Here are the characters from the popular sci-fi anime Martian Successor Nadesico, along with the tropes they represent. Please be aware of spoilers.
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Crew of the Nadesico
Akito Tenkawa
Akito Tenkawa
"How can I face up my fears if my feet are running away like nature intended!?"
- Voiced by: Yuji Ueda (Japanese), Spike Spencer (English), Héctor Rocha (Latin-American Spanish, TV series), Emmanuel Rivas (Latin-American Spanish, Prince of Darkness movie)
Akito woke up on Earth during the initial attack on Martian soil by the Jovians with no way of knowing how he got there. When he suddenly recognizes Yurika after encountering her by chance, he stows away aboard the Nadesico in order to lean more about why his family died and whether or not she knew anything about it, and eventually becomes one of the Aesti pilots, recognizable by his hot-pink Frame.
- Ascended Fanboy: Likes Gekiganger 3, gets to pilot giant mecha. In a subversion, he realizes that while giant mecha are cool, he really doesn't like fighting.
- Butt-Monkey: Oh, so much.
- Calling Your Attacks: Not as over-the-top as Gai, but still does it frequently at the beginning. "GEKIGAN FLARE!" Starts doing it less and less as the show goes on, though.
- Career-Ending Injury: By the time of the movie, he has to give up on his dream to be a chef because the villain's experiments destroyed his senses of taste and smell.
- Chef of Iron: The "ordinary" type. He prefers being a chef and never applies cookery skills to combat, but he is also an excellent pilot.
- Chick Magnet: Yurika, Megumi, and Ryoko, plus Erina seems to be projecting her unrequited feelings for his dead father onto him and Ruri has a bit of a schoolgirl crush. To his chagrin. Mainly due to the absurd and over-the-top ways they try to gain his affections.
- Childhood Friend Romance: With Yurika.
- Cornered Rattlesnake: A central part of his character early on. He really doesn't want to fight most of the time, but when he's in imminent danger, he turns out to be a fantastic pilot.
- The Defroster: Akito defrosts two characters during his time on the Nadesico.
- First he thaws out Ruri, who was initially rude and standoffish to the crew of "idiots". But interacting with Akito drew her out of her shell.
- Then there was the "dried out walking Encyclopedia", Inez Fresange, who recovers her memories of being Ai, embracing Akito tearfully, saying "It's so good to see you again Mister." The audience collectively melted, too.
- Hot-Blooded: See Calling Your Attacks. He resists it at first, but embraces the path of hotbloodedness after Gai's death.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: All he wants in life is to be a chef and watch his favourite anime.
- Indy Ploy: For a guy who doesn't like fighting, Akito is very good at coming up with strategies on the fly.
- Parental Abandonment: His parents died when he was very young, killed in an apparent terrorist attack on their colony's spaceport.
- Real Men Wear Pink: His mecha is colored pink. Although nobody ever explicitly draws attention to it.
- She Is Not My Girlfriend: Akito repeatedly denies that Yurika is his girlfriend or that he's even interested in her. Yurika herself refuses to believe that however, much to his chagrin.
- The So-Called Coward: He's frequently accused of being a coward because he's reluctant to fight, but whenever he does fight, he never shirks.
- Stellar Name: Tenkawa = "Heaven's River", the Japanese term for the Milky Way.
- Team Chef: Which is what he really enjoys doing.
- Took a Level in Badass: Prince of Darkness had him do it in a deconstructed manner: It's not a pretty process and the result itself wasn't something that usually delights him or the fanbase in general. However, if Prince of Darkness gets included in Super Robot Wars, then this is reconstructed: Akito goes through the horrifying process, but when surrounded with more people that care about him genuinely, Akito is able to get past his dark and edgy phase and use his newfound badassery for altruistic goals instead of vengeance, thus his badass phase ended up helping him, by making him grow up.
- Unlucky Everydude: He just wanted a peaceful life and got dragged into a space adventure, complete with harem. And eventually something worse, come the movie...
Yurika Misumaru
Captain Yurika Misumaru
"I'll trust you with the fate of the Nadesico and her crew! Just promise me you'll come back alive!"
- Voiced by: Houko Kuwashima (Japanese), Jennifer K. Earhart (English), Adriana Rodríguez (Latin-American Spanish, TV series), Gaby Beltrán (Latin-American Spanish, Prince of Darkness movie)
By all accounts, Yurika seems like the worst possible choice for the job of Captain; she's goofy, air-headed, has a terrible attention span, and is way, way too invested in becoming Akito's girlfriend. While all of that might be true, beneath her overly-romantic space cadet tendencies lies true strategic genius that can thwart the Jovians at every turn.
- And I Must Scream: In the movie, she's been kidnapped, experimented on, and frozen inside the Ruins.
- Big-Breast Pride: When she sees the diorama Seiya made of the Nadesico's crew, she was incensed to see that not only had he given her figurine a small bust, but that the bust of Ruri's figurine was disproportionately large.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Is generally nice to everyone, and believes in the good in people... this does not stop her from being rather ruthless towards the enemy while commanding her ship.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: She's flighty, self-centered, daydreamy, and really good at outwitting the enemy (and her nominal allies), which is why she got the job.
- Buxom Beauty Standard: Several characters comment on how well endowed she is. Including her own father.
- The Captain: Despite her oddities, she is concerned about her crew's welfare, sincerely committed to protecting humanity, and burned by the hard decisions she has to make.
- Childhood Friend Romance: With Akito. They get married after the series.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: And that's the least of Akito's problems, really....
- Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Most of the time, Yurika runs on moon logic. Well, Mars logic, since that's where she's from.
- Combat Pragmatist: Despite her personality, she can come up with some pretty brilliant strategies at times, such as using fishing techniques to take advantage in one fight against a Jovian ship, and utilizing air pressure to silently maneuver her ship in space without relying on engines.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: She's a ditzy, lovesick buffoon, but when she gets serious...
- Cute Clumsy Girl: Her reunion with Akito involves spilling her suitcase all over the road.
- The Ditz: Is oftentimes more focused on trying to get Akito to date her than doing her job.
- Dogged Nice Girl: She completely ignores Akito telling her, repeatedly, that he's not in love with her.
- Genius Ditz: When push comes to shove, she can be a brilliant strategist.
- Genki Girl: She tends to be a little over-energetic at times.
