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Ares no Tenbin

Backwater Raimon / Inakuni Raimon

Sandra Fischer / Umihara Norika

Voiced by: Ai Kayano

• Ambiguously Absent Parent: Her father is never seen or mentioned. When her team was about to leave the island and go to Tokyo, she mentioned that she didn't want to leave her mother alone, strongly implying she might have a single mother, but the reason for her father's absence is not clear.
• Can't Catch Up: Her repeatedly failed attempts at saving goals using Uzumaki the Hand make her feel self-conscious about not being as strong as the boys. As a result, she becomes determined to get stronger and learns her second solo hissatsu, Mermaid Veil.
• Elemental Eye Colors: She has blue eyes (or rather, bluish-purple) and water-based hissatsus.
• First-Name Basis: Like almost any other girl, she's called by her first name among her teammates.
• Good Parents: Sandra is very close to her mother. She often helped her with swimming and cared about her enough to help her with the family business. In fact, Sandra's only concern with leaving the country to go to Tokyo was concern for her mother's safety, who in turn was supportive of her decision. A simple picture of her motivated Sandra to master her first hissatsu technique.
• Love Freak: She becomes excited at the news of romance. As shown when she hears that Haizaki tries to help Akane, assuming that she's his girlfriend.
• Making a Splash: Sandra creates her first catch hissatsu: Uzumaki The Hand. Sandra punches forward, expelling a screwing wave of water that forms a hand, and stops an incoming soccer ball as the water reels back to her.
• The Smurfette Principle: She is the only girl from Inakuni Raimon and later Inazuma Japan.
• Water Is Womanly: One of the few female goalkeepers in the franchise. She has greenish-blue hair and all her hissatsu moves are based around water and mermaids.

Kiko Calavento / Hiyori Masakatsu

Voiced by: Yuka Terasaki

• Blow You Away: With training from sweeping floors with his feet, Hiyori develops Shooting Cut, spinning with his left left to create a tornado that haltes the speed of an incoming soccer ball.
• Never Bareheaded: He is always seen with a brown hat.
• Straight Man and Wise Guy: The straight man to Goujin's wise guy, acting as the sane man to his impulsive and slightly absent-minded senior.

Trevor Cook / Mansaku Yuuichirou

Voiced by: Takahiro Sakurai

• Blow You Away: He learnt Spark Wind by a special training from Zhao Jinyun, a technique which involves him spinning in the air and creating a whirlwind which flows the opponent in the air.
• The Confidant: In one official source, it's stated that Asuto confides his worries and concerns to him.
• Hunk: He's tall, well-built and handsome.
• Nice Guy: He's a good friend to Asuto and is usually chill unless you insult his family.

Nino Nango / Hattori Hanta

Voiced by: Haruka Tomatsu

• Affectionate Nickname: His best friend Iwato seems to call him Han-chan.
• Alliterative Name: Hattori Hanta in the original and Nino Nango in the dub.
• Big Guy, Little Guy: The little guy to Iwato's big guy. While Iwato is more positive and optimistic, Hanta can be skeptical and concerned. This becomes more noticeable in the match against Teikoku.
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: Because of his cutesy appearance, he sometimes gets mistaken for a girl. In the anime, Nae mistakes him for one after the match against Hakuren. He looks more like a boy without the scarf on his head.
• Fanboy: He's a big fan of ninjas, from reading books to watching movies to dressing up as one. Mansaku even calls him a ninja nerd.
• Genre Savvy: His first solo hissatsu, Ninpou Gamagaeru, is inspired from a ninja technique he had seen in a movie.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: He's always hanging out with Iwato.
• Meaningful Name: His Japanese name, ninja like appearance and speed refer to Hattori Hanzo, an infamous ninja and samurai of the 1600s.
• Older Than They Look: He's about the same age as his teammates, but he only reaches their hips and looks much younger.
• Scarf of Asskicking: He wears one around his neck and head, giving him the appearance of a ninja. It later turns out that he doesn't wear this just for style, he really knows ninja skills.
• Signature Headgear: He wears a scarf on his head because he's a fan of ninjas, while his teammates initially thought it was just for style.
• Spotting the Thread: The first member of Inakuni Raimon to notice something was up with Teikoku's plays, and being the only defender/player other than Sandra to recklessly aim for the goal and waste their stamina. He was also the first member of the team to notice Li Kobun's manipulations of the team's chores and connection to the coach.

Cliff Parker / Iwato Takashi

Voiced by: Kenta Miyake

• The Big Guy: He's the biggest guy in the team.
• Big Guy, Little Guy: The big guy to Hattori's little guy.
• Chekhov's Gunman: In the first few episodes, he writes love letters to somebody named Hikaru, who later turns out to be a guy. These scenes may not seem to have an impact on the main story, until it's revealed that Hikaru is Ichihoshi Mitsuru's younger brother, who became paralyzed due to a car accident and is the reason why Mitsuru joined the Disciples of Orion. Eventually, it's revealed that Hikaru is the Ichihoshi they know and not Mitsuru.
• The Confidant: When Hikaru was in the hospital because he thought he was sick, he told Iwato his backstory (or rather, what he thought was his backstory) through exchanged letters. However, he eventually tells his teammates about Hikaru, Ichihoshi's brother.
• Dishing Out Dirt: He knows The Wall.
• Gentle Giant: One of the hardest to annoy members, who in fact doesn't like seeing others arguing.
• Gonk: Too fat, too square head and too flat haircut.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: He's best friend with Hattori and they are always hanging out together.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: His teammates call him "Golem" rather than by name, especially Hanta.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Of Kabeyama. The biggest guy in the team, check. His best friend is one of the shortest members, check. Has a unique Verbal Tic, check. His main hissatsu is "The Wall", check. Among other things.
• Verbal Tic: He ends his sentences with "gosu". Lampshaded by Atsuya, who makes fun of the way he talks.

