The characters of Muv-Luv Extra, with later additions from Muv-Luv Altered Fable.
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Introduced in Muv-Luv Extra
Takeru Shirogane
Voiced by: Soichiro Hoshi
The protagonist of Muv-Luv Extra, Unlimited, and Alternative, he also happens to be good looking and a nice guy, so he ends up fairly popular with girls. Not that he ever notices.
- Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Sumika.
- Birds of a Feather: He is similar with Sumika in various ways: They like to hit and make fun of each other, they are rather ditzy and sometimes hot-blooded when it comes to their favorite hobbies.
- Brilliant, but Lazy: Takeru is generally talented both academically and physically, but tends to be rather lazy.
- Brutal Honesty: Part of the reason his friends find him reliable, even though he can came out as blunt at times.
- Butt-Monkey: Especially when Meiya, Ayamine or Yuuko is concerned.
- Chick Magnet: So much that Yuuko calls him a "Love Nucleus".
- Clueless Chick-Magnet: To Meiya and Sumika. Downplayed with the other girls.
- Childhood Friend Romance: Potentially with Sumika.
- Childhood Marriage Promise: He made one with Meiya, but he had forgotten about it.
- Determinator: He can go to extreme lengths to helps his circle of friends.
- First-Person Smartass: Not that he's above saying it out-loud.
- Forgotten First Meeting: During the events of Extra, he keeps making dreams of his childhood with Sumika. Some of them are actually from his early days with Meiya and his Childhood Marriage Promise with her.
- The Heart: He is this for the female cast.
- Hot-Blooded: Once he is on something, he gets pretty passionate about it.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He has a rather vicious sense of humor, especially when Sumika's concerned, but his circle of friends find him reliable and trustworthy.
- Like Brother and Sister: With Sumika. In fact, his "Like Brother and Sister" is how he personally describes the relationship of "Childhood Friends." This changes when he starts seeing her as a woman in her or Meiya's route.
- The Nicknamer: Abbreviates Tamase "Tama" and hardly ever calls Chizuru anything other than "Class Rep."
- Only Sane Man: While every other character have a exaggerated character trait, he seems pretty normal. It helps him in the Lacrosse tournament, where he pinpoints the various flaws of the team.
- Ordinary High-School Student: Obviously.
- Quit Your Whining: Best demonstrated during the lacrosse match. In general, he is prone to these when someone gets depressed with personal issues.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gives one to the lacrosse team. They get better afterwards.
- Smarter Than You Look: His lazy-dope attitude led the Three Idiots to think he was a complete moron until they saw his excellent test scores.
- Suddenly Voiced: Takeru only has a voice during flashbacks.
- Yuri Fan: He has image spots of both Chizuru/Ayamine and Marimo/Yuuko.
Sumika Kagami
Voiced by: Hiroko Taguchi
Sumika is Takeru's childhood friend. She's very obviously in love with him from the start, but since he's dense he has yet to catch on. Sumika and Takeru tend to have a fairly abusive friendship.
- Affectionate Nickname: "Takeru-chan." You'd normally drop the chan honorifics from a boy as they grow up, but she keeps it as a sign of their history together.
- Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Takeru.
- Birds of a Feather: She shares many quirks with Takeru, explaining why they are so much at each other's throats.
- Calling Your Attacks: "Drill Milky Punch!!!", upgraded in Altered Fable to "Drill Milky Phantom!!!"
- Clingy Jealous Girl: If Takeru so much as looks at another girl, Sumika gets...violent.
- Coy, Girlish Flirt Pose: As part of her Girl Next Door personality.
- Everyone Can See It: Everyone can tell she's head-over-heels in love with Takeru...except Takeru himself, naturally.
- Expressive Hair: Handy for all sorts of interpretations!
- Girl Next Door: Her childhood friend and neighbour since they were children.
- Green-Eyed Epiphany: While she's been blatantly in love with Takeru her entire life, it was only when Meiya threatened to take him away that she finally admitted it to herself.
- Hair Intakes: She has a rather impressive pair of intakes that look like cat ears.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Once it's clear Takeru's fallen in love with someone else she encourages him to figure out his feelings even though it's obviously tearing her up inside. Subverted; her deepest, subconscious wish when this happens ("If only we could go back to that day...") ends up resonating with a wish made in another universe, damning Takeru to the hell of the BETA world until he finally picks her there.
- Idiot Hair: She has a particularly expressive one.
- Image Song: Divergence
, which is also the all-ages Extra OP. - Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She and Takeru may fight a lot, but Sumika is a massive sweetheart otherwise.
