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Platinum Princess Candidates
Yucie
Yucie
Voiced by: Maria Yamamoto (Japanese), Rachel Rivera (English)
- Balloon Belly: Gains one in episode 1 after her birthday feast.
- Catchphrase: "I'm an adult."/"I'm not a brat."
- Cat Girl: Yucie wears a cat suit for a festival.
- Also, the episode where Yucie is turned into a literal cat.
- Expy: Based on the princess of Princess Maker 3.
- First Kiss: She have one courtesy of Arc.
- Forehead of Doom: This becomes a Running Gag.
- Master Swordsman: She suddenly appears to be very good at sword-fighting, though one earlier episode showed her and Glenda practicing.
- Noblewoman's Laugh: In the 2nd episode, Yucie points out that she doesn't have an "oh-ho-ho" laugh or greet people with "gokigenyou," which makes her out-of-place at the Princess Academy.
- Princesses Prefer Pink: Yucie's princess fantasies involve her in a pink dress (including a pink Fairytale Wedding Dress). She actually wears one when she is crowned the Platinum Princess.
- Rags to Royalty: She's actually the princess of the human world.
- Squeaky Eyes. Especially her.
Glenda
Glenda
Voiced by: Yuki Matsuoka (Japanese), Kelley Huston (English)
- Aerith and Bob
- Alpha Bitch: At first.
- Catchphrase: "...Princess of the Demon World with elegant beauty and fantastic magical powers."
- Lovable Alpha Bitch: What she turns out to be.
- Cleavage Window:... sometimes hidden by the ribbon that is. That being said, it's more revealing than the other girls, and it shows that she herself is also quite well endowed for a ten-year old.
- Cute Monster Girl: A human variant.
- Dark Magical Girl
- Does Not Like Men: After a certain episode.
- More like she doesn't like frogs and people who use magic to change their appearance.
- Hidden Heart of Gold: In one episode taking place in the Demon World, Glenda carefully looks around to make sure nobody is watching before warmly comforting a crying cat demon.
- Missing Mom: Glenda's mom abandoned her father because of his goofiness.
- Stripperiffic: Her outfit in her homeworld has a Cleavage Window, high skirt and thigh-high stockings.
- Tomboy Princess: Not nearly as much as Beth, but she is more rough around the edges compared to the more polite Yucie, Cocoloo and Elmina.
- Transformation Sequence: Glenda does a magical-girl powering up sequence in some episodes.
Cocoloo
Cocoloo
Voiced by: Yukari Fukui (Japanese), Monika Bustamante (English)
- Aerith and Bob
- Catchphrase: "I guess I don't have much presence."
- Corner of Woe: The ghost girl Cocoloo always feels ignored by her other, noisier classmates.
- Cute Ghost Girl: A young ghost that is cute as a button.
- Little Miss Badass: Cocoloo can walk through solid objects.
- Our Ghosts Are Different: They are not the souls of dead humans, but an entirely separate race.
- Running Gag: Cocoloo
not having much of a presence.
Elmina
Elmina
Voiced by: Ayako Kawasumi (Japanese), Leigh Anderson Fisher (English)
- Aerith and Bob
- Broken Ace: A non-evil example of this due to her deep fear of failure.
- The Comically Serious
- Deadpan Snarker: Eventually.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: To some extent.
- Emotionless Girl: Doesn't tend to show her feelings a lot compared to the other girls.
- She does cry when she reads the letter from Rockwell's daughter.
- Little Miss Badass: Elmina is physically stronger than average and can fly.
- Master Swordsman: Elmina the Heaven's princess is very skilled with bladed weapons.
- Parental Abandonment: Not as much abandonment as 'if you are not
the bestperfect, you aren't worthy of being called MY daughter' for Elmina. - The Rival: To Glenda.
- Scary Shiny Glasses: Elmina's library uniform evokes this once.
- Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Acts cold most of the time due to her father's abuse, but truly has a good heart.
- Well Done Daughter, Gal: Elmina wants to be this.
- Winged Humanoid: She is Heaven's princess, thus looks like an angel.
Beth
Beth
Voiced by: Fumiko Orikasa (Japanese), Lee Eddy (English)
- Bifauxnen: Cocoloo initially thought Beth was a boy.
- Little Miss Badass: Beth has her ninja tricks.
- Pet the Dog: Beth doesn't seem to be an overly sympathetic character—until you find out how she lets her fairy assistant spend the night.
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- Stripperific: Beth's tight tank top and short shorts have some of this.
