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A reduction in cell area and an improvement in tolerance allowed for programming and erase voltages is achieved utilizing a diffused control gate having improved capacitive coupling to the floating gate through a thin oxide grown on single crystal silicon.
1. An electrically programmable and erasable MOS memory cell structure, comprising:
a silicon substrate having a source, a drain and a conductive channel means connecting said source and drain;
a diffused control gate region of semiconductive material separate from said conductive channel and located in the surface of said substrate; and
means for connecting a source of electrical potential to said source, said drain and said diffused control gate region;
a single crystal silicon oxide insulator layer overlying said diffused control gate region, said channel region and said substrate, said oxide insulator layer being thinner in the vertical direction over said diffused region and over said channel region than over other portions of said substrate;
an electrically floating conductive gate means deposited on the surface of said single crystal silicon oxide layer in a zone overlying at least a portion of both said diffused control gate region and said conductive channel region;
a layer of polycrystalline oxide overlying said electrically floating conductive gate;
a conductive erase gate means overlying said insulating layer of polycrystalline oxide in a region generally overlying said diffused control gate region in said substrate beneath, said conductive erase gate means being supplied with an electrical contact for applying an erase voltage across said polycrystalline oxide to said floating gate means by capacitive coupling through said oxide insulator layers;
said single crystal silicon oxide and said polycrystalline silicon oxide are in the areas which overly said diffused control gate and said conductive channel, respectively of thicknesses related to one another by approximately the ratio of one to four, said single crystal oxide thickness being represented by the numerator.
2. An electrically programmable and erasable MOS memory cell structure, comprising:
a silicon substrate having a source, a drain and a conductive channel means connecting said source and drain;
a diffused control gate region of semiconductive material separate from said conductive channel and located in the surface of said substrate; and
means for connecting a source of electrical potential to said source, said drain and said diffused control gate region;
a single crystal silicon oxide insulator layer overlying said diffused control gate region, said channel region and said substrate, said oxide insulator layer being thinner in the vertical direction over said diffused region and over said channel region than over other portions of said substrate;
an electrically floating conductive gate means deposited on the surface of said single crystal silicon oxide insulator layer in a zone overlying at least a portion of both said diffused control gate region and said conductive channel region;
a conductive programming gate means overlying said single crystal silicon oxide insulator and underlying said floating gate means in a region laterally between said control gate diffusion area and overlying at least a portion of said channel area in the surface of said oxide insulation;
a layer of polycrystalline silicon oxide insulating said programming gate from said floating gate and being provided with an electrical contact for connecting a source of electrical potential thereto; and
a conductive erase gate means overlying said insulating layer of polycrystalline oxide in a region generally overlying said diffused control gate region in said substrate beneath, said conductive erase gate means being supplied with an electrical contact for applying an erase voltage across said polycrystalline oxide to said floating gate means by capacitive coupling through said oxide insulator layers;
said single crystal silicon oxide and said polycrystalline silicon oxide are in the areas which overly said diffused control gate and said conductive channel, respectively of thicknesses related to one another by approximately the ratio of one to four, said single crystal oxide thickness being represented by the numerator.
3. A memory cell as described in claim 1 or claim 2, wherein:
the thickness of said single crystal oxide, in the areas which overly said diffused control gate and said conductive channel, respectively is approximately in the range of 40 to 50 nanometers and the thickness of said polycrystalline oxide is approximately in the range of 160 to 240 nanometers.
This invention relates generally to MOS floating gate field effect transistor devices and memory cells and in particular to those forms of the device which are electrically programmable and electrically erasable via a tunneling mechanism of electrons through the oxide insulators.
Numerous metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) cells have been developed employing floating gates for storing charge for controlling the state of conduction of an active device. The state of charge on a floating gate can be used to represent a binary state of the conductive mechanism of the active device controlled thereby.
While devices of this type are numerous, those typically having electrically programmable and electrically erasable read only operation are exemplified by U.S. Pat. No. 4,099,196. As described in this reference, it is known that the conduction mechanism through an oxide layer grown on polycrystalline silicon is dependent upon electric field direction. The rough top surface of the polycrystalline silicon (polysilicon) layer causes local field enhancement which can cause injection of electrons at a reduced electric field when this layer is biased negatively with respect to upper conductive layer on the opposite side of the polycrystalline oxide insulator. If the polarity of the electric field is reversed, a much higher field is necessary for the injection of charge. In addition, it is generally known that oxides grown from polysilicon conduct charge more readily, i.e., at 1/5 to 1/7 of the field required for conduction through oxides grown from single crystal silicon.
In devices of the sort described, in order to achieve a high electric field between a floating gate and the programming or erase gates, respectively, it is necessary to have a large capacitive coupling from the floating gate to the control gate so that the potential on the floating gate may be held relatively constant while programming or erase gates are raised or lowered to other potentials. As shown in the aforementioned patent, this requirement usually results in the provision of relatively large cell area since the capacitive coupling is through the same oxide layer to which both the programming and erase gates are capacitively coupled to the floating gate. The general expense and complexity of utilizing more and more substrate area is undesirable. A potential solution to this would be to thin the oxide layers selectively in the area of the control gate to increase capacitive coupling. However, this will require a separate mask and process step which complicates the repeatability of the process and tracking of the development of capacitance ratios and, moreover, it increases the electric field across the control gate capacitance which will compete for the injection of charge onto the floating gate.
In addition, the floating gate itself has a parasitic capacitance between itself and the substrate wherever it overlies thinner oxide such as over the channel of the active device and this must be overcome by coupling to the control gate. Also, since the thin oxide layers so grown are grown independently in a separate step from the polysilicon to polysilicon oxidation step and since the thin oxide areas are independently defined by different masks, a large variation in coupling capacitance tolerances will be experienced in practice.
All of the foregoing problems and proposed solutions essentially involve more complicated processing by the use of additional masks and the resultant loss of tracking in the formation of the capacitances and their ratios or interject additional process steps which are more desirably avoided.
In light of the foregoing difficulties with the known prior art, it is an object of the present invention to provide an improved electrically programmable and electrically erasable read only memory MOS device having a floating gate for controlling the state of an active device and a control gate having higher capacitance and better capacitive ratio tracking in a reduced cell area for denser device construction.