Maxime Dassier / Michinari Tatsumi

Voiced by: Ryōhei Kimura

• The Captain: Of the old Inakuni team before their club was destroyed and Inakuni Raimon.
• Dance Battler: Flash Dance. He dances with a partner, whom he throws in the air and the partner kicks the ball towards the goal. Maxime was supposed to do it with Goujin, but Hiyori steals his place, much to Goujin's dismay.
• Heroic RRoD: His combination hissatsu Victory Line is a very powerful shoot that was able to break through Endou's Fujin Raijin, but performing the shoot caused his leg to burn up, because he forced himself through determination to complete it. This forced him to sit out of the finals.
• Hunk: He's tall, well-built and handsome.
• Out of Focus: Despite being the captain, he gets little to no screentime and has yet to learn a hissatsu. This was also acknowledged in-universe in episode 18, because he along with Goujin were the only members to not have a hissatsu technique. The most focus he had was being interviewed as captain of the team and learning and performing the technique against Eisei. He finally gets some focus in the match against Endou's team, but he gets injured in that match and can't play in the finals coming into this trope once more.
• Red Armband of Leadership: He wears one, like most team captains. The Inakuni armband is blue and the Inakuni Raimon one is red.

Valentin Eisner / Hiura Kirina

Voiced by: Soma Saito

• Amateur Sleuth: He often acts like a detective in Orion when a big mystery shows up. This includes figuring out where Asuto and Ichihoshi could be when the latter two get lost in the woods.
• Ambiguously Absent Parent: When his team was about to leave the island and go to Tokyo, the only family member he announced about his departure was his grandmother. His parents were nowhere in sight, neither were they mentioned.
• Chaste Hero: It's repeatedly shown he does not understand romance. He reacts with confusion towards Coach Zhao's pervertedness and is shown to be a Clueless Chick-Magnet.
• An Ice Person: Ice Arrow, which allows him to freeze the ball before kicking it up high in the air.
• Innocently Insensitive: When he tells Goujin and Michinari the reason why they were the only members still left without a hissatsu:
  Hiura: I see. You both got swept under when the rest of us were all on top creating hissatsu techniques.
  Goujin and Michinari: Hey!
• Meaningful Name:
  • The first kanji in Hiura "氷" means ice, in reference to his hissatsu Ice Arrow.
  • His dub first name refers to his birthday, which is on February 14. However, he is not interested in romance.
• Pretty Boy: He has thick eyelashes and a pretty face. It is stated in some official source that the ladies like him for his good looks.
• Spotting the Thread: He realizes Mutekigahara Fujimaru's name is fake after he notices that his last name corresponds with the name of the lake he's fishing in and his first name corresponds with the name of the boat he' standing near.
• Wholesome Cross Dresser: He can pull off a female nurse getup.

César Montalbán / Okuiri Hiro

Voiced by: Natsuki Hanae

• Character Tics: Similarly to Megane, he has the habit of adjusting his glasses when making a statement.
• Combat Commentator: César is more active on the soccer field than Megane, but occasionally names new techniques for his team members who didn't create their own.
• Out of Focus: He is one of the less focused members. He only used two hissatsus during the matches and neither of them had their training session shown. He's also one of the few members whose family is unknown.
• Smart People Wear Glasses: He is the only member of Inakuni Raimon who wears glasses and he's the most analytical.

