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Characters of Aquarion Logos.
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Verbalism Club
Akira Kaibuki
- Voiced by: Nobunaga Shimazaki (Japanese), Tomoe Hanba (Japanese - young), Todd Haberkorn (English), Apphia Yu (English - young)
The main protagonist, Akira is a stoic and level-headed youngster who behaves according to his belief that he is bent into becoming a "savior". He pilots the red-colored Vector-01.
- Battle Couple: With Maia. The two fall in love as they overcome battles together.
- Betty and Veronica: He's the heroic and dependable Betty to Subete's villainous and unstable Veronica, with Maia as the Archie. He wins.
- Bodyguard Crush: Maia doubts Akira works so hard to protect her because he cares about her especially; he's just doing his job as a savior. However, Akira affirms he protects Maia because he wants to.
- The Champion: Although he forgot it, Akira's goal for nearly his entire life was to be Maia's savior and save the world for her.
- Childhood Friend Romance: With Maia. They met once when they were children and Akira promised her to save the world so she wouldn't destroy it, but Sougon had the memories of their meeting erased. After they meet again years later and spend more time together, they fall in love with each other.
- Chronic Hero Syndrome: As part of his role as a "savior", Akira always rushes to save anyone in trouble.
- Cloudcuckoolander: It's nearly impossible to understand his train of thought.
- The Comically Serious: Always being so stoic and overly serious doesn't keep him from being funny at times.
- Determinator: You can chain him up and lock him in a holding cell, but it's not going to stop him.
- The Dulcinea Effect: It turns out he decided to become a savior in order to save a girl he didn't even know from her fate to destroy the world.
- Friendless Background: His companions in DEAVA conclude Akira has no friends when he tells them he doesn't have a cellphone because he doesn't need it. Akira doesn't seem to mind, though.
- Heroic BSoD: He has one in episodes 21 and 22, when he temporarily gives up on being a savior after he can't bring himself to kill Maia to save the city, Maia gets taken away by Subete and Nesta and Tsutomu has to sacrifice himself because of it.
- Heroic Sacrifice:
- The Vector-ga is seeking to erase Maia's concept as she's the key to awakening the Aquarion Logos. To protect Maia from it, Akira is letting it erase his own concept instead, even though he knows this could result in him disappearing and being forgotten by everyone.
- He also tries to pull this off in the finale by sacrificing his life to restore the Logos world and save humanity, but Subete ends up taking his place.
- I Call It "Vera": He nicknames his Vector as "Savior-go".
- Instant Expert: Was able to pilot a Vector right away without any instruction or training.
- Jumped at the Call: He just stumbled onto DEAVA by accident one day and leapt right into action.
- Manly Tears: He cries when he finally remembers Maia is the reason why he wants to become a savior.
- Messianic Archetype: Akira calls himself a "savior" and he thinks it's his mission to save humanity from any danger. Subverted in the finale, where Subete ends up becoming the savior who sacrifices himself for humanity's sake.
- No Social Skills: Akira doesn't seem to know what is right to say and do at the time of socializing.
- Oblivious to Love: He's pretty clueless about matters of love, such as Kokone's and eventually Maia's growing feelings for him.
- Official Couple: With Maia. They're officially a couple by the end of the series.
- The Promise: The reason why he decided to become a savior was a promise he made to Maia when they were children. Maia was desperate because she would cause the end of the world, but Akira promised her that he would save the world so she could live on.
- Raised by Grandparents: He was raised by his adoptive grandparents.
- Red Is Heroic: He pilots a red Vector.
- Ret-Gone: After he starts using the ancient Vector-ga, Akira tries to protect Maia from it and as a result Akira's entire concept is slowly erased and Akira's existence starts to be forgotten by everyone. At the end, Maia's feelings for him keep Akira from disappearing.
- Single-Target Sexuality: He never shows any kind of romantic interest in anyone besides Maia and it's eventually revealed he has been subconsciously longing for her since childhood.
- The Stoic: The expression on his face rarely changes.
- Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Akira is a nice guy, just very stoic and serious as well.
- The Unchosen One: Subete was thought to be the one who was supposed to be chosen by the power of Verbalism, but then Akira just came out of nowhere and kept saving the day instead, much to Subete's chagrin.
- Wistful Amnesia: Akira knows he has to become a savior, but he can't remember the reason he decided it. It was because of a promise he made to Maia when they were children; he promised to save the world so she was allowed to live on. They forgot it because Sougon erased their memories.
