Characters / NG Knight Lamune & 40

Baba Lamune

Voiced by: Takeshi Kusao (Japanese); Ariadna Jiménez (child, European Spanish); Carlos Lladó (adult, European Spanish)

• Bittersweet 17: Fire revealed that the legendary Hero could only be the Hero until they were 18, when Lamunade, the third of the Lamuness line, asks Parfait and Cacao why they couldn't ask the second Hero for help. On the bright side, he and Milk became Happily Married, and he was badass enough to become his son's Mysterious Protector. (Although the anime has a twist where 'Akakaze' and 'Momokaze' were summoned by Organ Symphony literally seconds before Lamune turned 18, in order to protect their Kid from the Future)
• Catchphrase: "Ore wa mouretsu ni nekketsu shiteru!" ("Right now, my blood is totally blazing!" in the Discotek official translation.)
  • Mad Libs Catch Phrase: More generally, he'll say variations along the lines of "Ore wa mouretsu ni [X] shiteru!" ("Right now, {I'm/My [Y]} is totally [X]!"
• Large Ham: Both him & Milk are even hammier in VS Knight than they were in the original series. And considering he almost always takes the chance to Fist Pump when saying his catchphrase, that's nothing to take lightly.
• Legacy Character: VS Knight and the Fresh OVA both have past and future heroes in the same lineage as major plot points. Well, really, this trope can apply to the entire main cast.
• Hot-Blooded: He's very excitable. He even has a meter on his hero costume to measure how hot-blooded he is right now In-Universe — and he can't use some of King Squasher's special attacks like the Samulion mode until it reaches the redline.
• Idiot Hero: For example — in the first episode, he panics when he can't fit his hand on the console locking the way to the "secret weapon" (Tama-Q) - until Milk points out that he was supposed to put his left hand there instead of his right.
• I Know Mortal Kombat: Milk took him to Harahara World because he beat the "King Squasher" game she was trying to sell; sure enough, he knew how to use the real King Squasher almost immediately.
• KidAnova: Like the first opening theme promises, he's a sucker for a pretty face. Thanks to The Dulcinea Effect, he's able to channel this toward solving the problems of the Girl of the Week in the Adventure Towns he visits. Unfortunately, Lesqua has been able to exploit this more than once.
• Most Gamers Are Male: Though he was 10 in the first series.
• Mysterious Protector: VS Knight has Lamune and Milk assume the guises of "Akakaze (Red Wind)" and "Momokaze (Pink Wind)" to protect their son, Lamunade.
• Sickeningly Sweethearts: He and Milk have turned into these in VS Knight.
• Taken for Granite: This happens to him, Milk, and her sisters in the anime version of VS Knight after using a Combined Energy Attack to imprison the revived Abram (Black Lamuness). Thankfully, he didn't stay that way.

Arara Milk

Voiced by: Chisa Yokoyama (Japanese); Rosa Moyano (European Spanish)

• A-Cup Angst: In episode 15, she proclaims that she wants bigger tits, but she's only 10 years old... Seems like she got her wish in ''VS Knight''.

• Big Eater: Eating is really the only thing she has on her mind.
• Catchphrase: "Gratzie, Gratzie" after she's had a good meal.
• Expressive Hair: Whenever she gets pissed, her hair spontaneously rises up on its own to illustrate her fury. It's more noticeable in the earlier episodes though.
• Fiery Redhead: Oh so very much; especially when she's frustrated with Lamune or Cocoa.

• Little Miss Snarker: Especially to Cocoa.
• Mysterious Protector: VS Knight has Lamune and Milk assume the guises of "Akakaze (Red Wind)" and "Momokaze (Pink Wind)" to protect their son, Lamunade.

• Sickeningly Sweethearts: She and Lamune have turned into these in VS Knight after being happily married for years.
• Taken for Granite: This happens to Milk and her sisters, along with Lamune, in the anime version of VS Knight after using a Combined Energy Attack to imprison the revived Abram (Black Lamuness). Thankfully, she didn't stay that way.
• Tsundere: She never lets her admiration for Lamune stop her from expressing her righteous fury, especially in the EX and DX OVA's.