Adriano Donati / Goujin Tetsunosuke

Voiced by: Shunsuke Takeuchi

• Accidental Misnaming: He mistakes Fire Tornado's name as "Fire Lemonade". In Episode 18 it's implied he may not be misnaming it, he actually wants to turn it into an actual Hissatsu technique since he was on the island. He describes it as "Fire Tornado combined with the explosive fizzle of a carbonated drink" which also shows he's capable of pronouncing the name correctly. He succeeds in episode 26, where he uses it to score the winning goal.
  • A flashback with his dad shows he got the name from him who looked up information about soccer for his son, but couldn't remember the name. Goujin then thought the name sounds awesome and devoted himself to mastering the hissatsu without knowing it never existed in the first place.
• Ambiguously Brown: The obligatory dark-skinned character that doesn't look like any particular race, but his original name suggests he's Japanese.
• Brick Joke: The hissatsu he thought of Fire Lemonade finally became a real technique in Episode 26 and it was even used to make the winning goal for the finals.
• Butt-Monkey: His teammates tend to make fun of him sometimes because of his personality and lack of knowledge and despite wanting to have a hissatsu technique the most out of Inakuni Raimon, but as of episode 18, he's the only member to not have one. He finally gets one in Episode 23, Back Draft.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: He's the Butt-Monkey of the team and often fizzles out on his shots. However, his true strength comes from his surprising accurate instincts, being able to redirect missed shots with surprising accurately. Eventually this even turns into his Hissatsu Backdraft. It turned out, he was completely serious about making Fire Lemonade into an actual Hissatsu. All of his shoot attempts while saying Fire Lemonade were actually attempts at performing it. They all failed until he succeeds in episode 26.
  • Then there is the fact he was chosen for Inazuma Japan as a forward over other strikers such as his teammate Kozoumaru Sasuke, Fubuki Atsuya and Someoka Ryuugo who in turn have better records or more Hissatsu Techniques.
  • His accurate instincts were also shown outside of soccer in Orion #7. In which he saw someone with a camera who planned to take pictures of Haizaki and Hiroto beating up Ichihoshi in order to cause more problems for Inazuma Japan.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: He has a short temper, especially towards Zhao Jinyun's strange behaviour and the fact that he doesn't have his own hissatsu technique until the finale.
• Hot-Blooded: He's very fiery and easily irritable, which results in him nearly beating up Kozoumaru for his arrogance and the coach for his strange training menu.
• Mundane Solution: How does he manage to defeat Saginuma's Wormhole which has already stopped Fire Tornado despite having no hissatsu? Well, he simply predicts where the ball is going to land, and intercept it. Eventually he is able to make it into his hissatsu Back Draft.
• Nice Guy: Despite his rather Hot-Blooded behavior and short temper, he's still a very nice guy even to Ichihoshi who's a spy working for the antagonists of Orion.
• Secret Weapon: According to Zhao Jinyun this is the reason why he hasn't partook in matches of Inazuma Japan, since he's their secret weapon and that using him now would be too early.
• Straight Man and Wise Guy: The hot-blooded wise guy with an ever-changing personality to Hiyori's straight man.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: He finally gets a hissatsu in episode 23, Back Draft. In the last episode of the first season of Ares no Tenbin he finally creates the technique he dreamed of, Fire Lemonade.
• Use Your Head: Uses a lot of headbutts in his shots.
• Yank the Dog's Chain: When it finally came the time for him to learn a hissatsu, Michinari ended up doing it with Hiyori instead, leaving Goujin the only one without a hissatsu.

Sonny Wright / Inamori Asuto

For tropes applying to Inamori Asuto visit his entry here.

Basile Hardy / Kozoumaru Sasuke

Voiced by: Yūki Kaji (Japanese), Bryce Papenbrook (English)

• Ascended Fanboy: Basile has been a fan of Gouenji ever since the latter gave him the advice to change his position, which helped him become a better player. As of episode 34 of Orion, they are both part of Inazuma Japan, and during the match against Italy in the semi-finals, Basile finally gets the chance to play alongside Gouenji, who up to that point couldn't play because of his injury.
• Brutal Honesty: He has no problem telling his teammates that they have no chance to win.
• Formerly Fat: In Ares and at the beginning of Orion, he is fat. By the time he became a member of Inazuma Japan in episode 34, he slimmed down considerably.
• Identical Stranger: His new appearance in Orion makes him look alike to Gouenji physically. Heck, most of the members in Inazuma Japan mistook him for Gouenji until the latter appeared himself.
• Irony: Despite treating his teammates with disrespect, he partook in the most amount of combination hissatsu's along with Asuto.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He treats his teammates with complete disrespect and isn't careful at what comes out of his mouth. However, he still cares about his teammates.
• The Napoleon: He's rather short but very rude and impulsive. Averted when he reappears in Orion with a growth spurt.
• Playing with Fire: He knows Fire Tornado.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: During the match against Perfect Sparks, he shoots a brainwashed Asuto in the head with Fire Tornado in hopes he would wake up, but he just knocks Asuto out. The reason why it didn't work was because the boy was not Asuto, but somebody who pretended to be him and who faked his injury. More notably, Kozoumaru's unsportsmanshipness earns him a red card, while plenty other characters who play unfairly don't receive one.
• Took a Level in Kindness: When he joins Inazuma Japan in Orion, he's a much nicer and calmer person, which surprises his teammates.

Polestar Academy / Seishou Gakuen

In general

• A Day in the Limelight: The spin-off manga, Inazuma Eleven Penguin no Tsugumono is all about them.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: They easily wipe the floor with Inakuni Raimon, winning the match at 10-1.
• Stellar Theme Naming: At least some of the members had a theme naming referencing the twelve stellar zodiacs.

Acker Reese / Mizukamiya Seiryuu

• The Captain: Of Seishou Gakuen.
• The Heart: As the captain of Seishou Gakuen, he is the one who tries to bring the team together.
• Homoerotic Subtext: He has a lot of this with Haizaki, especially in the "Heir of Penguin" manga. A lot of their interactions and Mizukamiya's interest in the latter are clearly written like a romantic relationship. For example, when Haizaki wanted to tell him that he was going to transfer to Raimon, some girls in the background thought they were having "a love confession".
• Pretty Boy: He has wavy hair, thick eyelashes and a pretty face. He's apparently considered good-looking.
• Red Armband of Leadership: He wears one, like most team captains. His armband is blue.
• Scars Are Forever: In the manga Inazuma Eleven Heir of Penguins, it's revealed he has a lightning-shaped scar on his hip, which he got in his childhood after being hit by a car.
• Team Mom: He is very caring and tries to understand the feelings of all his teammates, particularly the more troubled ones like Haizaki.
• Technicolor Eyes: He has blue and purple eyes.

Elliot Ember / Haizaki Ryouhei

For tropes applying to Haizaki Ryouhei visit his entry here.

Jude Sharp / Kidou Yuuto

For tropes applying to Kidou Yuutou visit his entry here.

Royal Academy / Teikoku Gakuen

Grotley Bogwash / Shimerigawa Kageru

Voiced by: Hiroki Shimowada

The son of one of Teikoku's higherups, he's chosen by Kageyama to play in the match against Inakuni Raimon as part of his strategy and is discarded from the team when the coach doesn't need him anymore.

