List of characters in Angelic Layer

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This is a character guide to the manga and anime series Angelic Layer.

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[edit] Main Characters

Misaki Suzuhara (鈴原 みさき Suzuhara Misaki?)
Misaki is a very timid, sweet-tempered, and kind (although shown in the manga to be more overreactive and easily excited) 12-year-old girl who has just moved to Tokyo to live with her aunt. She had been living with her grandparents in Wakayama while she went to elementary school, but saved up money that her mother had been sending her while she was away so she could afford to go to middle school in Tokyo. She also worries about the fact that she is small and unathletic, and is sometimes mistaken to be in elementary school, but sees Angelic Layer as a way to prove to others and herself that there is nothing wrong with being small. She started playing Angelic Layer after seeing the white angel Athena on a video screen outside of Tokyo Station (unaware that she was seeing her own mother's Angel). Her angel is Hikaru and she is known as the "Miracle Rookie". She is nicknamed Misakichi (みさきち) by her friend Tamayo to make her name sound cute.
In the manga she ends up dating Kotaro. While late in the anime despite her crush on Kotaro, Ohjiro finally told her after she defeated him that he is falling in love with her and asked her out on a 2nd date. (1st date was more like bumping into each other while she was shopping) It is also possible that Misaki has a crush on Ohjiro and Kotaro, since she blushes around them a lot.

Crossover: CLAMP's series Chobits is set in the same universe. Misaki doesn't actually appear in the manga, except for a flashback where a shot of her from behind is seen with a couple other characters and Kaede.

Ichiro Mihara (三原 一郎 Mihara Ichirō?)
Nicknames himself Icchan (いっちゃん) to hide his true identity from Misaki. He oftens acts extremely eccentric and spontaneous (often jumping out of random places shouting "Icchan go BOOM!" to scare Misaki and Ogata), but nontheless is ingenious and dead serious when it comes to Angelic Layer. In the manga, Icchan is the president of the Piffle Company that creates the Angelic Layer toys. In the anime, Icchan is the "father" of Angelic Layer, having developed the game over seven years with the help of Shuko Suzuhara. Icchan had been an employee at a hospital trying to treat Shuko's neurological condition and were developing the angels as part of research to create prosthetic limbs which could be controlled by brain waves. However, research funds were cut off after the hospital thought that the research was costing too much. As a result, Icchan and Shuko created Angelic Layer in order to help fund and conduct further research.
Crossover: Icchan is the late husband of Chitose Hibiya and the creator of the persocoms in the hit manga Chobits. He made two special persocoms, the Chobits, for his wife to be their children, since she could not have children herself. They were named Freya and Elda, later known as Chi. The Chobits were created from the findings gathered from the research performed for Angelic Layer project. The cause of his death in Chobits was never fully explained.

Hatoko Kobayashi (小林 鳩子 Kobayashi Hatoko?)

Hatoko is a 5 year old known as the "Miracle Kindergartner" and is Misaki's best friend and Angelic Layer mentor. Even at a very young age, she is extremely intelligent, mature, and hard-working. She is an expert at Angelic Layer, often winning her games in mere seconds. She wins all ten of her games at the Tokyo prefecture games, and is the defending champion of the Kantō regional games. She is fiercely competitive, working to increase her angel's speed and power often. She also likes to poke fun at her brother Kotaro for his apparent ineptness when it comes to his crush on Misaki. Hatoko's angel is Suzuka.

Kotaro Kobayashi (小林 虎太郎 Kobayashi Kōtarō?)

Kotaro is a 12 year old middle school classmate of Misaki, whom he has a crush on, as well known as Hatoko's brother. He is always being assaulted by Tamayo and her various martial arts techniques, which he has been a victim of since he was four years old. He becomes jealous of Ohjiro's advances towards Misaki, going so far as to try to attempt to play a quasi-match of Angelic Layer against Ohjiro, despite the fact that he had never played it before. His family owns a karate dojo and Kotaro has practiced karate some himself, showing Misaki some of his knowledge in hopes that Misaki can use it to help Hikaru win.

Tamayo Kizaki (木崎 珠代 Kizaki Tamayo?)

