Characters / Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE!

Tropes for the characters of Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE!.

For characters from the sequel, see here.

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Defense Club/Battle Lovers

General

• Agent Peacock: Don't think that just because they're a group of snarky high school boys in frilly, feminine clothing and relatively feminine interests doesn't mean they can't kick your ass when the chips are down. Heightened in season 2 where they got both more feminine clothing and stronger powers.
• Ambiguously Gay: 4 out of 5 are not shown on-screen to have any romantic interest to women (ignoring the otome game), but they have quite some noticeable Ship Tease with some other men (whether each other or a man outside of their group), the only exception is Ryuu, and even then it's only because he's explicitly confirmed to have an interest in women, and engages in the same things as the other 4 regardless. The otome game makes them romance options for the female protagonist, but you can choose to go for the Friend Ends for them, and they engage in the same Ship Tease as they usually do, making them Ambiguously Bi there instead.
  • There's also that time in season 1, episode 10, where when Yumoto wore glasses, the other four think to themselves that he is cute, complete with blushing.
• Badass Adorable: They're all cute and pretty high school boys that, although they tend to lampshade the absurdity often, they're still shown to be competent and capable at their jobs as magical boys and are capable of packing a punch, too, the best example of which is of course, Yumoto, who is a cheerful and sweet, if pretty childish, boy who is capable of directly facing the Monster of the Week as Battle Lover Scarlet alone and WIN.
• Badass in Distress: They have proven time and time again that they are competent despite lampshading the absurdity often, but there are a number of times where they got themselves in trouble, and thus need help, with one example being that in episode 4 of season 2, what would usually be a normal battle between them and the Monster of the Week ended up having them first humiliated by the long amounts of armpit (Scarlet, Cerulean, and Vesta) or chest (Epinard and Sulfur) hair, and then trapped in a huge hairball, leading to Wombat needing to do the work for them until the Monster of the Week got along with his brother again.
  • In the puzzle otome game, they ACTUALLY start off as this trope, as they were all turned into puzzle blocks the protagonist needs to solve in order to save them after finding out what happened from Wombat, they're back to kicking ass after she turned them back to normal, along with becoming romance options for her.
• By the Power of Grayskull!: Love Making!
• Color-Coded Characters: Every one of them has a color scheme fitting to their respective Elemental Powers.
• Deadpan Snarker: They're all quite snarky to varying extents (yes, even Yumoto, even if his sarcastic streak is the least prominent, resulting in him being a Cuckoo Snarker), which especially shows when they are lampshading something.
• Distressed Dude: There are a number of times where they got themselves in trouble, with the puzzle otome game being one of the most obvious examples with them starting out being turned into blocks, and the protagonist has to save them after finding out what happened from Wombat.
• Elemental Hair Colors: Their hair colors correspond to their elements.
• Elemental Powers:
  • Light 'em Up: Scarlet
  • Making a Splash: Cerulean
  • Blow You Away: Epinard
  • Dishing Out Dirt: Sulfur
  • Playing with Fire: Vesta
• Even the Guys Want Him: All of them have experienced this to varying degrees, whether for Pretty Boy contests, or Valentines day, or even from either each other or from other male students (like Kinshiro being implied to have a crush on Atsushi).
• Exotic Eye Designs: During their Transformation Sequence, each of them gains heart-shaped pupils.
• Frills of Justice: Their Battle Lovers outfits include puffy-sleeved vests, frilly shirts, and giant bows with heart-shaped brooches. This gets updated in the second season.
• In the Name of the Moon:
  • In season 1:
    Cerulean: You, who befoul our beloved Earth!
    Vesta: No justice can come from loveless power!
    Sulfur: Love is all!
    Epinard: Live for love, die for love!
    Scarlet: We are heirs to the throne of love!
    All: Battle Lovers!
    Scarlet: Feel the power...
    All 5: ...of love!
  • In season 2:
    Cerulean: This love-filled planet will not abide those who lack love!
    Vesta: Those who wield loveless power must kneel before love!
    Sulfur: Love is power! Love is hope!
    Epinard: Be born for love! Give your life for love!
    Scarlet: Love! We are, forever, the heirs to the throne of love!
    All: Battle Lovers!
    Scarlet: Feel the power...
    All 5: ...of love!
• Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: Rare Male Example, they are the light feminine to both the Caerula Adamas and the VEPPer's dark feminine, as they feature bright and colorful costumes with frills and puffs, compared to the Caerula Adamas having almost monochromatic costumes and more mature, somewhat military-inspired, costumes, even after their Heel–Face Turn, where the only change they got was a Good Costume Switch from black to white, but otherwise stays the dark feminine to the Battle Lovers' light feminine, and the VEPPer, despite the fact they do feature some frills (especially Akihiko/Melty Luna) in their outfits, they are still less puffy in design and darker in colors in comparison to the Battle Lovers (and the fact the Battle Lovers had a Frilly Upgrade in season 2, which features the VEPPer, makes the contrast more obvious), and of course, the Battle Lovers are all traditional Magical Boys who are rather peppy and cutesy, compared to the other 2 groups being more somber.
• Magical Girl: Gender-Inverted Trope: All 5 of them are Magical Boys instead.
• Magic Wand: Each has one that matches their theme color.
• Real Men Hate Affection: Despite being a group of Deadpan Snarkers about their Magical Boy forms, it's actually averted for all of them, as while it's most obvious as an aversion for Yumoto, they all have been affectionate to each other on their happier days, even hugging each other in the OVA opening, all with happy and warm smiles.
  • Indeed, the one time they did show discomfort when being hugged by Yumoto, it was because he ate the drugged chocolates that make him more hyper than usual, and the OVA opening makes it clear they have no problems hugging him if he's not drugged.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The two energetic and cheerful boys, Yumoto and Ryuu, are the red onis, while the two composed and reserved boys, En and Io, are the blue onis. Atsushi is in the middle, as he is not as energetic as Yumoto and Ryuu, but not as reserved as En and Io.
• Secret Identity: They all have them.
• Technician Versus Performer: The Performers to the VEPPer's Technicians, as while their likes are not as powerful as the VEPPer's, and none of them are actual idols like them, they were able to play a role in moving Gora a little bit while he was knocked unconscious by the wood when he was wood-chopping and subsequently kidnapped, much to the VEPPer's frustration.
• Theme Naming: Played straight with their family names, which are all names of various Japanese hot springs, but averted with their Battle Lover names; two (Scarlet and Cerulean) use Colorful Theme Naming, one (Sulfur) is an element, one (Vesta) is an asteroid/goddess, and one (Epinard) is spinach.
• Trademark Favourite Food: Some more prominent than others.
  • Yumoto: Onigiri (rice balls). His eyecatch profile shows him with them (and the image from the profile is the same image used by the official twitter), and he offers the protagonist some in the game. The justification is that Gora can make them and they're easy to make.
  • En: Onsen manjyuu. Justification being that this anime is based around a hot spring bath house, and hot spring bath houses are great places to laze around at.
  • Atsushi: Curry. Justification is that it's relatively easy to make, and Atsushi makes a great curry. This gets explored in Season 1 episode 11.
  • Io: Gyuudon (beef rice). The justification is that it's cheap.
  • Ryuu: Cherries, specifically a type called Sato Nishiki. The place he gets his surname from (situated in Yamagata prefecture) grows a lot of them.
• Transformation Name Announcement: They lampshade its pointlessness in episode 5. Wombat's response?
  Wombat: It's a matter of feeling and etiquette!
• True Companions: While they tend to be snarky at times (especially to the Monster of the Week and occasionally Yumoto), they do ultimately care for each other and are willing to protect each other.

Yumoto Hakone/Battle Lover Scarlet

Voice actor: Kazutomi Yamamoto

Stage actor: Tomoru Akazawa

A lover of all things fluffy and a Big Eater. His family runs the Kurotamayu, a hot spring bathhouse.

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Tropes associated with him:

• Affectionate Nickname: Tazawa calls him "Yumocchan".
• All-Loving Hero: Seriously. He even heals the loveless with a shower of love.
• Ambiguously Gay: On one hand he claims not to be interested in girls and makes a homoerotic statement that Atsushi comments on. On the other hand, he's uncomfortable when a Drag Queen flirts with him and is unaffected when a male Monster of the Week tries to cast a love spell on him.
  • There is also that part in season 2, episode 9 where he OUTRIGHT confesses to the other four about what he likes about them, and cuddling during that too, but because he was intoxicated from the chocolates the Beppu brothers spiked at the time, it's unknown if he truly meant to confess to them.
• The Baby of the Bunch: Yumoto is the youngest and cutest member of the Defense Club. The rest of the team considers him their "precious kohai", but they also don't take him very seriously (though his ditzy personality probably contributes to that).
• Badass Adorable: He's a cute and sweet boy who is The Baby of the Bunch, and quite childish too, but make no mistake, as Battle Lover Scarlet, most of the time, he's capable of directly battling against the Monster of the Week by himself and win.
• Beware the Nice Ones: He's one of the friendliest characters in the series and is the one who does the purifying after a finisher (with 2 exceptions), but even he's capable of being angry, one example being that he attacked the Tofu Monster after he got FED UP with him wasting tofu by attacking them with it.
• Book Dumb: While he is good at subjects that just need unorthodox thinking, he's otherwise not much better than Ryuu (who doesn't have the highest grades either) when it comes to studying.
• Break the Cutie: The last 3 episodes of season 2 were NOT kind to him. First, in episode 10, he found out his favorite amusement park, Binan Land, is shutting down at the end of the month, leading to him starting off the episode sighing, and upset that the other members of the Defense Club seemed indifferent about it, luckily, they later apologized to him, and he was able to get back to his usual Keet self...UNTIL THE END OF THE EPISODE, when they found out that Gora is missing, leaving his wood-chopping behind. As a result, he spent the next episode upset he is gone, and as soon as Dadacha revealed that Gora is kidnapped by the Beppu brothers, he was angry and confronted them along with the rest of the Defense Club, unfortunately for them, they later ended up having a singing battle, and because Salty Sol and Melty Luna both were EXPERIENCED idols popular in the universe, they were almost easily defeated by the amount of likes the VEPPer got, and if not for the Caerula Adamas appearing Just in Time, they would have lost. Then, in the episode after, after the Defense Club had their turn in singing, the Beppu brothers went APESHIT and had a more traditional battle with them, which ended with the Beppu brothers knocking Yumoto down, and then they tried to take Gora to Andromeda, which is where Yumoto COMPLETELY lost it, as he nearly destroyed the theater, and was about to summon Ultimate Love Attack, an attack SO POWERFUL that, if not for the rest of the Defense Club snapping him out, he would have killed Salty Sol and Melty Luna. Luckily, he got better.
• Cloud Cuckoo Lander: He's clearly not stupid at all, and intuition is practically his major superpower. But he definitely lives in a world of his own and there are a lot of things he just doesn't seem to get - especially when it comes to sex, to the perpetual horror of the rest of the Defense Club.
• Color-Coded Characters: Red.
• The Cuckoo Lander Was Right: Yes, he has odd thought patterns and often lives in his own world, but because intuition is basically his major superpower, he is very capable of making correct guesses, with one example being that in the fourth episode of season 2, he pointed out that even if they can defeat and purify the Monster of the Week like they usually do (which, given their state at the time of being trapped in a hairball, they can't), it won't cure of him of his complex about his brother's Carpet of Virility, and they need to get him to get along with his brother. The other Battle Lovers don't protest against what he said, while Wombat agrees to find his brother after Scarlet tells him to.
• Cuckoo Snarker: He's definitely quite spacey, and there are a lot of things he just won't seem to get, but, while his sarcastic steak is the least prominent of the Defense Club, it's still there, like in episode 11 of season 1 when Gora asks something about transformation and deviation, and what was Yumoto's first reaction? Shoot a Disapproving Look and wonder if he found a strange hobby.
  Yumoto: (thinking to himself) Has he discovered some weird hobby?
• Cuteness Proximity: To fluffy things. "Let me fluff you up!"
• Does Not Like Spam: He doesn't like Chinese dumplings with green peas, and he doesn't understand them, either.
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: Not to the same extent as Akoya, but he looks quite girly with his facial features, and his voice, courtesy of Kazutomi Yamamoto, don't help much with the confusion either, to the point his scenes in Kurotamayu and the fact he attends an all-boys school become reminders that yes, this is a dude.
• Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: In the last episode of season 2, when he was going through such a rage after the Beppu twins tried to take Gora to Andromeda, he sported glazed over eyes that are noticeably darker than normal (as seen here) the whole time, until he got snapped out by the rest of the Defense Club.
• Elemental Hair Colors: Blonde hair for light powers.
• Even the Guys Want Him: Probably the most played straight in the series, sports clubs tried recruiting him (in his glasses mode) to be their manager, arguing over who asked him first and called him cute. Additionally, the other Defense Club members thought he was cute at one point as well and had to reaffirm to themselves they thought he was cute as a kohai and not as anything else.
• Genius Ditz: According to the other Defense Club members, Yumoto gets high grades in subjects that require unorthodox thinking, but he does badly in everything else.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: The most innocent of the Defense Club, one of the friendliest characters of the series, and sports blond hair.
• Image Song: "1, 2, 3 LOVE & JOY!", "Thanks I Can't Convey" and his duets with Gora "Oh my An-chan" and "Brother Lover Rapper".
• Keet: A short guy who'll run after a mysteriously-appearing pink wombat in an indoor hot spring just because said wombat is fluffy. Add that to him having the majority of the lines in the PVs and In Touch with His Feminine Side for the result.
• Kiddie Kid: Lampshaded in episode 4, where the others note he barely changes at all after he's been turned into a primary school child.
• Light 'em Up: Scarlet's power.
• Mukokuseki: (Supposedly) Japanese blonde.
• Non-Uniform Uniform: He wears a shirt with a sailor collar under his blazer instead of the usual dress shirt and necktie. The only time he actually wore these, it was to show he's not acting like himself, as he was acting like a proper student, though even after his glasses were knocked off him, he remained wearing the dress shirt and necktie until the next episode where it's back to the sailor collar he otherwise usually wears.
• Older Than They Look: While he is the youngest of the Defense Club as the only first year in a group of 2 second years and 2 third years, his personality and his looks make him look younger than he really is, which is lampshaded by En in episode 4 of season 1.
• Out-of-Character Moment: The moment being almost the entirety of season 1's episode 10. One mild fever later, he's acting like a proper student. It bothers the rest of the club members, but Wombat doesn't seem to mind. Turns out it was the glasses that caused the personality change.
  • Far more serious in season 2 episode 12. Yumoto went into such a rage after the Beppu twins attempted to take Gora to Andromeda, that he nearly destroyed the theater and attempted to kill Salty Sol and Melty Luna. Fortunately, the rest of the team snapped him out of it.
• Plucky Girl: A Rare Male Example. He excitedly jumps into battle almost immediately after becoming a Magical Boy.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Averted, he has red eyes, but he is an All-Loving Hero, to the point he is the main purifier.
  • It's however played straight when he lost his shit following the VEPPer attempting to take Gora to Andromeda, where he nearly destroyed the theater and ATTEMPTED TO KILL THEM. It's paired with Dull Eyes of Unhappiness as well to emphasize why it's not a smart idea to try to hurt him. He returns to an aversion after the rest of the Battle Lovers snap him out.
• Secret Legacy: Of sorts. See Gora's entry.
• Supporting Protagonist: Although he's the main character overall, Atsushi has a MUCH stronger connection to Kinshiro, the main villain of the first season, thanks to the fact they are Childhood Friends (with Kinshiro being his Evil Former Friend), and even after his Heel–Face Turn, Atsushi still ends up playing an important role in a few moments in season 2, most notably, in episode 11, when Atsushi failed to reply to Kinshiro, he flew them home Just in Time just as the Battle Lovers were about to lose, that being said though, the supporting part is overall dropped in season 2 with the main villains, the VEPPer, having a strong connection to Gora, his older brother, and by extension himself.
• Tareme Eyes: To play up his feminine aspects.
• The Thing That Would Not Leave: As far as the Student Council is concerned. In both the manga and the game, he barges into their clubroom and eats all of their snacks.
• Verbal Tic: He tends to end his sentences with "-ssu", which is a slurred way of saying "desu".

En Yufuin/Battle Lover Cerulean

Voice actor: Yuichiro Umehara

Stage actor: Maasa Igarashi

A Binan High 3rd year who goes at his own pace unless in a bind. Atsushi and he were just chilling out at the Kurotamayu when Wombat appeared.

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Tropes associated with him:

• Affectionate Nickname: Atsushi calls En "En-chan" and Yumoto calls him "En-chan-senpai".
• Ambiguously Gay: He has quite a lot of Ship Tease with Atsushi, and even told him in episode 9 of season 1 that he's basically air to him.
• Badass Adorable: A caring if reserved guy who'd at times do things like skip in a cold blizzard courtesy of the Monster of the Week in a rather childish way (something even he comments on), and is overall gentle despite his laziness, but he's capable of kicking a monster as large as a two-story building down like it's nothing.
• Berserk Button: Don't attempt to pit him against Atsushi, because he can and WILL kick you down if you try to.
• Bilingual Bonus: Word of God said that "Caerula Adamas" means "blue diamond" in Latin. "Cerulean" is not only a shade of blue but happens to come from the same Latin word as "Caerula".
• Blue Is Calm: He's associated with blue, and he is a reserved Lazy Bum with a Sugar-and-Ice Personality.
• Bridal Carry: Saves Atsushi this way from the Monster of the Week in episode 8.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: Played with; he gets high marks on his exams, but only by guessing the answers.
• Color-Coded Characters: Blue.
• Distressed Dude: He was brainwashed by the Monster of the Week in episode 8 of season 1 while trying to buy bread in the convenience store, making him more aggressive than usual to the others, especially Atsushi. He snapped out of it after he realized the Monster of the Week was trying to pit him against Atsushi, and as a result, punched the Monster of the Week and saved Atsushi instead.
• Does Not Like Spam: Chikuwabu, so much so that the very first episode has him trying to understand the meaning of Chikuwabu, as he finds it inferior to the other Oden ingredients.
• I Can't Believe I'm Saying This: In episode 12, he claims he never expected he would say "What did you just say?!" ever in his life. This happens twice more in the episode. By the end of season 2, it's become a beloved tradition and even gets a round of applause before the action continues.
• Image Song: "My Ideology is: Absolute Procrastination!", "The Bath is the Ultimate Paradise Facility!!" and his duets with Atsushi "Crossroad of Calming Wind" and "Festive Dazzling Days".
• Lazy Bum: A defining trait of his, to the point in the Christmas Episode, the other members actually expressed surprise when he was the one who suggested the Christmas party.
• Making a Splash: As Cerulean.
• Mukokuseki: (Supposedly) Japanese brunette.
• Muscles Are Meaningless: In Episode 3 he was shown to defeat a muscular guy in arm wrestling. Not a Curb-Stomp Battle, but still fits this trope that he's clearly leaner than his opponent. (Then again, it's partially because he phased out the guy with some Bishie Sparkle...)
• Not So Above It All: He's usually the strongest source of the sarcasm from both the Battle Lovers and the series as a whole, but it doesn't mean he doesn't have his moments, like on how in the second novel, after a kid fell right into his arms, he initially thought he was a child who fell from the sky, something the other members of the Defense Club (yes, even Yumoto, who normally takes the role as the Cloud Cuckoo Lander) didn't think is the case.
• The Stoic: Downplayed, he's the least openly expressive of the Defense Club, and it enhances his sarcasm at times, but he's still far from emotionless, as he's able to express things like absolute panic for anything about cockroaches, just that most of the time it's more subdued than the rest of the Defense Club.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: He's a reserved and quiet guy who prefers lazing around, but it's clear he does care for his loved ones, in particular, the rest of the Defense Club, especially Atsushi. This was lampshaded by Yumoto in episode 9 of season 2.
  Yumoto: You always act so indifferent, but I know you really care for us, En-chan-senpai! I love you for it!
• Tsundere: Invoked. He isn't one normally, but while under the influence of the Monster of the Week, he uses typical tsundere lines towards Atsushi.
• Water Is Blue: A magical boy who controls water with a signature color of blue.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: According to the first novel, he's absolutely terrified of cockroaches to the point he always drops his stoic nature and panics when he sees one.

Atsushi Kinugawa/Battle Lover Epinard

Voice actor: Kōtarō Nishiyama

Stage actor: Yuuki Ochi

The Smart Guy (aside from Kinshiro) who has to take care of En often due to his slothfulness. Atsushi's sheltered and quite serious. He used to be Childhood Friends with Kinshiro, but for some reason, they drifted apart. Until the end of season 1.

