by Kuga.]]
* FreudianTrio: The current Honan first years trio, as well Honan Golden Trio in the past.
** Honan current first years trio:
*** Superego: Takeru, that is calm and only think on how to improve for the sport.
*** Id : Riku, hot-blooded and cheerful, and is very prone to mental game.
*** Ego: Nana, connects both and when she is very nice, she is also pretty tactical by herself. There is a reason why she's the relationer, you know.
** Honan Golden Trio:
*** Superego: Tomoe. Albeit is more prone to feels upset than Kuga, his actions is more based on logic with less consideration on moral, for example [[spoiler: Pushing Riku to his limits and belittling him to develop his talent.]]
*** Id: Heath. The most ambitious and emotional of the three.
*** Ego: Kuga. Although initially it's pretty hard to see who is the superego and ego between him and Tomoe because both are very calm, collected and stoic, he is the ego, because he connects both Heath and Tomoe. By the time he's out form the club, Heath and Tomoe lost contact with each other, but both still contacts him sometimes.
!Sakurai Nana
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The player character in the visual novel and the main protagonist of the anime, Nana is a hardworking girl who moved alone from Hokkaido to Tokyo, and has transferred to Honan Academy due to her admiration of the old Stride team, becoming the stride club's manager and relationer. Her father, Sakurai Joe, is known as the "King of Stride".
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* CannotSpitItOut: [[spoiler: Riku to Nana, in the visual novel. Also, Nana to Reiji.]]
* ChildhoodFriends: [[spoiler: Nana, Riku, and Takeru met at one of the annual EOS Pre-Parties while accompanying their parents, ran a race for kids, and [[http://i.imgur.com/YtFRyKE.jpg won]]. They promised each other to meet again in highschool to do stride again. Unfortunately, only Takeru remembers the promise, and the other two don't even recognize him because he got a lot thinner. Unsurprisingly he's not pleased about this, and [[http://i.imgur.com/lrHyVib.jpg flips out]] after Ayumu's injury because Nana was considering giving up.]]
* [[LikeFatherLikeSon Like Father Like Daughter]]: Joe Sakurai, Nana's father, [[spoiler: is the coordinator for most stride competitions and is considered the "king" of the sport". Nana, likewise, participated on stride competitions since she was little and in the Kakyoin match she's called the "princess"]].
* ParentalNeglect: Nana's mom passed away when she was little. Her father left for the US due to [[spoiler: his work being coordinating stride competitions]]: Nana was left in her grandparents' care and later moved with other relatives when she transferred to Tokyo.
* PsychicLink: [[spoiler: Nana's mother passed down her ability to her daughter, presumably. Both of them are so powerful that they can trigger a scenario known as Overflow, where the PsychicLink extends to the audience as well. Everyone can hear each other's thoughts. Nana's mother did it once in their team's race, and Nana does it herself during the final match against Kakyoin regardless of the route chosen.]]
* RaisedByGrandparents
* SatelliteCharacter: Despite Nana being the one that starts the plot, later in the series she doesn't do much other than being the relationer and giving the cast some kind of female presence. The boys don't even pay her too much attention outside of Riku blushing when looking at her a couple of times on episode 1, and in episode 2 they don't react when she's put on a cheerleader outfit. Most of the plot is developed through all the other male characters.
** Subverted in the visual novel, where she is the main character. The entire story is told from her perspective, and we get great insight into her thoughts. She pulls the team together and helps each of the boys solve their backstory problems in their routes.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Nana is the sole girl to be part of a stride team in all the series.
!Yagami Riku
[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yagami.jpg]]
A freshman who becomes friends with Nana on their first meeting. He is cheerful and friendly, also has good motor skills. He loves all kinds of sports except Kabbadi, and wishes to join all of the sports clubs in the school. His family runs a bakery, and his older brother Tomoe is a famous name in Stride community.
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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Riku feels terribly overshadowed [[spoiler: by his brother Tomoe, who he considers as a genius and thinks no matter how hard he works, he'll never reach his level.]]
* CannotSpitItOut: [[spoiler: Riku to Nana, in the visual novel.]]
