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Sora Naegino

• Break the Cutie: Has to go through LOTS of hardship as the performing world isn't half as pretty and rose-tinted as she thought it was.
• Genki Girl
• Happily Adopted: After her biological parents died, she was taken in by her dad's cousin and his wife, who loved her as much as if she was their real child.
• The Heroine
• Heroic Self-Deprecation
• The Messiah
  • Broken Messiah: When at her lowest points.
• Plucky Girl: Big time.
• The Pollyanna
• Ship Tease: Mostly with Ken, Layla and Rosetta.
• Shorttank
• Romantic Two-Girl Friendship: With Rosetta.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: And one who manages to not become a Knight in Sour Armor!
• Woman in White: Sorta, her leotard is white.
• You Gotta Have Raspberry-Hued Hair

Layla Hamilton

• Armor-piercing Attack
• Blue Eyes
• Broken Bird: The death of her mother and her emotional distance from her good-hearted yet workaholic dad have left deep scars in her heart.
• Brutal Honesty: She never EVER sugarcoats her words and actions.
• Defrosting Ice Queen
• Hair of Gold
• Knight in Sour Armor
• The Lancer: First season.
• Lethal Chef: Can't even handle a coffee machine.
• The Mentor: Second season.
• The Ojou
• Plucky Girl
• Tall, Blonde and Bishoujo
• Well Done Daughter Gal: Her mother is dead, and her father is kind but always at work. Young Layla swore to make her dad proud.

Fool

• Butt Monkey
• Cool Mask
• Handsome Lech
• Fairy Companion: A Deconstructed Trope. Sora thinks she has lost her mind when she starts seeing him, his advice isn't exactly flawless, and when Sora goes into borderline Wangst status she actually stops seeing him for a while.
• Team Pet

Mia Guillem

• Badass Bookworm
• Fiery Redhead: Mostly averted, though she has her moments as well.
• Girlish Pigtails
• The Smart Girl
• Straight Man
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Girly girl to Anna and Cathy's Tomboy.

Anna Heart

• Bifauxnen
• The Big Girl
• Disappeared Dad: Jack "Baron Jack" Heart.
• Like Father Like Daughter: She and Jack are very similar.
• Even the Girls Want Her: Has BUTTLOADS of female fans in-story, specifically due to her Bifauxnen-ness.
• Sad Clown

Rosetta Passel

• The Cutie
• Calling the Old Man Out: Genderflipped, as she calls out her Stage Mom.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: It took her only one episode to melt.
• Feminine Women Can Cook: Inverted, she can't.
• Fiery Redhead
• Plucky Girl
• Romantic Two-Girl Friendship: With Sora.
• Shorttank
• Sixth Ranger

Marion Benigni

• Bratty Half-Pint: Also for one episode.
• Circus Brat: Her dad is the lead of the stagehands, her dead mom was a Kaleido artist. In the second season, she officially joins the Stage.
• Tagalong Kid
• Well Done Daughter Gal: To her Missing Mom.

Jonathan

• Ridiculously Cute Critter
• Team Pet

Yuri Killian

• The Atoner
• Big Brother Mentor: To Sora, after his Heel Face Turn.
• Bishōnen
• Disappeared Dad: His father, Aaron, died on-stage. His death was Yuri's Start of Darkness.
• Reformed, But Rejected: Considering that he did pull lots of shit on the Stage, this is understandable.
• Sixth Ranger: Second season.
• Smug Snake
  • Heel Face Turn
• Token Evil Teammate: First season.
• You Killed My Father: Believes Kalos to be responsible for his father's death.

May Wong

• Anime Chinese Girl
• Armor-Piercing Slap: To Sora, when she declines Cathy's offer to app for the role of Juliet. May, already emotionally distraught for a short while, snapped so badly that she started screaming at Sora and then slapped her in ront of everyone.
• Break the Haughty: And holy shit HOW! Not only she falls victim to Leon's "curse" when he deliberately injures her to knock her off her pedetal, but later she gets called out more than once on her arrogance - specially by Layla, her own idol.
• Brutal Honesty: Has even less of a thoughts-to-words filter than Layla
• Child Prodigy: Subverted. May was an ice skating prodigy as a little girl, as revealed by her coach Meredith, but ultimately decided to ditch skating (thought she still skates once in a while) to focus solely on the Kaleido Stage.
• Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Her Berserk Button.
• Hot Blooded
• Jerkass: At first.
• The Lancer: To Sora in second season.
• Large Ham: Thanks to Loudly Calling Her Techniques.
• Plucky Girl: When she gets over herself.
• Spoiled Brat: Until she gets better.
• Supreme Chef
• Tsundere: Extremely Type A, switches to Type B as she develops.

Leon Oswald

• The Ace: More like a Broken Ace, tho.
• Bishōnen
• Dead Little Sister: Horribly losing his Morality Pet sister Sophie drove him over the edge and very close to the Despair Event Horizon.
• Defrosting Ice King: Compare the Jerkass Leon from the second season beginning to the much less constipated one from the last episodes.
• Jerkass: Initially.
• Kick the Dog: No matter what you think of May, not even she deserves to have Leon deliberately dropping her on-stage an causing her to get seriously injured.
• The Lancer
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy
• Troubled, but Cute
• White-Haired Pretty Boy

Kenneth "Ken" Robbins

• Butt Monkey
• The Chick/Non-Action Guy
• Dogged Nice Guy: To Sora, though he's not as pushy as others.
• Hair of Gold
• Ill Boy: Has a weak heart.
• Tragic Dream: He's the busboy because his heart illness doesn't let him train and become a performer.

Sarah Dupont

• Adult Child
• The Chick/Team Mom
• Hair of Gold
• Idol Singer: She sings on the KS stage, and it's mentioned she's been offered CD contracts many times but has refused all of them.

Kalos Eido

• The Atoner: For something he didn't do.
• Dark Skinned Redhead
• I Was Quite a Looker: Invoked by Sora when she sees a photo of his younger self ( alongside a teen!Sarah and their companion Andy) and can't believe the baby-faced youth in the picture is him.
• The Mentor
• My Greatest Failure: Has blamed himself for more than 10 years for the death of Yuri's dad.
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: He believes himself to be such, since he asked Aaron if he truly was up to performing the very dangerous Fantastic Maneouver... few before Aaron failed to do it and died, which is the reason why Yuri is pissed off at him enough to try buying out the Stage as revenge.
• Self-Made Man: He started as a self-taught stage magician who performed in the streets. 20 years later he's the owner of the world-famous Kaleido Stage.
• Sink or Swim Mentor
• Team Dad

Jerry, aka Mr. Policeman

• The Big Guy
• Gentle Giant
• Emotional Bruiser
• Large Ham
• Scary Black Man: Played for Laughs.
• Sunglasses at Night
• Victorious Childhood Friend: To Kate the doctor.

Mr. Kenneth

• Cool Old Guy
• Miniature Senior Citizens
• Obfuscating Stupidity: Seems to be a Cloudcuckoolander, but is much sharper than you'd think

Sophie Oswald

• Dead Little Sister
• The Messiah
• Plucky Girl
• White-Haired Pretty Girl

Cathy Taylor

• Cool Big Sis: To Sora and specially to Mia.
• Fiery Redhead
• Genki Girl
• Plucky Girl
• The Smart Girl