The present invention meets the foregoing and yet other unenumerated objects by providing a control gate diffusion in the surface of the semiconductive substrate and which is further provided with a thin oxide grown on the single crystal silicon substrate to isolate the diffused control gate from the floating gate. Since the thin oxide region is grown from the single crystal silicon and is grown at the same time as the gate oxide, the thickness and capacitance per unit area closely track those developed for the parasitic substrate to floating gate capacitance. Also, the areas of the two capacitances vary in the same proportions since they are both defined by the dimensions of the floating gate. A saving in cell area results from reduced overlap area required for the coupling capacitance and additional area is saved because an erase electrode or gate can be stacked on top of the control electrode in a vertical sequence isolated from the control electrode by polyoxide.
FIG. 1 illustrates a schematic cross section of a preferred embodiment of the invention.
FIG. 2 illustrates an electrical schematic diagram for the overall device of the preferred form of the present invention.
FIG. 3 illustrates an example of a two by two matrix of one and one-half device cells as configured for a read only memory using these devices.
FIG. 4 is a table showing typical read/write and erase voltages on the control gate, programming gate, erase gate, and drain portions for each of the cells A through D illustrated in FIG. 3 when only cell A is being written, read or erased.
FIG. 5 illustrates a four cell memory section adapted for hot electron programming without the use of a program gate.
FIGS. 6A and 6B illustrate, respectively, the control conditions for erasing cells A-D in the configuration of FIG. 5 and, alternatively in FIG. 6B, the conditions for a reading or writing of cell A in FIG. 5.
Turning to FIG. 1, a silicon substrate 1 is illustrated in cross section cutting through the active channel 2 for the memory cell conductive element between its source and drain (not shown). This may be generally illustrated in FIG. 2 by the sectional lines showing the view direction apparent in FIG. 1. A diffused control gate area 3 is imbedded in substrate 1 at a position laterally spaced apart from the conductive channel of the active FET 2. A single crystal silicon oxide insulator layer 4 (grown from single crystal silicon) having thinner areas 5 and 6 overlying the control gate and the active FET areas, respectively, is also shown. The floating gate 7 of polysilicon overlies these regions 5 and 6 as well as a region of polyoxide (oxide grown from polysilicon) 8 separating the program polysilicon gate 9 from the floating gate. An insulating cover layer 10 of polyoxide is also shown and above it is a metal erase gate 11 in the region generally overlying the diffused control gate 3. Appropriate electrical contacts are indicated for attachment to the control gate 3, the program gate 9, the erase gate 11 and would also be indicated as shown in FIG. 2 for the source and drains.
Turning to FIG. 2, it may be seen that three separate capacitances between the various controlling gate regions and the floating gate are shown in an electrical schematic form. The capacitances between the various gate elements and the floating gate 7 are a function of the type and thickness of the insulating oxide layer separating them from the floating gate 7 and the surface area of the floating gate 7 and the control gates. A fourth capacitance exists between the floating gate and the surface of the active device 2.
As shown in FIG. 1, one of the keys to constructing the device according to the present invention lies in reducing the thickness of the oxide layer 5 between the control gate 3 and the floating gate 7 which increases the capacitive coupling therebetween. In general, it is desired that the capacitance of this gate to gate interface be much much greater than the capacitance between the erase gate and the floating gate or the programming gate and the floating gate. Given this consideration, it is apparent that most of a voltage drop developed by applying a voltage to the control gate 3, while the programming gate 9 is grounded, will be developed across the smaller capacitance existing between the floating gate and the programming gate. Hence, a greater field will be developed for the writing or programming of the floating gate with the appropriate field direction across the polyoxide 8 used for programming.
The said field may also appear across the erase polyoxide 10 during programming, but the direction of the field is of opposite direction so that the aforementioned local field enhancement does not cause conduction. (Thus cells B and D shown in FIG. 3 exhibit no oxide conduction during programming cell A.)
In order to selectively erase cell A, the erase gate E1 is raised to the erase potential while the control gate C1 is kept at ground, thus creating a high field in the appropriate direction to conduct electrons from the floating gate. Since E1 is common to other cells in the same column, the control gates for the other cells must also be raised to a high potential in order to avoid erasure. If these said other control gates are taken to the erase potential, the programming gates for these said other cells must also be taken to a high potential to prevent unwanted programming of said other cells.
FIG. 4 shows the voltage conditions for selective write and erase of cell A by means of oxide conduction discussed earlier. The voltages shown prevent the buildup of sufficient electric fields in the oxides of cells B, C, and D for oxide conduction for either write or erase. Thus, cell A is written and erased while cells B, C, and D are not.
Turning to FIG. 3, an electrical schematic of a four cell memory matrix employing the devices of the present invention is illustrated with appropriate control gate, erase gate, programming gate and drain voltage selection lines as shown. FIG. 4 illustrates the voltage applications for the control gate, programming gate, erase gate, and the drain lines in FIG. 3 for each of the cells A through D shown in FIG. 3 for the several operations of writing, erasing or reading cell A. Similar conditions for the remaining cells exist and can be developed from FIG. 4 simply by substituting cell B, C, D, etc., for cell A and placing cell A in the conditions listed for the one it is replaced by, etc. The contents of the table in FIG. 4 are voltages for voltage levels applied to the respective control lines shown in FIG. 3.
Returning to FIG. 1, some illustrative dimensions are as follows: the thickness of areas 5 and 6 is approximately 40 to 50 nanometers and those of the areas 8 and 10 are on the order of 160 to 240 nanometers so that relatively large (4 or 5 to 1) capacitance ratios exist based on the oxide thicknesses alone before the conductor areas are taken into account. In addition, the oxide layer 4 is single crystal silicon oxide having lower conductivity and hence, greater dielectric strength which improves the voltage handling ability still further. The roughened uppermost surface of the polysilicon program gate and polysilicon floating gate are also depicted in FIG. 1. These can be enhanced by a light predeposition or will result naturally from the effect of depositing polysilicon. The effect on enhancing the injection of electrons from this reference surface has been previously noted. As will be apparent to those of skill in the art, the areas where the control gate region 3 and the conductive channel region 2 which are overlain with thin oxide will have capacitances that track fairly well with the deposition of the polysilicon floating gate 7 since the windows in the single crystal oxide layer 4 are opened up over regions 5 and 6 simultaneously and the deposition process for the floating gate 7 occurs over them simultaneously in a latter step. Thus, mask alignment problems and process variations are mutually experienced by these various areas resulting in closer control of the capacitance ratios from chip to chip and cell to cell.
