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Coppelion
Tropes applied to all Coppelion
- Badass Crew
- Cursed with Awesome: Coppelion are immune to radiation so they don't need to wear Hazmat Suit when they are in the old capital.
- Healing Factor: Coppelions recover from injury faster than anyone. Haruto has a particularly stronger one than the other Coppelion.
- Living MacGuffin: Once the Coppelion project becomes known to governments all over the world.
- Meaningful Name: Coppelion was named after the ballet Coppélia. Lampshaded by Aoi, who said just like Coppélia, a beautiful life size doll created by Dr. Coppelius, Coppelions were living dolls created by genetic engineering.
- Super-Soldier
- What Measure Is a Non-Human?: The Coppelion are different from humans. They know it, and they each have a different approach in dealing with this issue.
Ibara Naruse
Voiced by: Haruka Tomatsu (Japanese), Erica Lindbeck (English)
The leader of the Coppelion Medical unit. A senior and the class president.
- Action Girl
- All-Loving Hero: She is willing to help everyone, although some of them used to resent her.
- Berserk Button: Suggesting that any of the city residents be left for dead. She pulled a gun on her commander in response to being told to conserve doses of Aether.
- Childhood Friend: With Haruto. They met when they were five years old.
- Class Representative
- Combat Medic
- Cool Big Sis: Act as one towards Aoi and Taeko.
- Determinator
- Empty Shell: She was this in her childhood and goes back to being mute and emotionless when stressed enough.
- Food Pills: She gives herself food injections.
- Heroic BSoD: Breaks down from stress when greeted by Haruto, who was thought to be dead.
- Magic Skirt
- My God, What Have I Done?: Drops a ceiling on Shion to keep her away and ends up crushing her because Shion was too wounded to hold it. Thankfully, Shion survived that.
- Nice Girl
- Near-Death Experience: In episode 6 and 7.
- Super-Soldier
- Super-Strength: Genetically engineered to have 10 times the strength of an average person.
- Tender Tears: In episode 12, when she discovers Haruto is dead. But considering Haruto's ability makes him able to come back from death; he survived, but Ibara didn't know about it at the time.
- Thou Shalt Not Kill: Refuses to kill or let anyone die.
Taeko Nomura
Voiced by: Satomi Akesaka (Japanese), Shelby Lindley (English)
Medical unit member, first year.
- Blind Without Them: Inverted; her glasses cut her eyesight to near that of a normal human
- Combat Medic
- Played straight when she has to deliver Ibuki's twins via C-Section.
- Friend to All Living Things: She's said to have been engineered to have this trait.
- Nice Girl
- Super-Senses: She was genetically engineered to have these.
- Thou Shalt Not Kill
Aoi Fukasaku/Izanami Jyugotenshi
Voiced by: Kana Hanazawa (Japanese), Cassandra Lee Morris (English)
Member of the medical unit and a first year. Although she's not very confident in herself, she turns out to have great potential for psychic abilities such as flying, creating shockwaves and controlling matter - which was Dr. Coppelius' goal in creating the Coppelion.
Those powers first manifest unconciously in stressing moments as she helps her friends with a blank expression. Ibara and Taeko never tell her about her powers, until Aoi gains a split personality named Izanami Jyugotenshi, named after an anime heroine. Izanami can use the full potential of Aoi's powers, but is also too violent and unhelpful, so Aoi later gets lessons from Mana on how to better use her abilities by herself.
- Badass Adorable
- Big Eater:
- Chekhov's Skill: She was able to hold Ibara steady when Haruto was using the AED, hinting at her later ability to absorb Kanon's electricity.
- Calling Your Attacks: Being a magical girl, Izanami does this.
- Combat Medic
- Cute and Psycho: Izanami.
- Damsel in Distress: Rather vulnerable to this trope, such as when she's kidnapped by the 1st Division in Episode 6.
- The Drag-Along: Less than happy about going on a dangerous mission into a crumbling city with no electricity or running water, immune to radiation or not.
- Energy Absorption: She can absorbs Kanon's electricity.
- Genki Girl
- Heroic BSoD:
- Spends a long time locked on a room after Ibara's Near-Death Experience.
- Not only she gets depressed again after learning about her powers and situation, she also gets withdrawal symptoms from the drug that was used to keep Izanami active. However, this time she resolves to become stronger and help her friends.
- Heroic Sacrifice: When the japanese government blackmails Ibara by requesting Aoi in exchange for a aircraft to properly take people out of Tokyo, Aoi tearfully complies. However, Ibara refuses to let her go.
- How Do I Shot Web?: Has to learn from Mana how to use her powers without becoming Izanami.
- It's All My Fault: Blamed herself for Ibara's near death experience. Combined with Heroic BSoD.
- Justice Will Prevail: Izanami is very eager about destroying evil.
- Living MacGuffin: Regarded as the ultimate coppelion due to her power potential.
- The Load: Since she (initially) has no obvious superpowers compared to the other Coppelion, Aoi is generally of little use to the group. Her awareness of this is the root of her self-esteem issues.
- Magic Skirt: Very much in effect in Episode 9, given the positions of her legs during her depression.