- Lethal Chef: Tries to win Akito Through His Stomach with a plate of... something. We probably don't want to know much about it.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In episode 6, since as Captain she can't leave the ship, she orders it to land where Akito has gone with Megumi. As it turns out, the missing Mars Colonists had taken shelter in an underground complex straight beneath them and when the Jovians attack, in order to save her ship, Yurika orders the shields activated, resulting in a cave-in that kills the entire refugee camp.
- Episodes 6 through 8 feature Yurika making at least one costly mistake while fixated on Akito.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: Implied. It's really interesting that during an episode when part of crew had reversed their personalities, she was under the effects and was acting like usual.
- Self-Proclaimed Love Interest: To Akito most of the time, until she becomes his actual love interest.
- Single-Target Sexuality: She's firmly Akito-sexual, having been in love with him since they were kids. Much to Jun's frustration, whose obvious crush on her always goes over her head.
Ruri Hoshino
Science Officer Ruri Hoshino
"Idiots."
- Voiced by: Omi Minami (Japanese), Kira Vincent-Davis (English), Azucena Martínez (Latin-American Spanish, TV series), Ariadna Rivas (Latin-American Spanish, Prince of Darkness movie)
A miracle of genetic and nanotechnological engineering; Ruri is the smartest person aboard the Nadesico, and she isn't shy about letting people know it. That said, she does come to care quite a bit for her ship of "idiots"...in her own way, of course.
- Adorably Precocious Child: Lampshaded in one episode when the rest of the crew is dressing up in ridiculous period outfits that Uribatake broke out for a mission and all getting excited over them. When one of the crew asks her if she's not into that sort of thing, she responds that she's not a child.
- Artificial Human: Is the product of DNA engineering and nanotechnology designed to create an "operator [who could] connect directly with computers". And is rather bitter about it.
- Better with Non-Human Company: Her best friend and confidant is the ship's computer, Omoikane.
- Breakout Character: She's by far the most well-known character from the show, and repeatedly won numerous polls for the most popular anime character of all time. Unsurprisingly, they made her the main character of the movie.
- Brutal Honesty: She can be extremely blunt-spoken about her low opinion of everyone around her.
- Catchphrase Insult: "...idiots" or "Baka baka" in the original Japanese.
- Changeling Fantasy: Subverted. Ruri discovers her biological family are the Cloud Cuckoolander royalty of a Theme Park-like Ruritania, but quickly decides they're a bunch of useless idiots and returns to the useful idiots aboard the Nadesico.
- Character Narrator: In addition of her supporting role in the anime series, she also takes the narrator role in most of the spots where narration is needed (like, summarizing previous episode's events, small time skips, and even the final episode's epilogue), leaving only some insert text to a proper voice-over.
- Designer Babies: Ruri went through this twice over. First, she was conceived as a test-tube baby for the current rulers of Peaceland. When the institute handing the procedure was destroyed by terrorists, the surviving zygotes were acquired by a scientist who let the children be born after undergoing genetic engineering, and then "raising" them in a Crapsaccharine environment so they would become geniuses, until Nergal bought the rights to raise Ruri as a Nadesico operator. When Ruri discovers this in her A Day in the Limelight episode, the scientist's only explanation for what happened to the other children was essentially 'mistakes were made', and his institute had been closed down after the genetic enhancement procedure was made illegal.
- Cracks in the Icy Façade: Ruri Hoshino is a Rei Ayanami Expy with a blank expression, a biting wit, and a penchant for referring to everyone around her as idiots. When they're retaking the ship from the UEF in an early episode, Megumi notes the first crack in Ruri's icy exterior, saying, "Did I just see you smile?" Ruri notes that it's a possibility, adding herself to the mix when she says, "I guess we're all idiots, here."
- Girlish Pigtails: One of the few reminders (along with her petite stature) that she's still a child.
- Little Miss Snarker: Despite her youthful appearance, she's very no-nonsense and believes herself to be Surrounded by Idiots. She's none too impressed with the antics the crew gets up to, and she'll frequently make that known through her sarcastic remarks.
- Machine Empathy: She treats the computer with the respect and dignity she would a human being.
- Meta Girl: A big part of her role is to lampshade things the audience is likely to find silly or stupid, to the point where the series will sometimes cut away to her dismissing what just happened as stupid even if she had no way of knowing about it.
- Mysterious Waif: More accentuated in the Mexican Spanish dub of The Movie than in the Japanese version, due the way how her Mexican voice actress dubs her.
- Precocious Crush: She's implied to be a lurker in the Akito Tenkawa Appreciation Society. Though she doesn't chase after him like the others do, she does show subtle signs for it, such as believing in his Gekiganger 3 knowledge to save Omoikane, picking him as her first choice for her knight when she was called a princess, and the biggest example, the lyrics (And the title) of "I Want to be your Number One", her Image Song from the beauty contest episode.
- Rei Ayanami Expy: She's a stoic young girl with blue-grey hair, yellow eyes, and odd origins. Ruri was actually the first Rei Ayanami Expy, though she's more a response to Rei than the direct copy of later versions. Her popularity has sparked a series of Little Miss Snarker expies of her own.
- Robot Buddy: She builds one (Kyuupachi/98) in the manga's Alternate Continuity.
- Spotlight-Stealing Squad: In the movie,
largely due to popularity. She makes all the other characters superfluous, and even worse has less of the traits that made her popular in the first place. - Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Although she comes across as emotionless, she is actually quite warm, she just tries not to show it. This is more accentuated in the Mexican dub of the TV series, compared with the dub of The Movie.
- Supernatural Gold Eyes: Has them as part of her implied kinda-sorta Artificial Human background and general Mysterious Waif-iness.
- Surrounded by Idiots: Generally views the rest of the crew this way, to the point where it's her catchphrase to call them idiots whenever any antics ensue.
- Technopath: With her IFS and some help from Omoikane, she can make most any nearby technology do whatever she wants. Used to great effect at the end of the movie, where she shuts down the entire enemy operation on Mars.
- Turned Against Their Masters:
- When she meets the person responsible for her birth and education (away from an actual family) after several years, she slaps him — after expressing token gratitude for allowing her to be born in the first place after acquiring her zygote for his Designer Babies project.
- Nergal also treats her as little more than a human machine, yet she's a crucial part of the Nadesico's defection near the end of the series, since the ship can't operate without her.
- When She Smiles: Interestingly, it happens relatively early in the series, when the Nadesico takes off for the first time. Megumi is the one who takes notice.Megumi: Hey, did I just see you smile?Ruri: Possibly. That means we're all just idiots.
