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Adalus base
The Home Base of our heroes. In general
Left to right: Danji, Kento, Manabu, Sanae, Ochame, Tanosuke, Jiro and Tonsuke
- All-Loving Hero: All of them are loving, innocent youths at the core, especially Kento and Sanae, who don't care how much they're scrapped and scarred - they'll continue to believe there is good in everyone.
- Cheerful Child: With the exception of Danji, they're all enthusiastic and hopeful children.
- Children Are Innocent: Absolutely none of them are prepared for war, thus resulting in Earl having to train Kento and Danji as pilots, while Manabu helps construct weaponry at the base and Sanae and Ochame help keep it clean. The rest aren't often action-inclined and usually watch from the sidelines. Quite a few episodes also focus on their respective traumas from the war, including Parental Abandonment.
- Color-Coded Characters:
- Kento = Red.
- Danji = Blue.
- Sanae = Pink.
- Tanosuke = Dark Green.
- Jiro = Light Green.
- Manabu = Light Blue.
- Ochame = Light Pink.
- Conveniently an Orphan: All their parents died when the Zaal Empire invaded. As standard practice for any planet they invade, they caused mass destruction across Earth's terrae, reducing the population to only a lucky number of survivors.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Most of their families were wiped out by the Zaal, and they had to resort to different ways to survive. Then there are cases like Danji's where they lost their families to the cruelty of other humans.
- Deceased Parents Are the Best: Kento and Sanae's parents are explicitly shown to have been killed by the Zaal. With Tanosuke, Jiro, Manabu and Ochame, it's stated but never shown. Danji, on the other hand, was raised by a single father who was hanged for a crime he didn't commit.
- Good Is Dumb: And how. They're ignorant of obvious traps, don't bother to cover their tracks after committing crimes and rebuff Earl's well-meaning advice. The biggest example was when they received a letter from someone asking to adopt Ochame. No one in the group thought it was a bad idea to allow a complete stranger to adopt a six-year-old girl and willingly allowed it after meeting said adoptive parent once. The lady who kidnapped her happened to be a Zaal General in disguise, who holds Ochame hostage. Luckily, they manage to save her.
- Home Base: The Adalus base, which is also Earl's former spaceship, houses the kids and trains them for war.
- Hot Blooded Sideburns: Kento and Danji are aggressive in their own ways and have these. Kento's are thick and prominent when he's in action, while Danji's are hidden, and his Peek A Bangs are more prominent.
- Kid Hero:
- Manabu is 12, but restored a city from ruin using his genius and also invented Gamelot.
- Ochame is 8 and and Jiro is 9. They travel in Gamelot, which is occasionally co-piloted by Tanosuke, and help Daltanious in battle.
- Kid-Appeal Character: Again, all of them. They may be heroes, but they also express desires to enjoy their childhoods like regular kids.
- Perpetual Smiler: Kento because he's an Idiot Hero, Sanae because she's a Nice Girl, and the children because Children Are Innocent. Danji is the exception.
- Promoted to Parent: After their families died, Kento and Sanae had to become to this to Ochame, Jiro and Manabu, yay! Though, they dearly love the children and wouldn't trade them for the world.
- Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: The heroes are a bunch of quirky kids who lost their parents in the Zaal invasion, with Kento being the Team Dad and Sanae being the Team Mom.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: While Kento is quick to act on instinct, loud-mouthed, brash and has a bit of a complex, Danji approaches situations with a calm head, is quiet, stoic and humble. Despite this, they still have somethings in common, like being unapologetically stubborn and violent.
- The Fellowship Has Ended: Averted. In the end of the anime, while Harlin and Earl choose to stay in the Galactic Federation, Kento decides to stay on Earth with his friends and help rebuild it from ruins.
- Two Girls to a Team: Sanae and Ochame. They are mere Satellite Characters to their male counterparts.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Of the orphans, Kento and Danji are the ones that frequently clash. They're forced to work together because Danji pilots the Gunper and Kento pilots Atlaus; the two have to fuse with Beralios to form Daltanious.
Kento Tate
Kento Tate (楯剣人)
Voiced by: Toshio Furukawa, Kazuko Sugiyama note (Japanese) Other Languages
The main character, a hot-blooded, foul-mouthed 15-year-old boy who makes a living by selling things on the black market. Left orphaned by the war, he's become a cynical person and often acts selfishly. When Kento is recruited to be the hero of Daltanious, he's forced to challenge his worst traits so that he can succeed the throne of the Helios Empire.
Kento Tate
Suited
Suited, without helmet
As a child
- Alien Prince: Very early into the series, he learns that he's descended from the King of the Helios Empire - a.k.a., the very Empire Earl is from - and is next in line to the throne. Kento rejects all claims to royalty, wanting to live a normal human life, and gets irritated when Earl calls him "Kento-sama".
- Arch-Enemy: Kloppen is this, because he led the same invasion that claimed the lives of his parents, his friend's parents, and the lives of several innocent human beings. When they meet in-person for the first time, Kento gives him an earful about how much he despises him.