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• The Captain: During his only match, he insists on having Sakuma's captain band. Sakuma gets it back after Kageyama doesn't need him anymore.
• Fiery Redhead: His hair is more off a faded ginger color, but he definitely fits personality-wize. He's prone to throwing a tantrum when things don't go the way he wants.
• Hate Sink: No one in his team even remotely likes him due to being nothing more than an arrogant Spoiled Brat who is a jerk to the others, in addition to being completely untalented. Also, most characters in this show who are evil or at least jerkasses have some redeeming qualities, they often have reasons to be like that and they eventually become a better person, but the same can't be said about him.
• Hypocrite: He makes fun of his teammates' difficulty to play due to their special shoes slowing them down and gets angry when the defenders fail to stop Asuto's shoot, but he has no talent whatsoever.
• Never My Fault: When Kozoumaru score the first goal goal, he blames the defenders for not stopping the ball, even though it's mainly the goalkeeper's job to stop it. Granted, he probably never played soccer before, but still.
• Small Name, Big Ego: He's very full of himself and believes there's a good reason why Kageyama put him on the team. Grotley was actually put on the team because he needed somebody weak to boost up Raimon's confidence.
• Spoiled Brat: Definitely has the attitude, with how he bosses the others around. When they don't do the things he expects, he yells at them and threatens them with his father's ability to expel them.

Alpine / Hakuren

Aiden Froste / Fubuki Atsuya

Voiced by: Mamoru Miyano

• Adaptational Jerkass: Downplayed, as Atsuya is already a pretty massive Jerkass, but Ares shows that his teammates would beat him up for it.
• Age Lift: He was Fubuki's twin brother back in the original series. Here, he's a year younger than Fubuki.
• Animal Battle Aura: He has two hissatsus with similar names which showcase a bear.
• Badass Arm-Fold: In the first episode of Outer Code, he's often seen with his arms crossed.
• Breakout Character: Being one of the most voted characters by fans to join Inazuma Japan is what earned him a place in the team in Orion.
• Fiery Redhead: Mostly because of his arrogant attitude towards the others, which is especially shown towards Nae, whom he finds annoying.
• An Ice Person: By default, due to being part of Hakuren.
• In-Series Nickname: He is called "The Bear Killer", a pun on his hissatsu Deadly Bear Killer.
• Jerkass: He likes to say bad things to his teammates and especially his opponents in order to annoy them. This is what messed up Raimon's play in the first half
  • Jerkass Has a Point: He does have a point, as a team which is bothered by mere trash-talk isn't really worthy of advancing any further.
• One-Man Army: Did this against Ishikari, his teammates doesn't take this too kindly despite the fact that this tired them out, allowing Hakuren to score by the second half.
• Polar Opposite Twins: Well, minus the twins part.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The fiery red oni to Shirou's gentle blue oni. Colour-Coded for Your Convenience, no less.
• Scarf of Asskicking: He wears his trademark scarf which belonged to him before becoming Shirou's Tragic Keepsake in the original series.
• Sibling Team: With Shirou, whom he has two combination hissatsu with.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: Unlike his Nice Guy brother Shirou, Atsuya would go out of his way to piss off his teammates; to the point of them trying to beat up Atsuya.
• Spared by the Adaptation: He survived the avalanche which killed him in the original series.

Bunny Cottontail / Shiratoya Nae

Voiced by: Inori Minase

• Animal Motifs: Bunnies. Her father and coach owns the "Shirousagi ^note white bunny " Honpo company, her hissatsu Shirousagi Dash-oot involves her summoning cute bunnies and her fans wear headbands with bunny ears.
• Genki Girl: She's very cheerful and optimistic, having joined Hakuren's soccer club only because she wants to have fun.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: Not the lonely brooding variant, but she was a track-and-field athlete prior to becoming a soccer player. Once when she was training she saw the Hakuren team play soccer together, and she thought that she wanted to play with friends rather than be "alone" as a runner.
• Instant Expert: Despite being a newcomer who up to that point she had only played soccer for a few minutes, and even though her plays start off a bit rocky, she's soon able to catch up with the boys and learn her first hissatsus.
• Passionate Sports Girl: She loves to play soccer just for fun and enjoys making friends with Hakuren even if some of them find her annoying.
• Plucky Girl: She is determined to be at the same level as the rest of the team and isn't disheartened when Atsuya tried to undermine her for lack of experience.
• Rose-Haired Sweetie: She has purplish-pink hair and an exuberant personality.
• Spoiled Sweet: Her father is a company CEO, the owner of the one that sponsors her team. Her father also tries to make her happy and satisfy her wishes, she likes being adressed as "princess" and decided to become a striker because it would be the position that would help her stand up the most. She's also a nice, cheerful, and somewhat naïve girl who believes teamwork is important and tries to befriend everybody in the team, including Atsuya. She also treats Norika as a Worthy Opponent, complimenting her newest hisatsu technique.
• Unskilled, but Strong: Despite having little practice in soccer which means she tend to screw-up, her natural speed allows her to get the ball back before other players can catch it.