Gai Daigouji (born Jiro Yamada)
"That's how a man should go out! Sacrificing his life for his comrades!"
- Voiced by: Tomokazu Seki (Japanese), Brett Weaver (English), Mauricio Valverde (Latin-American Spanish, TV series)
Gai is a massive fan of the show Gekiganger 3 and has embodied his entire life around it. Initially seeing Akito as a rival, he comes to respect Akito after they both bond over the show.
- Ascended Fanboy: Gekiganger 3 is a Super Robot show about protecting Earth from evil aliens. Naturally Gai wants to pilot a real robot for the same reasons. Problem is that he's in, well, a Real Robot show that deconstructs Super Robot shows...
- Calling Your Attacks: One of the most over-the-top examples in mecha anime. GAAAAAAAAAAIIIIII SUPEEEERRRRRR UPPEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!! Honestly, the man could give Guy Shishioh a run for his money.
- Captain Ersatz: Has too many similarities to Don Quixote to be a coincidence. Notice how their names are even similar.
- Chuunibyou: A wannabe Super Robot hero who styles his appearance after his favorite character, gives himself a cooler name, and insists on shouting Gekiganger attack names when he fights. Gai is a textbook example of the delusional "Evil Eye" subtype of a Chuunibyou.
- Do Not Call Me "Paul": He rejects the use of his real name, Jiro Yamada. According to him, "Gai Daigouji" is the name of his soul.
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: An interesting example, in that it was clearly foreshadowed...and he makes a big deal about how a man SHOULD die, before dying in an unceremonious, undignified way.
- Hot-Blooded: But of course! Complete with Hot-Blooded Sideburns.
- I Just Want to Be Special: He really makes a point of being in the spotlight more than anyone else.
- Jumped at the Call: He's way too eager to join the Nadesico's crew and manages to break his leg before he even gets to pilot.
- Large Ham: Par for the course for a mecha fan.
- Manly Tears: All the time, especially over Gekiganger.
- Mr. Smith: His real name "Jiro Yamada" is similar to John Doe or John Smith in English, which he considers it a "boring name" his mother gave him. Which is why he insists he should be called "Gai Daigouji".
- Sacrificial Lamb: His death at the start of episode 4 has a lasting impact on Akito, and his introduction of Gekiganger 3 to the Nadesico comes in handy once they finally get to meet the "Jovian lizards" face-to-face.
- Spared by the Adaptation: Super Robot Wars adaptations of the series generally allow him to be saved, or even make his survival automatic.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: He thinks he's in a Super Robot show. He's actually in a Deconstruction Parody of one.
Megumi Reinard
Communications Officer Megumi Reinard
"I think it's important to feel wanted. That's what I told myself everytime I stepped in front of a microphone!"
- Voiced by: Naoko Takano (Japanese), Jenny Strader (English), Desirée Sandoval (Latin-American Spanish, TV series), Rebeca Gómez (Latin-American Spanish, Prince of Darkness movie)
Megumi is a former voice actress who was chosen to help the Nadesico. She's just as much of a go-getter in her current position as she was as a voice actress, but she can be a little pushy.
- Communications Officer: She's the Nadesico's communications officer.
- Covert Pervert: She reveals herself to be a little more forward than anyone was expecting during the introduction of the VR deck, having specifically tweaked the High school program in it to go from a simple LARP to what was pretty clearly going to be a porn sim. In the dub, she also admits to have voice acted in an Ecchi anime.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: A lot more so than Yurika, and that's saying something. It took awhile to set in, but once it did, it effectively murdered her chances of getting Akito's affection at all. She actually does gets the seeds of a serious relationship started, but she destroyed it all by trying to take things too far, which utterly repulsed him. Trying to get him to leave the crew of the Nadesico to their fate when they were in trouble didn't help either, and she finally dumps him herself when he uses lethal force even after finding out the Jovians are human.
- Heroic BSoD: A brief one in Episode 4, after the destruction of the space station where she reckons with just how quickly people can die during war. She has another one when she realizes her role on the show Natural Lychee had gone from Magical girl show to Propaganda piece.
- Lethal Chef: She's just as bad as Yurika, and just as sure that she's amazing.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: She's a voice actress who shares the same name as a certain real-life celebrity...
- Really 17 Years Old: Implied. Megumi's age is listed as 17, but she's treated as an equal in the Love Dodecahedron, she's self-sufficient without any mention of being a Minor Living Alone, and she's a voice actress, who in Japan often joke that they're "eternally 17." Thus, she's probably at least a few years older. Seemingly confirmed when she's still "17" in the movie.
Minato Haruka
Helmswoman Minato Haruka
- Voiced by: Maya Okamoto (Japanese), Kelly Manison (English), Desirée Sandoval (Latin-American Spanish, TV series), Rebeca Gómez (Latin-American Spanish, Prince of Darkness movie)
Unlike much of the crew, Minato joined the crew Nadesico out of boredom from her secretary job, and turns out to be an excellent helmswoman for the advanced ship. However, since the ship has lots of automated components, she's usually free to do whatever she wants while bantering with Megumi and Ruri. Unfortunately for her, that also means she's free to learn just how complicated relationships in war can really be...
- Cool Big Sis: To most of the female crew members. She's flirty and fun, but also more mature and experienced than they are.
- Dating Catwoman: She falls in love with the Jovian Tsukumo Shiratori. It ends badly.
- Heroic BSoD: Has a minor but pretty intense one when Tsukumo Shiratori is killed.
- Hidden Depths: Who would've thought a secretary would be the best qualified helmswoman for a state of the art battleship?
- Ms. Fanservice: Wears a very low-cut open shirt.
- Parental Substitute: Acts as Yukina's caretaker while she's on the Nadesico and while the crew is in hiding. She ultimately adopts her permanently after Yukina's brother Tsukumo is killed.
Jun Aoi
First Officer Jun Aoi
Voiced by: Kentarō Itō (Japanese), Mark X. Laskowski (English), Arturo Sian Vidal (Latin-American Spanish, TV series), Luis Daniel Ramírez (Latin-American Spanish, Prince of Darkness movie)
The First Officer of the Nadesico.Jun is Yurika's best friend in the whole world, a capable and patient gentlemen...who unfortunately happens to be completely ignored by pretty much everyone on the ship. He does want to be a hero, he just doesn't really have the capability yet.
- Butt-Monkey: Exists for Yurika to bounce off early on, but then pretty much disappears when he's no longer needed. And is never even in the running in the Love Septagon.