While the improved coupling has been described for a cell using oxide conduction for write and erase, it will be obvious to those skilled in the art that similar benefits will be achieved for a cell which is programmed with channel hot electron injection.
A complete sequence of operation for constructing the device as shown in FIG. 1 are as follows:
Conventional masking, doping and selective oxidation steps are followed to produce a substrate 1 of first conductivity type, which has regions 5 and 6 of thin oxide, separated by regions of thick oxide 4.
A first polysilicon layer is then deposited over the substrate and doped to achieve the desired conductivity. Regions such as 9 are then patterned using plasma etching techniques. The thin oxide regions 5, 6, not covered by said first poly regions are then etched back to bare silicon and a new oxide layer is grown in these regions. At the same time, a thicker oxide will be grown on the top surface and sides of the first poly patterns. By performing the oxidation in steam and oxygen at a relatively low temperature (approximately 800� C.) a ratio of 4 or 5 to 1 of oxide thickness on the polysilicon to oxide thickness on single crystal silicon can be achieved. The oxide grown on the top surface of the first polysilicon layer electrode 9 has a lowered field requirement for injection of electrons from the said first polysilicon layer when an appropriate electric field is applied between this electrode and an upper second electrode.
After the said oxidation step, a photo resist mask may be used to define a doped region of second conductivity type which is the ion implanted control gate 3. The implant can be done with arsenic.
A second upper polysilicon layer is deposited on the substrate and doped. This layer is then patterned using plasma etching techniques to form a floating gate region 7 which overlies the control gate 3 in the thin oxide region 5 and overlies the channel region 2 in the thin oxide region 7.
The source and drain regions of said second conductivity type are then ion implanted with arsenic ions through any exposed thin oxide regions while either first or second poly regions as well as the thick oxide regions serve as masks for the ion implant.
The structure is then subjected to an annealing cycle at 1000� C. to activate the ion implanted regions and diffuse them to their final junction depth.
A second polysilicon oxidation step is then performed to isolate the floating gate with the polyoxide region 10. This oxide layer will also have reduced electric field requirements for injection of electrons from the lower floating gate electrode to an upper electrode.
The structure is completed by forming contact windows through the various oxides over the poly 1 programming gate 9, the diffusion control gate 3, and the source and drain diffusions and by patterning metal electrodes over said windows and over the floating gate to form the erase gate 11.
While the process sequence has been described for an N channel MOS cell, it will be obvious to those skilled in the art to form a P channel MOS cell.
As an added benefit, the improved coupling ratio between the diffused control gate and the floating gate can also be used to great advantage in programming a memory cell by the use of "hot" channel electrons. Using this technique, the floating gate can be charged without the programming gate shown in the figures. Instead, programming of the cell is accomplished by simultaneously pulsing the control gate and the drain voltage. Erasure is conducted in the normal manner described above and erasure by block is possible with both types of cells. The hot electron writing or programming technique, since it requires one less element in the structure, is desirable from a manufacturing viewpoint since it simplifies the manufacturing operation and improves device yield ratios for cells constructed to use the technique.
It should be noted that the oxide conduction used for write and erase in the cells of FIGS. 3 and 4 is an extremely low power mechanism with currents in the picoampere range. The hot electron injection mechanism depicted by FIGS. 5, 6A and 6B results in the conduction of high drain to source currents in the device 1's of FIG. 5 when they are being programmed. (Currents are approximately 2 ma per cell at 16 V.) Thus, while the hot electron injection cell might be somewhat simpler to construct, it has higher power consumption than the oxide conduction cell. The mechanism of channel hot electron programming is discussed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,119,995 and is now well understood in the art. It should be noted that the increased coupling which made the diffused control gate useful for the oxide conduction write/erase cell also is of benefit in a hot electron write cell since a high voltage must be coupled to the floating gate (for this type of writing) so that a high electric field can be established on the gate oxide near the drain in the channel so that hot electron injection to the floating gate will take place.
Having thus described our invention with relation to a preferred embodiment thereof, it will be apparent to those of skill in the art how the benefits thereof can be obtained in a variety of configurations for devices of this character. Hence, the claims are by way of example only and are not to be taken as limitation for the basic invention.
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The Keroro Platoon
Sergeant Keroro
Voiced by: Kumiko Watanabe (Japanese), Todd Haberkorn (English) and Eba Ojanguren (Spanish)"Our hero", a rather hapless Alien Invader who spends more time doing chores and goofing off than he spends actually trying to invade. His plans usually take the form of Zany Schemes that blow up in his face in various amusing ways.
- Adorkable: In moments when he's genuinely excited about something, he expresses a child-like enthusiasm that is just too cute for words.
- Anti-Hero: The loser type, most of the time.
- Bullying a Dragon: His relationship with Natsumi in a nutshell.
- Becomes a literal example when Warrior-Style was introduced in the manga.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Rarely — very rarely — shows signs of this. In Volume 17, he stops Zoruru dead with a single shadow-wreathed look and a stern order. Then he does the same thing to a Kiruru unit in Volume 20.
- He also kicks a lot of ass in the movies. Notable examples include: him being turned into a dragon in the fourth movie and proceeding to kick his entire platoon's dragon asses. Note that when he transformed, Keroro, like the rest of his platoon, forgot all about his mission and who he was and while the audience were privy to the other platoon-turned-dragon members thoughts, we do not hear Keroro's at all.
- In the third movie, Keroro engages his evil clone in a mecha duel to protect Fuyuki and holds on his own fairly well before he was downed. After reuniting with Fuyuki and finding Dark Keroro still alive, he angrily runs over and slaps the clone hard enough to send him flying.
- Explosive Overclocking: Occurs if he manages to get oversaturated with water, briefly unlocking the Keroro From Back Then before he's brutally Brought Down to Normal again.
- Idiot Hero: Whenever he and his platoon are charged with saving Pekopon from other alien threats and not being the "threat" themselves.