Alia Academy / Eisei Gakuen

Xavier Schiller / Kira Hiroto

Voiced by: Toshiki Masuda

• Age Lift: In the original games, he was Hitomiko's older brother, but both the original and the Ares anime series made him younger.
• A God Am I: Refers to himself as Eisei Gakuen's god striker.
• Ambiguously Absent Parent: His mother is never seen, not even in flashbacks. In the second game, she was revealed to be dead, so it might also be true here.
• Big Ego, Hidden Depths: Underneath his cocky attitude was a lonely boy who had grown apathetic and convinced that his father never looked at him no matter what he does.
• Big Fancy House: He lives in a huge mansion.
• Blasphemous Boast: Gives one out to the soon to be Eisei Gakuen soccer team.
  All of you will bow down to me
  To Eisei's god striker, Master Kira Hiroto!
• Delinquent Hair: His hair is messy and some of its strands are dyed white.
• Evil Laugh: Does this after his Blasphemous Boast mentioned above.
• First-Name Basis: One of the few Japanese male characters called by their given name.
• Japanese Delinquents: He's gotten into several fights with other people, so much so that he could be arrested if he keeps up. This is why he is a part of Eisei Gakuen's soccer team.
• Jerkass: A part of Eisei Gakuen's theme with goodness and garbage, we all know where he fits in here.
• Lonely Rich Kid: He was often left alone at home when his father went to work to take care of the kids from Sun Garden and he used to play soccer just by himself, unlike the kids from the orphanage who played together.
• Nonconformist Dyed Hair: His hair is gray with white highlights. As a child, he had completely gray hair, confirming that his hair is dyed. This change in appearance show that he used to be a nice kid until he rebelled against his father for feeling neglected.
• Pet the Dog: He offered to help Ichihoshi get the money needed for his brother's operation with help from his father. This doesn't actually happen, because they soon discover that the Ichihoshi they knew is actually Hikaru and the older brother Mitsuru is dead. But it's still a very nice gesture coming from him.
• Running Gag: He always gets interrupted when he tries to say God Striker.
• Spared by the Adaptation: He didn't die like in the original series. Justified, since his death was the main reason why his father started the alien project, but here aliens don't attack the earth.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: If the brief flashbacks of his childhood are anything to go by, he used to be a nice kid and once got along with Tatsuya until he had enough of his father focusing on other things and gave him the idea that his father didn't care about Hiroto.
• The Unfavorite: He certainly felt this way when he saw his father giving a lot of affectionate gestures to Tatsuya and it just gets worse from there until he had enough.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: He used to wish and earn his father's approval until one day, he just had enough.
• What If?: Due to being Spared by the Adaptation, the entire Aliea Academy Arc never happened, which set the stage for Barcelona Orb to trash Raimon.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: As seen in episode 22 of Orion, he's afraid of flight. He’s also not very good with thrill rides as seen in episode 31 of Orion.
• Yin-Yang Bomb: His combination hissatsu with Haizaki, Penguin The God & Devil, which combines his light energy with Haizaki's dark energy, resulting in angel and demon penguins.
• You Don't Look Like You: He looks absolutely nothing like the anime version of his original timeline counterpart, who looked almost identical Tatsuya, with the only difference being that he had slightly darker hair. Averted when compared to the game version of his original timeline counterpart, whose appearance was never shown.

Everytown / Tonegawa Tousen

Billy Miller / Sakanoue Noboru

Voiced by: Takahashi Rie

• An Ice Person: He practiced Ice Arrow offscreen after watching Hiura use it and replicated it. In episode 6 of Orion, he uses it to freeze the ball after kicking it into the hidden blade of Luci's cleats. The next hit shatters the ice and breaks away the ball, forcing Luci's cheating tatics out.
• Determinator: Just like Endou, he won't ever give up in a soccer match. He'll even force himself to learn a hissatsu function on his own if he finds it cool enough to try.
• Guile Hero: He's a Nice Guy, but is surprisingly perceptive, on and off the field. Despite not realizing the Disciples of Orion's manipulations, he catches onto Australia's cheating after being cut in the leg and creates two plans on the fly to stop one of the players, Luci from using their cleats to damage him or the other defenders on the team.
• The Lancer: Endou's right hand man in Tonegawa Tousen and libero to his goalkeeper of the team, and in Orion's Inazuma Japan.
• Power Copying: After seeing Hiura's Ice Arrow hissatsu, he practiced it until he mastered it, surprising his Inazuma Japan teammates.

Kia Tanner / Tanukigahara Ponko

Click ^here to see her Tanuki form

Voiced by: Ami Koshimizu

• Anthropomorphic Transformation: Justified since she's a Tanuki. She still looks human enough with the only hints left that she is one being the leaf on top of her head and her tail.
• Genki Girl: Her brief stint as a human shows her as a cheerful person.
• Team Pet: As her Tanuki form, she's the mascot for Tonegawa Tousen's soccer team.
• Transformation Trinket: Her leg bracelet allows her to change into a human and back into a tanuki at will.

Lunar Prime Academy / Outei Tsukinomiya

Duske Grayling / Nishikage Seiya

Voiced By: Kenichi Suzumura

• Final Boss: Alongside Nosaka, he's the final goalkeeper Inakuni Raimon needs to break through in order to win the Football Frontier.
• Former Delinquent: He used to be a yankee before he encountered Nosaka.
• Now You Tell Me: Duske had no idea Nosaka had a brain tumor. After Anna assumed he knew, Duske heads straight to Nosaka, angered that he wasn't told about it.
• One-Steve Limit: He shares his given name with that of Tobitaka Seiya (coincidentally, both of them are or used to be delinquents) and Saotome Seiya.
• Straight Man and Wise Guy: The straight man, reserved Only Sane Man who is often surprised by Nosaka's ever changing personality.
• The Stoic: Duske doesn't lose his cool or show much emotion unless in situations where Nosaka is in a serious condition or illness.
• Undying Loyalty: Watching Nosaka risk his life to save another child in a burning building gave Nishikage the thought of changing his life around for the better. After that day, he swore to be by Nosaka's side.
• Younger Than They Look: He's very tall and muscular for a 13-years-old.