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Tropes associated with him:

• Afraid of Needles: His character booklet in the Blu Rays reveals he is terrified of needles. It doesn't stop him from trying to protect a weakened En from Zundar's needles despite being just as weakened as him and the other Battle Lovers in the penultimate episode of season 2, though.
• Ambiguously Gay: The biggest example of the Defense Club. He blushes whenever someone asks him to take a side or comments on his relationship with the rest of the Defense Club members. He also has a tendency to spontaneously blurt out slightly homoerotic thoughts, and he has a strong amount of Ship Tease with both En and Kinshiro.
  Atsushi: (smiling softly, thinking to himself) Is En-chan overly aware of my presence?
  • As the cherry on top, in episode 9 of season 2, when the Defense Club were gifted chocolates that were spiked by the Beppu brothers that also include flower toppings, the flowers for Atsushi are green carnations, a symbol for gay men.
• Atrocious Alias: While the other 4 Battle Lovers have some cool names that are just blundered by the fact they have an inconsistent theme, poor Atsushi doesn't even have the dignity of it, as his Secret Identity is Battle Lover Epinard, which epinard is French for spinach. It wasn't commented on in the show itself, but one of the Blu Ray bonus shorts has them discuss their Secret Identity names, with Atsushi being noticeably embarrassed when it was his turn to discuss his.
• Badass Adorable: He's pretty cute and is the passive and caring Team Mom, but he's still a competent Magical Boy who can use his powers to protect both himself and his loved ones, and one example in episode 8 of season 1 has him fight the Monster of the Week to turn En back to normal after finding out why was he acting more aggressive than usual.
• Badass Bookworm: He's The Smart Guy, is shown with books more than a few times (including when he was on library duty in episode 5 of season 1), and is willing to protect his loved ones with his wind powers.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Multiple characters—such as En and Yumoto—mentioned that Atsushi has a hidden dark side. Just look at what he did to the Hourglass Monster in season 2 episode 1 because he was preventing the Battle Lovers from keeping their promise to see the student council off.
• Blow You Away: This is his power as Epinard, and his attack is Epinard Hurricane (later Epinard Love Hurricane in season 2).
• Color-Coded Characters: Green.
• Cute Bookworm: He's more passive and somewhat introverted than outright shy, but regardless, he is caring, has been shown with books a few times to highlight his intelligence, and is definitely quite cute overall.
• Deuteragonist: He's the second most important Battle Lover in the series, after Yumoto, thanks to his very strong connection with Kinshiro, the main villain of season 1, and the first ending song even revolves around Kinshiro missing him, and even outside of that, there's also Yumoto saying that he is the reason the Defense Club exists, and in the puzzle otome game, he was the second to be rescued from his blocky prison after Yumoto, not En.
  • The penultimate episode of season 1 even has him and Yumoto fight Kinshiro together, while the other 3 just find out Arima and Akoya's Secret Identities and joins their fight later to save them from Kinshiro's attack, following a battle that ensued with Arima and En, as well as Akoya and Ryuu, while Io gets worried about the Cosplay Hero Curry.
• Does Not Like Spam: He's not a big fan of Tokoroten.
• Gentleman and a Scholar: Not quite a Gentleman Wizard due to this being a Magical Girl Parody, but regardless, he's rich, The Smart Guy of his group, and an absolute sweetheart.
• The Glasses Gotta Go: In the Kurotamayu. Justified, because who bathes with glasses on?
• Glasses of Aging: In a flashback, he was shown without glasses as a child, in contrast to in the present day, where he wears glasses as a 3rd year high schooler and eventual graduate.
• Green and Mean: Inverted, his color is green, but not only is he part of the Defense Club, but he's also one of the most friendly characters of the whole series.
• Image Song: "Why So Cool?", "Running round and round every day!!" and his duets with En "Crossroad of Calming Wind" and "Festive Dazzling Days".
• In Touch with His Feminine Side: This applies to a degree for all of them, but it's most notable here, given his passive nature and domestic side.
• Make a Wish: With Kinshiro, as children. It doesn't end that well for Atsushi either, considering. Until the end of season 1 that is.
• Nice Guy: Atsushi is one of the kindest characters in the entire series. Unless you make him angry of course.
• The Nicknamer: En-chan, Kin-chan, and also Ibu-chan.
• Only Sane Man: Between him, Yumoto, En, Io, and Ryuu, he's the most rational of the Defense Club, and it's basically a side effect of being their Team Mom, although, of course, he's got his moments too.
• Otaku: He's often the one who makes references to other anime series.
• Purple Is the New Black: His dark blue hair could arguably be meant as black. It's very obviously black in the game. Though in the show, a lot of the Faceless Masses are swanning around with hair that is clearly just boring old black.
• Shipper on Deck: For Ryuu and Io, as of episode 7.
  Atsushi: Ryuu, you claim to love women, but I've never actually seen you with a woman before. Let's be honest. You like Io, right?
• Smart People Wear Glasses: Is the only character of the main eight (later ten in season 2) to wear glasses, and he's The Smart Guy of the Battle Lovers.
• Specs of Awesome: A Badass Adorable high schooler who as a magical boy, is capable of making wind attacks to fight. This is especially notable as normally, Magical Girls lose their glasses when they transform, yet he keeps his even when transformed.
• Tareme Eyes: To play up his feminine aspects.
• Team Mom: Passive, domestic, and always there to help and care for his friends.
• Token Rich Student: Not of the school overall given the Conquest Club and the VEPPer are rich, but of the Defense Club themselves, he and Io share this role as his profile confirms he is from a rich family.
• We Used to Be Friends: He was once friends with Kinshiro, but something happened between them that broke them apart. Episode 11 reveals that it's because he went out to eat curry instead of going home with Kinshiro one day, leading Kinshiro to hate both Atsushi and curry. However, as of the end of season 1, Atsushi and Kinshiro are friends again.
• Wind Is Green: Epinard's power is wind, and his signature color is green.

Io Naruko/Battle Lover Sulfur

Voice actor: Yusuke Shirai

Stage actor: Shouta Takasaki

A guy who loves money, so much that he dabbles in the foreign stock exchange.

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Tropes associated with him:

• Ambiguously Gay: In addition to the massive amounts of Ship Tease he has with Ryuu, he also was the most flustered when a high-on-chocolates Yumoto confessed to him about how even though he loves money, he also loves the rest of the Defense Club.
• Badass Adorable: A caring if somewhat easy-to-embarrass guy despite loving money, but he's far from weak, and it's demonstrated when he defeated a Monster of the Week for capturing Ryuu by punching him across the room.
• Color-Coded Characters: Yellow.
• Defrosting Ice King: Episode 6 of season 2 reveals that his first meeting with Ryuu wasn't exactly the friendliest one, as he was rather cold to him at first. He thawed a little when he saw Ryuu be made fun of by other boys (and Ryuu did the exact same thing to him), before ultimately defrosting after Yumoto accidentally splashed water on them, prompting Gora to send them to the Kurotamayu, and although they protested at first, they wound up relaxing and they became friends, with both ultimately joining the Defense Club not long after.
• Dishing Out Dirt: As Sulfur.
• Does Not Like Spam: He hates any food where the taste doesn't justify the price, additionally, he hates burdock roots, myoga, and celery as revealed in the third novel.
• Easily Embarrassed Youngster: Despite his rather cold and pragmatic nature (especially when it comes to money), he's actually pretty easy to embarrass at times, and is not used to affection either. This is to the point that when a more-hyper-than-usual Yumoto cuddled up to him at one point in episode 9 of season 2, he was not only blushing so hard to the point it doesn't go unnoticed by Ryuu and Atsushi, but when Yumoto was about to start cuddling the others again, Io noticeably didn't get up quickly because of how flustered he was, unlike the others.
• Elemental Hair Colors: Greenish-beige hair for earth powers.
• Endearingly Dorky: In the third novel, he revealed to Atsushi that he, surprisingly, is a Picky Eater and hates burdock roots, myoga, and celery, as well as preferring foods like gyuudons, curry, salisbury steaks, and ramen. What was Atsushi's opinion? He found him cute and teased him a little about it, much to Io's embarrassment.
• Green and Mean: Downplayed, he has green hair and while he's the least openly friendly of the Defense Club, being cold and obsessed with money, he's ultimately more of a Jerk with a Heart of Gold than a straight-up Jerkass.
• Hand-or-Object Underwear:
  • During his transformation, he's the only one who (briefly) has to cover up himself with his hands due to a lack of strategically placed special effects.
  • He also does it when (and after) being turned into a baby alongside everyone else...despite sporting the same Gag Censor as everyone else.
• Image Song: "Naruko-style 'Making Money with Stockmarketing' Equation", "Feel It!" and his duets with Ryuu "Sync a Think" and "Halfway".
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: There's no denying he's ABSOLUTELY obsessed with money and is pretty pragmatic and even somewhat cold at times, but ultimately, despite it all, he does care for his loved ones, especially Ryuu, to the point he immediately transformed to save Ryuu once after the latter got trapped by the Monster of the Week.
• Meaningful Name: "Io" means "sulfur".
• Money Fetish:
  Io: I bet I'll feel love when I get one billion in my Cayman Islands account.
• Only in It for the Money: This seems to be his only motivation for just about anything.
  Io: (when asked to join the Ballet Club) Is there a financial advantage to be gained from this?
• The Scrooge: Not only is he obsessed with making money, but he'll also try to spend as little of it as possible. That includes when Ryuu asks him to spend it.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Although he seems quite distant and seemingly only thinks of money, he's actually caring to those he knows better, particularly the rest of the Defense Club, especially Ryuu.
• This Is My Name on Foreign: Due to what happens with his Meaningful Name, since his Secret Identity is known as Battle Lover Sulfur.
• Token Rich Student: Not of the school overall given the Conquest Club and the VEPPer are rich, but of the Defense Club themselves, he and Atsushi share this role since as an investor of multiple companies, he gains quite a lot of money, therefore making him pretty rich, much to his delight.
• Yellow Earth, Green Earth: While he has greenish-beige hair, his signature color is ultimately yellow, and he has the power of earth.

Ryuu Zaou/Battle Lover Vesta

Voice actor: Toshiki Masuda

Stage actor: Yoshihiko Aramaki

A pink-haired guy whose phone is always ringing with dates from girls, and he claims to be a Casanova (though this is questionable at best). He also happens to be friends with Io, who's in the same year as he is.

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Tropes associated with him:

• Ambiguously Bi: He definitely likes women, but he has a lot of Ship Tease with Io, not to mention that in episode 9 of season 2, it's implied that he enjoyed a more hyper than usual Yumoto cuddling up to him.
• Badass Adorable: He's energetic and somewhat of a Proud Beauty, but is just as capable of opening a can of whoop-ass as the rest of the Battle Lovers, and even saved the other members of the Battle Lovers while working with Io at one point.
• Book Dumb: Unlike Yumoto, who has high marks in certain subjects, Ryuu's overall grades aren't the best.
• The Casanova: Probably. While he has been shown talking to women over the phone, all conversation and dating takes place off-screen.
• Cheery Pink: His main color is pink, and although he's more mature than Yumoto, he's still the other Keet of the Defense Club, and is quite friendly as well.
• Color-Coded Characters: Pink.
• Cool Big Bro: Parodied. He broke a broom and a desk and threw a chalkboard sponge out of the window, all without needing to transform, but the triplets ended up admiring him enough to vote for him in episode 3 of season 1.
• Does Not Like Spam: Konjac is not his thing.
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: He looks quite girly with all that pink and relatively feminine features, plus without his headband, he looks even even girlier since it looks like a somewhat messy Bob cut. That being said, his masculine and somewhat deep voice can throw out any confusion.
• Empowered Badass Normal: A somewhat Played for Laughs example, he's a legitimate badass for sure, but he has been able to break a desk in half so easily without needing to transform, much to the triplets and Yumoto's excitement and the confusion of the other Defense Club members. The rest of his badass moments are for when he transforms into a magical boy.
• Fire Is Red: Downplayed, he definitely got the fire part down, but his signature color is pink, which is close to red (since Scarlet already has red).
• Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?: Is constantly mentioning how much he likes women, despite never actually being seen with one.
• Hot-Blooded: While he does show reluctance from time to time, he is still rather eager to fight when it counts, like being the second (after Yumoto, who got used to his powers rather quickly) to fight the Chikuwabu Monster, and his second transformation even features him throwing a punch with an energetic smile shortly before his pose. Fittingly, his powers are fire.
• Image Song: "Baby Baby Sweet Baby!!", "World Wide Love Leader" and his duets with Io "Sync a Think" and "Halfway".
• Keet: Not to the same extent as Yumoto, but he's definitely quite energetic, and overall is the second most energetic of the Defense Club, only behind the aforementioned Yumoto.
• Rose-Haired Sweetie: He's a cheerful and extroverted Keet with pink hair to match.
• Proud Beauty: Not to the same extent as Akoya, but he's willing to call himself cute, which indicates he's pretty proud of his looks overall.
• Phoneaholic Teenager: A Rare Male Example; whenever he isn't talking to the other characters, he's usually on his phone with a girl.
• Playing with Fire: Vesta's power is flame.
• Shipper on Deck: For Atsushi and Kinshiro, telling Atsushi to take Kinshiro in his arms.
• Tareme Eyes: To play up his feminine aspects.
• Urban Legend Love Life: Though Ryuu claims to love women and has been seen calling or texting them, he's never actually seen with girls in person. This is lampshaded by Atsushi in episode 7.
• Vocal Dissonance: He looks fairly feminine, but his voice is rather masculine and at times can be pretty deep, which becomes a reminder to the viewers that he's a guy.