- Attention Whore: In episode 8, as a result of being famed in-universe for being the pilot of Daltanious, Kento is hailed by the townspeople and treated like a king. Kento doesn't let this go to waste and eagerly absorbs all words of praise and affection, allowing the crowd to carry him on a tarp while singing his praises. The half-lidded eyes and dopey grin he has during the whole thing really sells it.
- Awesome McCoolname: His name is literally "Swordsman Shield".
- Big Eater: Kento loves food and bonds with the Ragtag Bunch of Misfits over it. Unsurprisngly, in a post-apocalyptic world, he makes ends meet by stealing it to survive.
- Book Dumb: He tells Earl that he's glad the Zaal Empire invaded because that means he doesn't have to go to school anymore. He neglects improving his skills as a pilot and learning Helios' cultural history in favour of playing with the Ragtag Bunch of Misfits and everyone else in the village.
- Calling the Old Man Out: He condemns Earl for his callous attitude towards Ochame and also hits him in the face with an apple for saying "she's just some Earthling".Kento: "If Ochame is just some Earthling, then I'm just Kento Tate!"
- Can't Take Criticism: To everyone, but especially towards Earl. He views Earl's attempts to teach him as "criticism" and even runs away from the base because he can't stand to hear him, though he comes back in time to fight the Monster of the Week.
- Chick Magnet: As he's Famed In-Story, he's got multiple female admirers, and it's also implied Sanae likes him. Catine also counts, but she's a Gold Digger.
- Child of Two Worlds: His father is actually Prince Harlin, or, as he was known on Earth, "Hayato Tate". He rejects his Heliosian heritage and proudly calls himself a human, even if he acknowledges that he's the descendant of Emperor Palmillion and heir to the throne. He has no interest in Heliosian culture or politics, despite Earl's constant attempts to pigeonhole him into them, and openly calls it stupid and ridiculous. Part of the reason he takes his human heritage so seriously is because after his father's disappearance, he was raised by his grandfather Kazuto Tate, who was fully human and the boy's greatest hero.
- Determinator: Kento once beat off a pack of wolves with a stick while barely being able to move out of a desire to see Sanae again.
- Disappeared Dad: Kento's father, Hayato, was a sailor. When he was four, Hayato went missing while he was on one of his regular sea expeditions. By the time he returns, three-fifths of his family (Kimiyo, Kazuto and his daughter) have already died, leaving Kento as the Sole Survivor.
- Dramatic Irony: Kento is accused of being a clone by Kloppen, and turned away from many potential allies as a result. It's later revealed that Kloppen is a clone.
- Driven to Suicide: After facing humiliating defeat at the hands of Kloppen, Kento starts hearing voices in his head of his deceased mother and sister, telling him to join them in death. At one point he even hears Sanae's voice tell him to pull the trigger on himself. He shoots himself, but misses, and then decides that it isn't worth it to die and that he has to continue living.
- Expy: Take Kenichi, drop his IQ by 400 points, add in Jerkass and Big Eater attributes. That's Kento. They're both Hot-Blooded pilots of Combining Mecha that primarily wear red. Both of their fathers were Alien Princes forced to flee their home planets because of turmoil, while their mothers were human women from Japan, making them Half-Human Hybrids. In the Grand Finale of both anime, they put an end to the fascist empires that caused their fathers to flee in the first place. Their fathers also reinstate themselves as the rulers of the new empires and begin a new era of peace and tranquility. Yeah, even their fathers are Expies!
- Even his physical appearance is near-identical to Kenichi's, with his wide black eyes, short/unkempt black hair and Hot Blooded Sideburns combined with the fact that he primarily dresses in red.note
- Extremely Protective Child: He vehemently rejects a duel Kloppen proposed between him and Harlin. When Harlin insists that he should do it, Kento offers to fight in his stead.
- Famed In-Story: After Daltanious began repelling Kloppen's robots, word spread of an Earthern robot fighting the Zaal tyranny to other planets, inspiring them to start several rebellions. Even on Earth, Kento receives a lot of fan mail and public support for his position as Daltanious' pilot.
- Friend to All Children: Before he discovered Daltanious, Kento and Sanae spent their days trying to make sure the orphans had enough to eat and were taken care of. After he's Famed In-Story, he shares the rewards of being famous with them as well.
- Good Is Not Nice: Kento is prone to insulting people if they suggest anything that could be read as a personal attack on his ego, and lets the fame of being the pilot of Daltanious go to his head.
- The Gunslinger: When he's not piloting Daltanious, his main weapon is a gun. It's implied he self-taught himself how to use one.
- Half-Human Hybrid: His father, Hayato Tate, is actually Prince Harlin of the Helios Empire, while his mother, Kimiyo, was a human. This makes his sister one too, but she's deceased by the start of the story.
- Handicapped Badass: Situational example - after he's badly battered and bruised by the Zaal's foot soldiers, he's so weak that he requires a staff to walk. And then he uses it to fight off a pack of wild wolves so he can have their morsel to eat.