Tamayo is 12 years old and is a friend and classmate of Misaki. She nicknames Misaki "Misakichi" and is rather eccentric. One of her favorite activities is practicing her martial arts techniques on her unwilling friend Kotaro. She always loudly cheers for Misaki at Angelic Layer matches and defends her against those who question her ability. It is later revealed that Tamayo has always held intimate feelings for Kotaro, which may be one reason why she always added "-chan" (which Kotaro complains is only meant for "girls and little kids") to the end of his name instead of "-kun", despite him being in middle school. She offers to be Misaki's "second" in her national game match against the Angelic Layer Company's angel due to Hatoko becoming ill before Misaki accepts Ohjiro's offer to be her second.
  • The various martial arts Tamayo has mastered after eight years of hard training are: wrestling, karate, K-1, kenpō, boxing, judo, capoeira, and taekwondo.
  • In the anime she finally end up with Kotaro after finally telling him how she feels (despite the fact Kotaro initially like Misaki)
  • In the manga she eventually ends up with Ohjiro, Misaki stated that since Tamayo and Ohjiro always met during the Angelic Layer meetings and later accompanied Misaki with on double dates with Kotaro.

Ohjiro Mihara (三原 王二郎 Mihara Ōjirō?)

Ohjiro is Icchan's younger step-brother. He has been involved with Angelic Layer for many years, in a large part because it was what brought him and Icchan together after their parents married each other. Ohjiro competes in Kobe and has been the champion of the Kansai Regional games, as well as being the runner-up in the national tournament for two consecutive years. He has a desperate desire to defeat Shuko Suzuhara's angel Athena to get over a childhood crush he had on her. His angel is Wizard. In the anime it is revealed that he is falling in love with Misaki.


Shuko Suzuhara (鈴原 萩子 Suzuhara Shūko?)

Shuko is Misaki's mother and Shoko's elder sister. In the anime, it is explained that Shuko left a 5-year-old Misaki to be taken care of her grandparents under the guise of work, when in reality she was going to Tokyo in order to find a way to cure the neurological disease she had been inflicted with. This disease inhibits nerve signals from reaching to or from her legs. Ichiro Mihara was a doctor attempting to work with her to find a cure when the two started Angelic Layer as a way to do research and raise funds when their original research funding was cut off. Shuko, or "Shu" as she is called when playing Angelic Layer, is the undisputed champion with her angel Athena, having won each of the past three national championships. Over the past seven years, she has avoided meeting Misaki, afraid of what Misaki would think of her. In the manga, however, Shuko has no such disease and is merely extremely shy about socializing with those she loves. She also works for the company behind Angelic Layer.

Sai Jounouchi (城乃内 最 Jōnouchi Sai?)

Sai Jounouchi, known as the "ice machine," started playing Angelic Layer at the request of her terminally ill sister Rin. Rin designed what the angel would look like, but died before Sai could create her. As a result, Sai states that her reason for playing Angelic Layer is "to become strong." Sai is from Kanagawa Prefecture and was the runner-up in the Kantō Regional games in the past year. She is friends with Kaede, who went to the same middle school as Sai. Her angel is Shirahime.


Kaede Saito (斉藤 楓 Saitō Kaede?)

Kaede is a quiet and wise girl from Kanagawa and is friends with Sai Jounouchi. Her parents divorced and she lives with her father. She received an angel egg as a gift from someone in her father's company. Her personality does not appear to be one suited for Angelic Layer, as pointed out by her father when he comments that he never believed that he would see Kaede compete in a fighting game. Despite this, she is very adept at Angelic Layer. She treats her angel, Blanche, as her own daughter.
She also appears in Chobits as Minoru Kokubunji's late older sister.

Masaharu Ogata (尾形 雅治 Ogata Masaharu?)

Ogata is one of Icchan's subordinates in the Angelic Layer control room and lab. Icchan often ensnares Ogata into situations that result in Ogata getting "penalized." These penalties involve a range of embarrassing or terrible things, such as having a live octopus being stuck down his pants or being made to eat spaghetti through his nose. Icchan also named a remarkably ugly angel after him as a penalty.

Shoko Asami (浅見 祥子 Asami Shōko?)