Arara Cocoa

Voiced by: Sakiko Tamagawa (Japanese); Noemi Bayarri (European Spanish)

• Absent-Minded Professor: She has a very... unique way of viewing the world at times, and frequently causes problems by forgetting a minor, but important task.
• Blind Without 'Em: Is show to have spectacularly poor vision without her glasses.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: In VS Knight, Don Genosai brainwashes Cocoa and Lesqua into ambushing Lamunade and Da Cider and trying to kill them. In a case of Evil Costume Switch, the two of them are Dressed Like a Dominatrix, though wielding lightsabers instead of whips, and Cocoa is somehow able to see just fine without her glasses.
• Damsel in Distress: Kidnapped along with Leska at the start of Fire; she spends captivity in Go-Go Enslavement.
• Gadgeteer Genius: She has a talent for building Cool Ships or Cool Tanks; in the EX OVA, she's able to finish building a formidable battlewagon in the real world with random parts she's able to buy around town.
• The Glasses Gotta Go: It's a Running Gag that everyone in the area when she takes her Opaque Nerd Glasses off is stunned by her beauty. She just goes "Huh?" as she puts the glasses back on.
• Hollywood Homely: With her Opaque Nerd Glasses on, everyone around her, particularly her sister, treats her as homely. (Part of her establishing character moment is Milk snarking that falling off a dragon would only improve her looks.) However, Lamune, and practically anyone else who sees her when she takes off her glasses, is shocked by her beauty.
• Shy Blue-Haired Girl: The more quiet and soft spoken of the princesses of Arara.
• The Smart Guy: Carries a calculator to give ludicrously precise odds on demand, and is the most likely one to know about MacGuffins or Plot Coupons. (One Clip Show episode lampshades this by showing her room littered with all of the ancient scrolls she'd referred to in the past.)
• Taken for Granite: She gets turned to stone along with Lamune and her sisters in the anime version of VS Knight after using a Combined Energy Attack to imprison the revived Abram (Black Lamuness). Thankfully she didn't stay that way.
• Wrestler in All of Us: The name she chose for the Cool Airship she created in the first part of the original series, the "Stan Han-sen" (translated as "Stan Hanship" in the Discotek subs), implies some Hidden Depths. Naming the Cool Starship in the later episodes the "Hulk Ho-kan" ("Hulk Hogunship") strenghtens the case.

Da Cider

Voiced by: Kazuki Yao (Japanese); Daniel Albiac (European Spanish)

• Borrowed Catchphrase: Has Shinobu Fujiwara's catchphrase, "Yatte Yaruze", which is also a Shout-Out since they were both animated by Ashi Pro and they're both voiced by Kazuki Yao

• Legacy Character: The first revelation that started him on the way to a Heel–Face Turn was that his ancestor was one of the original Lamuness' True Companions.
• Older and Wiser: In Fire, he returns to serve as Lamunade's Big Brother Mentor, and the copilot for the Kaiser Fire mecha. Older, definitely (Vague Age aside). Wiser... well, undeniably more experienced, at least.
• Pungeon Master: Continuously makes bad and untranslatable puns, that only he and Hebi Metako laugh at. His Punny Name ("Dasai da" - "That's lame/classless") is usually taken as a reference to his jokes.
• Reformed, but Not Tamed: Even after his Heel–Face Turn in the original series, he has a tendency to act as the Starscream, leaping at virtually any and every opportunity to proclaim himself as the real hero to overshadow both Lamune, and later his son Lamunade.
• Shoulders of Doom: Hebi Metako gave him a makeover that includes a pair of shoulderpads that she can pop in and out of (or even travel between).
• Terrible Trio: Alongside Lesqua and Hebi Metako, he's an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain serving Don Harumage (until his Heel–Face Turn.) They're pretty much a Shout-Out to the Trope Codifiers, the Doronbo Trio.

Lesqua a.k.a. Arara Cafe Au Lait

Voiced by: Naoko Matsui; Ana Romano (European Spanish)

• Brainwashed and Crazy: In VS Knight, Don Genosai brainwashes Lesqua and Cocoa into ambushing Lamunade and Da Cider and trying to kill them. In a case of Evil Costume Switch, the two of them are Dressed Like a Dominatrix, though wielding lightsabers instead of whips.
• Butt-Monkey: When she's kidnapped at the start of Fire, she spends captivity in exaggerated servant circumstances. The hilarious punishments she was subjected to when she was a villain would also count.
• Heel–Face Turn: Starts as a villainess, but eventually joins the heroes alongside Da Cider, especially once she discovers her heritage.
• Really Royalty Reveal: She discovers that she's actually the long-lost older sister of Milk and Cocoa, Cafe au Lait. (She gains Pointy Ears like her sisters the first time the three of them use their Combined Energy Attack.)
• Taken for Granite: In the anime version of VS Knight, she and the other Sacred Sisters channel a Combined Energy Attack through Lamune to bind the revived Abram (Black Lamuness), turning them all into stone. Thankfully, she didn't stay that way.
• Terrible Trio: Alongside Da Cider and Hebi Metako, she's an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain serving Don Harumage (until her Heel–Face Turn. They're pretty much a Shout-Out to the Trope Codifiers, the Doronbo Trio
• The Vamp: Happy to use sex appeal to try to get what she wants.