- Informed Ability: Supposedly a decorated war veteran, but (almost) never shows any of the competence and bravery you'd expect. A manga chapter eventually explaines why: Just before his first assignment, powerful aliens attacked and were obliterating Keron's forces. Keroro, unaware of all this, uses a port-a-potty which transforms into a space ship, takes off and single-handedly defeats the enemy, then lands. Completely oblivious to what just happened, he steps out to a hero's welcome and promotion to command of his squad.
- Improbable Weapon User: In many video games, he draws from his collection of toys and cleaning supplies to help him out—the vacuum is a particular favorite.
- Jerkass/Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Wavers back and forth.
- Loser Protagonist
- Man Child
- The Neidermeyer: While everyone admits he's incompetent, only Giroro openly hates him.
- Otaku: Of the Gundam variety but also obsesses over the Admiral Geroro manga, space bikes, and trains, surprisingly enough.
- Trademark Favorite Food: The Funimation dub exaggerates his love of hamburgers (or "cow flesh").
- Star fruit is also pretty apparent, Justified as it 'saved' him in one chapter. It Makes Sense in Context.
- Transformation Trinket: The Keron Star, which lets him transform into a pre-peace treaty weapon called Warrior Style.
- Verbal Tic: Frequently ends his sentences with "...de arimasu!"
- Villain Protagonist: Largely a Harmless Villain, of course.
- Weaksauce Weakness: Banana peels. He's compelled to step and slip on them.
Private Tamama
Voiced by: Etsuko Kozakura (Japanese), Brina Palencia (English) and Pilar Ferrero (Spanish)The team's youngest member, made obvious by the fact he's still got tadpole features. Despite his cuteness, he's got a hair-trigger temper, a massive jealous streak, and likes firing his laser when provoked. Also, he loves his "Gunsou-san!"
- All Love Is Unrequited: Keroro seems blissfully ignorant about his feelings.
- Bare-Fisted Monk: His primary fighting style aside from Blowing Stuff Up.
- Breath Weapon: Tamama IMPACT—!
- Berserk Button
- Beware the Nice Ones: Heavily. Shoop-da-whoops anyone who dare ticks him off.
- Brutal Honesty: Uses this on Karara to dissuade her crush... though he doesn't realize that's what he's doing.
- Clingy Jealous Tadpole: He really doesn't like anyone else getting too close to his Gunsou-san.
- Deliberately Cute Child
- Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Goes through this with Mois a couple times.
- Eye Beams
- Fair Weather Mentor: Towards Taruru. Loves the way Taruru strokes his ego, hates his overwhelming cheerfulness and naivete.
- Fartillery
- Feet of Clay: Gradually grows disenchanted with Keroro due to this, especially in the manga.
- Green-Eyed Monster
- Kawaiiko: Deliberately plays up his cute image.
- Love Makes You Crazy/Evil
- Ping-Pong Naïveté
- The Nicknamer: Calls Momoka "Momochi", Natsumi "Natchi", Fuyuki "Fucchi", and Mois "that woman".
- Not Allowed to Grow Up: Possibly Invoked when he sees that his childhood friend and fanboy Taruru has hit puberty ahead of him.
- Sweet Tooth
- Thinking Up Portals: Seems to have this ability
- Verbal Tic: "Desu!"
- Not quite to the extent that Suiseiseki takes it, but Tamama does say "desu" quite a bit.
- Yandere: Far worse than Momoka, as he tends to go straight for the hypotenuse-chopping option when he can.
Corporal Giroro
Voiced by: Joji Nakata (Japanese), Christopher Sabat (English) and Víctor Prieto (Spanish)
Keroro's Lancer. Suspects that he's the only one actually taking the invasion seriously anymore. Hopelessly crushing on Natsumi ever since she beat him up during their first fight.
- Amazon Chaser: For Natsumi.
- Berserk Button: Anything that threatens Natsumi.
- BFG: His Weapons of Choice.
- Blood Knight
- Butt Monkey: Mainly Kururu's.
- Can Not Spit It Out
- Charm Point: His belt.
- Clingy Jealous Frog: Has his moments. In the manga, became so intensely jealous of Koyuki after she first arrived that he attempted to Murder the Hypotenuse. Lampshaded by Tamama's gloating thoughts about finally understanding the Corporal.
- The Comically Serious
- Expressive Hat: The skull on his hat.
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: A massive one on his face.
- Gratuitous English: Sometimes his battle cries veer into this. Including, at one point: "This! Is! SPARTA!"
- Green-Eyed Monster: Gets this way over Natsumi from time to time.
- Hand Cannon: Another favored weapon.
- High-Pressure Emotion: Again, commonly set off by Natsumi. In several instances, just sitting around brooding causes him to emit such an intense heat that the others notice and complain/comment on it.
- High-Pressure Blood: Early on in the manga, he also tended to bleed profusely when experiencing such intense emotions. Thankfully, that particular quirk seems to have fallen by the wayside.
- Hyperspace Arsenal: Can access his weaponry at any time thanks to Keronian technology.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold
- Love at First Punch: He met Natsumi as he was trying to take over the Hinata house. She punched him so hard that his eyes were spinning in his head. Giroro fell in love with her as he fell to the floor.
- Love Makes You Crazy: He doesn't seem to be careful about himself...
- Giroro Needs Natsumi
- More Dakka
- Murder the Hypotenuse: In the manga, he attempted this on Koyuki right after her introduction.
- Perpetual Frowner
- Pet the Dog: Or cat, in this case. Mostly focused around his pet cat and Natsumi. However, he has his moments with Fuyuki, Keroro, and the rest of the platoon.
- Primal Fear: Terrified of ghosts.
- Stay in the Kitchen: Part of his tsun-tsun act in the manga involves him making comments along these lines to Natsumi.
- Tsundere
- Tsurime Eyes: He does have noticeably pointy eyes...
- The Worf Effect: Despite being the hard-boiled soldier who has a considerable reputation for martial prowess, Giroro often gets incapacitated by the current threat of the chapter/episode. This tends to occur before he could even fire a single bullet.
Sergeant Major Kururu
Voiced by: Takehito Koyasu (Japanese), Chuck Huber (English) and Juan Martín Goirizelaia (Spanish)The team's intelligence officer. Incredibly smug and self-satisfied, Kururu is constantly inventing all sorts of weird stuff, but few of these are actually meant to help the invasion... they're just for his own amusement. Loves giving Keroro just enough rope to hang himself, over and over and over again.