Shoko is Misaki's aunt and Shuko's younger sister. She demands that Misaki and her friends call her "Miss Shoko" instead of "aunt" ("obasan" in Japanese) because she is still "an attractive young newscaster." She often covers Angelic Layer events for the local news station that she works for. Misaki lives with Shoko when she moves to Tokyo.
Her hairstyle bears a resemblance to that of Takako Shimizu in Chobits.

Ringo Seto (瀬戸 林子 Seto Ringo?)

Ringo is a pop idol from Tochigi who plays Angelic Layer over the objections of her manager. Ringo likes living freely and often escapes from her manager to get out of doing work. When Misaki was fighting her male classmate Ryo Misaki in a set of Angelic Layer matches, Ringo encouraged Misaki on between matches. Ringo's angel is Ranga.


Madoka Fujisaki (藤崎 円香 Fujisaki Madoka?)¹ & Arisu Fujisaki (藤崎 有栖 Fujisaki Arisu?)²

Madoka is a competitor in the Kantō Regional games. She and her sister, Arisu, who creates Madoka's angels, were defeated in the Kantō Regional games by Hatoko in the previous year. As a result, the two desperately want to fight and defeat Hatoko to rectify what they see as a family dishonor of losing to a kindergartener. The two attempt to sabotage Hikaru in an attempt to defeat her. Madoka's angel is Mao, and Arisu has Alice.

[edit] Supporting Characters

Hiromi Fujimori (藤森 ひろみ Fujimori Hiromi?)

Yuko Inada (稲田 夕子 Inada Yūko?)

Shuji Inada (稲田 修二 Inada Shūji?)

  • Voiced by: Yoshiyuki Kono (Japanese), Jay Hickman (English)

Angelic Layer Host (司会者 Shikaisha?)

  • Voiced by: Yoshiyuki Kono (Japanese), Vic Mignogna (English)

Kyoko (京子 Kyōko?)

Asuka Kitamura (北村 飛鳥 Kitamura Asuka?)

Yuko Hikawa (氷川 優子 Hikawa Yūko?)

Tomoko Yamada (山田 知子 Yamada Tomoko?)

Maria Shibata (柴田 まりあ Shibata Maria?)

Ryo Misaki (岬 了 Misaki Ryō?)

Rin Jounouchi (城乃内 鈴 Jōnouchi Rin?)

Chitose Tanaka (田中 千歳 Tanaka Chitose?)

  • Voiced by: Tomoko Miura (Japanese), Kim Prause (English)

Tsubasa McEnzie (つばさ・マッケンジー Tsubasa Makkenjī?)

[edit] Angels

Hikaru (ヒカル Hikaru?) - Deus: Misaki Suzuhara

Though small and lightweight compared to most Angels, Hikaru possesses very strong attacks, most which are speed based. Her small stature makes her aerodynamically quick and agile. She was created by Misaki in order to show others that there was nothing wrong with being small through Angelic Layer. Her basic appearance is a bit tomboyish, since Misaki had accidentally cut her hair short, and has a less mature physique than other Angels. Hikaru also appears as a crossover character in Chapter 144 of Clamp's manga Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle. Hikaru's name can also mean 'glowing' in Japanese. In the manga, Misaki bases Hikaru's appearance on a character from a manga she read which is Rayearth.

Suzuka (鈴鹿 Suzuka?) - Deus: Hatoko Kobayashi

Nicknamed “The Speed of Light,” Suzuka often defeats her opponents with incredible speed. For an Angel that was created by 5-year-old Hatoko, Suzuka resembles a beautiful and extremely strong ninja, and her 'Rolling Thunder' attack can defeat other Angels within seconds. Her strength has led her to compete in the heated National Tournament along with Hikaru.

Shirahime (白姫 Shirahime?, lit. "White Princess") - Deus: Sai Jounouchi

Nicknamed “The White Princess,” she is an Angel which wears a white kimono. Shirahime has finished 2nd in the Kantō regional games for two consecutive years. She is also capable of reaching "Hypermode" like Blanche.

Blanche (ブランシェ Buranshe?) - Deus: Kaede Saitou

Nicknamed "The White Angel," Blanche is a powerful angel dressed as a nurse which is so fast that she has only been touched by four other angels. When in a very tough fight, Blanche will use a technique called "Hypermode" which is a result of a glitch present in the first angels built. Blanche is a contestant in the Kantō regional games. Her name can also be written Branche with the romaji "r" sounding like an "l". Blanche is French for white.