Baba Lamunade

Voiced by: Takeshi Kusao (Japanese); Ariadna Jiménez (European Spanish)

• Borrowed Catchphrase: Lamunade inherited his dad's catchphrase.
• Generation Xerox: One of his catchphrases is "My DNA is telling me to [X]", for when he gets the urge to follow in his father's footsteps.

• Legacy Character: The premise of VS Knight is that Lamunade is following in his father's footsteps as a successor to the legendary original hero Lamuness.

Parfait

Voiced by: Yuko Miyamura (Japanese); Carmen Ambrós (European Spanish)

• A Day in the Limelight: She was actually the main character of the Fresh OVA, forced to lead the fight against the villainous new Lamuness she and Cacao were sent to serve. Lemon, the actual Lamuness descendant she was looking for, only acts as a Tagalong Kid until the end of the series.
• Catchphrase: "Gimon", which translates as "(I have) doubts/questions" — usually about the antics of the legendary Heroes she and Cacao are depending on.
• Generation Xerox: Like Milk, a petite, fiery redheaded companion of The Hero.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: At the end of Fire, both she and Cacao wistfully wish Lamunade and the reborn Drum from the real world well before leaving forever.
• Only Sane Man: Parfait is generally the voice of reason for Lamunade, Da Cider, and even Cacao, although she's not immune to being stupid in her own ways.

Cacao

Voiced by: Kyoko Hikami (Japanese); Ana María Camps (Europeam Spanish)

• Ambiguously Brown: Has a noticeably darker skin tone than the other main characters, despite having blue hair.
• Fainting Seer: Cacao sometimes faints after getting herself worked up for some (or no) reason. She is also able to use a mystic ritual (read: silly dance) to empower the crystal she carries as a Dowsing Device.
• Generation Xerox: The VS Fire counterpart of Cocoa from the original series — a Shy Blue-Haired Girl who is part of a Tomboy and Girly Girl Moe Couplet with the main heroine.
• Lovely Angels: She and Parfait fill this role in Fresh as the heroines of the OVA.
• Meaningful Appearance: In Fire, Cacao's eyes are almost constantly hidden by the bangs of her hair, symbolizing her shyness and obscuring her beauty in a similar way to Cocoa's Opaque Nerd Glasses. Cacao's eyes become visible more often when she undergoes character development (and some Ship Tease with Lamunade). One of the signs that the Fresh OVA was going to be Hotter and Sexier was showing Cacao starting to wear a headband to keep the bangs out of her eyes. This also foreshadowed her having to step up to confront the advances of the villainous Lamuness heir lusting after her and her role in his destiny as "hero", along with the other challenges of being a co-heroine alongside Parfait.

Mito, Suke, and Kaku

Mito voiced by: Showtaro Morikubo (Japanese); Artur Rius (European Spanish)
Suke voiced by: Yuji Ueda (Japanese); Angel del Río (European Spanish)
Kaku voiced by: Kousuke Okano (Japanese); Jordi Pineda (European Spanish)

• And You Were There: Lamunade was already friends with a trio of boys in the real world who he eventually realizes were either Identical Strangers (minus the fur) to, or Reincarnations of, Mito, Suke, and Kaku. The three counterparts even make Early Bird Cameos in the first episode of Fire.
• Beast Man: The three of them: Mito's a wolf-man, Suke is a cheetah, and Kaku is a panda — not a boring polar bear.
• Captain Ersatz: Mito, the prince of the Gao-Gao Zone, and his two servants are a Shout-Out to Mito Komon, the famous Long Runner Jidaigeki series about a Daimyo Incognito Walking the Earth and righting wrongs.
• Legacy Character: Mito is the descendant of Volt Natto, one of the original companions of the first Lamuness. The Lamuness Sword requires him to be sacrificed to defeat Abram because he carries on Volt's will.
• Sixth Ranger: The trio are the Chosen Ones to pilot Graf Thunder, another Humongous Mecha meant to fight alonside Lamuness and Da Cider in Kaiser Fire.
  • Put on a Bus: After their introductory arc in their home dimension, they tell Lamunade's party But Now I Must Go, but provide a Plot Coupon to summon them for the battle with Don Genosai. In the aftermath of the awakening of Aburam and Black Lamuness, they're trapped in a different set of VS Fields, and only resurface in time to sacrifice themselves to awaken the Lamuness Sword.
• Wholesome Crossdresser: Suke dresses similarly to a long-skirted female Japanese Delinquent.