Maia Tsukigane
- Voiced by: Ayane Sakura (Japanese), Luci Christian (English)
The main heroine. Maia was trained since childhood to be Subete's partner, she grew up blindly following Sougon's teachings until her first sortie when she is forced to combine with Akira and defeat the M.J.B.K. she was supposed to protect. After being held prisoner by DEAVA, she obtains a chance to return to NESTA, but Sougon instead instructs her to pretend that she switched sides in order to investigate Akira further. She pilots the purple-colored Vector-02, focused on air superiority.
- Action Girl: She was trained in combat since a young age. She shows she can handle herself even outside the Vectors.
- Apocalypse Maiden: Maia is the key to awakening the Aquarion Logos and causing the The End of the World as We Know It.
- Artificial Human: She's actually a "doll" created from Nesta's soul using Subete's verbalism power.
- Battle Couple: She often team up with Akira when piloting and they gradually fall in love.
- Becoming the Mask: She originally joined DEAVA as an undercover spy, but she eventually does become close to its members, especially Akira and begins to doubt the goals of her leader Sougon. She eventually decides what Sougon is doing is wrong and comes to truly switch sides to defeat him.
- Betty and Veronica: She's the hot-tempered and exotic Veronica to Kokone's shy and homely Betty, with Akira as Archie. She wins.
- Childhood Friend Romance: With Akira. They briefly met as children, where Akira vowed to become her saviour.
- Clone Angst: She doesn't take it well when she finds out she's a mere replica of Nesta created from Subete's verbalism power.
- The Comically Serious: A lot of the humour involving her is about how she takes everything way too seriously.
- Damsel in Distress: The final part of the series has her captured by Subete and Nesta who force her to awaken Aquarion Logos with Subete. Akira then goes to the final battle to take her back.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: She starts off as aloof and distant, only caring about following Sougon's orders. Over time, she starts to warm up to Akira and others and she learns to be her own person.
- Defusing the Tyke-Bomb: After spending time in DEAVA and seeing how what Sougon does makes people suffer, Maia eventually learns to think by herself and joins forces with Akira and the others against Sougon to defeat him.
- Deuteragonist: After Akira, Maia is the character that gets the most focus and development throughout the story.
- Devoted to You: Subete is very obsessed with her. Also, Akira decided to become a savior for her sake.
- First Girl After All: Akira appears to meet Kokone before Maia, but near the end of the series it's revealed Akira met Maia when they were children and she has always been the reason why he wants to become a savior.
- Forgotten First Meeting: Although they don't remember it at first, Akira and Maia met when they were children and Akira promised Maia to save the world so she wouldn't destroy it. They had their memories erased and that moment with Akira was replaced with a moment with Subete in Maia's memories. Akira and Maia regain their memories in episode 23.
- Girlish Pigtails: She wore pigtails when she was younger.
- Heel–Face Turn: She gradually genuinely joins DEAVA's side over the first half of the series.
- Heroic Sacrifice: She tries to pull this off in Episode 21, by combining with Subete and letting Nesta possess her body to then have Akira kill them along with her. However, this fails as Akira can't bring himself to kill Maia.
- Innocent Fanservice Girl: Maia doesn't understand why Kokone begins to freak out when she strips naked in public at the beach.
- The Lancer: She acts as Akira's main partner and Foil.
- Lethal Chef: Akira gets knocked down from just one taste of her cooking.
- Mark of the Supernatural: Her violet eyes serve as a hint that she's an Artificial Human created from verbalism power.
- Meaningful Name: Her surname means "silver moon". She was named after her silver hair and the fact she was born on a night of a full moon.
- The Mole: She was assigned to be an undercover spy from Sougon early on in the series. She instead makes a Heel–Face Turn.
- Mystical White Hair: She has silver hair, which hints at her supernatural origins.
- No Social Skills: Having been raised as a soldier, Maia has no idea how to normally interact with others or how normal social activities work, treating pretty much everything like a battlefield.
- Official Couple: With Akira. Maia becomes Akira's girlfriend at the end of the series.
- Phlebotinum Girl: The female lead and the love interest of The Hero who was raised by the Big Bad to be his loyal follower and it's eventually revealed she's an Artificial Human created with the sole purpose of awakening an ancient mecha and destroy the world.
- Please, Don't Leave Me: When Akira tries to sacrifice himself to save the world, Maia begs him to stay with her and protect her forever because he's her savior.
- Rei Ayanami Expy: An overly serious girl with short white hair and No Social Skills who was trained by the Big Bad ever since childhood in order to be his perfect enforcer. She's sent as an undercover spy to keep an eye on the main character, eventually warming up and falling in love with him. Also, she turns out to be an Artificial Human based on an angel-like figure.