- Mood-Swinger: Suffers nervous breakdowns when things go south, but usually recovers with incredible speed once it's over.
- New Powers as the Plot Demands: In Episode 10, Aoi showed that she was capable of flight. In Episode 11, she was suddenly capable of absorbing Kanon's electricity as well as forming an impenetrable energy shield. However, this trope can be attributed to nobody really knowing what the extent of her powers are.
- Power Dyes Your Hair: Her hair becomes green when she turns into Izanami.
- Split Personality: Becomes the more agressive Izanami Jyugotenshi when using her true abilities. What's troubling is that despite wishing to protect Aoi, Izanami is far too destructive and doesn't want to continue dormant either.
- The Power of Friendship: Learns to use her psychic abilities by focusing on her feelings for Ibara.
- Third-Person Person
- Took a Level in Badass: When fighting Ozu sisters, she defeats them by absorbing Kanon's electricity. Later she learns how to control her powers and saves Shion from the Three Professors.
- Walking Spoiler: Becomes a lot more important than she seems at first.
Haruto Kurosawa
Voiced by: Kenichi Suzumura (Japanese), Max Mittelman (English)
The commander of the Coppelion Cleanup Crew. He is a third-year and is cloned from Dr. Coppelius. His special ability is resurrection.
- Action Hero
- Back from the Dead: Twice, due to his ability to come back to life.
- Childhood Friend: With Ibara. They met when they were five years old.
- Cleanup Crew
- CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable: Gives one to Ibara in episode 7.
- Combat Pragmatist: Out of all of the Coppelions seen so far, Haruto is the one that acts most like a professional soldier.
- Crazy-Prepared: He was equipped with various types of hand grenades that he made himself.
- Fantastic Racism: Openly resents having to rescue ordinary humans.
- However, he gets better the more he interacts with Ibara and sees why she loves humans so much.
- Healing Factor: His Healing Factor is stronger than Ibara's. It is his special ability.
- Gadgeteer Genius: He's a bit of one, considering his ability to build specialized bombs out of scratch.
- Good Thing You Can Heal: It is his special ability.
- Heroic Sacrifice: He does this together with 1st Division Leader so the train can pass through.
- Oblivious to Love: Doesn't get why Ibara becomes so shy around him after he revives for the first time.
- Only Sane Man: Compared to his psycho teammates.
- Super-Soldier
Kanon Ozu
Voiced by: Yui Horie (Japanese), Cherami Leigh (English)
The older of the Ozu Twins. She is one of the members of coppelion Cleanup Crew.
- Action Girl
- Aloof Big Sister: Early on she uses her younger sister as a human shield and bait, but as their injuries pile up she becomes more concerned about Shion. And later she doesn't do such things again. This initial behavior even becomes odd when more details about their childhood are revealed.
- Ax-Crazy
- The Bully: To Aoi and Meisa.
- Cleanup Crew
- Creepy Twins: With Shion.
- Cute and Psycho: Because she's unintentionally cloned from a serial killer.
- Death Seeker: Wants to be killed because her electrical powers make her numb and unable to feel pain.
- Defeat Means Friendship
- Face–Heel Turn: She betrayed the JGSDF and sided with 1st Division.
- Fantastic Racism: Hates humans due to their treatment of Coppelion.
- Go Mad from the Revelation: When she was eavesdropping on Haruto and the Vice Principal's conversation, she heard that all the Coppelion were destined to die of a sudden death. She does not take it well.
- Heel–Face Turn
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold
- Magic Skirt
- Psycho Electro
- Redemption Equals Life: Ibara keeps Kanon from killing herself after defeating her for the final time, by declaring her a friend.
- Reformed, but Not Tamed: Becomes friends with Ibara's team, but usually keeps her mean attitude towards everyone.
- Required Secondary Powers/Blessed with Suck: Her electric powers numbed her body, and she could not perceive pain the same way other does. This only reinforced her perception that she's only a mere doll.
- Shock and Awe: Courtesy of added electric eel genes.
- Slasher Smile
- Super-Reflexes: Appears to have this at first when she dodges Ibara's shot. This was before the reveal that she had the ability to sense the bioelectrical energy put forth by living beings. It's still possible that it's an advantage in combat, just not against those who are faster and/or stronger than her, like her sister, or Ibara.
- Super-Soldier
- Took a Level in Kindness: She quits trying to kill the Medical Unit and herself after being saved and befriended by Ibara, and becomes softer towards them despite her usually mean attitude.
- Weaksauce Weakness: Water.
Shion Ozu
Voiced by: Maaya Sakamoto (Japanese), Sarah Anne Williams (English)
The younger of the Ozu Twins. She is one of the members of Coppelion Cleanup Crew.
- Action Girl
- Ax-Crazy
- The Bully: To Aoi and Meisa.
- Calling Your Attacks
- Cleanup Crew
- Creepy Twins: With Kanon.
- Cute and Psycho: Because she's unintentionally cloned from a serial killer.
- Death Seeker: She actually begs her older sister to kill her, despairing after having a ceiling collapse on her AND SURVIVING.