- Brilliant but Lazy: If he isn't amused by what's going on, it requires either cash payment or physical coercion to make him actually expend effort for anything.
- Clarke's Third Law
- Creepy Monotone: Excitement makes his voice rise. This makes him even creepier.
- Evil Laugh: KU KU KU KU KUUU...!
- Face Framed in Shadow: He perpetually has a shadow cast over the middle of his face, regardless of the actual lighting.
- Four Eyes, Zero Soul
- Gratuitous English
- Handy Remote Control: Always seems to have one around.
- Hidden Heart of Gold: More obvious in the manga, where he has several moments showing that for all his Jerkassery, he really does care about the rest of his team.
- A notable moment of this in the anime is when he saves fellow Wave buddy Saburo (spending the month's entire invasion budget in the process) without hesitation.
- Ho Yay: Deliberately invokes this with Giroro in the anime. Whether he's doing this just to screw with his head or out of some incredibly warped actual affection...
- The Hyena
- I Just Want Friends: During the Funmation Dub anime New Year's Special he off-handedly mentions at one point he just wants to be loved.
- Insufferable Genius: He makes a point to rub in how smart he is to everyone's faces.
- It Amused Me/For the Evulz
- Jerkass: Oh boy.
- Mad Scientist
- Nerd Glasses
- Odd Friendship: With 'Wavelength Buddy' Mutsumi. They aren't even shown interacting all that much, but they seem to be very buddy-buddy.
- Omnidisciplinary Scientist: Excepting medical science, Kululu singlehandedly functions as the go-to frog for any kind of invention.
- The Plan- Sometimes he dabbles in these.
- Pet the Dog: At times, actually shows signs of caring for others. One episode involved an actual puppy, complete with Natsumi and Fuyuki freaking out over what he might do to the poor thing.
- A good example of the anime Flanderizing his character is their removal of two of his key moments during the Garuru Platoon's introduction: encouraging Keroro to keep resisting after losing contact with the others and opening a trap door underneath Keroro to force him to escape while he attempts to hold off Garuru armed with only his headphones. By contrast, Anime!Kururu simply retreats into his Hacker Cave, letting Keroro think he's abandoned him.
- Scary Shiny Glasses: If you see him do this, it's already too late.
- The Scrappy: In-universe; The Keroro Platoon are huge celebrities on Keron, except for Dororo (who nobody seems to know about) and Kululu (who is actively despised).
- Secret Keeper: For 623 in the anime. When Giroro finds out that Saburo is 623 and confronts Kululu about it, the latter erases his memory about it.
- Signature Laugh: Kukuku...
- Spell My Name with an "S": Kururu/Kululu. The English translation of the manga actually switched from Kururu to Kululu around Volume 10 or so, then switched back later on.
- Stalker with a Crush: Maybe towards Aki.
- Takehito Koyasu
- Token Evil Teammate: While they're technically all villains, he still fits.
- Transformation Ray: One of his favorite gadgets to build.
- Trickster Mentor: Certainly isn't above manipulating the others into self-improvement.
- Witch Doctor
Lance Corporal Dororo, nee Zeroro
Voiced by: Takeshi Kusao (Japanese), J. Michael Tatum (English) and Alberto Escobal García (Spanish)The team's token Ninja. Used to be a painfully shy, sickly child, and so clung rather desperately to his friendship with Keroro... something Keroro shamelessly exploited, leaving him traumatized to the point that any reminder of these abuses triggers his 'Trauma Switch' and sends him into the nearest corner. Grew up to become an assassin, then got separated from the others on Earth and found acceptance and peace with a group of ninjas, leading to him changing his name and outlook on life.
- Apologises a Lot
- Beware the Nice Ones: That cute little tadpole became an assassin. Then a ninja.
- Big Fancy House
- Blue with Shock: Trauma Switch, on!
- Break the Cutie: Played for Laughs
- The Chew Toy
- Corner of Woe
- Extreme Doormat: Keroro treated him horribly when they were little, and Zeroro still stuck by his side. He grew out of this in the manga; sadly, anime!Dororo still gets trampled over regularly.
- Failed a Spot Check: Often on the other end of this, with others forgetting about him or failing to note his presence.
- Flanderization: In the manga, still doesn't show up very often, seems to have largely gotten over his childhood issues (though he has his moments), and is typically calm and collected. In the anime...
- Heroic BSOD: Goes into these regularly. Shows up far less often in the manga.
- Ill Boy: As a child, was terribly sickly and always wore a surgical mask.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: When Koyuki had her ninja skills/memories sealed away, he was willing to let her live a happy, normal life, even though she could no longer see him.
- Lonely Rich Kid
- Ping-Pong Naïveté: In the anime, he often winds up asking "Keroro, are we really friends...?", yet never actually learns from his past experiences and is easily shocked back into his corner of woe by Keroro's latest transgression.
- Powered Armor: The H-to-H Assassin suit (which bears more than a passing resemblance to Zoruru's enhancements...)
- My Hero Zero
- My Kung-Fu Is Stronger Than Yours: Dororo having trained as a ninja on Earth gives him a valuable edge against Keron-trained Assassins. Even his former superior Jirara is eventually beaten.
- New Powers as the Plot Demands: The manga doesn't spotlight him very often, so it's not unusual for him to abruptly show up and whip out a new Assassin Art or Ninja Art and bail the others out.
- No Mouth: Always shown wearing a ninja, assassin or medical mask.
- Shrinking Violet
- Shy Blue Skinned Boy
- The Quixote: At least in the anime, where Koyuki is about the only one who sympathizes with his idealism.
- Technical Pacifist: Never wants to hurt others but often fights to protect His friends(or "so-called" friends...).
- Token Good Teammate: Especially in the manga, which is one of the reasons that He isn't very popular with those teammates.
- Trauma Conga Line: The anime just loves playing this for laughs, especially during flashbacks to the frogs' childhood.
- The Unfavorite: Thanks to being too nice for his team, he isn't always popular with his "friends"... assuming they notice/remember him. Extends to his portrayal within Keron Force media (such as being seated behind a plant during a news conference).
- With Friends Like These...
(Shin) Keroro/New Keroro/Keroro-2
Voiced by: Aoi YukiThe youngest member and the sole member of the second Keroro platoon. Excitable and naive newcomer. Also the sole soldier within the Keron Army after 100 years.