- Heritage Disconnect: Kento rejects his Heliosian heritage at every turn. The opposite can be said of his Japanese side - his grandfather was a traditional Japanese kite painter, something the boy took great interest in.
- The Hero: Not a very virtuous one, as the first few episodes spell. But when he shines, he shines.
- Hot-Blooded: The dim-witted kind. He is always up for a fight, prone to overreacting to criticism and the children's well-meaning-but-rough Team Dad.
- Idiot Hero: He often writes off helpful advice as "annoying" and acts on his impulses. He's also prone to moments of selfishness, and acts on his own interests rather than what's helpful for humanity as a whole.
- In the Blood: Both Kento and his father are Alien Princes who reject their royal privileges in favour of universal equality, and demand to be treated just like any other ordinary civilian.
- Jerkass: He's frequently rude to all his friends, he puts down Earl who wants the best for him, the local townspeople hate him because he steals from them and incites chaos, and he's Hot-Blooded to the point nearly any attempt to talk with him ends in a screaming match.
- Jerkass Has a Point:
- In the first episode, Sanae tells him off for stealing, saying he should work honestly and get a real job instead. She has no response when Kento replies that honesty won't fill their stomachs.
- While he's often rude to Earl, he's also a fifteen year old boy, and for Earl to put the burden of piloting a Super Robot/managing Helios' messy politics on a child is ridiculous.
- He often calls out Earl's Lack of Empathy, and is angered when Earl displays a lack of care for small children like Ochame and Jiro.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: (See Good Is Not Nice above) Let it be known that even if Kento can be a selfish, feisty, attention-seeking little runt, he genuinely cares about people and struggles with his own demons. Yes, he is an unpleasant at times, but there isn't a single person he's met who's life hasn't improved since meeting him, and he'll sacrifice his own happiness if it means peace for the entire galaxy.
- Justified Criminal: He only steals food because he's an orphan child, and he doesn't want him and his fellow orphans to go to bed hungry. He also lives in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, so going to food banks and charity organizations isn't an option.
- The Leader: Of the Ragtag Bunch of Misfits, alongside Sanae. In another sense, he's also the Prince of the Heliosians, but he denies this.
- Princess in Rags: He's an Alien Prince who passes his days stealing and looting to survive.
- Rebellious Princess: The crux of his disagreements with Earl. He spent most of his life believing he was an ordinary human boy. When he managed to revive Beralios from his slumber, Earl realized the boy was descended from Emperor Palmillion, the last ruler of his long-destroyed planet, the Helios Empire, he tried to repare the boy for being the nation's future ruler. Kento hates this, often reacts by screaming at Earl, calling him an old man, and screwing up his royal image.
- Red Is Heroic: All his costumes have some form of red on them, from his red shirt as a civilian, or his red spacesuit.
- Riches to Rags: Kento was once a moderately rich boy who lived in downtown Tokyo with his mother and sister. They ran a supermarket, and never had to worry about food insecurity. Come 1995, the Zaal Empire invaded and left Earth in ruins, and a now-motherless and sisterless Kento has to resort to stealing food to survive.
- Shipper on Deck: When Earl tells him Beralios had a female companion, he coos his support for them.
- Team Dad: While Sanae takes on a motherly role for the kids, Kento steals food for them, teaches them how to play rough and goes out to save them when they're in danger.
- Unfortunate Names: Tate. He also mans a Super Robot that has attacks powered by "Sigma Energy", including the "Sigma Beam".
- Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: In line with Daltanious' Denser and Wackier setting, Kento is more selfish and childlike compared to his predecessors in the Robot Romance Trilogy. He doesn't take his mission seriously, often argues with his friends, refuses to see other people's perspectives and Can't Take Criticism. While Everyone Has Standards and he refuses to take Kloppen as a hostage when the Zaal betray him, he's still an impulsive dim-wit who needs a lot of Character Development to properly become the Galaxy's Icon of Rebellion through the titular Super Robot.
- Verbal Tic: Tends to react with "なぁんたること!"note to Earl.
- Would Hurt a Child: Kento smacks Jiro hard because he teased him for being fed by a Princess.
- You Killed My Father: The Zaal Empire murdered his mother and sister. Eventually, Kento forgives Kloppen, the man responsible for their deaths, because he sees that Kloppen is trying to change.
Danji Hiiragi
Danji Hiiragi (柊弾児)
Voiced by: Yoshito Yasuhara (Japanese) Other Languages
Kento's best friend, a fellow orphan who's skill lies in throwing stones. He doesn't speak much, and has a shockingly tragic past.
Danji Hiiragi
Suited
Suited, without helmet
- Ace Pilot: When Danji pilots the Ganper for the first time, he's terrible at it and nearly hits Kento. It takes a few episodes for him to learn the ropes and become this trope.
- Affectionate Nickname: He calls Sanae "Sanae-san", which indicates he greatly respects her.
- Berserk Button: Insulting his father and calling him a "criminal". Even after Earth is ravaged by the Zaal, he never stops searching for ways to prove his innocence.