* ChildhoodFriends: [[spoiler: Nana, Riku, and Takeru met at one of the annual EOS Pre-Parties while accompanying their parents, ran a race for kids, and [[http://i.imgur.com/YtFRyKE.jpg won]]. They promised each other to meet again in highschool to do stride again. Unfortunately, only Takeru remembers the promise, and the other two don't even recognize him because he got a lot thinner. Unsurprisingly he's not pleased about this, and [[http://i.imgur.com/lrHyVib.jpg flips out]] after Ayumu's injury because Nana was considering giving up.]]
* HairDecoration: Nana replaces her plain hairties with pink ribbons for stride races.
* HiddenDepths: Riku [[spoiler: has his complex out of being shadowed by Tomoe, as well as not understanding Tomoe's fervent dedication to training. It's the reason why he's so determined to get the hell out of doing anything related to Stride, only Nana manages to convince him.]]
* {{Keet}}
* LoveAtFirstSight: [[spoiler: In the visual novel, Riku falls for Nana literally on the first day of school. There are traces of this in the anime as well.]]
* RedOniBlueOni: Riku is the red, Takeru is the blue.
* SiblingYinYang: Riku is blonde, light-hearted and energetic. Tomoe, however, is black haired, aloof and gloomy. Their only similarity is their eye color.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Yakisoba bread. Because it is his family bakery's specialty, it is often sold out and he don't have the chance to bring it to school, but he eats it often enough to be called his trademark favorite food.
!Fujiwara Takeru
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A famous stride runner in middle school who is always cool and stoic. His only interest is stride. He usually wears glasses with no frames on top, but during practice he uses contacts. He tends to feel people's legs to determine their talent.
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* AdaptationalSexuality: Takeru is a bachelor in the original game. In the anime he has no romantic interest in Nana and instead is implied to have a crush on Riku.
* CanineCompanion: Takeru and his dog train together, with his dog running alongside him whenever he goes out jogging. Before he entered Honan and met Nana, it was his only friend.
* ChildhoodFriends: [[spoiler: Nana, Riku, and Takeru met at one of the annual EOS Pre-Parties while accompanying their parents, ran a race for kids, and [[http://i.imgur.com/YtFRyKE.jpg won]]. They promised each other to meet again in highschool to do stride again. Unfortunately, only Takeru remembers the promise, and the other two don't even recognize him because he got a lot thinner. Unsurprisingly he's not pleased about this, and [[http://i.imgur.com/lrHyVib.jpg flips out]] after Ayumu's injury because Nana was considering giving up.]]
* {{Expy}}: The anime doesn’t even try to pretend that Takeru isn’t [[Anime/{{Free}} Nanase Haruka]] with glasses. He even has a RunningGag of doing something inappropriate related to his sport (groping people’s legs and stripping respectively) in public. When he takes off his shirt and glasses in episode 7, the transformation is complete.
* HiddenDepths: Takeru [[spoiler: has his own personal dreams conflict with that of his father's expectations. He left his home to study in Honan to pursue his own dreams, so he is a boarding student. His loner tendencies are out of a lack of social communication proficiency, which led to conflicts time and again with his father. Nana teaches him how to take better care of himself.]]
* {{Megane}}
* RedOniBlueOni: Riku is the red, Takeru is the blue.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Protein spread. He is often spreads that to whatever he is eating.
!Kohinata Hozumi
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The caring eldest son of a big family. Looks cute, loves collecting small animal plushies, but actually loves terrible jokes and wants to work in the theater. Even if he's injured, he always carries a smile. His technique is such that he relies more on acrobatic parkour skills rather than running speed to overtake others, thus being touted as "The Trickster of Honan".
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* DraggedIntoDrag: Hozumi is forced to wear a dress when the team is modeling for Heath's sister brand.
* DudeLooksLikeALady
* GirlishPigtails
* HairDecoration: Hozumi uses hairclips to keep his bangs out of the way when doing stride.
* HiddenDepths: Hozumi [[spoiler: is from a broken family and tries his hardest to care for his siblings. He holds great resentment for his father whom he thought ditched his mother and him, but the truth was that his father's business was crumbling and he didn't want them to get involved. In an even more cruel twist, Hozumi only finds out after his father dies.]]
