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Kunahama Flying Circus Club
Masaya Hinata
Masaya Hinata
The protagonist of the visual novel. He gets roped into being a coach for the Kunahama Flying Circus club.
- Accidental Pervert: He can't stop seeing Rika in her underwear. He also unintentionally sees the girls in his club changing. Though on that occasion he doesn't stop looking...
- Affectionate Nickname: "Coach" note by Asuka. She still keeps calling him that even after, depending on the medium, he or Madoka insisted that everyone should call each other by their first names to deepen the group's camaraderie.
- Brought Down to Badass: In theory, he should be rusty from not playing FC for years. Despite that, he's able to outmaneuver Asuka during a practice drill and still remembers his old techniques.
- Broken Ace: He used to be a very talented FC player, but he quit after a combination of being overwhelmed by the expectations of others, the pressure from the upcoming world class tournament and suffering a devastating defeat against a novice, all of which caused him to start to hate flying.
- Childhood Friend Romance: In 2 different routes: Misaki's, as Masaya has known since middle school, and Asuka's.
- Decomposite Character: Much of his roles in the visual novel's story have been taken by other characters in the anime adaptation as a result of him being Demoted to Extra. While his issues and job as the Kunahama Team's coach remain the same in the anime, his roles as Asuka's main pillar of support and the person she ends up holding onto on her first flight to school are both taken by Misaki, Rika takes up his role of helping Mashiro find her center in the Flying Circus sport, and Madoka ends up being the one who suggests that the team members call each other by first name to establish camaraderie, something he originally proposed in the visual novel among others.
- Demoted to Extra: The ending credits for the anime don't list him in the top bracket with the heroines, he is dumped into the "Other Characters" section of the official website, and has generally seen no promotion for the anime (when his voice actor was announced, it simply described him as "Asuka's classmate." All these point to him being demoted to a side-character in favor of pushing Asuka as the main character, and generally focusing on the 4 heroines.
- Forgotten First Meeting: As shown in Episode 9, he's obviously the boy who met Asuka during their childhood. It's also hinted, and outright revealed in the VN that Misaki was the novice who defeated him.
- He's Back!: In Episode 10, he's willing to don his Grav-Shoes and participate in practice drills with his club.
- Precocious Crush: It turns out that he liked Aoi in the past and even confessed to her, only for her to laugh while refusing him as revealed in the True Ending.
- Offscreen Moment of Awesome: In the True Ending, Masaya participates in the Fall Tournament as a Skywalker, and it's implied he did well.
- Worf Had the Flu: According to his flashback, he was already in his Heroic BSoD before he lost to a novice. Once he snaps out of it in the present, he's performing at least on par with the other players, including the person who beat him in the first place.
Asuka Kurashina
Asuka Kurashina
- "I don't think you'll find anyone with interests as straightforward as me."
An all-natural girl who prefers to fly in straight-on.
Voiced by: Misato Fukuen (credited as Natsu Sawada for PC game) (Japanese), Jill Harris (English)
The main heroine of the visual novel and protagonist in the anime. She just transferred to Masaya's class at Kunahama, and became enamoured with the Flying Circus sport, quickly joining the club.
- Audience Surrogate: Asuka generally fills this role, as she's completely a Fish out of Water, and has no idea about the concepts introduced in the show such as the grav shoes and the Flying Circus tournament. Thus this provides a handy excuse for the other characters to then do an Info Dump to introduce the concepts to the audience.
- Awesome by Analysis: This is what Asuka's main strength when it comes to FC. She's able to quickly grasp advanced techniques and strategies and even make one on the spot. It only became apparent later due to her lack of knowledge and experience to the sport, when it became obvious.
- Catchphrase: "Dame dame desu."Translation
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: The same day she learns to fly, Kurashina Asuka performs an expert-level maneuver, the Air Kick Turn. In standard issue school shoes.
- Cloudcuckoolander: She can be a bit of an airhead from time to time.
- The Cutie: An older example than most, but she's this.
- The Determinator: Despite often being behind in points, she doesn't want to give up during her matches.
- The Ditz: She somehow transferred into a school that issues Grav-Shoes to all its students, and yet never heard about it before her first day.
- Fish out of Water: Has no idea how the grav shoes work, nor how to play the Flying Circus game.
- Forgotten First Meeting: It's all but stated that Masaya inspired her to learn to fly back when they were kids.