- Tomboy Princess: Short hair, tough in fights, brash personality.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: Beth and her 'servant' Belbel.
Supporting
Gunbard
Gunbard
Voiced by: Kenyuu Horiuchi (Japanese), Robert Matney (English)
- Bumbling Dad: But he can be serious when needed.
- The Greatest Story Never Told: Gunbard never told Yucie that he put together the Eternal Tiara.
Cube
Cube
Voiced by: Tomo Saeki (Japanese), Josh Meyer (English)
- Battle Butler: He doesn't battle, but Cube aids Yucie in any way he is able, calling into a certain service to provide items needed for the situation. Later, more fight-savvy battle butlers appear.
- "Fantastic Voyage" Plot: Cube, Chawoo, and Gaga shrink down to enter Balizan to cure him.
- Non-Action Guy
- Tickle Torture: Happens to Cube in episode 2 by Gaga on Glenda's order.
Queen Ercell
Queen Ercell
Voiced by: Kikuko Inoue (Japanese), Cyndi Williams (English)
- Catchphrase: "Didn't I tell you?"
- Expy: Based on the princess of Princess Maker 2.
- Irony: Queen Ercell knows a lot of things that she neglects to tell the girls. But it's something she doesn't know that ends up impacting them all in the final episodes; the revelation that by guiding them to the Tiara, she was sending the girls to either destroy the world or four of the candidates puts the Queen in a state of shock and despair.
- Mr. Exposition: Inverted in Queen Ercell. She thinks many things are of common knowledge, therefore she doesn't elaborate on them.Queen Ercell: "What? Didn't I tell you?"
- Royals Who Actually Do Something: Ercell is the principal of the academy.
Arc
Arc
Voiced by: Takayuki Yamaguchi (Japanese), Joey Hood (English)
- Big Brother Instinct: Towards Yucie.
- Indirect Kiss: Played with: Arc kisses Yucie when he just met her… on the forehead.
- Knight in Shining Armor: Arc acted as such for Yucie once.
- Naked First Impression: Inverted: Arc was the one naked, Yucie realizes it… then blushes and recoils in embarrassment.
- Running Gag: Arc calling Yucie 'forehead'.
Gaga
Gaga
Voiced by: Kouji Ishii (Japanese), Jason Liebrecht (English)
- "Fantastic Voyage" Plot: Cube, Chawoo, and Gaga shrink down to enter Balizan to cure him.
Chawoo
Chawoo
Voiced by: Chiaki Maeda (Japanese), Shawn Sides (English)
- "Fantastic Voyage" Plot: Cube, Chawoo, and Gaga shrink down to enter Balizan to cure him.
- The Ghost: Literally.
- Invisible to Normals: Cocoloo's butler is a ghost, and the cast can't see him until he wants them to, midway through the series.
- Our Ghosts Are Different: They are not the souls of dead humans, but an entirely separate race.
- Shapeshifter: Cocoloo's butler Chawoo can do it… and pose as her.
Belbel
Belbel
Voiced by: Tomoko Kaneda (Japanese), Larissa Wolcott (English)
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: Beth and her 'servant' Belbel. Belbel is the girly girl, being demure and polite and wearing a dress.
- Verbal Tic: Beth's assistant Belbel uses the classic "desu" sentence end-er. In the English dub it's "yes".
Balizan
Balizan
Voiced by: Tomohiro Nishimura (Japanese), Robert Fisher (English)
- Do-Anything Robot: Elmina's robot butler Barizan.
Drago
Drago
Voiced by: Kousei Yagi (Japanese), Guy Harvey (English)
Demon King
Demon King
Voiced by: Kenji Utsumi (Japanese), David Frank Jones (English)
- Dark Is Not Evil: Glenda's father the Demon King is a Bumbling Dad much to her ire.
- Our Demons Are Different: Their king is a bumbling buffoon and isn't even close to menacing.
King of Heaven
King of Heaven
Voiced by: Iemasa Kayumi (Japanese), Ev Lunning, Jr. (English)
- Light Is Not Good: Elmina's dad, the King of Heaven tends to be a Jerkass.
Fairy King
Spirit King
Spirit King
Frederik
Maga Selent
Maga Selent
Voiced by: Chisa Yokoyama (Japanese), Ellie McBride (English)
The arbiter of the final test, Maga Selent has magic powers unrivaled by anyone in the cast, even Glenda and Beth. She is actually the princess of the lost Magic World who refused the Eternal Tiara and saw her world and best friends disappear. Diabolos
Diabolos