- Badass Adorable
- Keet
- Super Power Lottery: The Keron Star grants him modes based off each platoon member's preferred method of combat.
The Hinatas
Fuyuki Hinata
Voiced by: Tomoko Kawakami (Japanese [Eps. 1-231]), Houko Kuwashima (Japanese [Ep. 232 onwards]), Leah Clark (English) and Josu Cubero (Spanish)A timid Nice Guy who loves the occult. Very introverted, but he's compassionate and polite, and very inquisitive about the world at its weirdest.
- A Boy And His Alien Frog Bent On World Domination
- Adorkable: Particularly when the discussion of occult is involved.
- Agent Mulder
- Beware the Nice Ones: When he snaps, all we get to see is his Battle Aura and shadowed eyes — never what he actually does.
- Even Natsumi is absolutely terrified of pushing Fuyuki too far, and Keroro, normally somewhat made of iron, was reduced to a stammering, terrified mess at whatever he did to him the first time this happened...
- Big Brother Mentor: Has a shade of this towards Tomosu in the manga.
- Chick Magnet: If it's female, and weird (weird as in a schizo billion-heiress, an Emotionless Girl with a shape-shifting space entity on her head, and a mermaid) there's a huge chance they will have a thing for him.
- Extreme Doormat: Until you push him too far.
- Friend to All Living Things: Whether they be human, alien, or monster.
- Idiot Hair
- Nice Guy: Just don't push his buttons too far...
- Non-Action Guy
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Surprisingly, the red to Tomosu's blue in the 2014 anime. Justified since Fuyuki is much younger in this version.
- Oblivious to Love
- Strong Family Resemblance: To his mother, without the Fanservice obvious traits.
- The Other Darrin: Houko Kuwashima stood in for Tomoko Kawakami throughout her sick leave since 2008. But Kawakami tragically died on June 9, 2011, thus Kuwashima is now promoted as his permanent seiyuu.
- Unwanted Harem: He may not have an extensive fanclub like Natsumi, but at least four girls have crush on him. Only half of said girls are human.
- Weirdness Magnet: More supernatural things have happened to him than any of the other cast. Unusually for this trope, he loves it this way. Natsumi, not so much...
- Morality Pet: Is usually the one who guilt trips the sergeant to reconsidering whenever he takes a plan for invasion too far
Natsumi Hinata
Voiced by: Chiwa Saito (Japanese), Cherami Leigh (English) and Alazne Erdozia (Spanish)Fuyuki's tomboyish older sister, she considers herself—correctly—to be the first line of defense against Keroro's taking over the planet. Has a massive crush on Mutsumi, and is good friends with Koyuki.
- Action Girl: The platoon unilaterally considers her Earth's greatest warrior.
- All Love Is Unrequited: Hopelessly crushes on Mutsumi, while getting crushed on by Giroro, Koyuki, several of her female classmates...
- Anti-Hero: She's technically on the side of good by protecting the Earth, even if she's a violent, anti-social brute.
- Badass Normal: She beat Giroro's web of booby traps armed with nothing but a stalk of leek during their first encounter.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: She may still be suspicious of the Keronians in general, but she also seems to become a bit of a nicer character after they arrive—in addition to Giroro, she gets on pretty well with Koyuki.
- Even the Girls Want Her: Has a considerable all-female fanclub at school.
- Girlish Pigtails
- Good Is Not Nice: She's not the nicest person around, but she is the one keeping Earth from being conquered on an almost weekly basis.
- She does later admit that she enjoys beating Keroro in particular for no reason.
- Improbable Weapon User
- Jerkass/Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Wavers between back and forth, although the former is her more common side.
- Knuckle Cracking: When those knuckles start cracking, a beating is about to ensue on Keroro.
- Hidden Eyes: A sure sign of trouble brewing for Keroro.
- Powered Armor: Her Powered 723 suit.
- Not So Different: She can be just as arrogant, self-absorbed and overconfident as Keroro at times, which is probably why they get along well.
- Moreover, she can be as violent, domineering, and no-nonsense as Giroro, which probably is part of the reason he respects her so much.
- Red Baron: According to Fuyuki in the manga, her overprotective streak during elementary school earned her the nickname Devil Summer.
- Shorttank
- Sibling Yin-Yang
- Tomboy
- Trademark Favorite Food: Seems to be sweet-potatoes.
- Tsundere: A vicious Type A on par with the likes of Louise.
- Waif-Fu
- Wardrobe Malfunction: Every spin with Kururu's age-ray in the manga ends with her being half(Or totally) naked one way or the other.
Aki Hinata
Voiced by: Akiko Hiramatsu (Japanese), Jamie Marchi (English) and Ana Begoña Eguileor (Spanish)A famous manga editor. Very self-confident and cheerful. She loves "Kero-chan" and his friends, but is usually away from home working.
- Action Mom
- Badass Adorable: On everyone's don't-screw-with list as she capable of defeating almost any hostiles without breaking a sweat.
- Beware the Nice Ones: She's sweet and motherly, but everyone knows not to screw with her.
- Biker Babe
- Boobs of Steel: Strongest of the Hinata household.
- Buxom Is Better
- Gag Boobs: In the manga.
- Girlish Pigtails: You know it's summertime when Aki wears her hair like this instead.
- Hair Antennae
- Mama Bear
- Meganekko: They're a rather tiny pair, but the trope still applies. It doesn't help that this and the above-mentioned Hair Antennae are usually the last two things one notices about Aki...
- Ms. Fanservice
- Sequential Artist
- Statuesque Stunner
Akina Hinata
Voiced by: Hisako Kyoda (Japanese), Linda Leonard (English) and Nuria Marín Picó (Spanish)Aki's mother, and Fuyuki and Natsumi's grandma. A wise old woman who lives out in the country. Considered and revered by Keroro Platoon as the top-ranking "officer" in the Hinata clan, above Aki.
- Cool Old Lady
- Hair Antennae
- I Was Quite The Looker: Well she did look Aki back then.
- Miniature Senior Citizens: Fairly old, fairly short.
- Strong Family Resemblance: As shown during the episode where Dororo stumbles into the past she was a dead ringer for a teenage Aki.