Drum, Trumpet, and Cello

Drum voiced by: Yuka Imai (Japanese); Gloria Garcia (European Spanish)
Trumpet voiced by: Tomoko Kawakami (Japanese); Ana Orra (European Spanish)
Cello voiced by: Naoko Takano (Japanese); Lidia Camino (European Spanish)

• And You Were There: Lamunade was already friends of a trio of real-world girls who he eventually realizes were either Identical Strangers to, or Reincarnations of, Drum, Trumpet, and Cello. The three counterparts even make Early Bird Cameos in the first episode of Fire.
• Fling a Light into the Future: The trio were created by Organ Symphony, the first Lamuness' original love interest, in order to help his successor when they were awakened.
• Last Girl Wins: Lamunade and Drum become the Official Couple of Fire.
• Reincarnation Romance: Drum, along with her sisters, was based on the mind of Organ Symphony, the first Lamuness' original love interest before he fell for Milk's original incarnation. Lamunade and Drum pick up where the first Lamuness and Organ Symphony left off. After their Heroic Sacrifice in the finale, Lamunade falls for Drum's real-world Identical Stranger (implied to be her reincarnation) when they reunite, leaving the two as the Official Couple of VS Fire.
• Robot Girls: The trio are androids created to fall in love with, protect, and fight alongside the current successor to Lamuness (in this case, Lamunade). Any similarities to the Saber Marionette J franchise are intentional.
• Sixth Ranger: The trio were created to pilot the Humongous Mecha Water Baron, the last of the trio of heroic Super Robots in Fire.
  • Put on a Bus: After their introductory arc in their home dimension, they tell Lamunade's party But Now I Must Go, but provide a Plot Coupon to summon them for the battle with Don Genosai. In the aftermath of the awakening of Aburam and Black Lamuness, they're trapped in a different set of VS Fields, and only resurface in time to sacrifice themselves to awaken the Lamuness Sword.
• Sudden Sequel Heel Syndrome: Major spoiler for the Fresh OVA — Electone was an Evil Knockoff of a half-destroyed Drum found floating in space after the end of Fire, created to support and give legitimacy to the fake Lamuness the invading fleet's leaders used to hold their people together. Years of abuse and neglect by the fake as he grew corrupt eventually broke her, to the point she tried to prove her love was the true successor to Lamuness by using his corpse to try to start a Humongous Mecha that would trigger an Earth-Shattering Kaboom if used by an impostor.

Narcissus Dandy and Pheromone Lip

Dandy voiced by: Yasunori Matsumoto (Japanese); Oscar Redondo (European Spanish)
Lip voiced by: Michiko Neya (Japanese); Carmen Calvell (European Spanish)

• Brainwashed and Crazy: The two of them were both originally from the same shrine as Parfait and Cacao, before Aburam brainwashed them into his minions alongside Don Genosai, originally the High Priest.
  • Reformed, but Not Tamed: When the brainwashing is finally broken by Parfait's World-Healing Wave, the two of them act the same general way as before, except for a Good Costume Change. Then, in the next episode, both of them Take The Bullet for Parfait and Cacao to protect them from Black Lamuness' attacks.
• Gorgeous Gaijin: Both Dandy and Lip are tall, blond(e), exaggeratedly attractive, and use Gratuitous English personal pronouns.
• Ineffectual Sympathetic Villains: Their incompetence and stupidity provide many of the jokes in each episode. Even after Aburam, as "Black Lamuness", reinforces their evil, they remain mostly harmless, albeit in a more Comically Serious way.
• Pec Flex: Dandy does this at every opportunity until his mid-season upgrade.
• Quirky Miniboss Squad: They serve Don Genosai, the main villain in Fire, as his main field agents, operating the Robeast (Monscar?) of the Week and taunting the heroes.

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