- Blue Is Heroic: Danji is blue-coded to Kento's red, and he pilots the Ganper, which helps form Daltanious.
- Dub Name Change: Danji became Danny in the Italian dub.
- Hiding Behind Your Bangs: Fitting to his closed-off nature, Danji's hair is styled this way.
- Hot-Blooded: Danji has this in common with Kento. While he appears to be the The Quiet One amongst the Ragtag Bunch of Misfits, he's a different person when he's enraged. When he finds the man who committed the crime his father was hanged for, he screams at him to turn himself in and behaves in a way that he's never acted before. This doesn't stop him from feeling sad for his death.
- Hot Blooded Sideburns: While he is the blue oni, he's just as passionate to protect the Earth as Kento and has these.
- I Owe You My Life: Sanae once saved him when he was injured, something he never forgets.Danji: "Sanae-san, I won't let you die... Just like you helped me, now it's my turn to help you."
- Morality Pet: His is Sanae. She is the chain that holds him back from letting his wrath consume him and harm others, and it is implied he has feelings for her.
- The Quiet One: In contrast to the loud Kento, Danji often speaks in one liners. He's also aloof towards the group of orphans Kento and Sanae care for.
- Sins of Our Fathers: His father was hanged for a crime he didn't commit, and Danji spent years trying to prove his innocence. He eventually finds the man who committed the crime his father was hanged for, who expresses great remorse at what he's done. He has since become The Atoner and donated his eyesight to a disabled young boy.
- Sour Outside, Sad Inside: Danji isn't a Jerkass like Kento, but due to witnessing heavy trauma at a young age, he's aloof and barely shows emotion. Only the kind Sanae can get him to speak and interact with others in a genuine manner.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: With Kento. Both are Hot-Blooded young men, and because of that their ideals tend to clash, but Kento is more of an Idiot Hero while Danji is reserved, though he has a hidden temper.
Sanae Shiratori
Sanae Shiratori (白鳥早苗)
Voiced by: Keiko Han (Japanese) Other Languages
A kind-hearted girl who cares for Kento, Danji and the Ragtag Bunch of Misfits left orphaned after the war. She acts motherly towards them and is disgusted by all kinds of violence. She often calls out Kento and Danji when they are misbehaving.
Sanae Shiratori
Suited
Past
- Actual Pacifist: Extreme case. In one episode, some thieves steal her kimono. When an angry Danji is ready to use his fists on them , she tells them that she can't stand to see him violent, and instead offers herself up as a target.Sanae: "If you must hit anyone out of your anger, hit me!"
- A Day in the Limelight: In episode 12, it's revealed how she lost her parents to the Zaal, and how she met Kento, Danji and the other children. When she was a young schoolgirl, the Zaal invaded, and Sanae tried to enter a burning building to save her parents, but was held back by two other civilians, who knew that it was futile as the building was already crumbling. Sanae was forced to watch her parents die, while screaming. In another flashback, it's shown that she bonded with Ochame over being a War Orphans, and asked if she wanted to live with her. Kento, who had just come back from his ransacking food with his gang, noticed the two girls and offered them some of his stock. Sanae was against it because of the fact that it was stolen, but Ochame eagerly accepted the candy bar he offered. She met Danji when she found him injured on the ground, and took him to Kento's base so that he could be treated. She was the first person Danji saw when he awoke, and he thanked her for saving his life.
- Affectionate Nickname:
- Danji calls her "Sanae-san".
- Because she's a Friend to All Children, the neighbourhood kids call her "Big Sis".
- Betty and Veronica: Sanae is innocent and caring (Betty); Catine is wild and adventurous (Veronica). However, none of them end up with Kento.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Even Sanae isn't above reprimanding
Kento for his bratty behaviour. - Cool Big Sis: She's seen as this because she helps care for the children and teaches them household skills.
- Embarrassing Nickname: When Catine enters the Adalus Base for the first time, she's surprised to see that Kento has a female companion with him. Threatened by the prospect of Kento loving someone else, she asks if Sanae is his "servant girl", making her angry. When Kento says that she isn't, Catine snidely remarks that she would have thought Sanae was his servant girl anyway because of how poor she looks.
- Expy: Appearance only. She's Megumi, if she wasn't a ninjutsu practitioner Tomboy and her hair was brown instead of blue.
- Feminine Women Can Cook: Her specialty is cooking and housework.
- Flat Character: Sanae's personality is essentially the sole Nice Girl in a world full of Hot-Blooded idiots. She's very girly, likes to cook and clean, and does the chores and housework of the Adalus Base. She also restrains Kento and Danji when their tempers overtake them and she's pacifistic to the highest degree. She almost never, ever gets mad.
- Flowers of Femininity: One of her hobbies is picking flowers.
- Girlish Pigtails: Tied up with a big pink bow.
- I Let Gwen Stacy Die: She had to watch her parents die, and encountered numerous wounded civilians while trying to survive herself. She would try to save them with her limited knowledge of medicine, but wasn't always successful.