- Patient Childhood Love Interest: She's been in love with Takeru her whole life, but was fine not messing with the status-quo until Meiya arrived.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Red to Meiya's blue.
- Romantic Runner-Up: Played straight in Meiya's route, where Takeru won't choose Meiya over her until the very last second; Downplayed in all the others (though its more noticeable in Sakaki's route) and obviously averted in her own.
- Satellite Love Interest: This is literally her entire gimmick; she really, REALLY likes Takeru. She even admits in the climax of her Extra route that she doesn't have what the other heroines (especially Meiya) have going for them (even Takeru is smarter than her!); her antics are just an act to make her more endearing.
- Tsundere: Type B.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: See the spoilered entry under I Want My Beloved to Be Happy.
Meiya Mitsurugi
Voiced by: Kazumi Okushima
A strange girl who simply moves in one day, Meiya is the heir of the Mitsurugi Group. She is highly talented at essentially anything she does, but appears rather socially clueless. For reasons unknown to Takeru, she has apparently decided she is going to marry him.
- Alliterative Name: Meiya Mitsurugi.
- Antiquated Linguistics: It's not very noticeable in the English translation, but she actually likes to use all sorts of archaic Japanese samurai-like expressions, her favorite being "yurusu ga yoi" ("please forgive me"), which would be "yurushite kudasai" in modern Japanese.
- Badass Adorable: The girl can cleave metal with a lacrosse stick!
- Bedmate Reveal: She first appears when she suddenly appears in Takeru's bed one morning, to his confusion and Sumika's great dismay.
- Born in the Wrong Century: With her mannerisms it seems like she'd have been better off living about two centuries back or so.
- Expy: According to
Word of God, She has the hairstyle of a certain nuke-equipped Gundam, with a personality modeled on that of Lafiel from Banner of the Stars. - First-Name Basis: She quickly pushes Takeru into one since that's how they referred to each other as kids.
- Forgotten First Meeting: Takeru met Meiya when they were kids and they made a Childhood Marriage Promise; one day they would get married during the last visit she would make to the park in Hiiragi, before she was slated to be adopted out.
- Grade Skipper: She's already graduated college.
- Hair Intakes: Her hairstyle includes a pair of intakes that look like cat ears.
- Image Song: -sion- ("The Sound of Purple"). Also serves as the OP of all-ages Unlimited.
- Leitmotif: The eponymous Meiya(though its only used in Alternative).
- Lethal Chef: Meiya's attempts at making rice balls result in three days of nonstop explosions in the kitchen. The end result is a small, charred lump.
- New Transfer Student: She transfers in just to see Takeru.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Blue to Sumika's red.
- Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense: She can buy entire neighborhoods but can't buy a train ticket.
- Romantic Runner-Up: Played straight in Sumika's route, where Takeru won't choose Sumika over her until the very last second - and in the end both characters agree that Meiya's presence helped them realize their feelings for each other; Downplayed in all the others (though it's more noticeable in Ayamine's route) and obviously averted in her own.
- Samurai Ponytail: While Meiya isn't really a samurai or anything, she certainly seems to act like one.
- Sugar-and-Ice Personality: He polite formality becomes distant and chilly when upset.
- Troubled Fetal Position: She ends up in this after her Lethal Chef moment.
- Weight Woe: Calling her heavy is pretty much the only thing that bothers her.
Miki Tamase
Voiced by: Minami Hokuto
Miki is a small, friendly girl in Takeru's class. She gets along well with others, but gets nervous easily and dislikes confrontation. She bears a strong resemblance to a cat, so Takeru usually calls her Tama based both on her family name and a common cat name in Japan.
- A-Cup Angst: Downplayed, but she doesn't think her physique could be considered appealing until Takeru's h-scene.
- Animal Motif: Cats. She even wears a cat tail and a bell along with having her hair look like cat ears.
- Anime Hair: Her hairstyle looks like a pair of cat ears.
- Big Ol' Unibrow: Gains one when she gets angry or surprised.
- Crash-Into Hello: Her very first appearance is this.
- Girlish Pigtails: She's already the girliest and most childish member of the cast, with the hairstyle to boot.
- Hair Intakes: She has a pair of intakes that resemble cat ears, along with her rare cat ears hairstyle.
- Heir to the Dojo: She's set to inherent her father's archery dojo.
- Kind Hearted Cat Lover: She's a sweetheart who has dozens of cats in her dojo.
- Pacifist: Doesn't like conflict between her friends and sometimes tries to butt in.