- Single Woman Seeks Good Man: She rejects the egocentric and possessive Subete and eventually falls in love with the heroic Akira, the guy who always comes to save her.
- Sugar-and-Ice Personality: She mostly comes off as aloof, stern and overly serious, but she's also a nice person at heart and she shows a cheerful and curious side often.
- Tomato in the Mirror: Subete and Nesta reveal to her that she's actually an Artificial Human based on Nesta that was created to be the new pilot of Aquarion Logos along Subete.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: The Tomboy to Kokone's Girl Girl. She's an Action Girl while Kokone is a Shrinking Violet.
- Tsundere: Harsh type. She's aloof, aggressive, and easily annoyed around Akira, but her softer side becomes more prevalent as she develops feelings for Akira.
- Tyke-Bomb: Maia was trained by Sougon ever since childhood in order to be his perfect enforcer.
- What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: She has a hard time understanding this concept, especially concerning her growing feelings for Akira.
Kokone Kikogami
- Voiced by: Haruka Chisuga (Japanese), Alexis Tipton (English)
A shy girl who can barely talk. She aims to become an actress and joined the Verbalism Club in order to improve her speech. She soon falls in love with Akira and comes to view Maia as a rival. She pilots the white-colored Vector-03, specialized in enemy disruption and rear support.
- Alliterative Name: Kokone Kikogami.
- Betty and Veronica: She's the shy and homely Betty to Maia's hot-tempered and exotic Veronica, with Akira as Archie. She loses.
- Bullied into Depression: Kokone's crippling social anxiety is the result of continuous bullying from her schoolmates when she was a kid.
- Bully Magnet: She was victim of bullying in elementary school because a boy she turned down died in an accident and everyone acted like it was her fault.
- Forceful Kiss: She forcibly kisses Akira in Episode 22 to let him know how she feels before giving up on him.
- Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: In Episode 22, she slaps Akira when in the middle of his Heroic BSoD caused by Tsutomu's death, he says he doesn't want to be a savior anymore. She does feel guilty about it afterwards.
- Girlish Pigtails: She's the more feminine girl in the team and wears her hair in low pigtails.
- The Heart: She's a nice and sensitive girl who always wants to help her teammates in every way she can.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Knowing Akira has already chosen Maia, Kokone gives up on him and encourages him to go save Maia.
- Nice Girl: She's sweet and kind-hearted.
- Shrinking Violet: Painfully shy and quiet. It's deconstructed as her shyness is depicted as a crippling problem.
- Single Woman Seeks Good Man: She falls in love with Akira for his helpful and brave nature and the way he helps her gain more self-confidence.
- Speech Impediment: She stutters a lot when she speaks.
- They Died Because of You: When one of the boys she had turned down was killed by a speeding car on that very same day, the other kids blamed her for his death.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: The Girly Girl to Maia's Tomboy. She's a modest Shrinking Violet while Maia is a more shameless Action Girl.
- Unknown Rival: She views Maia as her rival for Akira's affections, but Maia doesn't catch a clue.
Hayato Kujyo
- Voiced by: Yuichiro Umehara (Japanese), Eric Vale (English)
A cool-headed young man who aims to become a politician like his late father. He joined the Verbalism Club seeking to improve his speech. He pilots the blue-colored Vector-05, focused on mobility and high speed.
- Brainy Specs: Befitting his status as The Smart Guy.
- Brutal Honesty: Hayato is one to say things the way they are, and doesn't like hiding behind niceties. It is mentioned that this gave him trouble with his peers.
- Intergenerational Friendship: Hayato seems to get along particularly well with Karan, seeing her as a little sister of sorts.
- The Resenter: He doesn't like how Akira's gut-instinct decisions always seem to work out for him.
- The Smart Guy: The brains of the Verbalism Club.
Tsutomu Domon
- Voiced by: Takayuki Asai (Japanese), Josh Grelle (English)
A young aspiring comedian whose older brother is a famous comedian himself, and despite knowing that he is not near as talented as him, he seeks his own form of comedy, performing unusual sketches that so far earned him only one avid fan. He joined the Verbalism Club seeking to make use of the training against the M.J.B.K. to improve his comedy skills, and pilots the attack-oriented, yellow-colored Vector-04, specialized in hit and run tactics.
- The Big Guy: The largest and funniest member of the Verbalism Club.
- Casanova Wannabe: Tsutomu's attempts at picking up chicks are comically unsuccessful.
- Heroic Sacrifice: In Episode 21, he sacrifices his life to defeat the Monster of the Week.