- Defeat Means Friendship
- Dumb Muscle: She's called this on her first appearance. Despite all her strength, she's childish and rather simple-minded.
In fact, she's set up to be like this, even though she does want to be smarter. - Face–Heel Turn: She betrayed JGSDF and sided with 1st Division.
- Heel–Face Turn
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold
- Magic Skirt: Partially averted just prior to her first fight with Ibara. Played straight the rest of the way.
- Redemption Equals Life
- Reformed, but Not Tamed: Becomes friends with Ibara's team, but usually keeps her mean attitude towards everyone.
- Slasher Smile
- Super-Soldier
- Super-Strength: At least as strong as, if not stronger than Ibara.
- Took a Level in Kindness: She quits trying to kill the Medical Unit and herself after being saved and befriended by Ibara. She also shows her gentler side more often than Kanon.
Mana Tsuburaya
A second-year coppelion who was part of the Exploration Unit.
- Defeat Equals Friendship: Her defeat actually meant being tortured for information and kept from reuniting with Meisa. Later, when she realizes that Aoi is having trouble controlling her powers, she escapes to aid her and Ibara's group.
- Fighting Your Friend: Mana has a battle against Meisa after deciding to help Ibara and Aoi.
- Heel–Face Turn
- Living Emotional Crutch: Even if Meisa is mean to Mana sometimes, she depends on her Only Friend to keep some semblance of sanity.
- "Instant Death" Radius: She leaks radiation and so is this to non-coppelion living beings.
- Sailor Fuku
Meisa Ichikawa
A second-year coppelion who was part of the Exploration Unit.
- Attack Its Weak Point: Her left eye seems to be the core of her sand-like transformations. Ibara knocks it away once and Meisa loses control for a while before recovering her eye.
- Creepy Doll: She's the keeper of Dr. Coppelius bunny doll.
- Cute and Psycho
- Despair Event Horizon: When she accidentally killed everyone at Shinto Bank. Afterwards, Mana's company and Dr. Copelius' promise of fixing their bugs are the only things keeping her from just flopping on the floor.
- Determinator: Does all she can to help Dr. Copelius so he can fix her radiation defect.
- Fighting Your Friend: Fights and loses to Mana once she refuses to let Meisa keep opposing Ibara's group.
- I Surrender, Suckers: Attempts to pull this trick on Mana upon losing to her but gets slapped in response.
- Implacable Woman: She sometimes gets surprised and knocked out by vehicles and accidents, but Ibara and her team can't fight her directly and win at all.
- "Instant Death" Radius: She leaks radiation and so is this to non-coppelion living beings.
- Master of Your Domain: Meisa can disassemble ("break") and reassemble ("reload") her body at the atomic level. According to Dr Coppelius, she does this by manipulating the nuclear force of her body that holds her protons and electrons together.
- Ms. Fanservice: She can't take her clothes along when she completely turns into dust and so she appears naked on-panel every now and then.
- These Hands Have Killed: She brags to Ibara about having killed the people at Shinto Bank but actually feels horrible about it. When Mana decides to help Ibara, Meisa feels unworthy of following them.
Chimera
A intelligent flea-like chimera coppelion who befriended Mana and Meisa.
Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF)
Colonel Mishima Onihei
Voiced by: Rikiya Koyama (Japanese), Keith Silverstein (English)
Japanese Ground Self Defense Force colonel and the Coppelion's vice-principal. He lost his wife and daughter from the nuclear meltdown.
- Colonel Badass
- Insistent Terminology: He prefers to be addressed as 'vice-principal', even by people who don't attend his school. He sees himself as a teacher, not a commander, of the girls.
- Parental Substitute: He acts as one for the coppelion.
- Reasonable Authority Figure
- What Measure Is a Non-Human?: He and his men are some of the few people who care for the coppelion and treat them as people rather than "dolls", tools or weapons.
The Three Professors
A trio of scientists who manage the Coppelion project since Dr. Coppelius was exiled.
- Cold-Blooded Torture: Tortured and experimented on the coppelion during their childhoods.
- The Faceless: They're always shown wearing protective suits which display emoticons.
- Mad Scientist
- No Name Given
- Would Hurt a Child
Other Characters
Ougai Masamune
Voiced by: Mitsuru Ogata (Japanese), Joe J. Thomas (English)
The prime minister's secretary.
- Big Bad: He the one behind the series' political conspiracies and attempts to manipulate the coppelions for his own goals.
- Manipulative Bastard
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Works for the sake of Japan's political and economical growth.
Dr. Coppelius/ Matasaburo Itami
Creator of the Coppelions, a Mad Scientist who went into hiding after being exiled by the scientific community.
- Almighty Janitor: If his uniform is any indication.
- Big Bad
- Creepy Doll: Speaks through a tattered bunny doll with a sinister look.
- Living Emotional Crutch: He's the only hope for the second-year coppelions to be cured from the "bug" that causes them to spread radiation, so depressed and desperate Meisa does anything she can to help him.
- Luke, I Am Your Father: Haruto Kurosawa is his clone.
- Mad Scientist
- Manipulative Bastard