- Ill Girl: In her A Day in the Limelight episode, Sanae contracts a Heliosian virus that even Earl doesn't have the cure for. When he informs Kento that it has a 70% fatality rate, all of the Adalus base children are aghast. Luckily, she is saved when Danji sticks his knife into the Bemborg and pours it's blood into a cup, which Earl turns into a cure.
- Innocent Fanservice Girl: Sanae is oblivious to how much of her skin her bikini reveals, and presents herself to Kento with a smile.
- The Medic: Her late parents were doctors, so Sanae wants to follow in their footsteps and become one herself. She specializes in healing all types of injuries, and will often clean up the boys after a nasty brawl.
- Miss Fanservice: Sanae wears a two-piece skimpy bikini that shows off a lot of her body. It consists of a hot-pink bra with thin strings around her back, and a hot-pink skirt that barely covers her thighs.
- Nice Girl: Sanae is welcoming to all and frequently puts others before herself. When she learned that a guest was coming to the Adalus base, she personally picked flowers to decorate his room, warming his heart.
- Pink Is Feminine: Her bow, her civilian outfit and her bikini are all pink.
- Promoted to Parent: Sanae lost her own parents in the invasion and is surprisingly not too beat up about itnote , happily fulfilling a maternal figure role to her fellow orphaned children.
- Satellite Character: Sanae orbits around Kento and Danji, and her most significant action in the story is making sure they don't kill themselves (or each other) with their recklessness. Any time the spotlight is on her, it's to emphasize that she enjoys doing stereotypically feminine things, such as cooking and cleaning, for the Adalus base.
- Ship Tease:
- Jiro suggests that Sanae is jealous of the attention that Kento gets from Catine because she likes him. Conversely, Kento often has Imagine Spots of her.
- Danji tends to stare at her longingly. He risks traversing the innards of a Bemborg just to find a cure for her illness. She is one of the few people he is genuine to.
- Team Mom: As per her characterization, Sanae is the polar opposite of Kento's passionate, hot-blooded Team Dad. She has no interest in fighting and opts to watch from the sidelines, being happy to fulfill whatever menial tasks the Adalus base requires her to do.
- The Not-Love Interest: While there's plenty of Ship Tease between her and the boys, she never canonically ends up with anyone.
Manabu Karui
Manabu Karui (軽井まなぶ)
Voiced by: You Inoue (Japanese) Other Languages
Formerly a member of Kento's gang, he put his days of thievery behind to help aid Daltanious in battle. He is Earl's assitant.
Manabu Karui
- Blue Means Smart One: Manabu wears glasses and primarily dresses in blue. He frequently creates upgrades for Daltanious and in one episode, contributed to a devastated city's recovery by opening a windmill power plant and creating a system that helped restore electricity to it.
- Gadgeteer Genius: He contributed to the city's recovery by opening a windmill power plant and created a system that helped restore light to it.
- Expy: He's Kosuke, if he dressed in blue instead of green.
- The Smart Guy: He is very studious and enjoys learning about different sorts of technology and their fiunctions. Earl wishes Kento had his spirit.
- Smart People Wear Glasses: He wears glasses and has slicked-back hair, and is the smartest of the group.
- Teen Genius: At 12, he is Earl's assistant and studied cosmology and electronic engineering under him. He's also the one in charge of inventing Daltanious's weaponry.
Jiro Komaru
Jiro Komaru (小丸次郎)
Voiced by: Kazuko Sawada (Japanese) Other Languages
Another former member of Kento's gang. He used to work at a porridge shop.
Jiro Komaru
- Berserk Button: Jiro may be a small kid, but he will get vicious if his pet pig Tonsuke is threatened.
- A Boy and His X: Pig in this case. While he worked at a porridge shop, he bonded with a piglet which he named "Tonsuke". Tonsuke is his emotional support animal and when they're separated, he becomes very upset.
- Commonality Connection: Bonded with the piglet over being orphans.
- Does Not Like Spam: While he doesn't like carrots, he loved the ones Midori brought.
- Resentful Guardian: When he worked as a dishwasher at a porridge shop, he faced constant physical abuse from the owner. He was blamed for the pig refusing to eat it's rations and threatened with further abuse.
Tanosuke Hata
Tanosuke Hata (畑田之助)
Voiced by: Tomomichi Nishimura (Japanese) Other Languages
Another former member of Kento's gang. He loves food.
Tanosuke Hata
- All Men Are Perverts: Tanosuke likes to think about women a lot. If there's a female character around his age nearby, he will fall for her.
- Big Damn Kiss: Finally gets a love interest in the form of Kaori in episode 18.
- Big Eater: He's eager to join Kento's ransacking of shops for food for this very reason.
- The Big Guy: Thanks to eating a lot, Tanosuke has a lot of physical strength. In the first episode, he uses it to distract the shopkeepers while Kento and his gang ransack food.
- Butt-Monkey: He's often the butt of jokes because of his body size. The kids are specially mean about this.
- Living Emotional Crutch: To Kaori, who he helped regain the will to live.