- Third-Person Person: Lapses into this during emotional moments.
- Token Mini-Moe: She doesn't look or act like she belongs in high school.
- Performance Anxiety: Actually a very skilled and accurate archer, but completely loses her cool when she realizes her friends are watching her.
- Rose-Haired Sweetie: She has pink hair and she's very cute and cheerful.
Kei Ayamine
Voiced by: Yuko Nagashima
A strong but weird girl in Takeru's class, Ayamine seems to enjoy messing with others. She tends to be very unemotive and butts heads with Sakaki frequently due to their clashing personalities.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: Takeru's surprised to learn she's the jealous type. She doesn't even like him thinking about other girls platonically while they're together.
- The Gadfly: She really, really likes to mess with people. Particularly people with the last names of Shirogane and Sakaki.
- Idiot Hair: Not as prominent as Sumika's, but it ties in with her gadfly attitude.
- Image Song: Astraea, which is also used in her ending in all-ages Extra.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She can be distant, trolling, and aloof, but she does care about her friends, she's just bad at showing it.
- Painting the Medium: At one point, Takeru tells her not to appear so suddenly. After a short pause, she agrees and enters the scene again, but this time her character sprite only shows up slowly. Who knows what this looked like from Takeru's perspective.
- Rebellious Spirit: Especially if Sakaki is involved.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Red to Sakaki's Blue.
- Rei Ayanami Expy: Short hair, purple eyes, potential love interest, cold and aloof, yet weird personality and a name that closely resembles to the original's. The one thing that sets her apart from most examples is her tendency to mess with people.
- Sugar-and-Ice Personality: She's aloof but she does care.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Yakisoba bread.
- Used to Be More Social: She was apparently much more extroverted before her mother lost her job.
Mikoto Yoroi
Voiced by: Reiko Takagi (Akane Maniax OVA), Megumi Kubota (all other appearances)
Takeru's only apparent male friend, Mikoto is as much of a fan of the arcade game Valgern-On as Takeru. He looks quite girly and rarely pays much attention to others.
- Ambiguous Gender: He's referred to as a boy in Extra, yet suspiciously used a Modesty Towel during the group's stay in the hot springs. Several lines in Alternative by Mikoto's father seem to support the hypothesis that Mikoto was a girl even in Extra.
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Good luck keeping him on a topic for more than five minutes.
- Attractive Bent-Gender: One particular scene has Mikoto replacing a team member in the Women's Lacrosse team and wearing their uniform, prompting Meiya to ask why it looks so good on him.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Mikoto is a rather odd character. He never seems to pay attention to what people are saying.
- Even the Guys Want Him: He apparently receives entire lockers' worth of love letters from both male and female students on a regular basis.
- Gender-Blender Name: "Mikoto" can be a male or female name depending on the kanji used. In Extra, it's rendered as a masculine name (as she was raised by her father as the son he'd never had), while in Unlimited and Alternative, it's rendered as a feminine name.
- Hair Antennae: He's got two.
Chizuru Sakaki
Voiced by: Masayo Kurata
Sakaki is the class representative of Takeru's class. She's very fussy and a stickler for rules, though she's also surprisingly competitive. She tends to get into fights with Ayamine due to their similar personalities.
She is best friends with Akane Suzumiya, the class representative of 3-D.
- Big Ol' Eyebrows: They're noticeably thicker and darker than everyone else's.
- Braids of Action: As the captain of the lacrosse team, she has these.
- Class Representative: With a stern attitude to boot.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Her route takes a sharp turn towards the end with the revelation that her mother was a glorified prostitute who turned a blind eye if clients took an interest in young Chizuru.
- Daughter of a Whore: Her mother is a prostitute with less-than-reputable clientele. It's the source of most of Chizuru's issues.
- Don't You Dare Pity Me!: She has a lot of trouble accepting sympathy and support. In Extra, it's because she fears it makes her like her mother, who she doesn't get along with.
- Friendly Rivalry: With Akane.
- Image Song: Kizu wa Kaseki ni Narenai Keredo ("Won't Let My Wounds Scar"), which plays in her all-ages Extra end.
- Like Mother, Unlike Daughter: She intentionally became strict and serious to contrast her mother's unreliable and easy-going personality.
- Marth Debuted in "Smash Bros.": She appears onscreen way ahead of the rest of cast of Extra, with a cameo in the Rumbling Hearts anime, and a greater role in the ~Next Season~ OVA as Akane's confidante.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Blue to Ayamine's Red.