- Broken Faceplate: Parodied. In episode three, his faceplate breaks as he's fighting Akito in orbit, but he's fine.
- Demoted to Extra: He appears a lot less after people like Erina and Inez are added to the bridge, since they're more important to the plot and tend to replace his role as the straight guy.
- Hidden Depths: He's fluent in baseball hand-signals, which he was forced to use one episode when he couldn't talk due to a neck injury. See I Just Want to Be Badass.
- Hopeless Suitor: Poor guy, Yurika never thought of him as anything else than a good friend...
- I Just Want to Be Badass: Often. Unfortunately, he usually forgets some key detail (like wearing a pilot suit, which results in a bad case of whiplash).
- Not Himself: During an episode where the less dominant traits of certain characters' personalities come to the forefront, Jun is hilariously a cackling Gun Nut.
Goat Hoary
Voiced by: Jurota Kosugi (Japanese), Rob Mungle (English), Bernardo Rodríguez (Latin-American Spanish, TV series), Alejandro Villeli (Latin-American Spanish, Prince of Darkness movie)
The "Handler" for the Nergal Corporation aboard the Nadesico.Goat is large and in charge; the man who brought the entire team together, and extremely knowledgeable of the Nadesico's ins and outs. While he's imposing, he's really a big softie at heart.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Sometimes literally, since he keeps the pair of bunny ears he acquires early on and ends up wearing them at various points.
- The Comically Serious: He has a stoic expression and reaction no matter how ridiculous events on the Nadesico get, even when he's involved in them.
- Gentle Giant: He's the largest and most physically imposing member of the crew, but he's soft-spoken and gentle... most of the time.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Mr. Prospector.
- Not So Above It All: He objects to the ridiculous show Yurika is putting on to try and explain the science behind a recent disaster to the crew (and to the ridiculous fully-body bunny suit she's wearing for it.) One Gilligan Cut later, he's wearing a pair of bunny ears himself.
- Only in It for the Money: He's embittered by his experience with the Feds, but Mr. Prospector writes a number down that immediately changes his mind. Averted later on when he joins the rest of the crew in rebelling after The Reveal."...Is this after taxes?"
Mr. Prospector
''Do you have ANY idea how much a battleship like this costs!?"
Voiced by: Kenichi Ono (Japanese), Paul Sidello (English), Luis Raymundo Espinoza (Latin-American Spanish, TV series), Herman López (Latin-American Spanish, Prince of Darkness movie)
The Nergal accountant and unofficial liason from the company. Unlike a lot of people on the Nadesico, he's actually pretty typical of his station.- The Atoner: Was a silent witness to the illegal activity of the United Earth government and Nergal that led to the murder of the Tenkawa family. While there was little he could have done to stop it, he feels a sense of guilt at keeping silent. This is implied to be why he decided to allow Akito to join the crew in the first place.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: At first he seems to be a pencil-pusher who will probably make their lives difficult, but later proves that he's loyal to the ship and its crew, and manages to be quite a Guile Hero.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Hoary.
- Meaningful Name: "Prospector" is a very appropriate name for a ship's accountant.
- Miser Advisor: ALWAYS has a calculator handy, and never fails to point out the incurred expenses that will result from whatever the crew or Nadesico does/has done.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Although he can be a bit of a penny-pincher at times, he's a lot more understanding than he seems at first (as seen when he hires Akito in the first episode), and ultimately makes moves to keep the crew together, as multiple times show they'd likely be court martialed without his interference.
Ryoko Subaru
Captain Ryoko Subaru
"Don't have a first star? I'll just make one."
- Voiced by: Chisa Yokoyama (Japanese), Tiffany Grant (English), Desirée Sandoval (Latin-American Spanish, TV series), Gabriela Guzmán (Latin-American Spanish, Prince of Darkness movie)
She's a former resident of a Space Colony who managed to hook up with the crew after it was targeted by the Jovian Lizards. She's as rough and tumble as they come, but her badass image is constantly at odds with her wingwomen. That said, she does have a sensitive side.
- Ace Pilot: When Ryoko gets in a funk during her limelight episode, Akito cheers her up saying that she's their best Aesti pilot. Might be a Downplayed Trope, though, since while Ryoko is a badass on the field of battle and she does tend to perform a bit better than her colleagues, she's typically not so far ahead of her comrades as to be set apart from them.
- Action Girl: Her limelight episode emphasizes her status as this; as she says, fighting is the only thing she can do right.
- Big Damn Heroes: "TENKAWA'S MINE!" <body-slams into a Jovian mech before it can launch rockets at an unprotected Akito>
- Boyish Short Hair: Has short green (Black in Prince of Darkness) hair.
- Broken Ace: Gets depressed when she realizes that fighting and killing are all she's particularly good at. Akito snaps her out of it pretty quickly, though.
- Cannot Spit It Out: Unlike Yurika and Megumi, she never managed to confess to Akito... though it's more out of pride than anything.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: Minor streak, but occasional subconscious referral to Akito as "My Tenkawa" as well as her protectiveness towards him do seem to give this impression.
- A Day in the Limelight: During the "beauty contest episode", which - perhaps ironically - Ryoko does not participate in.
- Dye Hard: An In-Universe example. The Prince of Darkness reveals that the characteristic lime-green hair she has in the series was the result of this trope.
- Fanservice: When she first appears on the Nadesico, she powers her pilot suit halfway off revealing a sports bra underneath, and during her limelight episode, she pilots her Aestivalis in casual underwear.
- Last-Name Basis: 90 percent of the time, she refers to Akito by his last name. Akito alone gets this treatment, where main characters are concerned.
- Law of Chromatic Superiority: Her Aestivalis is Fire-Engine Red and she's usually referred to as the best Aestivalis pilot outside of Akito.
- Stellar Name: Subaru is the Japanese name for the Pleiades, and her Aestivalis operates solely in Zero-G.
- Tsundere: Not as abusive as a typical example, but she still counts as a Type A.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: Mentioned in a flashback.
Hikaru Amano
Hikaru Amano
Voiced by: Shiho Kikuchi (Japanese), Cynthia Martinez (English), Daniela Benítez (Latin-American Spanish, TV series), Isabel Martiñón (Latin-American Spanish, Prince of Darkness movie)
The shorter, bespectacled one of Those Two Guys in Subaru's squad. Hikaru is a Hyperactive Aesti Pilot who might be a bigger nerd than Gai and Akito combined who's always seemingly having a good time. That said, she may not be as happy as she lets on...- Action Girl: As one of the Aesti pilots, although unlike Ryoko it doesn't totally define her.