Ranga (ランガ Ranga?) - Deus: Ringo Seto

Ranga uses a technique called "the Dance of Death" which uses wind to attack her opponents from a distance. Ranga is a contestant in the Kantō regional games. She wears Arabic clothes and even resembles Tatra from Magic Knight Rayearth. In the end of the anime Ringo is wearing a cosplay of Ranga. In the manga, her name is Lanka, due to different translation.

Wizard (ウィザード Wizādo?) - Deus: Ohjiro Mihara

Wizard is the Kansai Regional champion and has finished as the runner up in the National Games for two consecutive years. Wizard uses a technique called “Magic Guard” to block his opponent’s attacks with an electric shield. Misaki was able to neutralize its shield by using one of Hikaru's cables as an earth contact to the layer. Wizard is one of the few male angels in the Layer.

Athena (アテナ Atena?) - Deus: Shuko Suzuhara

Athena has won the National Games championship in all three years of its existence and is the undisputed champion of Angelic Layer. It can create powerful powerballs, called Astral Emission, and fly with wings. During their fight Hikaru also learned to do this.

Mao (猫 Mao?) - Deus: Madoka Fujisaki

The newest angel created by Madoka's sister Arisu. Mao is a contestant in the Kantō regional games. She is designed after a cat, complete with ears and a tail. Mao is Chinese for "cat".

Shadow Panther - Deus: unknown

The first angel that Hikaru fights and defeats.

Queen - Deus: Kyoko

An angel which uses electric whips, which are illegal, in unofficial games to easily defeat inexperienced players. She fights and loses to Hikaru in her second Angelic Layer match.

Colossus - Deus: Asuka Kitamura

An angel which participates in the Tokyo Prefecture games, losing to Hikaru.

Nightingale - Deus: unknown

An Angel with experience in the Kantō regional games and who is competing in the Tokyo prefecture games. She is defeated by Suzuka in 5 seconds. Nightingale is also defeated by Hikaru in the Tokyo prefecture games.

Katalina - Deus: Yuko Hikawa

Katalina fights by “skating” on the layer, and uses her skates to attack while spinning. She loses to Hikaru in the first round of the Tokyo prefecture games.

Vasquez - Deus: Tomoko Yamada

A very powerful angel which lures her opponents into surprise attacks. She is defeated by Hikaru in the second round of the Tokyo prefecture games.

Tsubaki - Deus: Maria Shibata

An angel defeated by Hikaru in the final round of the Tokyo prefecture games.

Ace, Mark II, & Tri - Deus: Ryo Misaki

Ryo uses these three angels in a best of three match against Misaki in attempt to show that girls cannot beat boys at Angelic Layer.

Natasha - Deus: unknown

Champion of the Chiba prefecture games. She is defeated by Suzuka in the first round of the Kantō regional games.

Yusari - Deus: unknown

An angel competing in the Kantō regional games, losing to Blanche there.

Eagle - Deus: Tsubasa "The Blond Gale" McEnzie

An angel who competed in the Kyūshū Regional games, she competes against Shirahime in the Angelic Layer National Games. She has the ability to glide through the air using wings.

Elain - Deus: Chitose Tanaka

The "Northern Aurora" An angel from Hokkaidō, she fights Hikaru in the first round of the Angelic Layer National Games. She uses a technique called the "Hexagon Reversion" to immobolize her opponents in mid-air. Along with the lightning storm during Hikaru and Elain's fight, this technique almost make the layer disappear.

New Type SI-174 - Deus: Shuji Inada

An angel competing in the National Games representing the Angelic Layer company. SI-174 is a new model of angel which is capable of quicker and more efficient movements. The SI-174 fights Hikaru in the second round of the National Games.

Arisu - Deus: Arisu Fujisaki

An angel developed by Arisu for herself, in contrast to those she had made for her sister. Her Deus, after seeing Mao lose to Hikaru, competed in other district competitions, and ended up as a finalist for the National Games as an opponent to Hikaru. Arisu is a balance-oriented angel, allowing it to stay upright on an icy layer.

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