Wombat

Voiced by: Mugihito

A Talking Animal who came from a distant planet. For some reason, he has a heart symbol on his side.

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Tropes associated with him:

• Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: The official profile says, "He looks like a wombat, but he's pink.", justified by the fact he came from a distant planet and therefore an alien looking like a wombat.
• Animal Gender-Bender / Bizarre Alien Biology: According to the last episode of season 1, he has a pouch. Wombats are marsupials and thus do have them, but only the females. On the other hand, Wombat is merely an alien who happens to resemble a wombat so this trait might be common to the males of his species.
• A Dog Named "Dog": A pink wombat whom they call Wombat. It's a Played With example, because it's not his real name, but said real name is too unpronounceable for them to use.
• But Now I Must Go:
  • Averted at first. At the end of the first season, the characters talk about Wombat as if he wasn't there. It turns out they expected him to leave Earth and are a bit surprised he hasn't. Wombat says he still needs to revive the dead teacher, but the characters think it's an excuse to stay. In season 2, he doesn't even make any excuses to leave.
  • Played straight in the graduation OVA, in which he leaves Earth via intergalactic train (with Zundar and Dadacha locked in his bag) to spread love to other planets.
• Butt-Monkey: He gets quite a lot of abuse heaped on him, courtesy of Yumoto. At one point he falls out a window, and the only reaction is a deadpan "Oh, he fell.".
• Canon Immigrant: In Takamatsu's mecha series, RobiHachi.
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: The boys (aside from Yumoto) see him as little more than a nuisance most of the time (and Yumoto mainly likes having him around for cuddles).
• Mentor Mascot: What's a Magical Girl show without one?
• Puppeteer Parasite: Appears to be doing this to Mr. Tawarayama, mainly because the teacher got accidentally killed by Wombat when he was running away from Yumoto.
• Some Call Me "Tim": The boys call him Wombat, given that his name is untranslatable. As for season 2, he no longer minds it, even referring to himself as Wombat.
• Symbiotic Possession: Wombat uses his powers to (partly) revive Mr. Tawarayama. For it to work, Wombat must be constantly near him.
• Talking Animal: A must for a Mentor Mascot animal.
• Token Non-Human: For the Defense Club.
• Translator Microbes: The reason he can speak Japanese.
• The Unpronounceable: His real name, species, and home planet. The boys even say it sounds different each time he tries to say it.
• Verbal Tic: He has two; he'll end some of his sentences with either "paparazzi" or "macho".

Conquest Club/Caerula Adamas

General

• Absurdly Powerful Student Council: Often cited, but almost averted in this case. While they're wealthy, high-handed and rack up the privileges, and most of the school at least claim to adore them, their actual authority is all about managing Japanese School Clubs - as is the typical role of Japanese student councils. Compare this to certain other student councils who rack up personal armies and the like.
• Bilingual Bonus:
  • Caerula Adamas is Latin for "blue diamond" - the whole Blue Diamond/Gold/Silver/Pearl motif is an elaborate pun on a Japanese brand of washing powder! However, adamas, meaning diamond, also happens to mean "unconquerable".
  • Also note the blue diamond motif at Gora's collar in his magical boy transformation gear. There's a fair amount of amusing recycling to watch out for between the past and present day.
• By the Power of Grayskull!: Conquest! - though as episode 11 demonstrates, they don't have to say it.
• Color-Coded Characters: With a metallic theme this time.
  • Aurite - Gold
  • Argent - Silver
  • Perlite - Mother-of-pearl
• Comic Trio: Kinshiro is the Pointy-Haired Boss and The Leader, Arima alternates between The Fool and the Only Sane Man, and Akoya is the powerless one who usually sees through the scenario (especially in the manga).
• Custom Uniform: They wear a white gakuran instead of the standard blazer and tie. Lampshaded in chapter 4 of the manga.
• Easily Forgiven: After their Heel–Face Turn. Depending on which part of the fandom you ask, they're either total Karma Houdinis who get away without as much as an apology, or Kinshiro, at least, comes in for a well-deserved Humiliation Conga before finally being forgiven.
• Evil Laugh: This is mainly Kinshiro's trope, but they manage a group one in Episode 6.
• Evil Wears Black: Their Chevalier uniforms are predominantly black, and they're the main villains of season 1. In fact, after their Heel–Face Turn, the next time we see them transform again after season 1, they're wearing white instead of black.
• Gold and White Are Divine: Played with and subverted - the Custom Uniform, again. Here it's a sign that they're taking themselves too seriously.
  • By the time the end of season 2 rolls around, they've switched it around to dark school uniforms (as transfer students abroad) and laundry advert-white transformation kit.
  • Now in the OVA, after they returned from studying aboard, they're now wearing white in both their school uniforms and their transformed selves.
• Gratuitous French: Involved in their Chevalier names.
• Heel–Face Turn: Final episode of the first season.
• Instant Fan Club: They have one that shows up occasionally in the manga.
• In the Name of the Moon: In Episode 6, when they introduce themselves to the Defense Club:
  Aurite, Argent and Perlite: We are the rulers of this blue world, Caerula Adamas!
  Argent: Well, shall we leave it at that for now?
  Epinard: They introduced themselves then left...
  Cerulean: Lucky us. You can't talk to people like that anyway.
• Laughably Evil:
  • Especially in the manga. If Team Rocket had transformations, they'd be these guys.
  • It's rather less laughable towards the end of the first season when we finally see Kinshiro left alone with Zundar. He starts talking about genocide.
• Leitmotif: For most of their appearances they get their own tune that makes liberal use of the harpsichord.
• Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: Rare Male Example, they are the dark feminine to the Battle Lovers' light feminine, as they feature almost monochromatic costumes and more mature, somewhat military-inspired, costumes, even after their Heel–Face Turn, where the only change they got was a Good Costume Switch from black to white, but otherwise stays the dark feminine to the Battle Lovers' light feminine, compared to the Battle Lovers having bright and colorful costumes with frills and puffs, along with the fact they are the villains of season 1, being a group of Dark Magical Boys who are more somber and elegant in comparison, compared to the more peppy and lively Battle Lovers.
• Pillars of Moral Character: Kinshiro and Arima, primarily. Kinshiro explicitly describes his obligation to Zundar as a great debt he must repay (reciprocity and piety); what he lacks as the bad guy is compassion. By contrast, Arima is all about compassion. Akoya is too beautiful to have much truck with morality. It's interesting that it's the villains, who are very proper types, who demonstrate these; the Defense Club, by contrast, are far more modern-day in their thinking.
• The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: They come out once an episode to give some poor woebegone a Really Hard Time, and they have some idea of ruling the world one day. But mostly they're into looking cool and drinking tea.
• Put on a Bus: At the beginning of season 2, they go to study abroad. At the penultimate episode of the season, they come back Just in Time to save the day - in fact, Kinshiro flies them all home after Atsushi doesn't reply to a text.
• Royal Rapier: In the final fight of Season 1, each Caerula Adamas member uses one.
• Sailor Fuku: This is the boys' variant.
• Secret Identity: Like the Battle Lovers, they all have them.
• Terrible Trio: There're three human members and they're the villains. Kinshiro is definitely in charge.
• Trademark Favorite Food:
  • Kinshiro: Amanatto and kintsuba (two kinds of Japanese sweets). Also notable is his dislike of curry. Which may or may not get exploited.
  • Ibushi: Tansan senbei - a local specialty of Arima Onsen, made with wheat flour and carbonated water from the hot springs there. The translation calls them carbonated rice crackers, which is clear as mud.
  • Akoya: Macarons.
• Transformation Name Announcement:
  Aurite: The golden chevalier, shining in radiance! Aurite!
  Argent: The silver chevalier, rustling the leaves! Argent!
  Perlite: The pearl chevalier, making flowers bloom! Perlite!
• Villain in a White Suit: They all wear a custom crisp white military uniform. As part of the student council they rule the school, and are all wealthy and sophisticated. And of course, they are the antagonists who seek to rule the world.

Kinshiro Kusatsu/Chevalier Aurite

Voice actor: Hiroshi Kamiya

Stage actor: Takahisa Maeyama

The smartest guy at Binan High School who is the Student Council President.