- Ascended Fangirl: Like Gai, she's a huge Gekiganger fan.
- Genki Girl: After Yurika, she's probably the most energetic girl in the whole crew.
- Love Hurts: Due to unresolved issues with her ex-boyfriend she is one of the few not chasing after Akito, and also has to let Uribatake down gently when he tries to start a relationship with her.
- Otaku Surrogate: She draws doujinshi for Gekiganger with a Self-Insert character.
- Parental Abandonment: Both her parents are dead.
- Yaoi Fangirl: She gets very eager to pair up Akito and Akatsuki at some points. Even before that, she drew yaoi doujins of the Gekiganger crew.
Izumi Maki
Izumi Maki
Voiced by: Miki Nagasawa (Japanese), Tamara Lo (English), Belinda García (Latin-American Spanish, TV series), Patricia Quintero (Latin-American Spanish, Prince of Darkness movie)
The taller girl of Those Two Guys in Subaru's squad. She's a macabre Aesti pilot who can't help but make horrific puns and dark jokes...when of course, she's not teasing her captain.- Action Girl: As one of the Aesti pilots, although unlike Ryoko it doesn't totally define her.
- Broken Bird: Two dead boyfriends will do that to you.
- Cartwright Curse: See Broken Bird for further info.
- Cloudcuckoolander: And when you discover why she's this way, it becomes a lot less funny. Poor girl...
- Cold Sniper: She seems to be more proficient with ranged weapons.
- Death Seeker: In a moment where her dominant personality is swapped away, she tells an apparition of her dead boyfriend that she's finally ready to die and be with him again, and breaks into tears when he vanishes; begging him not to leave her alone again.
- Dreadful Musician: How she was able to make a living out of it after the series is a mystery.
- Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Her artstyle invokes this, with sharp features, narrow eyes, pale skin (only Ruri is as pale as her) and very dark blue hair which covers half her face. Her lack of visible eye bags and her looney personality is the only thing keeping her out of Looks Like Cesare territory.
- Incredibly Lame Pun: She's a master of these.
- Hypocritical Humor: When Tsukumo tells a dumb pun, she audibly groans and comments on how bad it is.
- Pungeon Master: And she's the only one who laughs at her jokes, In-Universe...
- Sad Clown: Her pun-related humor is a coping mechanism for having two boyfriends die on her.
- Stepford Snarker: Apparently, terrible puns are how she deals with the grief of losing two lovers. It's implied however that it really isn't working as well as she thinks it is.
Seiya Uribatake
Seiya Uribatake
Voiced by: Nobuo Tobita (Japanese), John Swasey (English), Claudio Romero (Latin-American Spanish, TV series), Gustavo Melgarejo (Latin-American Spanish, Prince of Darkness movie)
The Head Mechanic/Chief Engineer of the Nadesico's Aestivalis units.Previously working illegally out of his garage, he can definitely come across as a bit of a perverted Mad Scientist, but as a member of the Nadesico, he fulfills the vital role of keeping the Aestivalis from falling apart from their pilots' reckless use of them...while also happily improving them without Nergal knowing.
- Dirty Old Man: Played straight and subverted and played straight again. Part of the reason he came aboard was to get away from his wife and (theoretically) spread some wild oats. Later on, people think there's something going on between him and Hikaru. Then they find out that she's helping him build a diorama with 1/48 scale plastic Aestivalis models. Then Hikaru has to let him down easy when he does try to start a romantic relationship with her.
- And then subverted again later in the series when he makes a heartfelt promise to his wife that he'll return to her once the fighting ends.
- The Engineer: He's not just the lead Aestivalis mechanic, he's also the chief engineer. And he pulls off some feats that would make a certain Mr. Scott proud, like successfully adding the Y-Unit to the Nadesico in spite of it being meant for another ship with a very different electrical system.
- Mr. Fixit: If something breaks on the ship, Uribatake and his maintenance crew are the guys fixing it.
- Stolen Good, Returned Better: In one episode it appears that he's embezzling money from the Nergal budget. He technically is, but he's using it to build an advanced Super Prototype.
- Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys?: Justified; he makes most of the special gear used by the Nadesico by embezzling Nergal company funds, but they turn a blind eye to it as it means they get new equipment to use.
Inez Fressange
Inez Fressange
Voiced by: Naoko Matsui (Japanese), Heather Bryson (English), Patricia Mainou (Latin-American Spanish, TV series), Gaby Beltrán (Latin-American Spanish, Prince of Darkness movie)
The woman behind a good portion of the Nadesico's existence, and a damn good scientist.Inez is a survivor of the Jovian attack on the Martian colonies, found in the deserts of Mars. She joins the crew after their rescue of the Martian Colonies goes awry, serving as a scientist, doctor...and designated explainer.
- Chekhov's Gunman: Remember that adorable little girl that Akito gives an orange to in the first episode? well Inez is who she grew up to be. After one too many Time Travels. It's... complicated, okay?
- Emotionless Girl: While not as extreme of an example as Ruri, she lost all her memories at the age of eight, and says that this led her to feel completely disconnected from the world around her to the point where death has no meaning.
- Ms. Exposition: Lampshaded constantly. She even has a sixth sense for when something is about to be explained.
- In "Finding Yourself in a Routine Plot", she explains the enemy attack the Nadesico has just been hit with while the ship is in the process of crashing. And after it's crashed, while everyone else is pulling themselves off the floor, she's still talking without interruption.
- In "The Significant Other from a Star Far Away", someone simply saying the word explain causes a brief cutaway to her in another part of the ship, where she looks around confusedly while wondering what she's expected to explain... and it's implied that this is enough to make her arrive a few moments later.
- In the beauty / singing contest episode, her act is... an explanation of the science behind the attack that occurred in the middle of the contest. Since she's wearing a swimsuit, she describes it as "It leaves us as exposed as I am right now".
- In an episode where she is Not Herself she ignores a perfect opportunity to give exposition and instead stays in her quarters eating fruit.
- Lampshaded by Megumi when she's introduced:"Are you hooked on explaining and analyzing?"
- Omnidisciplinary Scientist: Although her main focus is unequivocally physics, at various points she also acts as a medical doctor and a psychiatrist.