- You Are Fat: Everyone else makes fun of him for being morbidly obese.
Ochame
Ochame (おちゃめ)
Voiced by: Yuko Mita (Japanese) Other Languages
An orphan girl who was adopted by Sanae and lives under her care.
Ochame
- Affectionate Nickname: "Ochame" is her nickname, as it means "playful". She lost her parents to the Zaal invasion, and lost her memory due to the shock. This included forgetting her own name.
- Ambiguous Situation: There are many hints Ochame is of foreign descent, from her red hair and blue eyes, to her unusual way of speaking Japanese, to the fact that her parents are deliberately never shown (and she states she doesn't remember them) and the fact that she doesn't even have a proper Japanese name - she is called "Ochame" ("playful") as a nickname.
- Big Sister Worship: She views Sanae this way. The two often clean the base together and engage in other housework duties.
- Everyone's Baby Sister: Everyone loves her, especially Kento, who always hugs her and tells her he'll do grand things to make her happy.
- Foreign Culture Fetish: She loves animals and has always wanted to see different species of them. Much to her delight, Kento promises to take her to Africa, so she can visit their exotic zoos.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: Ochame forgot her real name after her Trauma-Induced Amnesia. She is called "Ochame" as a nickname, because it means "playful" in Japanese.
- Redheaded Stepchild: Inverted. Ochame may be a redhead, but she's Everyone's Baby Sister amongst the group.
- Sweet Tooth: She loves cake and candy. In the first episode she's upset that Kento didn't bring her some while he raided the shops.
- Those Two Girls: With Sanae. She idolizes her and views her as a surrogate mother.
- Trauma-Induced Amnesia: Ochame suffered a head injury when the Zaal invaded, leading her to forget her name and her parents.
- Verbal Tic: She speaks with a slight lisp, such as adding "-dechu" or "-deshu" at the end of her words
Tate family
Kimiyo Tate
Kimiyo Tate
Voiced by: Unknown
Kento's mother and Hayato's wife.
- Good Parents: She loved Kento and his sister very much, happily obliging her son when he asked for more food.
- Interspecies Romance: Unknowingly. She died believing her husband was human.
- Stuffed in the Fridge: Kento's mother and sister were killed when the supermarket they owned was shot at by the Zaal's airships. Kento and his mother exited the building after it began crumbling, having no idea what was going on. Seeing human survivors fleeing for their lives, the Zaal shot at them with lasers. Kento's mother was then hit by the building's debris in her stomach. A crying Kento screamed upon seeing her die, but was helpless as the Surveillance Robots began eliminating any remaining survivors. It was only thanks to the wildfires hiding him that he wasn't eliminated too.
Kento's sister
Kento's sister
Voiced by: Unknown
Kento's sister and Hayato's first child.
- Alien Princess: Since she's Hayato/Harlin's firstborn daughter, she's the heir to the Heliosian throne. Unfortunately, she died when the Zaal Empire invaded.
- Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: In Kento's flashback, she's seen working at the Tate family supermarket and asking her brother to help, while he sits in the kitchen and asks his mother for more food.
- No Name Given: Kento's mother's name is at least revealed to be Kimiyo in episode 31, but Kento's sister gets no such importance.
- Stuffed in the Fridge: Her death was one of the many losses of the 1995 Zaal Invasion of Earth. She was working as a cashier at the Tate family supermarket when it happened and was instantly crushed by the crumbling debris. Sadly, her mother would die moments later. The two never got to find out the truth about Hayato.
Kazuto Tate
Kazuto Tate (楯 一人)
Voiced by: Koichi Chiba (episode 11), Junji Chiba (episode 32)
The adoptive father of Hayato. He raised Kento and his sister alongside Kimiyo after Hayato went missing.
- Culture Equals Costume: Dresses in traditional Japanese garb.
- Good Parents: He was a kind man. He raised Hayato after he found the boy wandering in the woods, and encouraged his passion of ships and sailing. When Hayato was lost at sea, Kazuto helped his daughter-in-law raise their children.
- Parental Substitute: After the disappearance of Hayato, he became Kento's primary paternal caregiver.
- Politically Incorrect Hero: Kazuto states that "boys shouldn't be crying" after Kishida's children bully Kento. He then instructs Kento to fight back.
- Wicked Cultured: An Edo native, Kazuto is skilled at fighting and kite-painting.
Other Earthlings
Toragoro Okuma
Toragoro Okuma (大熊 寅五郎)
Voiced by: Shōzō Iizuka (Japanese) Other Languages
The leader of the merchant's guild. Kento used to be his Arch-Enemy for being a petty thief, but after he started saving the world with Daltanious, Toragoro warms towards him.
- A Man Is Always Eager: Toragoro has a weakness for women and will do anything as long as a woman tells him to. Neshia takes advantage of this when she disguises herself as "Midori" to kidnap Ochame.
- Big Fun: Toragoro is tubby, though this is hardly surprising given he's a food merchant.
- In-Series Nickname: Kumagoronote .