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Tropes associated with him:

• Absurdly Powerful Student Council: The president of it. In the webcomic, he uses his power to close down several clubs at seemingly random.
• Affectionate Nickname: Atsushi calls him Kin-chan/Kinny. Something of a Berserk Button, in that Atsushi's eventual Wrong-Name Outburst has near-terminal results. Until he and Atsushi make up at the end of season 1 of course. By the end of season 2, Yumoto is calling him Kin-chan-senpai with no comeback whatsoever.
• Alliterative Name: The only one out of the main eight (later ten) guys to have this trope.
• Ambiguously Gay: Although the further the series progresses the less ambiguous it gets.
• Bishōnen Line: Most of the Monsters Of The Week are not human-looking. When Kinshiro's turn rolls around at the series climax, he just gets an Evil Makeover - red eyes, gothic eyeliner, and purple lipstick.
• Break the Haughty: The first half of Episode 12.
• Broken Bird: His obsession with world domination and cold personality masks a sad and lonely guy who doesn't dream of allowing himself to have friends despite how lonely he is, and he was formerly friends with Atsushi, not helped by the fact he thought his childhood wish to stay friends with Atsushi forever failed, especially as Kinshiro is not implied to have any other friends, fortunately, following his Heel–Face Turn, he gets better.
• Cape Swish: He loves these. So much does he love them that, on several occasions while he's in his school uniform, he seems to swish an invisible cape. His cape is also cape-able (er) of assuming dramatic swooshy poses while he is standing still, as at a climactic moment in episode 11.
• Childhood Friends: With Atsushi. He's also his Evil Former Friend. Their friendship is rekindled at the end of season 1.
• Color-Coded Characters: Gold. He also often gets lavender.
• Cuteness Proximity: Towards Zundar in the manga.
• Does Not Like Spam: He absolutely despises curry. It's because Atsushi once unwittingly snubbed him by going to a restaurant that was having a curry special instead of walking home from school with him, not to mention that Atsushi went with En instead of him.
• The Dragon: To Zundar - or so we're led to believe...
• Evil Laugh: He's a worrying boy. Thankfully he gets better after he and Atsushi make up at the end of season 1.
• Evil Makeover: Dark Aurite.
• Forgotten First Meeting: With Arima. They met as children, but when they meet again in high school, Kinshiro doesn't give any indication of remembering him. It's implied to be an act though.
• Good Eyes, Evil Eyes: Subverted. He does go all wide-eyed and pretty in the last episode of season 1, but despite staying on the side of the angels, quite literally, his eyes go right back to normal again once the moment passes.
• The Heavy: While Zundar is the Big Bad in season 1, at least until Hireashi shows up, we rarely see him. Kinshiro does all the dirty work, has a far larger chunk of the plot, and is a far better part for a voice actor.
• Image Song: "Never Know".
• Knight Templar: Thinks the world deserves rule by a tiny master race for its own good - namely, him, Arima, and Akoya. As of the end of season 1, this is no longer the case.
• Lonely Rich Kid: There's no sign that he has any friends apart from Atsushi, which is why losing him hits him so hard. By the point of the series, he doesn't dream of allowing himself friends despite still being painfully lonely. Until the end of season 1.
• Love Redeems: The second half of Episode 12, at Atsushi's hands.
• Luminescent Blush:
  • Gets one in episode 12.
  • In the last episode of Season 2, he turns bright pink when En and the second-years compare his fallout with Atsushi to a lovers' quarrel.
• Make a Wish: With Atsushi, as children. It ends badly. For most of season 1 anyway.
• Makeup Is Evil: He magically dons some eyeshadow and lipstick when he powers up.
• Not Good with Rejection: Putting it mildly. What should have been a minor fallout with Atsushi turned into his Start of Darkness.
• Noble Top Enforcer: To Zundar, more or less.
• Obstructive Bureaucrat: Especially in the manga.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: In Episode 11.
• Sour Outside, Sad Inside: For most of the first series. It's clearer in the manga, especially Chapter 9.
• Start of Darkness:
  • The apparent failure of his childhood wish, to stay friends with Atsushi forever. The finale reveals that, technically, it never failed at all.
  • It gets worse, when episodes 4 and 11 reveal that while Kinshiro viewed the wish as a sacred oath, Atsushi doesn't even remember it.
• Student Council President: For Binan High.
• The Smart Guy: Averted. While he's top of the class and not unobservant, this is neither his sort of smart nor his role in the group - just look at the "evil plans" he comes up with in the manga!
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Although the ice part was more prominent until his Heel–Face Turn as a villain, post-Heel–Face Turn, although he's still quite serious and gives off an elegant aura, he has a sweet and protective side deep down, like how in the beginning of season 2, when they were leaving to study abroad, he made no attempt to reject Yumoto's request about seeing them off while still putting up his serious student council president persona up. The sugar part is especially obvious when with Atsushi.
• Tsundere: To Atsushi, made especially clear in the last episode of Season 1. Kinosaki even refers to him as such in the same episode.
• This Is Unforgivable!:
  • Basically his speech to the Battle Lovers in Episode 6, along with We Will Meet Again, In the Name of the Moon, and Giving The Battle Lovers The Pointer Finger. It's a glorious, if brief, confection of cartoon villain tropes.
  • It's also his approach to running the Absurdly Powerful Student Council.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: And how. Though there are hints that he wasn't completely happy or stable back then either.
• Verbal Tic: At his most megalomaniacal, he copies Zundar's "-dar!". More generally, he's easily the most stilted-sounding of the main cast. It pays off in the end when he finally confronts Atsushi about their broken friendship, and all that pretentiousness falls away as he drops from ''watashi'' to ''boku'' and talks like an aggrieved boy instead of a book.
  • By the time we meet him again in season 2, he uses boku exclusively; he and Akoya are the only ones of the main cast to do so. Even Atsushi, who is very much the type, uses ore instead. Arima switches between ore and boku, depending on the medium.
• Villainous Breakdown: So averted your head will spin, when instead of losing it completely after The Reveal, he quietly refuses to participate any longer.
• We Used to Be Friends: He used to be friends with Atsushi, but something happened between them that broke them apart. Episode 11 reveals that it's because Atsushi went out to eat curry with En instead of going home with him one day. This led Kinshiro to hate both Atsushi and curry. However, as of the end of season 1, Atsushi and Kinshiro are friends again.
• When He Smiles: He spends most of his time looking either pissed off or miserable. When he finally smiles genuinely in the last episode of Season 1 it's adorable.
• White Hair, Black Heart: He sports white hair, and is The Heavy whose goal is world domination. Until he had his Heel–Face Turn.

Ibushi Arima/Chevalier Argent

Voice actor: Jun Fukuyama

Stage actor: Yuu Imari

Kinshiro's right-hand guy who understands the student council president's anguish better than anyone else.

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Tropes associated with him:

• Absurdly Powerful Student Council: Vice president.
• Affably Evil: He doesn't have as much of a personal grudge against the Battle Lovers despite being their enemy, unlike Akoya and Kinshiro, and is relatively more casual in comparison. The evil part drops post-Heel–Face Turn, and is more full-on polite as a result.
• All There in the Manual: His given name, Ibushi, is never mentioned at any point in the anime.
• Bag of Holding / Rummage Fail: In the manga (chapter 6), Arima goes looking for a club application form in his uniform pockets, but in the process finds sweets, a small spade, a pot and a watering can, and what appear to be spooky figures!
• Beleaguered Assistant: Mainly in the manga, where Kinshiro is a lot less competent. In the anime, it's because Kinshiro is just such a pain in the ass.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall / Medium Awareness: As part of his Hot-Blooded rant in the manga, Argent complains about how he has limited appearances in the anime. This comment is then lampshaded.
• Chessmaster Sidekick: To Kinshiro. Doesn't show up much in the anime, but in the manga Arima is clearly the most sensible of the three. In the game and the light novel, Kinshiro seems to genuinely respect him and to think of him as an irreplaceable right-hand man - he calls him a logistics genius at one point!
• Color-Coded Characters: Silver. Occasionally he gets olive.
• Deadpan Snarker: Mainly in the manga when responding to Akoya's antics.
• Forgotten First Meeting: As a child, he befriended Atsushi and Kinshiro, yet when he meets the latter again some ten years later, Kinshiro doesn't remember him. Possible subversion though as Atsushi (who does remember Arima) says that Kinshiro isn't one to forget such things.
• The Generic Guy: Lampshaded, particularly in the final episode. When everyone else talks about what matters to them, Ibushi says he's not really sure.
• Hypercompetent Sidekick: Arima mediates between Akoya and Kinshiro, does everything they say (including getting snacks and tea for them), takes care of his plants and still manages his studies.
• Image Song: "Butler's Philosophy".
• Only Sane Man: For the Conquest Club. Kinshiro and Akoya are both into world domination for their own reasons, while Arima is only in it because Kinshiro finds joy in it. He spends most of his time mitigating the excesses of the other two.
• Out-of-Character Moment: Argent gets hit by a Hot-Blooded monster's beam (manga chapter 7) and becomes Hot-Blooded himself. He snaps out of it at the end of the chapter.
• Undying Loyalty: There seems to be little or nothing he won't do to make Kinshiro happy.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: He's so squicked out by snails he can't even say the word (in the manga) and refuses to come back to the student council room when he finds one in a plant. He's a bit more capable of facing snails in the anime, but is still clearly disgusted at the fact Zundar enjoys eating them.

Akoya Gero/Chevalier Perlite

Voice actor: Takuma Terashima

Stage actor: Souta Kashiwagi

A noble guy who doesn't like Ryuu for some reason.

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Tropes associated with him:

• Absurdly Powerful Student Council: A member of it. The game reveals his role is a "secretary-treasurer", which is why he tries to recruit Io in episode 6 of the anime's first season.
• Affably Evil: As his profile states.
• All of the Other Reindeer: Due to puns on his surname (see Meaningful Name), he's been teased quite a lot.
• All There in the Manual: Said being teased is never directly brought up in the show, just getting a passing mention from Kinshiro in one scene. This is despite the fact that it seems to be the main reason his personality is the way it is- see his manga chapter and character song.
• Badass Adorable: A cute and feminine-looking guy who is just as capable as the rest of the student council, both transformed and untransformed. He also later delivers a powerful-enough-to-knock-out punch to Kinosaki after finding out that not only they were in a reality show filmed by Hireashi, but also knew of their plans from the start as Kinosaki was working with Hireashi.
• Bishie Sparkle: Loves to abuse this trope. Arima has an Imagine Spot with a Gonk looking Akoya, only to have him still sparkling!
• Color-Coded Characters: Pearl pink.
• Deadpan Snarker: This (and his narcissism) is his defining trait in the manga. When Kinshiro's posturing and Arima's happily going along with him, Akoya's the one left to point out how ridiculous everything is. Of course, he's Not So Above It All either.
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: With his feminine features, his voice, and especially his long hair (and he's the only one of the main eight (later ten) to have his Modesty Towel cover up his torso and chest in addition to his waist, which is what girls do when they cover themselves up with towels), you'd be forgiven if you thought he was a girl at first.
• Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: A high-level narcissist despite his beautiful and feminine looks, he even describes himself as this in one of the next episode previews.
• Image Song: "Beauty...EGOISM".
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy: He has the longest hair out of the main eight (later ten) guys.
• Lonely Rich Kid: He used to be one. His clothing choice in flashbacks solidifies his parents as being rich.
• Meaningful Name: "Akoya" is a type of pearl oyster. "Gero", if written a different way, can mean the Japanese equivalent to "ribbit" or can be an informal way of saying "vomit" which leads to the teasing mentioned above.
• Rose-Haired Sweetie: Played with, he's Affably Evil with pink hair, for sure, but he's also a total Proud Beauty who is obsessed with is own beauty as a result, and even got a rival in Ryuu after they tied once. Played somewhat straighter post-Heel–Face Turn, though, with even his rivalry with Ryuu being much friendlier.
• Tareme Eyes: To play up his feminine aspects.

Zundar

Voiced by: Hiroki Yasumoto

A green hedgehog from a faraway planet who wants to Take Over the World. Or does he?