Supporting Characters

Faith Winter / Miyano Akane

Voiced by: Haruka Tomatsu

Haizaki's childhood friend. She was rendered comatose by the Ares no Tenbin program. Haizaki started soccer to avenge her.

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• Break the Cutie: What Ares no Tenbin did to her when she was still a young and inncocent girl. Due to some technique errors in the program, it ended up damaging her brain and rendering her comatose for a while.
• Broken Bird: Used to be for a while, but she got better through medical rehabilitation. However, she continues to pretend to be one in order for Nosaka to investigate more about the Ares program.
• Childhood Friends: To Haizaki.
• Cute Mute: Turns out she is not as mute as Haizaki thinks.
• Dumb Struck: One of the consequences of the trauma caused by the Ares no Tenbin program is losing her ability to speak. She gets it back after she recovers.
• Foreshadowing: In episode 24, it's revealed that she recovered already and was only faking her disability, but there were already several hints before this episode that implied this:
  • In episode 8, she responds to Nosaka when he brings her flowers.
  • In episode 13, she responds to Nosaka that she knows she still has to play alone.
  • When a disappointed Haizaki visits her to tell her that he failed to beat Outei Tsukinomiya, she pets him on the head.
• Genki Girl: When she was a child. She actually manage to break through Haizaki's shell. Not so much as a teenager in the beginning, although she seems to have regained her old energetic self as of episode 26.
• Girlish Pigtails: Sports this hairstyle both as a child (when it fits better) and as a teenager.
• Morality Pet: To Haizaki.
• Obfuscating Disability: The AnT program did render her comatose at first, but she continues to fake her disability to the nurse (whom she appologizes to when she finds out) and at first to Haizaki even after she recovers. It turns out she did it in order for Nosaka to investigate more about the Ares program and have more proof that it's a mistake.
• One-Steve Limit: She shares her given name with one of the managers from GO.
• Thousand-Yard Stare: The trauma from the AnT program caused her to stare into nothing for a long time.
• Wham Shot: : When Nosaka comes to visit her, she reacts to his presence.
  • Wham Line: And she actually responds to Nosaka in episode 13.
• When She Smiles: She smiles at the end of episode 23 when Haizaki realizes that he should play soccer for himself instead of her and it's rather adorable.

Mr. Yi / Zhao Jinyun

Voiced by: Yūichi Nakamura

The coach of Inakuni Raimon. A rather eccentric man with a mysterious past whose coaching will lead his team to the top.

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• Acrofatic: Despite his rather big fat frame, he's rather nimble and is able to play soccer surprisingly well which surprises his team when he helps them practice.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Lets just say his behavior is rather odd such as playing video games during matches and saying weird terminologies while making weird gestures or kung-fu poses.
• Dirty Old Man: His files are full of kinky photos.
• Ditzy Genius: Despite his rather eccentric behavior, it was stated he graduated from Stanford University as valedictorian and after that was a kung-fu instructor for 3 years, spent 3 years in the army, a baseball player for 3 years, 3 years as a soccer player, and a coach for 1 year prior to coaching Inakuni Raimon.
• Eccentric Mentor: For all his faults, he is still a brilliant coach whose unconventional training menus always help Inakuni Raimon (and later Inazuma Japan) win the matches.
• Large Ham: He constantly speaks with a loud and dramatic voice.
• Trickster Mentor: Many of his training methods are very unconventional and he gives little if any explanation about how they'll help Inakuni Raimon in the process. However, more often than not, his training methods help Inakuni Raimon develop useful skills after they figure out what their coach is trying to teach.

Li Kobun

Voiced by: Yuka Terasaki

The lackey of the coach Zhao Jinyun whom he helps with the training for Inakuni Raimon. See the Orion character section for more.

Othman Laspic / Midouin Munetada

Voiced by: Yūichi Nakamura'''

The main antagonist of the season, he's the owner of Gekko Electronics and the one who created the Ares no Tenbin program.

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• Alliterative Name: Midouin Munetada.
• Ambiguously Brown: Whether he's supposed to be black or something else is ambiguous.
• Big Bad: Of Ares no Tenbin. He's the one who created it in order to win money by creating superior kids who excel at everything and is responsible for all the problems caused by it.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: He's the owner of Gekkou Elctronics, the company that designed the Ares no Tenbin program, whose goal is to improve the society by turning normal children into physically-superior ones at the expense of their freedom and emotions. Underneath it all, his main objective is to win money.
• Greed: According to Word of God, he created Ares no Tenbin in order to win money, but it ended up being a failure.
• Obviously Evil: His rather monstrous-looking design with Hellish Pupils makes it obvious he's not a good guy.
• Smug Snake: He's very proud of the Ares no Tenbin and never expected it would ever be a failure. However, Nosaka/Heath managed to outsmart him by hiding his brain tumour and having Akane/Faith continue to pretend she didn't heal in order to investigate more about the program and prove it's a mistake, destroying Midoin's objective as a result. He also kinda looks like a snake.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: He has a lot in common with Garshield from the first series. Both own a company, both care only about money, both created a power-enhancing program and both have a secretary with no personality.
• Villainous Friendship: It's known he has some kind of relationship with Kageyama and he's the one who helped him escape from prison, although what kind of relationship exactly is not clear.
• Villain in a White Suit: He wears a fancy white tuxedo, befitting of his position at the top.
• White Hair, Black Heart: He's a villain with white hair, although this could be because of his age. He's also definitely not the pretty boy variant.