Howmei
Head Chef Howmei
Voiced by: Miyuki Ichijou (Japanese), Marcy Rae (English), Elba Laddaga (Latin-American Spanish, TV series), Norma Iturbe (Latin-American Spanish, Prince of Darkness movie)
The Head Chef of the Nadesico. An experienced Ship's Cook, she runs arguably the tightest ship on the Nadesico; diligently serving meals for the crew with her hard-working staff.- Crazy-Prepared: She has over 300 different spices in the ships pantry. Her reason: she wants to make sure each crew member gets to eat exactly what they want, because nobody knows if it might be their last meal.
- Mentor: To Akito, at least where cooking is concerned.
- My Greatest Failure: She thought she was a good cook right up until she was asked by a dying crewmember to make him some Paella like his mother made; where not only did she realize she was really only good at making Chinese food, she didn't even have the ingredients to even make Paella. She tried her best, but she could only watch as the dish ultimately disappointed him, and he died before he could actually finish it. She took this as the pivotal moment to become a Supreme Chef that could cater to all palettes and cultures.
- Team Mom: She's ready to dispense advice and motherly concern, mostly for Akito.
- Supreme Chef: She has to be, if Akito were to become as good as her.
Admiral Jin Fukube
Admiral Jin Fukube
A United Earth Admiral who is a longtime veteran of the battle against the Jovians, having led one of the very first fleets against them.Fukube is an otherwise ancient, grandfatherly type who recognizes that he's mostly just a figurehead aboard the Nadesico, but makes up for it by being a capable and wise leader for the crew.
- A Father to His Men: Fukube is always willing to just sit and have a cup of coffee with his crew, and never once raises his voice to hold his crew accountable.
- Awesomeness by Analysis: He is the first to recognize that the Nadesico's distortion field will allow it to pass through a Chulip unharmed; allowing it ample time to recover out in space far away from anyone who could harm it.
- Authority in Name Only: Officially he outranks everybody aboard the Nadesico, but is more than aware that Nergal isn't taking any input on how the ship is run, and is hopelessly outgunned by a much younger and spryer crew.
- Cool Old Guy: In fact, he's Too Cool to Live, as his survivor's guilt ultimately overcomes him.
- Death Seeker: In his message to Akito, he reveals he planned on dying on Mars from the start.
- Heroic Sacrifice: He allows the Nadesico to escape the United Earth's fleet by use of a Chulip, fighting off his own people until the injured ship he was on was shot down.
- Deconstructed however, as previously mentioned, he planned to punch his ticket out of life on Mars due to his failure to protect the Martian colonists, and further, only Howmei and other senior staff seem to sympathize with his decision; Subaru, Minato, and Akito don't see what he did as heroic at all and in fact considers him a Dirty Coward for trying to make up for something he did decades ago when it was far too late. The only younger crew member who seems to care at all about his leaving the crew personally is Yurika, who laments that his experience is now lost to the crew.
- My Greatest Failure: He fought in the very first battle against the Jovians, where he was one of the first to shoot down one of the Chulips, but he ultimately abandoned ship and caused a Chulip to drop onto the Mars colonies, allowing his foe a near permanent foothold on the planet, and killing Tenkawa's parents. Fittingly, when Tenkawa confronts him about it, he never once defends himself.
Admiral Sadaki Munetake
Admiral Sadaki Munetake
Voiced by: Mitsuaki Madono (Japanese), John Gremillion (English)
A United Earth Admiral who takes his position after the death of Fukube.Munetake is the kind of person who let a lot of power get to his head quickly, and he will happily do whatever it takes to keep himself ahead of his competition. Of course...that may not be a good thing.
- But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Subverted. When Akito arranges an impromptu Summation Gathering in the dining hall (a table with just him, Munetake, and a relevant Gekiganger 3 episode playing in the background), Munetake literally doesn't remember for a few minutes, and even as a flashback of him actually holding the pistol that shot Gai plays, he keeps his cool and insists that the official report was the "one truth". However, the meeting clearly had an effect on him; at one point, he has his Heel Realization while sitting at the same table past the dining hall's closing time, with Gekiganger still playing.
- Driven to Suicide: The Reveal of the huge Government Conspiracy that was going on for at least a full century (and being held responsible for the Nadesico's crew discovering the secret) proves far too much for Munetake to handle, and this on top of his guilt over shooting Gai drives him over the edge. After realizing that he wouldn't be able to use Uribatake's X-Aestavalis prototype Ace Custom to save his career, he gives himself an IFS injection, making his mental state even worse. Delusional, he mistakes the Cosmos spacedock as an enemy ship, steals Uribatake's unstable X-Aestivalis protoype while singing the Gekiganger 3 theme, and kills himself by trying to fire its Gravity Blast cannon at the Cosmos alongside with a vision of Gai offering him forgiveness.
- My God, What Have I Done?: He was actually a much more moral, upright human being who believed in justice and doing the right thing when he was a child, but he became corrupted by his own ambition, and after The Reveal on the identity of the Jovian Lizards, he snaps when his guilt over the bastard he became and his horror that what he fought for was a massive lie.
- The Neidermeyer: Obnoxious, officious, and obstructive, nobody likes following his orders. In the Beach Episode, they happily leave him buried up to his neck in an incoming tide.
- Not So Above It All: A tragic variation. During his breakdown in his A Day in the Spotlight episode, he starts to remember that he used to watch shows like Gekiganger when he was a child — and actually believed in things like "justice" then. The Heel Realization from this doesn't help his mental state in any way.
- Sanity Slippage: His final moments have him talking to ghosts and attempting a "heroic" assault on what is actually a friendly target.
- We Have Reserves: When Minato points out that shooting the Nadesico's gravity blast will cause massive friendly casualties, his answer is pretty much an indifferent, "So what?"
Nagare Akatsuki
Voiced by: Ryōtarō Okiayu (Japanese), Jay Hickman (English), Raymundo Espinoza (Latin-American Spanish, TV series), Luis Alfonso Mendoza (Latin-American Spanish, Prince of Darkness movie)
A hot-shot Aestivalis pilot, as well as The Chairman of Nergal Heavy Industries.Nagare joins the ship shortly after their return to earth. He's a cocky, level-headed ace who seems to always be one step ahead of Akito, but very little is actually known about him until he betrays the crew.
- Bait the Dog: When he was first introduced, he looked like a quirky Big Brother Mentor who goes along with the Nadesico shenanigans like a Jerk with a Heart of Gold and even shares a troubled flashback with Akito and Izumi, where he shows himself to be under the pressure of living up to his own big brother's standards, greatly troubling him. An episode later, he's revealed to be Nergal's chairman and willingly betrays the Nadesico crew.