- The Lost Lenore: Kumagoro's wife died in the Zaal Invasion. While he seeks out other women, he can't stop thinking about her.
- Luminescent Blush: When Kento introduces Toragoro to his father, he tells him that Toragoro was the man who had been taking care of him while he was gone. As Toragoro laughs and awkwardly shakes his hand, he blushes this way.
- Sitcom Archnemesis: Initially this was his dynamic with Kento as the boy was a regularly stole from his wares; this changed when Kento became the pilot of Daltanious and saved his life (and many other's) on more than one occassion.
Kaori Inoue
Kaori Inoue (井上かおり)
Voiced by: Michie Kita
- Big Damn Kiss: Because Tanosuke helped her re-gain her will to live, she gave him one.
- But Now I Must Go: She was separated from her brother during one Bemborg attack and by the end of the episode, she leaves to go and find him, but not before kissing Tanosuke.
- Living Emotional Crutch: Before meeting Tanosuke, she had no hope for the future. He helped her see that her future needed her.
- Second Love: To Tanosuke Hata, as his first was Ayame. While Ayame never reciprocated his feelings, Kaori did.
Mecha
Daltanious
In general
- Calling Your Attacks: Hand Slicer! Boomerang Cutter! Shredder Punch! Pulse Guided Missile! Power Hand! Iron Claw! Double Driller! Sigma Beam! Trans Shield! Gyro Spinner! Chain Dryer! Flame Attack!
- Flying Brick: Atlaus, Gunper and Beralios are essentially glorified tanks that happen to have flying, Beam Spam abilities. Daltanious itself is also a Flying Brick.
- Gratuitous English: As you may have noticed, many of the attacks are in English.
- Hammerspace: The flame sword, the kunai, the drills, the missiles, the slicers and all those other weapons have to be hidden somewhere...
- Wearing a Flag on Your Head: Daltanious, Gunper and Atlaus are embalmed with red crosses in various different places, which is the symbol of the Helios Empire.
Atlas
Atlas (アトラウス)
A humanoid robot operated by Kento Tate. It is 38 meters tall and weighs 280 tons. It composes Daltanius's face, shoulders, and upper arms. It's face is almost the same as Daltanius, but the Delfighter plane's wings are more simply deformed. After merging, it's fighting method is centered on hand-to-hand combat, mainly punching. It does not have the ability to fly alone, and sometimes hangs from Ganper or rides Belarios.
Atlas
- Arm Cannon: The Gatling Flasher attack.
- Blade Below the Shoulder: Atlas's Shredder Punch consists of this.
- Expressive Mask: Atlas is eerily capable of mimicking human facial expressions despite being a robot.
- Inconsistent Spelling: Is it Atlas or Atlaus?
- Red and Black and Evil All Over: Inverted, Atlaus has a lot of red and black in it's colour scheme, but is one-third of the Big Good.
Ganper
Ganper (ガンパー)
A fighter jet plane operated by Danji Hiiragi. It is 40 meters tall and weighs 155 tons. It has a grip handle for Atlas at the bottom of it's fuselage and supports Atlaus in combat. It forms Daltanious's legs and arms.
Ganper
- Beam Spam: One of it's limited attacks is blasting lasers. This is how it takes out the surveillance robots in the first episode.
- Cool Plane: Ganper aids Atlaus in battle and is a core part of the Daltanious robot.
- Inconsistent Spelling: Is it Gunper, Ganper or Gampar?
- Wolverine Claws: Ganper has the "Iron claw" attack, where it detaches two metal claws to attack a Bemborg or lift Atlas.
Beralios
Beralios (ベラリオス)
A lion-shaped cyborg with a will of it's own. He is 29 meters tall and weighs 195 tons. He was originally a male lion from Earth who was transformed into a Robeast. He makes up Daltanius' chest, torso, and thighs.
Beralios
- A Day in the Limelight: Beralios' full backstory is revealed in episode 24, with it's reunification with Meralion.
- A Dog Named "Perro": His name is Beraliosnote .
- Africa Is a Country: According to Earl, Beralios and Meralion were brought "from Africa" to Helios at the behest of the Emperor.
- Animal Mecha: Beralios is a gigantic robotic lion and forms 1/3rd of the titular robot. Unlike the other two units, he is sentient.
- Call on Me: Beralios always comes to Kento when his name is called, no matter where he is.
- Cats Are Mean: Beralios is rather aloof to the heroes and often communicates by growling.
- Eye Beams: Beralios is equipped with these, which he often uses when not combined into Daltanious.
- Inconsistent Spelling: Is it Beralios or Veralios?
- It Can Think: While Atlaus and Gunper have no minds of their own, Beralios does. He once disengaged with Daltanious in battle so he could reunite with Meralion. This is because it unlike them, it wasn't born a robot. Beralios is also capable of crying and wept upon seeing Meralion's corpse.
- The Lost Lenore: Beralios was taken from Africa to Helios with another lion, Meralion, and they were turned into Robeasts. Unfortunately, Meralion would fall into the enemy's hands. When Beralios and Meralion reunite, Kento attempts to free her from the Zaal's control, only for them to kill her. With the death of Meralion, Beralios weeps and by forming Daltanious, avenges her by crushing the Bemborg.