- Genki Girl: Seems a bit too excited at times, such as at the beginning of the first episode, where she loses her balance twice while standing on top of a wall. She ends up falling anyway after slipping. And when she first learns how to fly, her ecstatic nature and flinging her arms arounds causes her to lose her balance while flying.
- I Am Not Left-Handed: In her final match against Inui during the Fall Match, Asuka decides to go all out by turning off her balance limiters. The resulting match was too awesome to describe.
- It Was a Gift: Her "hair clip" on the left side of her hair. Flashbacks reveal that her "hair clip" used to be a part of Masaya's Zephyrion action figure's wing, given to her as a gift before they parted.
- Jack of All Stats: An All-Rounder player. In her route, Masaya trains her to into a Fighter type All-Rounder.
- New Transfer Student: She just moved to the islands at the start of the story.
- Plucky Girl: Losses don't seem to put her down much.
- The Pollyanna: Despite losing some matches, this doesn't depress her at all. In fact, she seems to genuinely enjoy competing in the matches, and will usually congratulate the winner if she loses.
- In the anime, she does briefly suffer a Heroic BSoD after losing to a match against Inui, but Misaki helps her to regain her confidence.
- Skilled, but Naive: Despite not having any training on flying prior to showing up at Kunahama, she displays some incredible talent at FC. And during a mock battle with Misaki in episode four while exercising on foot, she manages to do a backflip high in the air, surprising everyone there, including herself.
- The Watson: Her ignorance of FC allows others (usually Masaya) to explain it.
Misaki Tobisawa
Misaki Tobisawa
- "I won't lose to anyone when it comes to eating!"A young lady who enjoys floating with complete freedom.Voiced by: Azumi Asakura (credited as Yuri Konno for PC game) (Japanese), Anastasia Muñoz (English)
Masaya's classmate and friend since middle school. She joins the FC club with Asuka.
- The Ace: Before Asuka gradually improved over the course of the VN and anime, Misaki was considered to be the best and most skilled of the Kunahama players thanks to previous experience in FC. This is why Misaki didn't take it well when she saw how fast Asuka kept improving despite not treating the sport as seriously as she did, and she became even more upset during the Summer Tournament when Shindou treated Asuka as a Worthy Opponent but not her. She gets better.
- Adaptational Badass: In the VN, Misaki is unable to use any membrane-based techniques like the Air Kick turn and has to work around that issue in her route. In the anime, she surprises Shindou by using it.
- Big Eater: Talks a lot about food, especially udon.
- Brilliant, but Lazy: She has a bucket load of natural talent for FC but struggles to work up the motivation to get better, especially when she runs into something she finds difficult.
- Cool Big Sis: How Mashiro sees her. In reality, she's a mix of this combined with a little bit of Aloof Big Sister since she usually treats Mashiro like an Annoying Younger Sibling whenever she gets a little too close for comfort with her, though she does genuinely care for Mashiro.
- Defeating the Undefeatable: Her main goal is to defeat champion-level players like Shindou in FC. Which is funny when you realize that she'd already achieved this goal when she defeated Masaya as a child. Mind you, Masaya was at his prime back then, while Misaki was still relatively new at FC.
- Deuteragonist: In the anime, her character development and growth in the story is second only to Asuka's in importance in the plot. She also gets as much prominence in the spotlight as her.
- Dumb Muscle: To FC, which is Ironic as she is actually a genius in both sports and studies. Her problem stems from the fact that her reflexes are too good that she ends up not using her mind to think in the middle of a match, which later becomes apparent once Asuka improved to the point of giving Shindou a run for his money.
- Food as Bribe: Used on her a lot to get her to do things, such as listening to Masaya's instructions during her match against Shindo.
- Forgotten First Meeting: Episode 9 hints (and outright reveals in the VN) that she was the novice who beat Masaya back when he was a kid. Although neither of them has actually forgotten the meeting itself, they just don't realise that it was each other.
- Hidden Depths: Misaki is actually quite perceptive of other people's emotions behind her cheery persona. In Mashiro's route, she also claims that she doesn't really care that much about Mashiro and that she only stuck with Mashiro for the free udon, which turned out to be a lie as she used to hate udon due to nearly choking on it as a child, only for Mashiro to unknowingly change this over their interactions. She's also much more mentally fragile than she lets herself show.