Close Pekoponian Friends
Momoka Nishizawa
Voiced by: Haruna Ikezawa (Japanese), Monica Rial (English) and Nuria Marín Picó (Spanish)Heir to a multi-billion-dollar international corporation, Momoka seems sweet and innocent at first, but has a hidden dark side related to her obsessive crush on Fuyuki. Spends tons of money on various Zany Schemes that she hopes will help her get closer to him, with little success.
- A-Cup Angst: She couldn't help but be annoyed when she saw Natsumi and Aki (who both have better bodies) in bikinis.
- Action Girl: Given the proper motivation, yes.
- Berserk Button: Stay away from Fuyuki unless you enjoy getting in a Curb-Stomp Battle.
- Can Not Spit It Out: Momoka suffers greatly from this.
- Character Development: In the manga, she has been steadily outgrowing her original Yandere tendencies, even developing a friendly rivalry with another girl.
- The Chessmaster: One manga had her father try to force her into another private school, causing Fuyuki and the others to stand up to him. The end reveals that Dark Momoka planned the whole thing. She told her dad that she wanted to go to a private school so he could meet and gain respect for Fuyuki.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: Will get jealous if she thinks anyone's trying to steal her Fuyuki. Including his own family.
- Complexity Addiction: Some of her plans to win Fuyuki's heart rely on WAY too many variables to possibly work.
- Lonely Rich Kid: Until she met Fuyuki.
- Important Haircut: A Flashback in the manga shows that she gave herself one when her Split Personality emerged.
- New Transfer Student: As revealed in her How We Got Here Backstory in the manga, she used to attend a private school. Fuyuki was the first friend she made when she transferred to a public school.
- Powered Armor: Develops her own.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
- Shrinking Violet: Until her Split Personality takes over.
- Spikes of Villainy: Her hair does this.
- Split Personality: Momoka and Dark Momoka.
- Spoiled Sweet: Her 'good' side.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: "Sweet Momoka" is the girly-girl, while "Dark Momoka" is the tomboy.
- Waif-Fu
- Yandere
Paul Moriyama
Voiced by: Keiji Fujiwara (Japanese), Kent Williams (English) and Miguel Ortiz (Spanish)Momoka's personal servant and Battle Butler. Always on hand to tend to her every need and slightest whim, no matter what it calls for. Also serves as a surrogate parent of sorts, as her parents are almost always off doing their own thing.
- Badass Grandpa: In the dub he reminisces about Stalingrad.
- Badass Mustache
- Battle Butler
- Shout-Out: To Ken Masters.
- Worthy Opponent: He and Giroro consider each other to be this, or at least they did in Paul's debut episode.
Mutsumi Hojo/Saburo
Voiced by: Akira Ishida (Japanese), Joel McDonald (English) and Jaime de Diego (Spanish)An extremely laid-back, smooth poet and artist who has an Odd Friendship with Kururu and serves as Natsumi's Love Interest. Runs his own radio show, and carries a special pen that lets him bring his drawings to life.
- The Ace: In the few times he's seen in action, expect him to do it like a hardcore Badass.
- Badass Normal: Aside from his pen, doesn't have any special abilities or skills.
- Brilliant but Lazy: Prefers lying around on rooftops to, say, actually attending school.
- Covert Pervert: Strong undertones of this in the manga, bordering on Handsome Lech.
- Expy: Very much resembles Kaworu Nagisa, and is even voiced by the same voice actor. His descense to the secret base is even inspired on Kaworu's to the Geofront.
- Friendless Background: Before meeting Kururu.
- Green Lantern Ring: His pen.
- Mr. Fanservice
- Not So Different: Heavily implied in the manga that he can be just as mischievous as Kururu.
- Odd Friendship: With Kururu; descibed as being "Wavelength buddies".
- Out of Focus: Frequently sees less action than the other human characters.
- Unfazed Everyman
Koyuki Azumaya
Voiced by: Ryo Hirohashi (Japanese), Luci Christian (English) and Sonia Torrecilla (Spanish)A cute, cheerful Ninja girl who found Zeroro and brought him back to her Hidden Ninja Village, befriending him and eventually accompanying him to the city, where she transferred into Natsumi's school and helped him locate the others.
- Action Girl
- An Ice Person: Many of her special moves are ice-based.
- Badass Adorable: Very much so.
- Cat Smile
- Country Mouse: This is exaggerated in the English dub, but she's from a simple rural background in both versions.
- Hair Decorations: Her big red hair ribbon.
- Genki Girl
- Highly Visible Ninja: She's good at keeping out of sight when she wants, it's just... she's not so good about hiding her skills in normal, everyday life.
- Ms. Fanservice: Combines this with Innocent Fanservice Girl
- New Transfer Student
- No Social Skills
- Romantic Two-Girl Friendship: With Natsumi. The manga takes this into full-blown Schoolgirl Lesbians territory, though still one-sided.
- Wide-Eyed Idealist
The Narrator
Voiced by: Keiji Fujiwara (Japanese), R Bruce Elliott (English) and José María Regalado (Spanish)Exactly What It Says on the Tin.
- Lemony Narrator: Cranks it up to eleven! Moreso in the Funimation dub. He's always commenting on the absurdities on the show, how much he doesn't like it, and is only doing the job to pay rent\gambling debts.
- Butt Monkey: Is stuck working on a show he hates\doesn't understand.
- The Men in Black: Appears dressed as a Kuroko with a big red N over his face.
- The Watson: Frequently questions the most absurd aspects on the show, just like a new time viewer would.
Tomosu Hinohara
Voiced by: Emiri Kato
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Somewhat acts as the blue oni to Fuyuki's red in the 2014 anime.
Myou Kaneami
Voiced by: Ai Kayano
- Verbal Tic: "That is my hunch."
Pekoponian-like Aliens
Angol Mois
Voiced by: Mamiko Noto (Japanese), Carrie Savage (English) and Ana Begoña Eguileor (Spanish)The surprisingly cute Lord of Terror who was sent to destroy Earth as according to the prophecy of Nostradamus. Only she kind of missed her cue, and Keroro manages to convince her not to go through with it by virtue of being her beloved "Uncle". Sort of an honorary Sixth Ranger of the Keroro Platoon, though for obvious reasons she can't show off her moves all that often.
- Affably Evil: She's an Omnicidal Maniac, not that you could tell.
