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1!Honan Stride Team in general
2* 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".
3* 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.
4* FreudianTrio: The current Honan first years trio, as well Honan Golden Trio in the past.
5** Honan current first years trio:
6*** Superego: Takeru, that is calm and only think on how to improve for the sport.
7*** Id : Riku, hot-blooded and cheerful, and is very prone to mental game.
8*** 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.
9** Honan Golden Trio:
10*** 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.]]
11*** Id: Heath. The most ambitious and emotional of the three.
12*** 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.
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17!Sakurai Nana
18[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/char_291535.jpg]]
19The 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".
20-> '''Position''': Manager, relationer
21-> '''Voiced by''': Creator/KanaHanazawa (Japanese), Creator/NatalieHoover (English)
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23* AffectionateNickname: "Dosanko-chan" by Reiji and "Nana-pei" by Bantaro.
24* CannotSpitItOut: [[spoiler: Riku to Nana, in the visual novel. Also, Nana to Reiji.]]
25* CherryBlossomGirl: One of the meanings behind her surname is cherry blossom.
26* 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.]]
27* 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.
28* 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.
29* GirlishPigtails: Styles her hair like this.
30* HairColorDissonance: Her hair is either a very dark shade of blonde or a very light shade of brown.
31* [[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"]].
32* ObliviousToLove: She's unaware of her own feelings towards her love interest until someone else (usually Riko) has to point it out to her.
33* 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.
34* PassionateSportsGirl: Despite not actively competing in races, she takes great pride in being the relationer and manager, alongside taking both roles seriously.
35* PrincessesPreferPink: The princess motifs are present considering her dad's title. She is often associated with the color pink.
36* 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.]]
37* RaisedByGrandparents
38* 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.
39** 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.
40* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Nana is the sole girl to be part of a stride team in all the series.
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43!Yagami Riku
44[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yagami.jpg]]
45A 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.
46-> '''Position''': Runner
47-> '''Voiced by''': Creator/RyoheiKimura (Japanese), Creator/AustinTindle (English)
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49* 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.]]
50* CannotSpitItOut: [[spoiler: Riku to Nana, in the visual novel.]]
51* 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.]]
52* 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.]]
53* {{Keet}}
54* 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.]]
55* RedOniBlueOni: Riku is the red, Takeru is the blue.
56* SiblingYinYang: Riku is blonde, light-hearted and energetic. Tomoe, however, is black haired, aloof and gloomy. Their only similarity is their eye color.
57* 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.
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60!Fujiwara Takeru
61[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/takeru2.jpg]]
62A first-year student who famous stride runner in middle school. 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.
63-> '''Position''': Runner
64-> '''Voiced by''': Creator/NobuhikoOkamoto (Japanese), Creator/RiccoFajardo (English)
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66* 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.
67* BigYes: Does this when he beats his old senpai, Kazuki, in the quarter finals.
68* 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.
69* 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.]]
70* {{Deuteragonist}}: Shares this role with Riku as those two get the most focus out of the characters after Nana.
71* {{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.
72* 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.
73* 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.]]
74* MeaningfulName: His given name, Takeru, means revered, valuable, precious, noble, and exalted. This is very fitting since he's considered TheAce.
75* 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.
76* RedOniBlueOni: Riku is the red, Takeru is the blue.
77* SuperDrowningSkills: Takeru may be able to run on land just fine, but can't swim to save his life.
78* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Protein spread. He is often spreads that to whatever he is eating.
79* 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.
80* WhenHeSmiles: Takeru doesn't smile that much, but when he does...
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83!Kohinata Hozumi
84[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/char_291776.jpg]]
85A second-year student and 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".
86-> '''Position''': Runner
87-> '''Voiced by''': Creator/KenshoOno (Japanese), Creator/CliffordChapin (English)
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89* DraggedIntoDrag: Hozumi is forced to wear a dress when the team is modeling for Heath's sister brand.
90* DudeLooksLikeALady
91* GirlishPigtails
92* 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.]]
93* OlderThanTheyLook: Hozumi looks like a middle school student, but is a second year, one year ''older'' than Riku, Takeru and Nana.
94* 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.
95* RedOniBlueOni: Ayumu is the red, Hozumi is the blue.
96* TokenMiniMoe
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99!Hasekura Heath
100[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/heath_06.jpg]]
101A third-year student and the 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).
102-> '''Position''': Runner
103-> '''Voiced by''': Creator/DaisukeOno (Japanese), Creator/JasonLiebrecht (English)
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105* ButNotTooForeign: Heath and his sisters are half-British.
106* 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. ]]
107* InformedAttractiveness: Heath is considered the most handsome of the bachelors in the team, and he has been modeling since he was a kid.
108* RedOniBlueOni: Heath is the red, Kyosuke is the blue.
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111!Kuga Kyousuke
112[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/char_291956.jpg]]
113A 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.
114-> '''Position''': Runner
115-> '''Voiced by''': Creator/JunichiSuwabe (Japanese), Ivan Jasso (English)
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117* AffectionateNickname: Bantaro calls him "K".
118* CoolBike: Kuga rides a motorbike to school. It makes him look even more like a delinquent.
119* 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.]]
120* LongHairedPrettyBoy
121* 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.
122* RedOniBlueOni: Heath is the red, Kyosuke is the blue.
123* 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" ]]
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125!Kadowaki Ayumu
126[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/char_291778.jpg]]
127A 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.
128-> '''Position''': Runner
129-> '''Voiced by''': Creator/HiroShimono (Japanese), Creator/MicahSolusod (English)
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131* AffectionateNickname: Bantaro calls him "Wakki".
132* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: This foreshadows his odd one out characteristic. Specifically, [[spoiler: Ayumu is the only member of Honan team that you can't romance.]]
133* 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.]]
134* RedOniBlueOni: Ayumu is the red, Hozumi is the blue.
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137!Dan Yuujirou
138[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/char_291958.jpg]]
139The 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.
140-> '''Position''': Coach, advisor
141-> '''Voiced by''': Creator/RyotaroOkiayu (Japanese), Creator/JMichaelTatum (English)
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144* 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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