- Not a Morning Person: She suffers from low blood pressure, so she ends up being rather deadpan and somewhat irritable in the mornings. Contrast that with the afternoons, where she is pretty cheerful. Her morning cat naps add to her cat theme.
- "Not So Different" Remark: Masaya is the only one to not try to pressure her back into the club, since he suffered a similar Heroic BSoD.
- Secret Art: On her own route she learns inverted flight. This basically nullifies almost all the advantages of Inui's playstyle which Asuka had also adopted. By keeping her new skill hidden until the fall tournament Misaki is able spring it on them without them having time to find a counter strategy, leading to Misaki defeating both.
- Super-Reflexes: Her biggest strength as a Skywalker is that she can react very fast in a short period of time. The problem is that she relies on it a bit too much and doesn't use her mind to think of plans, which is fine against less skilled players. A skilled player like Shindou however, can exploit this and cause her to fall for a lot of feints. Part of her route is focused on fixing this issue of hers.
- Sweet Polly Oliver: Masaya thought that the novice kid who beat him in his childhood was a boy when it was actually Misaki wearing tomboyish clothing at the time.
- 10-Minute Retirement: Quits the FC club in episode seven, but rejoins in episode nine after recalling how much fun she had taking part in it.
- Trademark Favorite Food: The best way to bribe into doing something for you, whether it be just spending time with you or to deviate from her playstyle, is to treat her to udon.
- Verbal Tic: Tobisawa has a feline theme and will often purrfectly insert cat-talk into her speech.
Mashiro Arisaka
Mashiro Arisaka
- "I really respect Misaki-senpai!"The only thing this little creature adores more than games is her senpai.Voiced by: Nozomi Yamamoto (credited as Mito Sera for PC game) (Japanese), Natalie Hoover (English)
Masaya and Misaki's junior. She joins the FC club to be with Misaki.
- A Day in the Limelight: Episode 4 focuses entirely on Mashiro and her budding friendship with Rika. Notable in that this episode adapted a crucial part in her route despite the anime adapting a mix of Asuka's and Misaki's.
- The Baby of the Bunch: The only freshman member of Kunahama's FC club.
- Big Sister Worship: Although they're not relatives, she considers Misaki as one. Whom she idolizes to the point of trying to copy anything she does.
- Book Dumb: She had to retake her exams in the both versions.
- Breakout Character: Her popularity in the visual novel led to her receiving the story's first (and for years only) official route expansion through Extra 1.
- Chekhov's Gunman: The Running Gag of her forgetting to reset the Balancer in her shoes during Asuka's route is what gives Masaya his "Eureka!" Moment to counter Saki.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: Is first shown clinging to Misaki, then scowls at the other characters when she sees them trying to take away her attention. She'll also tell Masaya to stop staring at Misaki when she's wearing her FC uniform.
- Fragile Speedster: Shifts to being a Speeder in Episode 4, and is remarkably more effective as a result.
- Gamer Chick: Arisaka plays the PSQ, the 4DS, and even mobile phone games.
- Giving Someone the Pointer Finger: This is how she challenges Rika to FC before they become friends.
- Token Mini-Moe: Mashiro is a tiny little thing. She is the youngest member of the Kunahama FC club but she's small even compared to the similar age Rika.
- Underdogs Never Lose: In choosing her route in the Visual Novel.
Rika Ichinose
Rika Ichinose
- "I must hang in there and do my best!"Diligent in both club work and studies, she's the epitome of an honor student.Voiced by: Madoka Yonezawa (credited as Mako Mishiro for PC game) (Japanese), Cristina Vee (English)
Masaya's neighbor and member of Takafuji Academy's FC club. She later becomes good friends with Mashiro.
- The Ace: Well, as far as Mashiro is concerned, before she trains Mashiro.
- Fragile Speedster: A Speeder-type FC player.
- Girl Next Door: Literally. She's Masaya's new next door neighbor.
- Out of Focus: Due to the anime not adapting her route outside of her introduction, she's relegated to a supporting character in the show unlike the other three heroines. She does play a small but important role in Mashiro's episode though, but not much else after that.
- Running Gag: Masaya unwitting seeing her changing from each other's rooms, followed by synchronized screaming. You'd think one of them would learn to just shut their curtains.
- Tsundere: Thanks to her rather less than pleasant first impression of Masaya when they first met combined with her disagreeing with his type of playstyle in air jousting, she acts pretty cold and standoffish towards him initially in her route, though she defrosts and eventually turns dere for him later on after having spent some time with him.