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Tropes associated with him:

• Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: He's an alien, to put it bluntly.
• Bastardly Speech: In the manga, he wins Kinshiro for the forces of darkness by sounding off at length about how he understands the pain of betrayal and how they will make a purified new world together. At the point of publication, the reader is perfectly aware that Zundar is making a reality TV show and only wants Kinshiro for a patsy.
• Demoted to Dragon: When Hireashi shows up unexpectedly in season 1.
• The Dragon: To Hireashi.
• Evil Sounds Deep: He has a very deep voice, courtesy of Hiroki Yasumoto, which is rather at odds with his small and cute appearance.
• Hidden Depths: Season 2 reveals that he is divorced and has children. He's been struggling to pay child support ever since he was demoted after the end of Season 1.
• Meaningful Name: There's a kind of mochi that looks like a hedgehog and it's called zunda.
• Mentor Mascot: For the Conquest Club.
• Talking Animal: If he has a Verbal Tic, it's obvious that this trope applies.
• Token Non-Human: Out of the Conquest Club.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Escargot, which leads to some hilarious results when Arima finds a snail. Zundar also enjoys raw snails, it turns out.
• Verbal Tic: He tends to put "-dar" at the ends of his sentences.
• Vocal Dissonance: A cute little hedgehog with a very deep voice.

The VEPPer

Akihiko/Melty Luna and Haruhiko/Salty Sol Beppu

Voiced by: Keisuke Koumoto (Akihiko), Yoshiki Murakami (Haruhiko)

A duo of Dark Magical Boys introduced in season 2. They're idol second-year transfer student twins. Haruhiko is the younger one with poor expression, while Akihiko is the elder, well-mannered one. Both have an abrasive personality. (Basically, wherever one smiles, the other is frowning.)

Tropes associated with them:

• The Ace: They won the math, cooking, sewing, and physical strength competition on their first day of school without breaking a sweat.
• All the Other Reindeer: They were relentlessly bullied at Space School for being Earthlings and fans of Maximum Gorar. They were beaten up, doused with dirty water, and had their lockers and desks vandalized and filled with garbage.
• Ambiguously Gay: Both of them are implied to have a MAJOR crush on Gora, and they shrug off their Instant Fan Club's attempts at affections to them.
• Ambiguously Human: Episode 5 reveals that they watched the first season of Can I Destroy the Earth? when they were kids. The show didn't air on Earth. Later episodes clear it up: they are human, but spent most of their lives in Andromeda.
• Affably Evil: Akihiko. He is just as nasty as his brother, but will politely smile while he tells you how much you suck.
• Always Identical Twins: There are some subtle differences, such as some details in their uniforms (Akihiko wears a bow and frilly sleeves, while Haruhiko wears an ascot and cuffs) and faces (Akihiko has thin eyebrows, pink eyes, and his hair is parted to the left, while Haruhiko has thick eyebrows, red eyes, and his hair is parted to the right), but their overall designs are extremely similar.
• Bondage Is Bad: After kidnapping Gora, Haru mentions he would like to tie Gora up while Aki would love to be slapped by Gora. They find each other's kinks weird.
• Broken Ace: Both are popular both in their current school and the universe, complete with a fan club in the case of the former, multitalented in various things without breaking a sweat, and have some pretty bad issues under it all as a result of both being attacked by a monster in a young age and being bullied in their previous school (Space School) for being Earthlings and fans of Maximum Gorar.
• Carry a Big Stick: Luna's weapon is a mace shaped like one of his calligraphy brushes.
• Celebrity Crush: They have been in love with Gora ever since he saved them as children from a crab monster attack.
• The Dividual: Except for some (relatively small) differences in terms of personality, appearances, and interests, they're very similar to each other, and neither are shown to ever transform without the other, to the point even sharing an introduction in the OVA opening.
• Even the Guys Want Him: Shortly after they're introduced, most of the school's populace is absolutely enamoured with them. Quite a few of the boys attending the school instantly sign up to be VEPPer Apes (represented by the purple armband) after they arrive.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Their main reason for wanting to get rid of Yumoto once and for all? Haru and Aki are crushing on Gora and want to have him to themselves.
• Hates the Job, Loves the Limelight: They claim to hate their jobs and only their determination to reach Gora kept them going. That said, it's very clear that they love the attention they get from their fans (even if they do find it annoying at times) and are unamused about the Battle Lovers' popularity.
• Heel–Face Turn: In the last episode of the second season.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Most of their plans end it this way. The most hilarious example is when they command a newly created monster to destroy Christmas and minutes later ask Dadacha to get rid of it because they have been just invited by Gora to a Christmas party.
• Idol Singer: Male versions, and they're supposedly famous enough to be known across the galaxy, hinting that they may not actually be from Earth.
• Image Song: "Moon the Jealousy" for Akihiko, while Haruhiko gets "Sun the Festival". These songs are notable in that all of their other songs, the second season ending "You are a Distant Star of the First Magnitude" included, are done as duets.
• Insult to Rocks: While watching the Battle Lovers fight with the Time Stopper monster, Haruhiko says Battle Lovers are as slow as turtles. Akihiko responds by saying it is insulting...for the turtles.
• Kiddie Kid: Not as obvious as Yumoto (although at times they make him look more mature in comparison), but they're both pretty immature overall for 17 year old twin brothers, which especially shows in their Green-Eyed Monster moments when it comes to Gora, who they are implied to have a crush on.
• Laughably Evil: Their plans have a tendency to blow up in their faces, like their plan to "get rid of the Defense Club once and for all" by sending them extremely spicy chocolates. No one except Yumoto actually ate them. Instead of being unable to fight as intended, Yumoto got even more hyperactive than usual, curb-stomped an army of chocolate monsters with a new move, and ended up cuddling up with everyone in his sight, INCLUDING Haru and Aki.
  • Especially when they exposed themselves to the Battle Lovers, they got ignored for a month & a half since they are not conquering the world.
• Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: Rare Male Example, they are the dark feminine to the Battle Lovers' light feminine, as they feature angular and dark costumes (mostly black with some magenta), compared to the Battle Lovers having bright and colorful costumes with frills and puffs, with the fact they had a Frilly Upgrade in season 2 (which is the debut of them) makes the contrast more obvious, along with the fact they are the villains of the aforementioned season 2, being a duo of Dark Magical Boys who are siren-like, and somber in comparison, even with the fact they are Polar Opposite Twins, compared to the more peppy and lighthearted Battle Lovers.
• Meaningful Name: Instead of the traditional kanji for "Akihiko" and "Haruhiko" (normally involving the kanji for the seasons "autumn/fall" and "spring" respectively), their names involve the kanji for "moon" and "sun" respectively, which better showcases their opposite-ness.
  • Continuing the theme of "hot spring location = surname", Beppu is a well-known Japanese location with hot springs.
• New Transfer Student: They transfer into Binan High at the start of the second season.
• Pet the Dog: As rude as they usually are, they were genuinely concerned with the conflict between the Italian twins, Bernardo and Alan, and offered their help in fixing their relationship.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Pretty hard to conclude those big, pretty pink eyes aren't something you should be running a mile from.
• School Idol: Both of them become hugely popular at school within a matter of hours. Their fans form a group called the "Beppu Apes".
• Shear Menace: Sol's weapons are a pair of giant scissors, a reference to his bonsai gardening hobby.
• Technician Versus Performer: The Technicians to the Battle Lovers' Performers, as while they failed to move Gora (while he was still unconscious) with their song unlike the Battle Lovers' (much to their frustration), they definitely make up for having MUCH more powerful likes, being idols for years and therefore experienced, unlike the Battle Lovers, so much so it turned into a Curb-Stomp Battle for them that they would have lost if not for the Caerula Adamas arriving Just in Time and giving the Battle Lovers time to heal for their turn.
• Theme Twin Naming: See Meaningful Name above.
• This Is My Name on Foreign: "Luna" and "Sol" mean "Moon" and "Sun" in several romance languages, such as Latin and Spanish. As seen in their Meaningful Name entry above, their civilian names include the kanji for "moon" and "sun".
• Trademark Favorite Food: Possibly anything made by Yumoto's brother, Gora. In episode 2 they were infuriated Gora made rice balls for Yumoto while in episode 4 they were tempted to accept Yumoto's offer of sharing the minced chicken bento made by Gora, but ultimately decided to refuse. Their official profiles list rice balls as their all-time favorite, probably because it's what Maximum Gorar fed them after saving them from the Canned Crab Monster.
• Transformation Name Announcement:
  Sol and Luna: The twin stars shining in the heavens!
  Sol: Salty Sol!
  Luna: Melty Luna!
  Sol and Luna: Galaxy Idols, The VEPPer!

Dadacha

Voiced by: Hiroki Yasumoto

Introduced in season 2. Comes from the same planet as Zundar. Currently works as the Beppu twins' manager. The younger brother of Zundar, last season's villain.

Tropes associated with him:

• Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: A green flying squirrel - specifically, a Japanese dwarf flying squirrel.
• Big Brother Worship: Dadacha adores his older brother Zundar.
• Bring My Brown Pants: He pees himself when Ryuu threatens him with pinching his patagium with chopsticks.
• Butt-Monkey: Emerging. Poor squirrel gets no respect.
• Evil Sounds Deep: His voice is higher than Zundar's, but still pretty deep for an adorable flying squirrel.
• Face Hugger: The Beppu twins transform students into Monsters of the Week by launching him at their victim, after which Dadacha latches himself to the victim's face and uses some kind of magic to transform them.
• Meaningful Name: Dadacha are a type of edamame beans which have a similar color to zunda mochi.
• Mentor Mascot: For the Beppu twins.
• Ridiculously Cute Critter: A green flying squirrel.
• Team Mom: He cooks, cleans, and looks after Haru and Aki. He even refers to them as "my twins" or Haru-chan and Aki-chan.
• Verbal Tic: He ends most of his sentences with "dacha".

Other

Mr. Tawarayama

Voiced by: Mugihito

A teacher at Binan High School that serves as the advisor for the Defense Club. After Wombat accidentally knocked him down a flight of stairs, Mr. Tawarayama became a corpse that Wombat uses to keep a low profile.

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Tropes associated with him:

• All There in the Manual: His given name, Mangan, is never mentioned at any point in the anime.
• Back from the Dead: Episode 7 has him spring back to life during the test of courage after falling from a cliff. Subverted by the end of the episode, as the Defense Club promptly knock him back out again, thinking he was one of the Chevaliers' monsters.
• Butt-Monkey: Big time.
• Dead All Along: After episode 1's talk about his failing health, episode 2 reveals that he's been dead since his first appearance on the show.
• Of Corpse He's Alive: Wombat uses his lifeless body to keep close to the Defense Club.
• Only Mostly Dead: Despite his corpse-like behavior (up to and including growing mold and rigor mortis), Wombat claims he's only in a vegetable-like state thanks to space technology. Episode 12 revealed he was lying.
• Silver Fox: In the OVA, following a second (and this time successful) attempt at bringing him back to life, the principal comments on how he feels much more youthful (complete with a healthy blush on his cheeks) than he was back then, especially for someone in his 70s, much to his bashfulness, and he took the time to admire it as a result.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: The Stinger for episode 12 reveals a member of Wombat's species revived him after the events of the finale. Season 2, however, reveals that the "life" Wombat's people gave him just fell right back out again. However, the OVA reveals the second attempt succeeded and he is now feeling youthful with a healthy blush on his cheeks.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: After a while, the Defense Club comes to see his dead body as more of a nuisance than anything.

