Character sheet for Hanebad!.
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Kitakomachi High School
Ayano Hanesaki
Ayano Hanesaki
Voiced by: Hitomi Ohwada (Japanese), Amber Lee Connors (English)
- Accidental Misnaming: Ayano calls Kaoruko "Sarigiwa" instead of "Serigaya" in the early chapters of the manga. It's not quite clear whether it's really accidental though.
- Adaptation Personality Change: Given the Darker and Edgier nature of the anime adaptation, Ayano ends up getting hit the hardest by this. In the manga, she's something of an Idiot Savant and Cloud Cuckoolander. The Cavalier Competitor and Sore Loser tendencies comes more from immaturity rather than actual malice. In the anime, she has deep-seated abandonment issues and seems barely coping with depression.
- Adaptational Jerkass: When she's in Serious Mode, she becomes not only slightly smug like in the manga, but also gratuitously mean.
- Childhood Friends: Ayano and Elena have been friends since kindergarten.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Most of Ayano's offscreen and onscreen matches are this, especially in middle school.
- Cute and Psycho: Ayano has shades of this, especially when she sports her trademark Empty Eyes.
Nagisa Aragaki
Nagisa Aragaki
Voiced by: Miyuri Shimabukuro (Japanese), Dawn M. Bennett (English)
- Adaptational Jerkass: Nagisa has gone from simply grumpy to absolutely tyrannical before her Jerkass Realization in episode 3.
- Crippling Overspecialization: Nagisa suffers from this. Being tall, a lack of proper training, and having faced only weak opponents means that she is over-reliant on her powerful jumping smash, for which all-rounded players like Ayano have been trained to counter. Her height also makes her heavy, and so she tends to use too much energy for a very limited move.
- Boyish Short Hair
- Centipede's Dilemma: Nagisa's main problem in the beginning of the series, as she's overthinking her and her opponent's moves, instead of just playing for the fun of it.
Riko Izumi
Riko Izumi
Voiced by: Yuuna Mimura (Japanese), Jill Harris (English)
- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: The anime made Riko and Nozomi old friends from middle school, even though they don't know each other in the manga (although they do have a match).
Elena Fujisawa
Elena Fujisawa
Voiced by: Konomi Kohara (Japanese), Sarah Wiedenheft (English)
- Childhood Friends: Ayano and Elena have been friends since kindergarten.
- Cute Sports Club Manager: Elena joins the club as manager (voluntarily in the anime, while she kinda just goes with the flow in the manga).
Kentaro Tachibana
Kentaro Tachibana
Voiced by: Nobuhiko Okamoto (Japanese), Kyle Igneczi (English)
- Adults Are Useless: Zig-zagged in the anime. Tachibana is a very competent coach in both the sport and emotional side when it comes to Nagisa's issues, helping her out of her slump and noticing her problem with her knee. However, he doesn't do anything regarding Ayano's issues even after learning her backstory or after she becomes a Jerkass with permanent Empty Eyes during the tournament.
- Career-Ending Injury: Kentarou was good enough to be selected to go to the Olympics, but a knee injury ruined his chances. Because of that, he does all he can to avoid the same fate to Nagisa when it turns out her right knee is fragile (due her height and weight putting a lot a pressure on it). Which includes stopping her match against Connie when they were tied and it seemed like it would never end, causing the latter no end of frustration.
- Cool Shades: Kentaro is introduced wearing these in the anime, which makes him look more like some fishy model recruiter than like a badminton coach.
Miyako Tarōmaru
Miyako Tarōmaru
Voiced by: Mikako Komatsu (Japanese), Katelyn Barr (English)
- Cute Sports Club Manager: Club advisor Miyako admits she doesn't know much about badminton, but does her best to support the team, among them is bringing Kentaro to train the team.
Konan High School
Kaoruko Serigaya
Kaoruko Serigaya
Voiced by: Asami Shimoda (Japanese), Mikaela Krantz (English)
- Adaptational Jerkass: Kaoruko has gone from comically haughty to insufferably arrogant.