- Panthera Awesome: He's a heroic, ferocious lion.note
- Robeast: While most Robeasts depicted in the show are evil, Beralios is one of the few good ones. This likely has something to do with the fact that he's with affiliated with The Helios Empire.
- Was Once a Man: He was originally a male lion from Earth who was captured by Heliosian researchers and experimented on.
Daltanious
Daltanious (ダルタニアス)
A Humongous Mecha created by Earl to fight against the Zaal Empire. Daltanious is created by combining three mechas: Atlas, Gamper, and Velarios. It is 56 meters tall and weighs 678 tons.Initially, Daltanious was powered by sigma energy, but made a switch to hyperspace energy. This strengthened it's output and made it possible to use flame attacks.
Daltanious
- Arm Cannon: When Atlaus combines into Daltanious, it's Gatling Flasher becomes the Cannon Cubic.
- Big Good: Daltanious is seen as a hero not just on Earth, but on many other Planets, because it stands up to the Zaal's Bemborgs and defends innocent lives from being taken.
- By the Power of Grayskull!: To begin Daltanious' transformation sequence, Kento shouts "Cross In!".
- Chest Blaster: Sigma Beam and Chodenji Eraser, which erupt from the lion's mouth on Daltanious' chest.
- Cool Sword: In battle, it wields the Tran Saber. Also, the flame sword◊.
- Creepy Crosses: Daltanious is studded by what looks like the Templar cross, but the anime makes no explicit reference to Christianity.
- Combining Mecha: Daltanious is created by fusing Atlaus, Ganper and Beralios.
- Finishing Move: Kaen Jimonji Giri and Kaen Attack Kaen Jimonji Giri.
- Flying Brick: It is 56 meters tall and weighs 678 tons. The robot is also styled with various cross-shaped emblems.
- Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better: Daltanious has a fair balance of both traditional weapons such as the sword, the boomerang and the kunai amongst fire/energy attacks.
- King of Beasts: Daltanious has a lion on it's chest, and is the heroic, protector Big Good of Earth.
- Horned Humanoid: Daltanious has red, spiky, curled horns.
- Humongous Mecha: Daltanious is as large as it is valiant, and often towers over the Robeasts the Zaal sends after it.
- Icon of Rebellion: The main reason why Kloppen wants to put it down is because Daltanious inspires people of other planets to rebel against their oppressors. He's humiliated at the robot overpowering his Bemborgs at every turn, and even Dolmen calls him worthless for it.
- Incendiary Exponent: Daltanious' New Powers as the Plot Demands have the robot switch from using Sigma Energy to Hyperspace Energy so that it can use flame attacks as well as it's regular ones. This even extends to it's Cool Sword, the Flame Sword.
- Power Source: At first it was Sigma Energy, but later it became Hyperspace Energy as it was superior.
- Pure Energy: Sigma Energy is essentially this, and it powers Daltanious's kinetic attacks.
- Super Robot: Daltanious is a combination of three smaller units and possesses a variety of attacks and moves.
Other
Meralion
Beralios' female companion.
Meralion
- Africa Is a Country: All we know about her past is that she originated from Africa like Beralios, but which African nation isn't clear.
- Animal Mecha: She's a robotic lioness. She arguably doesn't qualify as a Bemborg, as she was created by the Heliosians.
- A Dog Named "Dog": Meralion.
- The Lost Lenore: To Beralios, who she was separated from for years. By the time they reunite, both are Robeasts, but one's with the heroes and the other's with the villains.
- Redemption Equals Death: She's introduced as a typical Monster of the Week who attacks buildimgs and endangers civilian folk, until Beralios recognizes her and tried to stop Daltannious from attacking her. When Earl puts two and two together and realizes she's his long-lost female companion, Kento attempts to help her and Beralios escape, but she is killed by General Mizuka's other Bemborg.
- Robeast: She was a regular lioness for most of her life until the Heliosian scientists transformed her into a robot.
- Spear Counterpart: To Beralios. However, she's not as skilled than him even though she shares a lot of his powers.
- Was Once a Man: She was once a real lion, much like her lover.
Gamelot
Gamelot (ガメロット)
A turtle-shaped support mecha. It is mostly orange, and it looks like a red turtle, a yellow turtle, and a pink turtle stacked on top of each other, with the boarding gate on the baby turtle's head. Manabu tricked Dr. Earl into secretly producing it inside the base.- Animal Mecha: Gamelot is a turtle-like robot.
- Butt-Monkey: Often used for comic relief.
- Robot Buddy: Performs this role to Daltanious, and Jiro, Ochame, Manabu and Tanosuke.
- Telescoping Robot: His main weapons are Igaguri bombs, pachinko missiles, wires, and water cannon attacks. He can also deploy wings and propellers to fly.
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Is often used as a foothold in daily life, as a festival float, and playing an active role in rescue and containment work.