Orion no Kokuin

Revenge Acrobats / Soccer Zatsugidan

Atlas Strongwater / Jimmy Wongfu / Mutekigahara Fujimaru / Li Hao

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Voiced by: Yuka Terasaki

A mysterious kid with an unknown identity whose soccer abilities are unmatched by the members of Inazuma Japan. He is later revealed to be China's ace midfielder.

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• A Day in the Limelight: Episode 15 focuses mostly on him and his backstory.
• Blush Sticker: He has a rosy blush on his cheeks.
• The Captain: Of Rojiura Shounentai.
• Code Name: His name turns out to be fake when Hiura realizes his last name is the same as the lake he was fishing in and his first name is the same as the boat he was standing near. He refuses to tell his real name. It's Li Hao.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": In the first season of Ares, he went by the name "Kobun", which means "lackey". While he claimed it to be his real given name, it's only until episode 15 of Orion where it's revealed to actually be "Hao".
• The Faceless: As Li Kobun, he used to hide his face underneath a mask.
• Family Eye Resemblance: He has the eye shape as Yuu, who is revealed to be his sister.
• He Was Right There All Along: He's been disguising himself as Li Kobun ever since the start of Ares no Tenbin.
• Iconic Item: Hiura recognizes his blue cap immediately when he sees its brand on a shelf in a shop.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: During his flashback, after Hao decided him and the other street rats had to live an honest life, the scene cuts directly to the moment where they already made it far in the tournament, without showing any of the matches they had won previously or simply the way they managed to take care of themselves without Zhao Jinyun's help.
• Street Urchin: He is an orphan boy who didn't get along with the other kids from the orphanage, so he decided to live on the streets, stealing things in order to survive. When he first met Zhao Jinyun, he tried to steal his wallet, but Jinyun took Hao and other street kids in his care. They come into this trope again after Zhao Jinyun decided they didn't need him anymore and left them to thrive on their own, but Hao decided to live an honest life like their boss wanted and they managed just fine since they were able to enter the tournament and make it far with their soccer team, Rojiura Shounentai.

Lucie Wongfu / Li "Yuu" Yuchen

Voiced by: Haruka Tomatsu

• Blush Sticker: She has a rosy blush on her cheeks.
• Childish Bangs: She is a young girl who has even bangs.
• Cute Sports Club Manager: She's the manager of China's team.
• Family Eye Resemblance: She has the same eye shape as Mutekigahara Fujimaru, who is revealed to be her brother, Li Hao.
• Foreshadowing: She has the same rosy cheeks and similar eyes to Mutekigahara Fujimaru. It turns out they are siblings.
• In-Series Nickname: Her name is Yuchen, but she is called "Yuu" for short.
• Stealth Hi/Bye: After Inazuma Japan win the matches against Red Bison and Shining Satans, she disappears without Kimura noticing.
• Sweet Tooth: She is often seen eating something sweet while watching the matches, like ice-cream and pocky sticks.
• Those Two Guys: Together with Kimura, they often watch and discuss Inazuma Japan's matches.

Los Invencibles / Muteki no Giant

Sergi Hernández / Clario Orvan

 

Voiced by: Hiroki Yasumoto

The captain of Spain's national team, Muteki no Giant.

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• Big Eater: Surprisingly. He can actually match Endou at how much they can both eat!
• The Captain: Of Spain's Barcelona Orb and Muteki no Giant.
• The Rival: To Endou and the members of the original Raimon in Ares. Their loss against Barcelona Orb is what motivated and brought the whole new soccer system to Ares.
• The Stoic: He is rarely seen smiling.

The Allegrovs / The Girikanans

Alexander "Alex" Allegrov / Froy Girikanan

Voiced by: Nobuhiko Okamoto

The captain of Russia's national team, Perfect Spark, and the son of Orion Foundation's former leader.

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• Affably Evil: He's surprisingly friendly for supposedly being a part of Orion. Eventually averted since he is against whatever his brother had planned.
• Cain and Abel: A non-lethal example given the nature of Inazuma Eleven. He's the Abel to Bernard's Cain. This is due to their differing opinions about how they want the Orion organization to run and how they want to continue their father's legacy. Eventually averted, because after their mother is arrested, they decide to work together to help children around the world like their father used to.
• The Captain: Of Russia's team, Perfect Spark.
• Childhood Friends: He was friends with Hikaru when he was a disciple of Orion. As a younger child, he had a friend named Yurika, the captain the Final Boss, Shadow of Orion.
• Et Tu, Brute?: He was hurt when the rest of Perfect Spark decided to follow Bernard's orders and use underhanded methods to beat Inazuma Japan.
• Good All Along: Despite the suspicions surrounding him initially, he does not support Orion's dirty methods.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: He was close friends with Ichihoshi when they were teammates in a Russian team. They are still good friends in present time.
• La Résistance: Leads one along with Shinjou Takuma against the Orion Foundation, named the Arrow of Artemis.
• Lonely Rich Kid: As a child, he frequently felt lonely in his house due to Bernard often being busy in helping their father with his business.
• Motor Mouth: Really, he talks a lot and can ramble on to different topics.
• Overlord Jr.: Averted. The guy who was introduced as Orion's leader wasn't his father, the brother he looks up to who is the current leader of Orion was conditioned by their mother into driving Orion into its current corrupt state and is at odds at him. Also, his father was a benevolent figure, who actually wanted Orion to help the poorer nations with the use of soccer, and he is currently working to restore that idealogy to the Orion Foundation.
• Red Herring: First introduced as the son of the Orion Foundation's president, and speaks in a manner befitting as the foundation's crown jewel as the captain of the home country's team, which is chock full of Disciples of Orion. Turns out he wasn't a Disciple himself, and is working against the foundation as it has wandered off its path intended by his actual father.
• Sickly Child Grew Up Strong: He was physically weak and sick as a little kid, but appears to be healthy as a teenager. It's speculated his father founded Orion in order to cure Froy's illness.
• Token Good Teammate: Before leaving the team, he was the only member of Russia's team who was not a Disciple of Orion.
• The Ugly Guy's Hot Son: Subverted, since the old man that used to go by the name "Girikanan" is actually his family butler. His real father, who died when he was six, was more conventionally attractive.