Madoka Aoyagi
Madoka Aoyagi
- Voiced by: Naomi Wakabayashi (credited as Miyako Suzuta for PC game) (Japanese), Madeleine Morris (English)
Masaya and Misaki's classmate and the Kunahama Academy's FC club manager.
- "Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word: She brings this up after catching Masaya peeping on the girls while they're changing. As such, she expects a lot of "Christmas" presents from him.
- Butt-Monkey: If she's in a scene, expect her to be the butt of someone's joke- usually either Masaya or the universe itself. Best exemplified when she can never join the co-op games of MonEat because the lobby is always full by the time she gets set up.
- Cute Little Fangs: Madoka sports one.
- Cute Sports Club Manager: She is just as cute as her teammates.
- Straight Man: To her brother.
Shion Aoyagi
Shion Aoyagi
- Voiced by: Takayuki Kondō (credited as Teppei Hirabayashi for PC game), Christopher Wehkamp (English)
Madoka's older brother and the Kunahama Academy FC club president.
- Ambiguously Gay: In the visual novel he has a rather...tactile appreciation for well-muscled men.
- Big Eater: Does this during the training camp in episode three. This backfires on him the next day, when he ends up sitting on the toilet most of the day.
- Curb Stomp Cushion: In the summer tournament he manages to out-speed Inui, pulling ahead towards the end of their match. It comes too late in the match to make a difference to the result but he is the only player to pull this off.
- Dumb Muscle: Not the brightest bulb and big into body building.
- Drama Queen: A rare male example. There is rarely a moment when he isn't over the top in his reactions.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Most people in Kunahama's FC club just call him "Prez."
- Eyes Always Shut
- Fragile Speedster: Odd to apply this to someone as beefy as Shion but when it comes to FC his impressive speed is basically the only string to his bow.
- Large Ham: Often speaks and acts in this manner, such as when begging Masaya to join the FC team at their school.
- Small Role, Big Impact: He's the reason why the main cast started playing FC and one of the two people that convinced Masaya to come back, even if only as a coach. The "Bad" end in the VN, which the True Ending is implied to follow up on, only started with him telling Masaya to ask him for help if he ever wants to make a comeback.
Other Characters
Reiko Satoin
Reiko Satoin
- Voiced by: Risa Taneda (anime), Ryōko Ono (PlayStation Vita game, credited as Rikka Kitami for PC game) (Japanese), Tia Ballard (English)
Vice-president of Takafuji Academy's FC club. An All-rounder player.
- Do Not Call Me "Paul": She constantly tells Shindo to call her Satoin instead of Satou.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She seems haughty at first glance, especially during her introduction, but is genuinely kind in her own way and is a believer in fair play, giving Asuka a fair handicap when she learns that she's a complete newbie in Flying Circus in their first meeting.
- Drill Sergeant Nasty: Does this during the training camp in episode three.
- Noblewoman's Laugh: She's introduced to the viewer with a full-on laugh, and how she continues to establish herself throughout her appearances.
- Ojou: She actually tries to invoke this by adding "-in" to the end of her family name "Satou", making it sound more ojou-like. This might explain why Reiko keeps trying to take the "in" of every institute she can challenge.
- Skinship Grope: Forcibly washed Misaki's back against her will during the training camp. Though nothing is shown, Reiko seems a bit too eager to want to touch Misaki, and Misaki's screams indicates Reiko being a bit too aggressive in washing her.
- Warmup Boss: Serves as one for Asuka to introduce her, and the audience, to the game of Flying Circus.
Kazunari Shindo
Kazunari Shindo
- Voiced by: Kazuyuki Okitsu (credited as Charlie Umesaki for PC game) (Japanese), Shawn Gann (English)
President of Takafuji Academy's FC club and a Speeder focused All-rounder player.
- The Ace: He is the reigning FC champ.
- Adaptational Wimp: The scores in his match against Asuka during the Summer Tournament is a lot closer than the VN, where he immediately widens the gap after recovering from Asuka's consecutive Air Kick turns.
- Graceful Loser: He takes his defeat to Saki rather well.
- Hero-Worshipper: He was a fan of Masaya during his glory days. Also to Aoi and Shirase.
