List of Eureka Seven characters
The Eureka Seven anime and manga series features an extensive cast of characters created by Bones. The central protagonist of the series is Renton Thurston, a young boy who joins the renegade group Gekkostate to fight against the U.F. Force, led by Dewey Novak.
In naming the characters, writer Dai Sato drew inspiration from club bands and the music culture of his generation. He said, "The youngest generation is represented by references to dance music, techno, and house. Hip hop represents the next generation, and rock represents the oldest generation.” Although the show is primarily targeted towards the kid demographic, he hoped to draw in some viewers who might have hung out at clubs at night.
Gekkostate
Gekkostate is an anti-government militia and counterculture collective led by Holland, who also pilots the LFO Terminus typeR909. Eureka, an aloof, pale girl, pilots an LFO called the Nirvash typeZERO. After joining Gekkostate early in the series, Renton co-pilots the Nirvash with Eureka. Stoner is a photographer who writes Gekkostate's illegal magazine, ray=out. Talho is the head pilot of Gekkostate's aircraft, the Gekko and also ray=out's covergirl. Hap is Holland's childhood friend and the second-in-command of the Gekko. Ken-Goh is the weapons specialist and owner of the Gekko. Jobs and Woz are the ship's engineers, for hardware and software, respectively. Mischa is the resident doctor. Moondoggie is a secondary pilot and operator of the launch catapult. Hilda and Matthieu are the pilots of the Gekkostate LFOs Terminus typeR808 and Terminus typeR606, respectively. Gidget is the communications operator. Finally, Gonzy is a fortuneteller.Renton Thurston
Renton Thurston is the main protagonist of Eureka Seven. He is the son of Adrock Thurston and co-pilot of the Nirvash TypeZERO. He is named after Mark Renton, a character from the film Trainspotting, and Thurston Moore, guitarist of Sonic Youth.Early in Eureka Seven, he immediately falls in love with Eureka and joins Gekkostate to follow Holland Novak, his idol, and also to be with Eureka. He grows into a responsible adult as the series progresses. He also goes on to become a hero by uniting the humans and Scub Coral and saving the world with Eureka. In Eureka Seven: AO, he is married to Eureka and has a son named Ao and a daughter named Amber. He is a mechanic genius and becomes famous after creating the first IFO in Eureka Seven: AO.
In the timeline of the Hi-Evolution films, Renton was accidentally killed by Eureka when her powers awakened, leading to her going insane with grief and creating dream worlds in a desperate quest to find him. At the conclusion of the second film, he is seen on an unknown planet, calling out to Eureka through the Nirvash. In the third film, he is revealed to be trapped within the Scub Coral and has interacted with Iris McKenzie there, with Iris considering him a big brother. Renton reunites with Eureka inside Nirvash when she calls out for his help stopping Dewey's refugee ship from impacting Earth. They disappear together after doing so, promising each other that they can now go anywhere they wish.
Yuri Lowenthal had at one point been contracted by Bandai to provide the English voice for Renton, but after recording thirteen episodes he was replaced by Johnny Yong Bosch because the director of the English dub felt that his voice was too low for the character. All of Renton's lines were subsequently rerecorded for consistency, though Bosch himself admits it took him a while to nail down the voice.
Theron Martin of Anime News Network stated in his review of the series' first DVD that "Renton is a pretty normal male lead for a series like this." However, while initially describing him as immature, Martin later said in his review of the seventh DVD that "Renton proves that he has grown up a bit by not being thrown for a loop by learning what makes Eureka special."
Eureka
Eureka is a young Coralian in human form, who is sent by the sentient Scub Coral to understand and communicate with humans before the beginning of the series. She is the pilot of the Nirvash typeZERO. Although she is the female protagonist of Eureka Seven, she also becomes the mother to the main protagonist of Eureka Seven: AO. Throughout the course of the series, she undergoes many physical changes and suffers from identity problems.In Eureka Seven, she is at first considered to be Holland Novak's partner. However, upon meeting Renton Thurston when she crash-lands in his hometown, she realizes that he is actually the one who will make her smile and declares him as her partner. She later develops a romantic relationship with Renton. In Eureka Seven: AO, Eureka has married Renton and has a daughter named Amber and a son named Ao.
The Hi-Evolution films recontextualize the previous installments of the franchise as among more than 7,400 dream worlds created by a grieving Eureka after she accidentally killed Renton in an earlier timeline. In this capacity she is the main antagonist of the second film, but is saved from her madness by Anemone and brought to the real world. Eureka is the main protagonist of the third film, set ten years later. By this point she has adopted Thurston as her surname. Seeking redemption, she joins A.C.I.D. and works to protect a new humanoid Coralian named Iris, who has powers similar to those Eureka once possessed, from Dewey. She and Renton are finally reunited inside Nirvash when she calls out to him for help thwarting Dewey's apocalyptic scheme, and disappears with him afterward, with the promise that they are now free to go wherever they wish.
Eureka was ranked 18th in the female character category of the Anime Grand Prix in 2005.
In his review of the series' first DVD, Theron Martin of Anime News Network described Eureka as "calm, sensible, and soft-spoken but not necessarily shy...and is quite capable of showing joy, sadness, or earnestness without resorting to the exaggerated expressions and reactions so common in anime." Martin also said in his review of the sixth DVD that "Eureka is hardly the first person in an anime series who struggles to understand and cope with...love, but she does it more convincingly than most."
Maurice, Maeter and Linck
Maurice, Maeter, and Linck are three orphans adopted by Eureka. Before the beginning of the series, they are discovered under a pile of corpses during the massacre at Ciudades del Cielo. They soon join the Gekkostate and are adopted by Eureka. When they first meet Renton, they often play practical jokes on him and were opposed to his relationship with Eureka, whom they think of as their mother. But they eventually accept Renton as their adoptive father.Holland Novak
Holland Novak is the leader of Gekkostate, captain of the Gekko and pilot of the LFO Terminus typeR909. He is also the brother of Dewey Novak. Before meeting Renton, he rescues Eureka and finds out from Norb that there will be a partner who will make Eureka smile. Holland eventually mutinies and organizes the Gekkostate. When he meets Renton, Holland develops a rivalry with the boy due to Renton getting more of Eureka's attention. Eventually, he reconciles with Renton after realizing that the boy is, in fact, Eureka's partner, thus fulfilling Norb's prophecy. During the series, he is also in a relationship with Talho.In Pocketful of Rainbows, Holland is one of a number of orphans afflicted with rapid aging due to Dewey Sorenstam's experiments. He is not related to Dewey, who he killed before assuming "Holland Novak" as his identity. He seeks a way to go to "Neverland," a world where he can escape his fate, after glimpsing the alternate universe from Psalms of Planets. However, when he learns that his child with Talho will not share their condition, he relents, content to know the next generation will get to live full lives.
At the end of the second Hi-Evolution film, Holland and the rest of Gekkostate are brought into the real world. Ten years later, he is an officer in the military of "Green Earth," the people who came from the fictional world along with him. When Dewey betrays humanity, Holland launches a new Gekko to stop him. He orders the crew to abandon ship and sacrifices himself to try and knock the refugee ship off of its collision course with Earth, but this fails to achieve full success. He is survived by Talho and their as yet unborn son.