- Official Couple: With Shouko, who agrees to become his girlfriend in episode 19.
- Sacrificial Lion: He's the only main cast member who dies near the end of the anime.
Karan Uminagi
- Voiced by: Ari Ozawa (Japanese), Carrie Savage (English)
The youngest member of the team, Karan is a little girl who was aiming to become an idol and joined the Verbalism Club seeking support for her career, until Akira realizes that she wanted to be and idol just to please her mother's selfish desires and when he helped them reconcile, she started pursuing her true dream, which is to become a voice actor. She pilots the pink-colored Vector-06, specialized in reconnaissance and ambush.
- The Baby of the Bunch: The youngest member of the main cast.
- Girlish Pigtails: She sports them, to show her status as the youngest member of the team.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: A young and cheerful blonde child.
- Kid-Appeal Character: She's an elementary school student and the youngest member of the heroes' team. Her main purpose for being in the series is to be a source of cuteness and humor.
- Kid Hero: She helps in fights against monsters to save the world and she isn't done with elementary school yet.
- Little Miss Badass: Despite her young age, she holds her own in battle.
- Tagalong Kid: The only child in the Verbalism Club.
- Token Mini-Moe: Most of the members of the Verbalism Club are in their late teens except for Karan who is a little girl added to the team for cuteness factor.
DEAVA
Sakurako Soda
- Voiced by: Ryōko Shiraishi (Japanese), Caitlin Glass (English)
DEAVA's chief of operations. She also manages the Shirobaco Maid Café which serves as a front for DEAVA's headquarters and as a place for Akira and the others to run several activities to train their Verbalism skills.
- Alliterative Name: Sakurako Soda.
- Big Good: The chief commander of DEAVA, in charge of defending humanity from the monsters Sougon releases.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Being the commander of a group of defenders of humanity doesn't stop Sakurako from being eccentric and behaving like a Cosplay Otaku Girl at times.
- Defector from Decadence: She used to be Sougon's secretary until realizing the true nature of his plans, thus she betrayed him and defected to the Japanese Government taking the Vectors and several other equipment from NESTA which she uses to establish DEAVA.
Shouko Iwagami
- Voiced by: Saima Nakano (Japanese), Tia Ballard (English)
Sakurako's aid who works at DEAVA.
- Heartbroken Badass: Losing Tsutomu broke her heart, but she decides to keep going and join the battle to bring smiles to the world just as Tsutomu wanted.
- Her Heart Will Go On: She's heartbroken by Tsutomu's death, but encouraged by his final thoughts, she decides to live on and keep smiling just as he wanted.
- Muggle: She was scouted at first to be part of the Verbalism Club, but later it was revealed that she has no Verbaism power at all, which is a strange fact itself as it is said that every individual has some kind of Verbalism on itself, albeit weak. ...or rather, that's what the audience is led to believe. It's revealed late in the series' run that Shouko actually has the Zero Verbalism ability which lets her cancel Verbalism seals and spells.
- Nice Girl: She's nice and polite most of the time.
- Official Couple: She starts dating Tsutomu in episode 19.
- Sixth Ranger: She joins the team in battle after Tsutomu's death to take his place.
NESTA
Sougon Kenzaki
- Voiced by: Joji Nakata (Japanese), R. Bruce Elliott (English)
The CEO of NESTA Communications.
- Big Bad: The main villain of the first half of the series. After his death, he's later replaced by Subete and Nesta.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: Again, the CEO of an important company, and a main villain.
- Disc-One Final Boss: He is the major antagonist for the first half of the series, until he is eventually stopped and defeated by the Verbalism Club and crushed to his death by a falling boulder. Subete them takes up his position as the new Big Bad.
- Freudian Excuse: He came to hate the modern ways of communication and seek to destroy them because social media resulted in the death of the woman he loved.
- Parental Neglect: Despite his son Subete wanting his approval, Sougon seems to think of him as annoying at best, and not even worth considering at worst.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: He wants to destroy the written culture, and by consequence, the world in order to have it start over again because he claims that with the advent of Internet, the use of words was banalized to the point of doing more harm than good to society, thus it would lead to its eventual downfall.
Subete Kenzaki
- Voiced by: Yuto Adachi (Japanese), Jason Liebrecht (English)
The heir of NESTA Communications and Sougon's son. He has feelings for Maia, the partner he was assigned to defend the MJBK's with. However, when Maia is forced to join DEAVA's side, he starts desperately looking for a way to bring her back to his side by all means possible.
- Betty and Veronica: He's the villainous and unstable Veronica to Akira's heroic and dependable Betty, with Maia as the Archie. He loses.