- I Am Not Left-Handed: He doesn't use his best tactics unless he's up against a Worthy Opponent. Unfortunately, this gave Misaki a Hope Spot that she's approaching his level, only for that to be crushed when he revealed his hand against Asuka.
- Badass Bookworm: Shindou is really fast for an All-Rounder and is nothing to scoff at in a dogfight and is able to chain together a bunch of high level FC maneuvers that you don't expect to see in an amateur level tournament, while also being able to manage Takafuji's FC club, that has a lot of members, efficiently. The fact that he lost against Inui is due to the fact that it was his first time seeing the 'Bird Cage' and thus hasn't been able to form a good counter-strategy, which he was able to form on his own sometime after the tournament.
- Nice Guy: He genuinely is one, and is quite polite even when asking for something. In an FC fight and when against a skilled and/or talented opponent, he becomes much more smug and isn't above using some of the rougher moves in FC (such as the Suicida) to win.
- Smug Snake: Comes off like this to try and goad Misaki into making her lose her cool during their match so she'd be easier to beat.
- The Worf Effect: He loses to Inui Saki at the end of the common route/in episode 7, just to show that FC tactics are always evolving.
Aoi Kagami
Aoi Kagami
- Voiced by: Megumi Ogata (Japanese), Rachel Robinson (English)
A teacher at Kunahama Academy and the club adviser for the FC club
- The Ace: Despite being retired she is still by a large margin the best player in the story and although this is in part due to being the only adult player in the story she was considered world class before giving up the sport professionally.
- The Atoner: Aoi feels guilty for developing a style of FC that would remove much of the competition and potential in the sport. She begins assisting in training the cast when she sees that their rivals have taken up where she left off.
- Badass Teacher: Adviser and former FC player, so she qualifies for the sport.
- The Coats Are Off: After Masaya decides to directly participate in practice drills, she throws off her coat and does the same.
- Cool Big Sis: The role she plays in Masaya's life before becoming his teacher and to some extent afterwards.
- Fashionable Asymmetry: Aoi always has one stocking down around her ankle, hinting at her unconventional attitudes.
- Hot Teacher: Masaya's known her too long to really notice anymore, but, well, look at her! And Masaya did in fact have a crush on her as a kid.
- Sadist Teacher: Kagami-sensei's cruelty is legendary. However, this is largely an Informed Attribute since virtually every time she's seen, it's with concern for helping Masaya to recover.
Saki Inui
Saki Inui
- Voiced by: Natsumi Takamori (Japanese), Amanda Lee (English)
- The Ace: Although she only occupies a small part of the series, Inui is constantly training and is quite skilled.
- Beware the Quiet Ones: Quiet and taciturn, Inui is little more than background. Until she starts kicking everyone's butt.
- Defeat Means Friendship:
- After she loses in the final episode, she's shown getting along well with Asuka's team and even has a photo with them.
- Similarly at the end of Askua's route in the Visual Novel she explicitly sets out to become Saki's friend and succeeds in doing so by beating her.
- Fragile Speedster: Inui is one of the fastest fliers in the local FC community. Subverted when she proves to be very good at dogfighting as well, making her a Lightning Bruiser in practice.
- Out of Focus: In Mashiro and Rika's routes, as neither girl is at the point where they can beat her even with focused training from Masaya and both are concerned with other issues anyway.
- Power Limiter: Because of her training and special equipment, Inui can disable her balance limiters by half or full, mid-game. This gives her an edge in speed and agility that other players just don't have.
Irina Avalon
Irina Avalon
- Voiced by: Kaori Mizuhashi (Japanese), Alexis Tipton (English)
- Evil Brit: She is the best contender for the role of villain and is English.
- Graceful Loser: After seeing that Inui can still play FC brilliantly while using other tactics, Irina finally admits that her styles aren't the only valid ways to play.
- Green and Mean: Her color scheme is green and she's the least pleasant of the characters involved in the FC.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: While not exactly a villain, her less than noble intention of dominating FC with her playstyle eventually leads to other players realizing that releasing their limiters can make the game more exciting.
- Ojou: Wealthy enough to hire European professional Flying Circus players to help train Inui, as well as use a helicopter to travel everywhere.
- Psychotic Smirk: Her forte is gloating about forcing the world to embrace Irina's and Inui's new way of playing FC. Ominously.
- Pure Is Not Good: Irina is obsessed with showing the world the purity of Inui and her style of FC. Complete with evil mood music and lighting.