Gora Hakone

Voiced by: Tomokazu Sugita

Yumoto's older brother who works at the Kurotamayu.

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Tropes associated with him:

• Ascended Extra: He gets more focus in season two despite never appearing in the intro, mainly due to the Beppu twins' obsession with him.
• Badass in Distress: He is definitely quite strong (both untransformed and transformed), to the point his presence alone is capable of scaring off the Monster of the Week if he is pissed off, but both season finales has him get in distress by the evil Mentor Mascot of the season, season 1 has him Brainwashed and Crazy, while season 2 has him kidnapped.
• Baritone of Strength: He has one of the deepest voices in the series, and has shown himself to be tough several times even before it's revealed he's a Magical Boy.
• Big Brother Instinct: He has a very strong one towards Yumoto, especially if Yumoto's sick.
• Bishōnen Line: Unlike the other monsters (except for the Bishōnen Monster), Gora keeps his form after being pierced by the Zundar Needles. He's also the most powerful monster the Battle Lovers fight, both in the first season and overall.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: By Zundar in the final episode.
• Brutish Character, Brutish Weapon: He's definitely the manliest recurring character in the show (and it helps him stand out in a Cast Full of Pretty Boys), and he wields an axe, although he uses it to chop wood. The weapon part becomes more apparent when it's revealed he was a former Magical Boy, and appropriately his magical boy attire is much more masculine than the Battle Lovers' frilly and poofy attire, complete with his axe and being much more physical in terms of attacks in comparison.
• Cloud Cuckoo Lander: He is every bit as spacey as Yumoto himself.
• Cool Big Bro: He has shown himself to be a caring and gentle older brother to Yumoto, and is VERY protective of him as well, and whenever he's brought up or here in the same scene as him, Yumoto always takes the time to appreciate how caring he is to him.
  • And to a lesser, non-related extent, the rest of the Defense Club, while they don't express it as much as Yumoto and are somewhat snarky to his spacey antics, overall, it's clear they appreciate him just as much as Yumoto does.
• Designated Villain: In-Universe example. This is as Maximum Gorar in CIDE Season 1 for the intergalactic broadcast due to manipulative dubbing.
• Gentle Giant: Tall enough to somewhat tower over En and Arima (the tallest of the Defense Club (183 cm) and Conquest Club (184 cm), respectively, compared to him being 190 cm), and he's a caring and protective Cool Big Bro to Yumoto.
• Hunk: He's tall and muscular with a deep voice and noticeable physical strength. Highlighted in Episode 12.
• Image Song: With Yumoto in "Oh my An-chan!!", although he doesn't do any actual singing in it. He does rap in his duet with Yumoto, "Brother Lover Rapper", though.
• Living Emotional Crutch: Somewhat Played With, he is one to Yumoto, as the only family member of Yumoto's family still available to him after his Promotion to Parent. While Yumoto is relatively okay when he is not around in school (at least if he has the rest of the Defense Club and/or Wombat), both season finales show Yumoto getting upset when Gora is hurt by the villains, ESPECIALLY season 2, where Yumoto lost his shit and would have killed the VEPPer if not for the rest of the Defense Club.
• Magical Girl: He used to be a Battle Lover, thus making him a former Magical Boy.
• Meaningful Name: One of the kanji in his name means "strong". Most of Gora's appearances have him showing off his strength by cutting wood. (Weirdly enough, the same kanji can also mean "energetic", which is more his brother's thing.)
• Minor Living Alone: As the flashbacks and the photos reveal in season 2, he has been living by himself and his younger brother as a high schooler, which led to him being being promoted to be his parental figure.
• Mukokuseki: (Supposedly) Japanese and has orange-ish hair.
• Nice Guy: While he is The Stoic and can be spacey, he is ultimately a caring Cool Big Bro to Yumoto (and by extension the rest of the Defense Club).
• The Not-Love Interest: Gora plays this role to Yumoto. He loves his brother unconditionally, goes to great lengths to protect him when he's in trouble and the Big Bad turns him into an Elite Mook in order to destroy the Battle Lovers.
• Not So Stoic: In most of Gora's appearances, he's pretty calm and tough looking, but when Yumoto gets sick he loses it.
• Parental Abandonment: Heavily implied. We never see or hear anything about his parents in season one, despite their family-owned bathhouse being one of the main settings. Yumoto even claims he's next in line to inherit the bathhouse, suggesting that it's already in Gora's possession.
  • Season 2 reveals that their parents have been "away on an onsen tour" for all of Yumoto's life. En-chan immediately calls this out as suspect.
• Plucky Boy: Remained a pleasant individual despite having to raise his brother by himself, manage the family business, and save the world.
• Precursor Hero: He used to be a Battle Lover called Maximum Gorar.
• Promoted to Parent: He makes Yumoto's school lunches and he is shown to be extremely protective of him. Yumoto quotes his advice often and dreams of being a man like him someday. In season two we learn that he helped Yumoto brush his teeth and comb his hair when they were younger.
• Running Gag: His constant wood-chopping scenes. The characters later point out that doing this is pointless, since the Kurotamayu runs on a natural hot spring and it doesn't need wood to keep it going. At one point in season 2, Gora abandons his wood-chopping because he was kidnapped by the VEPPer and the Defense Club follow the trace of blood he left behind on a small piece of wood.
• Oblivious to Love: He's absolutely clueless that Haru and Aki adore him to the point of obsession. Even after they almost confessed to him. TWICE.
• Vague Age: He's old enough to have a job, be described as a man, and live alone with his high school-aged brother, but that's all we get. The fanbook reveals that he's 24 years old.

Press Society

Kinosaki voiced by: Showtaro Morikubo

Tazawa voiced by: Yūichi Iguchi

Hireashi voiced by: Hiroshi Ohtake

A duo, consisting of Kou Kinosaki and Masaya Tazawa, who poke their noses into the affairs of the Defense Club in episode 5 and then show up occasionally afterward.

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Tropes associated with them:

• All There in the Manual: Downplayed example with Tazawa's first name (it borders Freeze-Frame Bonus territory, in fact) - it's in the show, but it's only in the ending credits.
• Benevolent Boss: Lord Hireashi (the fish) is surprisingly understanding as an evil boss. Even though Zundar has failed a number of times, Lord Hireashi isn't even annoyed - he just mentions that some planets are tougher to conquer than others. Makes sense when you find out they're doing it as a reality show and not for military purposes; entertainment is more important than success.
• Big Bad: The club's pet fish is actually Zundar's superior.
• Camera Fiend: Tazawa.
• Conflict Killer: Hireashi becomes this to the Battle Lovers and the Caerula Adamas, when Gora forces him to reveal the truth of the Immoral Reality Show.
• Demoted to Extra: In Season 2, they only appear in the second episode.
• Leitmotif: There's a jazz theme that plays whenever the fish appears.
• School Newspaper News Hound: The brought-into-2015 equivalents, although Kinosaki is probably the better example of the two.
• The Silent Bob: Tazawa, who gets more pictures on his camera than lines in his debut episode.
• Smarmy Host: Kinosaki, for Hireashi and Zundar's reality show.
• Team Pet: Their goldfish which appears at the beginning of every scene set in the Press Society room. It turns out that the fish is actually the Press Society's and Zundar's boss.
• Walking Spoiler: The fish, who goes by Hireashi, can't be discussed without revealing that he is the Conflict Killer of the first season via Immoral Reality Show.

The Shopkeeper

A mysterious shopkeeper from episode 7.

Monsters of the Week (Season 1)

People who have strong negative feelings that get turned into monsters by Zundar whom the heroes have to defeat through showing them The Power of Love. They have Punny Names in Japanese and are voiced by guest VAs.

Kazutake Chiku/Chikuwabu Monster (ep 1):

Voiced by: Akira Ishida

An extremely average boy who is angry that people overlook him in favor of more exciting people (or "oden ingredients", in the context of the Space Whale Aesop).

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• Ridiculously Average Guy: And he knows it.

Wario Hashida/Chopsticks Monster (ep 2):

Voiced by: Katsuyuki Konishi

A boy who hates asymmetry and odd numbers, he loses it over not being able to break his disposable chopsticks evenly.

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• Berserk Button: Anything about asymmetry and odd numbers is a good way to piss him off and make him lose his mind, in fact, him not being able to break his disposable chopsticks evenly is what turned him into the Monster of the Week, and negatively comments on the fact the Battle Lovers are a group of 5.

Moteo Kurotori/Black Swan Monster (ep 3):

Voiced by: Koji Yusa

A ballet advisor (with nobody in his ballet club) who loses it over people not thinking he's the prettiest boy in the school. Turns into a black swan monster with the power to make everybody love him.

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• Attention Whore: When his gimmick is to make everyone love him, you have an instant version of this trope.
• I Just Want to Be Loved
• In Touch with His Feminine Side
• Love Is in the Air: What his "Love Feather Shower" does.
• No-Sell: His powers work on everyone but Yumoto.
• Sissy Villain

Oyaji Igarao/Bishonen Monster (ep 4):

Voiced by: Kosuke Toriumi

A high school student with the face of an old man who gets sick of people thinking he's old. He becomes a beautiful young man with the power to make everyone else younger as well, which he uses to turn our heroes into children who can't fight back.

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• Younger Than They Look: His face makes him look like an old man, even though he's only in high school.

Sousa Enkaku/Remote Control Monster (ep 5):

Voiced by: Takuya Eguchi

A boy with an overly controlling father who desires to be the one controlling others for once.

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• Control Freak: His father is one, which leads him to become one himself when he turns into a monster so he can be the one holding power over others for once.
• People Puppets: As the Remote Control Monster, he can control other people's bodies.

Ichiban Itsumo/Screw Tank Monster (ep 6):

Voiced by: Kenichi Suzumura

An extremely smart boy who talks in a low Creepy Monotone and is furious that Io beats his test scores. The other students think he has a screw loose, so he becomes a screw tank monster.

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• I Just Want to Have Friends: Deep down, this is what he really wants.
• Meaningful Name: All characters that turn into monsters have this to some extent, but his name is the most obvious: when read in Japanese order (Itsumo Ichiban), his name literally means "always number one".
• Thinking Out Loud: Done by him, then lampshaded by people talking about him nearby.
• Unknown Rival: To Io, when it comes to grades.

Shou Komi/Kotatsu Monster (ep 8):

Voiced by: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka

A shut-in who lives above his dad's convenience store, who becomes convinced after spending too much time on the internet that friendship is worthless. His monster form has the power to make people argue with their friends - the stronger the friendship, the worse the argument is.