- Big Bad: He takes over the role of main villain after his father dies.
- Childhood Friend Romance: He has been in love with Maia ever since they were kids.
- The Chosen One: He is supposed to be tho one chosen by the power of Verbalism. He becomes angered when Akira seems to take his position. But turns out Subete is the chosen one, being the reincarnation of one of the original pilots of Aquarion Logos.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive
- Crazy Jealous Guy: He can't stand anyone takes Maia away from him, which is why Subete comes to greatly hate Akira.
- Desperately Craves Affection: Subete is desperate for love and attention from his father and Maia, both who only find him annoying at best.
- The Dragon: He acts as his father's top enforcer through the first half of the series.
- Dragon Ascendant: After Sougon's death, Subete takes his position as the new Big Bad determinated to take revenge on Akira.
- Enemy Mine: He joins forces with Akira in episode 25 in order to protect Maia from Nesta.
- Entitled to Have You: He feels this way towards Maia.
- Evil Counterpart: To Akira.
- Expository Hairstyle Change: He changes his hairstyle after takes up the position of the new Big Bad.
- Hopeless Suitor: He has loved Maia for years, but she barely pays any attention to him.
- Loving a Shadow: Maia accuses Subete of never really loving her; he only loved his own reflection which he projected in her.
- Meaningful Name: Subete means "everything". He was given this name because Subete's biological mother died giving birth to him. He lost everything at his birth, but this meant he could gain everything in the life ahead of him.
- Messianic Archetype: In the finale, Subete ends up stealing Akira's role as the savior by sacrificing his life to save the world.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: In the finale, his obsession with taking something away from Akira leads him to sacrifice his life to save the world, just so Akira can't. This ends up giving Akira the happy ending with Maia.
- Not-So-Harmless Villain: Subete is an absolute joke of a villain for the first half of the show, with the Separate arc being the first time he demonstrates notable competence. After his Expository Hairstyle Change, he becomes ten times the villain that his father was.
- Reincarnation: Of Kiryu, one of the original pilots of Aquarion Logos along with Nesta.
- Revenge Before Reason: In the finale, he usurps Akira's role as a savior by making the Heroic Sacrifice to save the world, solely to take something away from Akira. Ironically still resulting in him, of course, saving the world.
- Self-Disposing Villain: His act of stealing Akira's role as the savior of the world by sacrificing his life makes him this.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: After taking his father's position, he has cast almost all of his previous standards aside.
- Yandere: A rare male example, towards Maia.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: Subete desperately wants to prove his worth to his father Sougon.
Nesta
- Voiced by: Risa Shimizu (Japanese), Colleen Clinkenbeard (English)
A mysterious angel-like figure who looks just like Maia and seems to be behind Sougon's plans.
- Broken Bird: Losing her lover and being lead to believe he died hating and resenting her broke Nesta very badly.
- Died Happily Ever After: She reunites with her lover and she finally gets to know he never stopped loving her and never blamed her for his death.
- Evil Laugh: Seems to be very fond of these.
- Excessive Evil Eyeshadow
- Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: She looks like a lovely angel, but her personality and intentions make her more similar to a devil.
- Faux Affably Evil: She speaks in a sweet, playful tone of voice that does absolutely nothing to hide her evil intentions.
- Greater-Scope Villain: She has been pulling the strings behind the scenes since several years before the start of the series. She uses Sougon and then Subete so they achieve her goal to summon Aquarion Logos and destroy the world.
- Jerkass: Acts like a complete callous bitch, especially to Maia.
- Light Is Not Good: Think she looks like an angel? Well, her personality and intentions are far from that.
- Magical Barefooter: She's an ancient spirit. She doesn't any footwear because she simply floats around most of the time - though she was that way in life as well, from what can be seen in the flashbacks.
- Never Learned to Read: As a member of the Tribe of Truth which rejected writing, Nesta can't read. This brought her a lot of heartbreak when she couldn't read the letter her lover left for her before he was executed.
- The Resenter: Towards Maia, being jealous and resentful of how Maia still has someone she loves and is capable of believing in him more than Nesta was capable of believing in her own lover.
- Samaritan Relationship Starter: She began to fall in love with Kiryu after he spared her even though they were from enemy tribes.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: With Kiryu. They were members of enemy tribes for which their love was seen as the ultimate betrayal. At the end, they couldn't stop the war and both were captured and executed by their opposing tribe.
- Together in Death: She finally reunites with her lover Kiryu in the afterlife after her defeat.
- The Woman Behind the Man: She has been the one manipulating Sougon, and later Subete, for her own plans.