- The Casanova: Presents himself as quite suave, and hits on both Yurika and Minato though they don't return the affections.
- Grey-and-Grey Morality: That's pretty much his view of the world - there is no good and evil, everyone should fight for only themselves. Even in Super Robot Wars that are more charitable to him in the Prince of Darkness timeline (using Nergal to actually defeat the Martian Successors), he's still a steadfast believer in this, seeing terms like 'justice' and 'evil' actually arbitrary, unfair and only depending on whoever uses it.
- Handsome Lech: He constantly implies he's going to go after Yurika, though he seems to be doing it more to get under Akito and Erina's skin than anything else.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Believe it or not, he did make an honest stab at playing Big Brother Mentor to Akito [and it actually worked to some extent], and he does to some extent join in on the craziness of the Nadescio crew willingly. And in any case he reappears in the Prince of Darkness timeline in Super Robot Wars, more often than not, he's using his Nergal manpower to track down and defeat the Martian Successors and arrest Kusakabe, seeing them as too dangerous for his mindset.
- Karma Houdini: Somewhat. Nergal's power is greatly reduced after the end of the anime, in any event, which does count as a bit of a comeuppance.
- Pretty Boy: Lampshaded, since the Crystal-Ball Scheduling specifically compares him to a stereotypical mysterious Bishonen in Gekiganger 3.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: In regards to his deceased older brother.
Erina Kinjo Won
Voiced by: Yuko Nagashima (Japanese), Emily Carter (English), Jenny Burelo (Latin-American Spanish, TV series), Irene Jiménez (Latin-American Spanish, Prince of Darkness movie)
The Secretary to the Chairman of Nergal, who joins the crew shortly after their return to Earth via an unconventional Boson jump.Erina is sharp as a tack and exceptionally haughty. When Mr. Prospector takes a backseat as more of a supporting member of the crew, Erina steps in to be the companie's liason aboard the Nadesico, only this time she has a very specific goal in mind after watching some of the archived security footage aboard the ship...
- Break the Haughty: When things start going wrong for her, she really doesn't take it well.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Her lecture to Yurika about balancing her personal desires with her responsibilities as captain is extremely harsh, and she's overlooking some of Yurika's Genius attributes, but anyone who watched Yurika's behavior over the thirteen episodes leading up to it is likely to concede that she has a point.
- Love Hurts: It's implied she knew and had feelings for Akito's father, which might explain why she's so snappy around him.
- Smug Snake: Never quite reaches her boss Akatsuki's levels of brilliance, and comes across more as an annoying, self-important bitch who cares for nothing but herself.
Jovian Federation / Martian Successors
In General - SPOILERS
The Jovian Federation is not an invading force of robotic alien "lizards", not by a long shot.
- Ascended Fanboy: The concept of fanboyism taken to its logical conclusion: an entire society that bases its entire code of ethics around a centuries old Super Robot show.
- Authority Equals Asskicking: In order to become a captain in the Jovian military, you need to become an Ace Pilot and know the capabilities of your ship backwards and forwards; misguided as they are, you have to earn your place of command.
- Cargo Cult: For Gekiganger 3 as a matter of policy.
- Flash Step: Their larger robots can perform localized Boson Jumps to make up for their lack of speed. One uses it to kill Akito's replacement on the Nadesico near instantly with one.
- Foreshadowing: If you're paying attention, you'll notice that sometimes the monsters/enemy robots in the Gekiganger scenes slightly resemble Jovian robots. By Episode 13, a facsimile of the titular robot attacks on earth.
- Men Are the Expendable Gender: There are no women in their military whatsoever due to their "unique" understanding of gender, and the Earth's co-ed military seems absolutely backwards and savage to them.
- Perspective Flip: Their reading of Gekiganger 3, heartbreakingly. While the crew of the Nadesico take away that the overall lesson of the show is that "everyone should work together to bring about justice and peace", the Jovians long ago took the lesson of "Evil must always be defeated, and anyone who is your enemy must be evil.", leading to the peace talks collapsing and the war continuing.
- Stay in the Kitchen: A more saccharine variant than anything violent: They believe that women are to be treasured and protected like delicate flowers because that's how the heroes of Gekiganger 3 treated them, and how the show treated its female characters.
- The Reveal: That they're all actually humans.
- Teleportation with Drawbacks: Surprisingly few, as they've mastered Boson jumping to a near art. However, because of the sheer number of Boson particles created by doing this, they can be tracked pretty easily, allowing an enemy to catch them just after they jump. Subaru even points out that once you figure out how they time it, it doesn't seem that special.
- Zeerust: By earth standards; since they modelled their entire society off of Gekiganger, most Jovians wear antiquated clothes and pilot suits based on what they saw on the show, which would've been futuristic...around the time Gekiganger came out.
Tsukumo Shiratori
Voiced by: Tomokazu Seki (Japanese), Brett Weaver (English), Mauricio Valverde (Latin-American Spanish, TV series)
The first Jovian the crew actually meets in-person.A proud soldier of the Jovian empire, Shiratori gets caught in the middle of trying to attack Earth and has to sneak around on the Nadesico. But when he does...he finds that he actually has more in common with the Earth people than he initially believes.
- Anime Hair: Invoked deliberately in-setting, since he's styling himself after an anime character.
- Ascended Fanboy: Like all Jovians.
- Dating Catwoman: He ends up growing fond of Minato.
- Hidden Depths: While a proud soldier of the Jovians...he's just as much a massive fan of Gekiganger 3 as Gai, and honestly a massive dork.
- Hot Blooded Sideburns: Invoked deliberately in-setting, since he's styling himself after an anime character.
- Identical Stranger: Somewhat justified in that he and the character he resembles are effectively styling themselves after the main character of Gekiganger 3.
- Sacrificial Lion: His death being shot by his own best friend shows that peace with the Jovians isn't as easy as people had hoped.
Yukina Shiratori
Voiced by: Ikue Otani (Japanese), Hilary Haag (English), Mireya Mendoza (Latin-American Spanish, TV series), Cristina Hernández (Latin-American Spanish, Prince of Darkness movie)
Tsukumo's little sister, who becomes enraged at her brother for fraternizing with an earth woman, and offers to infiltrate the Nadesico in order to get back at them.- Annoying Younger Sibling: To Tsukumo, to the point of trying to kill his girlfriend because she believes he's been "bewitched".
- Break the Cutie: Poor girl, Her brother's death doesn't hit her as hard as it does Minato, but still, ouch.