- Scary Shiny Glasses: When she's angry.
- Troubled Fetal Position: Shirogane finds her in the locker room like this after the lacrosse match.
- Tsundere: Type A. In her route Takeru calls her out on it and tells her to drop the act, something which is extremely rare in anime and related media.
Haruko Kashiwagi
Hakuryo High School Staff
Marimo Jinguuji
Voiced by: Miki Inoue
- "When you get to the point where you can laugh at your mistakes, you'll find new things to replace what you lost."
Takeru and company's homeroom teacher in Extra, who has difficulty holding onto her boyfriends, something for which she is endlessly teased by her old friend and fellow teacher Yuuko.
- Childhood Friends: With Yuuko. In Chizuru's route, the school principal makes a remark about how the two of them were taught by him in their own high school days, and then came back to give him grief as teachers later on.
- Hair Intakes: The two "cat ears" in her hair.
- Image Song: Calling, which serves double duty as the ED of Muv-Luv Alternative Chronicles sidestories.
- In-Series Nickname: "Mad Dog" in both worlds, though the reason differs: In Extra it's due to her insatiable... "appetite" (especially when drunk).
- Mrs. Robinson: Yuuko claims she Marimo likes her men on the younger side. While she's not the most reliable source, Marimo does have a miniroute of her own.
- Sensei-chan: Takeru has gotten into the habit of calling her Marimo-chan, much to her exasperation.
- Teacher/Student Romance: Yuuko teases her endlessly about Shirogane especially when they're both present, though Shirogane doesn't take it seriously. In Extra, she has a very short miniroute, but it has little to do with romance since they're both very drunk.
Yuuko Kouzuki
Voiced by: Emi Motoi
Marimo's best friend as well as a surprisingly renowned physicist, Yuuko is a genius and a nutcase. Occasionally, she interrupts her class to start lecturing about her work, which none of the class has the slightest chance of understanding.
- Armor-Piercing Question: Her main way to convince someone to do her bidding.
- Badass Driver: She's actually a pretty damn good driver, and actually managed to keep up with Takahashi... for a short while.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: She has a... unique idea of proper attire for a school teacher and is constantly messing with both students and her best friend, Marimo.
- The Chessmaster: Make the entire school dancing into the palm of her hand.
- Cosplay Otaku Girl: She likes forcing Marimo into various costumes, such as Morrigannote , a reindeer, and in the Muv-Luv Alternative manga adaptation as a bit of foreshadowing,Tomoe Mami .
- Ditzy Genius: Very intelligent in physics but lacks of common sense.
- Eccentric Mentor: While being a good teacher, she likes to create events and experiments involving the students and the teachers, often by manipulating them.
- Heroic Comedic Sociopath: Has more than a streak of this in Extra, if the cavalier notions of nearly running over Sumika in the beginning are any indication.
- Ms. Exposition: When given the opportunity, she will immediately going into a lecture of her "Quantum Causality Theory".
- Nerves of Steel: Played for Laughs. When she is held at knifepoint by Tsukuyomi, Meiya assumes she have some stern nerves due to how she never even flinched. Nope, turns out she just fainted standing up.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: She gets away with most of her antics by blackmailing anyone who'd oppose her.
- Sexposition: Downplayed. One of her lectures about the "Quantum Causality Theory" is provided with a CG emphasizing her chest.
- Shipper on Deck: In Extra, she's quite fond of teasing Marimo about liking younger guys, especially Shirogane. In fact, she delights just as much in stirring up trouble with the rest of Takeru's circle of female friends for similar reasons.
- Shout-Out: Makes one to the Initial D series when racing against Ichimonji Takahashi.
- Smug Smiler: She's always seen smiling this way, except at rare times when she's angry.
- Stripperiffic: As a teacher, she wears a top that leaves her entire midriff exposed and is basically a fishnet covering for her breasts. She gets away with this because everyone is a little scared of her.
Servants of the Mitsurugi Group
Mana Tsukuyomi
Tsukuyomi is Meiya's personal attendant and highly qualified at a number of tasks. She's quite devoted to Meiya and seems to act like a big sister. Normally, she acts quite refined and friendly, but when irritated she'll begin to speak quite crassly, hinting that she might really be fairly violent.- Beware the Nice Ones: Tsukuyomi is a gentle, refined, friendly and kind woman. When she is pissed off, her wrath is a fearful thing to behold.
- Has a Type: And Mikoto is apparently it.
- Meido: How she initially presents herself.