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• Hate Plague: His power as a monster which is caused by the beams that he shoots.
• Hikikomori: Stopped going to school during his second semester and now spends all day in his room hiding under his kotatsu. He grows out of this after being defeated.

Uriya Makuwa/Musk-Melon Monster (ep 9):

Voiced by: Hikaru Midorikawa

An extremely self-conscious student who drives people away by constantly worrying about what they think about him to the point that he can't focus on anything else.

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• I Just Want to Be Special: Is very upset upon finding out that the Defense Club solved his riddles by looking them up on the internet, and when they say they don't really like melons all that much.
• Thinking Out Loud: Done by him, then lampshaded by people murmuring about him behind his back and getting away from him.

Rui Megawa/Glasses Monster (ep 10)

Voiced by: Tsubasa Yonaga

A friend of Yumoto's, and the manager of the baseball team. He acts cute and pleasant, but inwardly he takes great pride in his cuteness and feels threatened when someone cuter than him shows up.

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• Affectionate Nickname: Yumoto calls him "Megawacchi".
• Bespectacled Cutie: He tries to give off that image, and considers himself just as cute as any "glasses-girl character".
• Cute Sports Club Manager: A gender-inverted version of this character type, since this is an all-boys school. He does all the usual duties of a manager, and is outwardly friendly and sweet, though inwardly he's quite proud of the "cute" part of this trope.
• Eye Beams: He can shoot fire from his eyes.
• Green-Eyed Monster: When Yumoto undergoes a personality change that suddenly makes him so endearing that the various sports clubs ask him to be their manager, he becomes very jealous, which makes him a prime target for the Conquest Club.
• Meaningful Name: Similar to Itsumo, his name (in Japanese order) tells you he has bad eyesight. He wears glasses.

Monsters of the Week (Season 2)

People who are overcome with jealousy and are turned into monsters by the VEPPer. The heroes have to defeat through showing them The Power of Love. Most of them have Punny Names in Japanese and are voiced by guest VAs.

Tomaru Tokiwa/Hourglass Monster (ep 1)

Voiced by: Akira Ishida

A boy who wishes time would stop because he is tired of being the oldest student in his class.

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• Dishing Out Dirt: He's a sand clock, so he can throw sand at his foes.
• Insistent Terminology: He is not the Hourglass Monster, he is Time Stopper!
• Palette Swap: Tomaru is one of Chiku, the Chikuwabu Monster from season 1. They even share the same voice actor! Takamatsu said this only happened because he realized it when it was too late.

Ouso Tsukuna/Tofu Monster (ep 2)

Voiced by: Soichiro Hoshi

A pathological liar. He is the first one to meet Aki and Haru, and instantly becomes their biggest fan.

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• Big Beautiful Man: He sees himself as one, claiming that he is So Beautiful, It's a Curse. The other students are completely indifferent to his looks.
• Blatant Lies: The stuff he makes up to impress his classmates is obviously false (eg him having ten pet lions and 20 TVs at home).
• Crying Wolf: Due to his constant lies, nobody at school believes him when he describes his first meeting with the Beppu twins.

Tagaru Katari/Mic Monster (ep 3)

Voiced by: Katsuyuki Konishi

The president (and only member) of Binan High School's Speaking Poets Society.

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• Gratuitous English: For some reason, he's fond of screaming random words in English.
• Super-Scream: He uses his high-pitched screaming to deafen the Battle Lovers.
• Words Can Break My Bones: His main attack literally hurls words at people. Pointy words.
  Battle Lover Epinard: Beware of flying kanji!

Alan Salvatore/Chest Hair Monster (ep 4)

Voiced by: Takehito Koyasu

An Italian transfer student who is jealous of his twin brother's chest hair.

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• Art Shift: The texture of his monster body was achieved by scanning a person's hair.
• Carpet of Virility: His monster form is a walking mass of chest hair with nipples for eyes. This is due to jealousy of his twin brother Bernardo's own Carpet of Virility, which he doesn't have. This translates to his power basically giving his victims this, including the Battle Lovers, which first humiliate them, and then end up trapping them in a huge hairball.
• Foreign Exchange Student: He and his brother Bernardo are from Italy.
• Funny Foreigner: He's an Italian boy with a ridiculous weird accent.
• National Stereotypes: Alan is ashamed of his smooth chest because Italian men are supposed to be hairy and manly.
• Odd Name Out: The only Victim of the Week who doesn't have a Punny Name.

Shuzo Oka/Black Ball Monster (ep 5)

Voiced by: Daisuke Namikawa

A boy who is fed up with practicing with Munakata in the Volleyball club.

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Kuroshiro Kumano/Panda Monster (ep 6)

Voiced by: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka

A shy boy who wonders how it feels to be a beloved idol.

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• Cuteness Proximity: His main "attack" as the Panda Monster consists of acting so adorable that everyone melts in his presence. The Battle Lovers don't fall for it.
• Dung Fu: He attacks the Battle Lovers by throwing them his poop. Don't worry, it's mostly undigested bamboo.
• Make My Monster Grow: He absorbs Scarlet, Cerulean, and Epinard's attacks and grows bigger and stronger from them.

Kazuto Hijiriya/Red-Nosed Reindeer Monster (ep 7)

Voiced by: Kazuya Nakai

A classmate of Yumoto's. He hates spending Christmas Eve working at his father's ramen shop instead of partying like everyone else.

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• How the Character Stole Christmas: His goal as a monster is to get rid of Christmas forever.
• Embarrassing Animal Suit: Hijiriya's father makes him dress up as a reindeer for the Christmas Eve deliveries, which doesn't improve his opinion on the holidays one bit.
• The Grinch: He doesn't have a girlfriend and his friends aren't the partying type, so he usually spends the holidays alone or delivering food to other people's Christmas parties. So yeah, he isn't exactly fond of Christmas.
• Talking the Monster to Death: Gora and Yumoto convince him to join their Christmas party, and he ends up having so much fun that he purifies himself.
• Youthful Freckles: He is taller and looks more mature than his classmates (eg Yumoto, Megawacchi, the triplets), so he gets freckles to show that he is only a first year.

Makoto Jinzou/Snowman Monster (ep 8)

Voiced by: Natsuki Hanae

A 23-year-old who keeps failing his university entrance exams.

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• Art Attacker: His main weapon is a paintbrush. Everything he paints over gets covered in snow.
• Minion with an F in Evil: The poor thing wouldn't hurt a fly even if he tried. All his attempts at destroying the Defense Club end up making their day more fun.
• Opaque Nerd Glasses: As a human, his glasses are normal, but after turning into a monster, they become the classic opaque lenses with spirals drawn on them.
• Suicide as Comedy: After his many failures at making the Battle Lovers fight him, he feels dishonored and tries to commit seppuku.
• Weather Manipulation: As a winter-themed monster, he can create blizzards, hail, and snowstorms.

Chocolate Monsters/Beppu Apes (ep 9)

Voiced by: Takahiro Mizushima

These Beppu Apes (followers of Akihiko and Haruhiko) haven't received chocolate for Valentine's Day at all, so they ended up turned into monsters.

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• Instant Fan Club: They become one for Scarlet after they see him being overly hyperactive. They even go to the extent of calling him a "red angel".

Entarou Meguriya/Carousel Monster (ep 10)

Voiced by: Daisuke Hirakawa

A monster that claims to have 32 pages of detailed backstory. Notably the first monster to have any CGI on him whatsoever.

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Pencil Sharpener Monster (ep 11)

Voiced by: Tomokazu Sugita

Seen on the Beppus' TV as part of CIDE 1.

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Crab/Can Monster (ALL SPOILERS UNMARKED!)

Voiced by: Sho Hayami

A monster partially responsible for the Beppus' childhood trauma. Gora saved them.

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• Expy: Is one to a Kamen Rider monster called the Kanibubbler, hence the one large claw.
• Small Role, Big Impact: He only appeared in the Beppus' flashback, but he is the catalyst for their crush on Gora after he saved them, along with how they are today by the time they were able to get back to Earth.
• Walking Spoiler: He can't be talked about without revealing the reason why the Beppus admire Gora, and thus the last 2 episodes of what happens afterwards. That's why spoilers are unmarked for his page.

Game Exclusive Characters

Protagonist

A Featureless Protagonist who has to disguise herself as a boy and attend Binan High for reasons only a Lovracelet can give. She can get into either the Defense Club or the student council, although on the Hara and Sakegaki routes, it would be assumed she joins the Defense Club.

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Tropes associated with her:

• A-Cup Angst: When the guys suggest she wears Yumoto's spare uniform so she can attend their school.
  Protagonist: Wow, it fits perfectly.
  En: Yeah, it's a good thing that you're not well endow—ugh!
  Protagonist: Sorry, my hand slipped.
• Always Female: Since this is an otome game aimed at fans of the anime and most of those fans are female, this is the only gender you can play as.
• Bifauxnen: Which is why she can pull off her disguise.
• The Smurfette Principle: Quite possibly the first, and only, female character in any incarnation of Cute High to have a prominent role.
• Unsettling Gender-Reveal: In the student council route.

Scissors Monster

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Tropes associated with him:

• Spectacular Spinning: Spins when attacking. His sprite even has leaves being kicked up from his spinning.

Tokio-sensei/Clock Monster

The school counselor.

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Tropes associated with them:

• Fountain of Youth: Can use this to attack people, much like the Bishonen monster.

Kurou Hara

Voiced by: Mitsuaki Madono

The school physician who has his own game storyline, in which he (mostly) interacts with En and Atsushi. He's kind to the students but after the protagonist gets turned into a cat and he has to take care of her, he treats her harshly.

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Tropes associated with him:

• The Cameo: Appears prominently in the background of a cafeteria scene in season 2.
• Color-Coded Characters: An indigo shade.
• Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Within schoolgrounds, you would think this was subverted but he is this trope.
• The Glasses Gotta Go: In the Kurotamayu. Justified, because who bathes with glasses on?
• Psychotic Smirk: When talking to the feline protagonist.
• Purple Is the New Black: Distinctly purple hair which would be black in real life.
• Stoic Spectacles: Comes off as this to students, and is intellectual (enough to have a book with his standard sprite).

Raito Sakegaki

Voiced by: Tomokazu Seki

A guy who works at the canteen. He has his own game storyline, in which he (mostly) interacts with Ryuu, Yumoto and Io.

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Tropes associated with him:

• The Cameo: Appears in the background of season 2 episode 3 for a split-second.
• Color-Coded Characters: Oddly enough, Gora is normally denoted as orange, and yet the game has orange as Raito's signature color. The oddness is justified in that Gora is not romanceable.
• Does Not Like Spam: He does not like salmon.
• Nice Guy: Unlike Hara, he is always kind.

Rock Keshibu

Voiced by: Jun Fukushima

Exclusive to the puzzle game. A first year at Binan High in the puzzle club. He has blue highlights in his actual hair, so he wears a black wig at school to disguise them.

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Tropes associated with him:

• Chuunibyou: The game portrays him as one.

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