- Girlish Pigtails: She's styling herself after a character in 'Gekiganger, after all.
- Happily Adopted: Minato adopts her after her brother's death.
- Heel–Face Turn: Although she was always a bit of a Minion with an F in Evil, she begins to change sides almost as soon as she talks to Minato, and switches sides completely when her brother is killed.
- Minion with an F in Evil: She tries to sneak onto the Nadesico in order to kill Minato, who she believes bewitched her brother. Hilarity Ensues.
- Even funnier, when the crew first learns that the Jovians are human, there's serious concern that they could infiltrate the Nadesico simply by showing up in normal Nadesico uniform. The one actual Jovian that tries this is so comically bad at it (and is also around Ruri's age) they give her near free reign of the ship because she's just as goofy as the rest of the cast.
- With Catlike Tread: "Sneak, sneak, sneak."
Genichiro Tsukiyomi
Voiced by: Toshiyuki Morikawa (Japanese), Jason Douglas (English), Alan Miró (Latin-American Spanish, TV series), Roberto Mendiola (Latin-American Spanish, Prince of Darkness movie)
Tsukumo's best friend and confidant in the Jovian military.- Anime Hair: Long and possibly blue (or stylized black), just like Joe's from Gekiganger 3.
- Ascended Fanboy: As with most Jovians, he styles himself after one of the Gekiganger characters, and gets to pilot a Daimajin mech in battle.
- The Atoner: In the movie, he joins up with Nergal and the joint peacekeeping forces of Earth and Jupiter to make up for what he did to his best friend in the series.
- Fantastic Racism: He doesn't have the highest opinions of Earthlings. He even fatally shoots his own best friend, Tsukumo, for thinking of making peace with them.
- Knight Templar: He thinks all Earthlings are evil and even shoots his best friend Tsukumo in order to prevent peace talks.
Saburota Takasugi
Jovian Executive Officer Saburota Takasugi
Voiced by: Shin-ichiro Miki (Japanese), Chris Patton (English), Irwin Daayán (Latin-American Spanish, Prince of Darkness movie)
Saburota in the show.
Saburota in Prince of Darkness and all subsequent works
Another Jovian soldier. He's most known as an executive officer of an experimental Jovian warship during the show, who pulls an extremely risky series of Boson Jumps in order to save his crew.In The Prince of Darkness, he sees his role massively expand, as he's integrated well into the new society, and works on the Nadesico-B as a bodyguard for Ruri, and as an Aestivalis pilot.
- Ace Custom: His mecha in the movie and in the games, referred to as the "Super Aestivalis". In the show, he also pilots an enemy mech that isn't seen again after his episode.
- Ascended Extra: In the show, he was just a Jovian pilot who pulled a Leeroy Jenkins trying to defend his crew after their experimental Boson Cannon was thwarted by Yurika, and ended up with a more substantial role in Prince of Darkness as one of Ruri's bodyguards.
- Expository Hairstyle Change: He goes from a typical Jovian haircut trying to emulate Gekiganger characters to long, bleach-blond hair with a red stripe in it by the movie.
- Handsome Lech: He knows he's hot and is an obvious womanizer, the difference is that unlike most of the Nadesico's male crew, he's actually very successful with women.
- Heel–Face Turn: Appears as a Jovian officer in an episode of the series, but is part of the Nadesico B's crew in The Movie.
- My Species Doth Protest Too Much: He's Jovian, but by the movie he's taken to life in the UE so well you'd never know.
- Ship Tease: Saburota and Subaru are something that Hikaru and Izumi almost immediately jump on when they all make the same joke, much to Subaru's shagrin.
Haruki Kusakabe
Voiced by: Kunihiko Yasui (Japanese), Andy McAvin (English), Martio Hernández (Latin-American Spanish, TV series), Alejandro Illescas (Latin-American Spanish, Prince of Darkness movie)
The leader of the Jovian Lizards, and one of the biggest believers in Jovian (later Martian) supremacy.- Arch-Enemy: Towards Akito Tenkawa, Yurika Misumaru, Ruri Hoshino and the entire Nadesico crew as a whole.
- Big Bad: He’s the leader of the Jovians, and leads the war against Earth.
- Glorious Leader: Always giving some sort of speech in regards to how the Earthlings are evil and the Jovians deserve to rule the solar system.
- Hate Sink: Probably the worst in the series, due to his Knight Templar attitude towards Earth.
- Karma Houdini: Despite all of the wrongdoings he has caused, Haruki gets off scot-free. Until the Movie sort-off.
- Karma Houdini Warranty: It has been a tradition in adaptations of Nadesico elsewhere (most prominently Super Robot Wars series that featured Nadesico) that he does not get off scot-free. Pick your poison: Drained off his resources to the point he couldn't fund the movie plot anymore, just straight up kill him (or have some other bad guy do the job) or getting his plans in the movie wrecked anyway and then arrested for good.
- Knight Templar: Believes the Jovians are the righteous heroes, and that the Earth government is an evil empire in need of smiting. When he delivers what's supposed to be the terms of negotiation for peace, turns out he'll only accept absolute surrender and submission, nothing less.
- Manipulative Bastard
- Pet the Dog: Despite all the crap he pulled during the series, when he's arrested at the climax of the movie he requests that his men's lives are spared.
Aritomo Shinjo
Introduced in the Prince of Darkness movie, Shinjo works for the Martian successors as its leading scientist, trying to get the most out of the ruins...Ruins that Akito and Yurika have a connection to.
- For Science!: Feeding Yurika shojou manga imagery to get boson jump accuracy up is toying with her emotions, but this guy doesn't care.
- Mad Scientist: The one responsible for the experiments on both Yurika and Akito prior to the movie.
Hokushin
Voiced by: Kōichi Yamadera (Japanese), Mike MacRae (English)
Introduced in the Prince of Darkness movie, Hokushin is a cruel pilot for the Martina Successors who commands his own special squadron of mechs, and seems to have a personal history with Akito...- The Dragon: To Kusakabe in the movie.
- Humanoid Abomination: Between his strange eye and his ability to boson jump, he's probably been experimented on at least as much as Akito.
- Troll: He is a Sadist that constantly goads Akito into giving in to rage against him as it's implied that he's The Heavy that does all of Kusakabe's orders to turn Akito and Yurika into the way they are (minus the science ones, that's for Shinjo) and constantly expresses that he gets off in seeing Akito plunge more and more into despair.