- Ninja Maid: Played absolutely straight in Extra, to the point of being able to appear and disappear ninja-style.
- Shipper on Deck: She'll do just about anything to get Takeru and Meiya together, including giving seduction advice and trying to keep Sumika out of the house.
- Undying Loyalty: To Meiya rather than the Mitsurugi house. She's even willing to defy direct orders if she thinks it'll bring Meiya happiness.
Takahashi Ichimonji
Voiced by: Takehito Koyasu
Takahashi is Meiya's personal driver.
- Badass Driver: Somehow, he can drive around a sixty-meter long limo in a crowded neighborhood.
- Captain Ersatz: He's a living tribute to Initial D and its protagonist (in looks), though in personality he's a lot closer to Ryousuke Takahashi, is developing the Theory of Maximum Street Velocity, and shares voice actors.
- Leitmotif: Theory for a Speedy Welcome and Farewell. Which is essentially a remix of "Night of Fire", an Eurobeat song that is strongly associated with the Akagi RedSuns that Takahashi led in Initial D.
- Loophole Abuse: Uses one to get Takeru to Meiya's wedding so he can break it up: He was told to take back Tsukuyomi and the three idiots to the wedding, but wasn't told to prevent Takeru from going with them.
Minagi Ebisu, Tatsumi Kamiyo and Yukino Tomoe
Meiya's maids under the supervision of Mana. Known as the "Three Idiots", they tend to make numerous mistakes, blame others for those mistakes and then insult them.
- Anime Hair: How does Tomoe walk through doors with those side spikes?
- Insane Troll Logic: Actively employ this on numerous occasions in Extra in various attempts to either insult Takeru or get out of doing work for him. Unfortunately for them, Tsukuyomi doesn't buy it.
- Meido: Their job. They're not quite as good at it as Mana is.
- Shipper on Deck: Like Mana, they're actively trying to get Takeru and Meiya together. They're just much worse at it than Mana is.
- Those Two Girls: Exaggerated. These three girls are never seen apart and they're side characters.
- The Triple: While Kamiyo and Tomoe will usually say something similar, Ebisu usually takes whatever they say much further.
Relatives and friends
Akane Suzumiya
Voiced by: Kaori Mizuhashi
Originally a heroine from Rumbling Hearts, Akane is the Class Representative of Class 3-D, a talented swimmer and the best friend of Chizuru, with whom she has a friendly rivalry.
- The Ace: In addition to being a the top student of her class and a talented swimmer, she masters lacrosse in just a couple of weeks, in time for the school festival.
- Bait-and-Switch: She's initially set up as a fierce rival and possible enemy to Chizuru, but the two are actually close friends.
- Friendly Rivalry: With Chizuru.
- Gut Punch: Chizuru's and Ayamine's Extra routes take a turn into heavy drama when she gets accidentally injured in the final lacrosse match.
Genjyousai Tamase
Voiced by: Tetsu Inada
Miki's father.
- Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: He's incredibly loud and overly affectionate.
- Berserk Button: Don't call him "pops" or anything even remotely similar.
- Friendly Rivalry: His rivalry with the Amanohara's is actually this.
- Large Ham: He's almost always yelling.
- Last-Name Basis: He calls Miki "Tama," to Takeru's incredible confusion.
Naoya Sagiri
Voiced by: Takehito Koyasu
Sagiri is a talented local doctor, only seen in Ayamine's route. He used to board with the Ayamine family until one day he made a mistake at the hospital and Ayamine's mother took the blame for the error, resulting in the loss of her job. He and Ayamine used to have a sort of relationship, but he ended up marrying the hospital director's daughter in order to improve his career. In Ayamine's route, he claims he is willing to give it up in order to be with her.
- The Atoner: Feels very guilty and ashamed of the effect his mistakes had on Ayamine and her family. Part of the reason he goes after Ayamine again is so that he can redeem himself.
- The Ditherer: Takeru's main problem with him. As much as he wants to atone to Ayamine he spent years not even trying to make it up to her until Takeru basically pushed them both together.
- Everything but the Girl: He became a respected doctor married into a predominant family, but it cost him his chance at Kei.
- Exposition Fairy: In Extra, one of his primarily roles is to explain Ayamine's entire backstory to Takeru.
- Love Triangle: Between him, Takeru and Ayamine in her route.
Introducted in Altered Fable
Yuuhi Koubuin
Kasumi Yashiro
Hakuryo Exchange Program
Alfred Walken
Irina Pyatkh
Irma Thesleff
Paul Radhabinod
Side characters and family