* OlderThanTheyLook: Hozumi looks like a middle school student, but is a second year, one year ''older'' than Riku, Takeru and Nana.
* RedOniBlueOni: Ayumu is the red, Hozumi is the blue.
* TokenMiniMoe
!Hasekura Heath
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Leader of the Stride club. Full of manly spirit, he has a dependable aura. He's half British and has two sisters; one is president of a company, the other is a model. Heath himself also models sometimes against his will. He didn't feel practice was necessary since the club doesn't have enough members to even race, and thus was de-registered by the Japanese Stride Association (JSA).
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* ButNotTooForeign: Heath and his sisters are half-British.
* HairDecoration: Heath uses a headband most of the time, only taking it off when modeling or taking a bath.
* HiddenDepths: Heath [[spoiler: has to deal with the aftermath of the Golden Trio disbanding, as well as the fact that he is the weakest out of the three of them. As a result, he doesn't really have much hope for the team until Nana came onto the scene. Compared to Hozumi and Takeru, his family dynamics are a lot more positive. ]]
* InformedAttractiveness: Heath is considered the most handsome of the bachelors in the team, and he has been modeling since he was a kid.
* RedOniBlueOni: Heath is the red, Kyosuke is the blue.
!Kuga Kyousuke
[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/char_291956.jpg]]
A former member of Honan's stride club. He's considered as a somewhat scary person because an incident where he took the blame for and quit stride club. Kuga has a mysterious vibe to him and may often appear as a loner.
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* CoolBike: Kuga rides a motorbike to school. It makes him look even more like a delinquent.
* HiddenDepths: Kyosuke [[spoiler: being at first unwilling to clear his name and only becomes motivated to do it with the help of Kaede and Kaede's father. Despite school rumours, he is a very kind and gentle person, having being resigned to his slandered name before the start of the game. ]]
* LongHairedPrettyBoy
* MysticalWhiteHair: Kuga has a long mane of white hair and he's easily the most mysterious and "magical" out of the main cast, always analyzing how the wind goes and so on.
* RedOniBlueOni: Heath is the red, Kyosuke is the blue.
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Played with Kuga. Kuga was ''rumored'' as this thanks to his delinquent-like appearance (goes to school with a bike, [[ChainedByFashion a chain dangling from his pocket]], etc), and then there is Heath's incident. Bonus that his hair is not only white, but also long. Also, his [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience character color]] is black. Emphasis on ''rumored'',[[spoiler: that it's not the truth. In fact, he actually is an aversion of this trope. He invoked this trope in people's eyes by taking all the blame for the sake of maintaining the club. Also when you go for his route, you will think of him as "the nicest person you'll ever met" ]]
!Kadowaki Ayumu
[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/char_291778.jpg]]
He is a passionate Shogi player first, self-proclaimed "King" and leader of the Shogi club (the only true member), reluctant runner second. He was a relationer last year, and relayed information to Heath and Hozumi in the 2-on-2 race. He then contemplated quitting the team and the Shogi club because he has no talent as a runner.
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* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Surprisingly, with the amount of YouGottaHaveBlueHair and TechnicolorEyes running rampant. This foreshadows his odd one out characteristic. Specifically, [[spoiler: Ayumu is the only member of Honan team that you can't romance.]]
* GameBreakingInjury: In episode 4, [[spoiler: Ayumu injures himself during the race against Mihashi when he jumps into a tree. He's unable to join in any stride races since then.]]
* {{Megane}}
* RedOniBlueOni: Ayumu is the red, Hozumi is the blue.
!Dan Yuujirou
[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/char_291958.jpg]]
The coach and advisor of the Stride team. He often speaks using four-character idiomatic phrases. Somehow, he never uses the same ones.
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* PassingTheTorch: [[spoiler: From the parental generation to the children's generation. Nana's parents were part of a stride team during their university days, with Nana's mother being the relationer and Nana's father, Yujiro and Sakura-chan being runners. Presumably this is why Yujiro is the supervising teacher for the Honan team. Throughout the game, Sakura-chan and Yujiro give Nana advice, and Nana's father also trying to get her under his wing.]]