- Birds of a Feather: How Kaoruko sees her relationship with Ayano. To her, they are "meant to love each other" because they're both jerks, except she doesn't try to pretend otherwise. Miki, however, knows full well that Kaoruko herself isn't as bad as she pretends to be.
- Combat Pragmatist: Kaoruko is very good at psychologically attacking her opponents in order to give herself an edge.
Fredericia Girls High School
Connie Christensen
Connie Christensen
Voiced by: Mariya Ise (Japanese), Ariel Graham (English)
- Adaptational Jerkass: A proud and sometimes severe girl who nonetheless cherishes her friends and wants to be together with her sister Ayano, has become a self-entitled jerk who seems to loathe Ayano and shuns her own teammates at first.
- Alliterative Name: Connie Christensen
- Defrosting Ice Queen: Connie shows a new variety of emotions after being dragged into the bathroom by Yuika and Hina. An extra chapter in the manga shows that defrosting Connie is the first thing these two did when she came into the club, playfully embarrassing her in all sorts of ways to get her off her high horse.
- Sexy Scandinavian: She's from Denmark, and is incredibly attractive.
Yuika Shiwahime
Yuika Shiwahime
Voiced by: Ai Kayano (Japanese), Mallorie Rodak (English)
- The Captain: Of her high school's badminton club.
Zushi Sogo High School
Nozomi Ishizawa
Nozomi Ishizawa
Voiced by: Arisa Sakuraba (Japanese), Lynsey Hale (English)
- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: The anime made Riko and Nozomi old friends from middle school, even though they don't know each other in the manga (although they do have a match).
- Awesomeness by Analysis: Riko isn't particularly fast or athletic, but she compensates with a great ability to analyze the opponent and adapt her playstyle during a match. This notably allows her to win against Hashidzume Emi, who was technically a much more skilled player.
Others
Uchika Hanesaki
Uchika Hanesaki
Voiced by: Sayaka Ohara (Japanese), Colleen Clinkenbeard (English)
- Abusive Mom: Of the neglectful and emotional kind. She abandons Ayano in order to, supposedly, make her become stronger at badminton. While Ayano does become better at badminton, it also results in her developing some serious abandonment issues and taking a level in Jerkass
- The Ace: She is viewed as such, winning 10 All Japan national titles and the players she trained (Ayano, Connie and Wang Li Xiao) are World Class elites.
- Asshole Victim She eventually dies of cancer, and considering the psychological damage she inflicted on Ayano by abandoning her, it makes it hard to feel sorry for her.
- Adaptational Jerkass: In the flashbacks, she's less sympathetic.
- Faux Affably Evil: Not exactly "Evil" per se, but she always puts on a friendly and polite demeanor, even though she's a very uncaring individual.
- Hate Sink: She's a callous, cold-hearted, shallow excuse of a mother with a complete lack of empathy who remorselessly abandons her daughter Ayano because she lost at a game of badminton, resulting in her having psychological issues, and the story more or less makes it clear she doesn't value Ayano or Connie as daughters or human beings, but rather as tools to satisfy her own pride.
- Kick the Dog: Abandoning her daughter, Ayano, even it was to make her better at badminton, it was still an incredibly callous thing to do.
- Lack of Empathy: She outright says she values badminton over the relationship with her daughter, and even says she has no regrets.
- Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: She excuses her abandonment of Ayano by saying she did it to make her better at badminton. Although it sounds like she wanted the best for Ayano, she was really doing it for her own shallow and selfish reasons.
- Older Than They Look: She appears to be in her 20s, but is actually in her early 40s.
- Tough Love: Zigzagged. In her mind, she believes that abandoning Ayano will make her better at badminton. Unfortunately, her "Love" for Ayano is pretty superficial, since she openly admits she values Ayano more for her badminton skills, and not so much for who she is as a human being.