Bernard Girikanan

Voiced by: Yoshimasa Hosoya

The current leader of Orion Foundation and brother of Froy.

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• Broken Ace: Growing up, he was seen as the perfect brother by Froy for being good at soccer (something he helped his little brother with), for helping their father with the Orion foundation and for believing he was their mother's favourite. This all went downhill after their father's death forced him to take over the company at a relatively young age, plus his mother was more abusive towards him than anything, constantly pressuring him to do everything perfectly.
• Cain and Abel: The Cain to Froy's Abel as he was conditioned by his mother to drive Orion into the road to world domination. Eventually averted, because after Irina is arrested, they decide to work together to help children around the world like their father used to.
• Heel–Face Turn: Initially working for his mother in using the Orion foundation to achieve world domination through soccer, he later realises her wrong-doings and decides to follow his father's footsteps.
• Rebuilt Pedestal: He was Froy's role-model when they were younger until their father's death changed him into a completely different person. In the end, they start getting along as brothers after Bernard decides to stop following Irina's views about the world. They later decide to work together to bring Orion back to its former glory.
• Red Herring: Initially slated as the Big Bad of Orion until Episode 43 introduces Irina Girikanan, Bernard and Froy's mother.
• Strong Family Resemblance: He is basically an older-looking Froy with long hair.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Bernard's practices as the new leader of Orion helped the poorer parts of the world but it is also threatening how soccer as a game is played out. It's also implied that Froy is at odds with Bernard because of this. Especially since episode 38 reveals about how Valentin Girikanan's vision is the opposite of Bernard's.
• White Hair, Black Heart: He has white hair and is the current leader of Orion who uses any means necessary to achieve his goals. Eventually, averted.

Valentin Girikanan

Voiced by: Masaki Aizawa

The previous leader of Orion Foundation and father of Froy and Bernard.

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• Deceased Parents Are the Best: In strike contrast to the Abusive Mom who is Irina, Valentin cared about his kids and tried to help Froy become better at soccer while encouraging him to overcoming his limitations given by his illness.
• Disappeared Dad: He is Froy and Bernard's deceased father.
• Nice Guy: The role of the Orion foundation was to help poor children around the world get the chance to play soccer.
• Posthumous Character: He died years before the start of Orion.
• Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!: His wife considered him a fool for having faith in the world after discovering some countries plan to use their economy for buying weapons to start a war. However, Froy and eventually Bernard continue to have faith in the world just like him.
• Small Role, Big Impact: He maybe long dead and we only knew about who he is after he died, but his death and visions for the foundation are what influenced the two Girikanan brothers and subsequently, the events of Orion.

Irina Girikanan

Voiced by: Kikuko Inoue

The wife of Valentin Girikanan and mother of Froy and Bernard.

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• Abusive Parent: Like you wouldn't believe. She had been controlling every aspect of Bernard's life for years and even after Valentin's death, she had been manipulating Orion through Bernard. When Bernard failed, she turned him into a sobbing mess with just her presence and a slap.
• Big Bad: The real current leader of Orion, possibly orchestrated the death of her husband, and manipulated her own son to do her bidding as the Woman Behind the Man with the intention of using Orion to take over the world.
• Bitch Slap: During her physical introduction, she slaps Bernard hard on the face for failing to lead Brazil's team to victory, which shatters his confidence and makes him break down in tears.
• Expy: A female Garshield Bayhan (from the original series). Both are heads of organizations that aim to control the world through soccer, and both prefer working behind someone else. Although she is much more ruthless than him, willing to kill everyone in the stadium if the world leaders do not meet her demands.
• Iron Lady: Has a no-nonsense approach to running Orion, is feared so much that her mere presence sends shivers down the spines of everyone, including her own sons, and is defiant to the end, even when being arrested.
• Kick the Dog: Does this so hard to her son his confidence and demeanor got shattered.
• Knight Templar: She believes she is making the world a better place after finding out some countries want to use their economy to buy weapons for a war, but she is trying to manipulate her eldest son to achieve taking over the world.
• Put on a Prison Bus: She is last seen before being arrested.
• Walking Spoiler: It's really, really hard to talk about her without telling the fact that she is the Man Behind the Man for Orion foundation.
• White Hair, Black Heart: She has white hair like the rest of her family and is the ultimate villain of Orion.