- Apocalypse Maiden
- Been There, Shaped History: Invoked; she's the Lord of Terror from Nostradamus' predictions because she told him of her arrival so he could warn the rest of the planet.
- Cosplay Otaku Girl: Seem to has fun dressing various cutesy costume.
- Dark-Skinned Blond: Her appearance deliberately invokes the 'kogal' trend; she based her human appearance off of a Deliquent girl she met once.
- Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?: The volume 19 of manga elaborate this. The Angols are beings from higher plan of existence, and while you can subdue them with Angol Stone, nobody understand what they really are. Keroro is the very first person who befriend the Angol.
- Dojikko
- Dumb Blonde: Her naivete and Pekopnian disguise makes her seem like this.
- Gratuitous Foreign Language: In the dubbed version of the anime, she slips in the occasional Spanish word with no real explanation why.
- Apparently, her father told her to do it in order to confuse people.
- Holding Back the Phlebotinum: Justified by the destructive nature of her powers; one manga chapter revealed she was hiding the negative effects this was having on her.
- Love Martyr: Towards her 'Uncle'.
- Magical Girl
- Malaproper
- Omnicidal Maniac: Played for Laughs.
- Really 700 Years Old
- Slept Through the Apocalypse: She slept through the one she was supposed to cause.
- Simple Staff: The "Lucifer Spear", with has the power to destroy the world.
- Spell My Name with an "S": Angol Moa in the manga, Angol Mois in the anime.
- Team Pet: An interesting inversion on the usual formula; instead of five humans with a ridiculously cute talking animal helper from space, it's five animals with a ridiculously cute talking human(oid) helper from space.
- Valley Girl
- Verbal Tic: "Teyuuka" ("Or perhaps I should say") before expressing an opinion.
Space Detective Kogoro
Voiced by: Nobuyuki Hiyama (Japanese), John Swasey (English) and Anselmo Herrero (Spanish)An old childhood friend of Keroro's, Kogoro is a Space Detective who always seems to be down on his luck. Despite this, he always seems cheerful, laughing and grinning no matter what he might be thinking.
- The Exotic Detective
- Hot-Blooded: Lives and breathes this.
- Large Ham: The largest one in the butcher shop.
- Shout-Out: He's a parody of Kenji Ooba, the star of a Toku series called Space Sheriff Gavan.
- Sibling Yin-Yang
- Stepford Smiler: He keeps on laughing, even when he's upset or angry.
Voiced by: Tomoko Kaneda (Japanese), Leah Clark (English) and Ana Guadalupe Hernández (Spanish)Kogoro's younger sister, and the only one who can tell how he really feels at any given moment. As a result, she frequently has to act as a "translator" of sorts. Does her best to support her brother by taking various part-time jobs.
- Apologises a Lot: Usually for her brother.
- Petting Zoo People: Has cute bunny ears.
- Shrinking Violet
- Sibling Yin-Yang
- Spell My Name with an "S": Rabbie/Lavie
Alisa Southerncross
Voiced by: Akiko Yajima (Japanese) and Estívaliz Lizárraga (Spanish)An Emotionless Girl adopted by the Shapeshifting alien Nebula, who rides around as her cat-eared headband and fights for her. He takes out her opponents and eats aliens, all while searching for a way to help her become human. Alisa, for her part, seems entirely uninterested in this... but shows some interest in Fuyuki.
- Action Girl
- Little Miss Snarker
- Emotionless Girl
- Heroic BSOD: She has this when Nebula was eaten by Chupacabra-like alien, even lost her sense of self-reservation.
- Girlish Pigtails
- Magical Girlfriend: Though not an official girlfriend, the undeniable elements of this have led to... tension from Momoka/Fuyuki shippers.
- Pinocchio Syndrome: Interestingly, Nebula seems more interested in obtaining this for Alisa than Alisa is herself.
- Shapeshifter Weapon: Nebula.
- What Is This Thing You Call Love?
- When She Smiles: Played it, Alisa has natural smile the first time she met Fuyuki. We only see Slasher Smile afterward.
- The Worf Effect: Not to the same extreme as Giroro just yet, but all the same: when she gets knocked back, that's a problem.
The Garuru Platoon
First Lieutenant Garuru
Voiced by: Akio Ohtsuka (Japanese)Giroro's Aloof Big Brother, a famous sniper and hero of Keron Force. Was given his own platoon, and was assigned to confront and replace the Keroro Platoon. Cue the Wham Episodes.
- The Ace
- Aloof Big Brother
- Big Brother Mentor: This is more obvious in the manga, where he's introduced long before the Wham Episodes, and is clearly shown before and afterwards to be very fond of his baby brother, despite Giroro's seething jealousy.
- The Chessmaster: May have been subtly manipulating the entire battle to make the Keroro Platoon look good. More obvious in the manga, where he explicitly spares Kururu's life and sends him to take on Tororo, which turns the tide of battle.
- Cold Sniper: More in the anime than in the manga; thank you, Flanderization.
- The Comically Serious
- Friendly Sniper: In the manga, is far nicer, friendlier, and enjoys gently teasing his brother, but is still a well-respected commander.
- Heavy Metal: His music of choice.
- Red Baron, Shout-Out: Nightmare of Keromon
- Stealth Mentor
- Weaksauce Weakness: One chapter reveals he can't use chopsticks. Unless spearing his food with them counts.
- Worthy Opponent
Private First Class Taruru
Voiced by: Akeno Watanabe (Japanese), Chris Cason (English) and Estívaliz Lizárraga (Spanish)A cute, if insanely energetic, tadpole who absolutely adores his "Master Tamama"... And, rather obviously, was tapped to be part of the Garuru Platoon, where he cheerfully played Evil Counterpart to Tamama. Often puckers his lips up in a sort of "kissy face" expression.
- Broken Pedestal: Goes through this with Tamama.
- Cheerful Child
- Dissonant Serenity: After his first fight with Tamama, when he took out Paul and Momoka in short order.
- Eye Beams
- Keet
- Plot-Relevant Age-Up: Apparently hit Keronian puberty before Tamama, losing his tadpole looks. In the anime, this happens shortly after an episode involving him and Karara running around with Transformation Rays, including one that controls aging. Hmm...
- Punch Clock Villain: Doesn't really think of following his orders as evil; when Tamama shows up for a rematch, is genuiely shocked by the idea that "I'm the villain in this story?!"
- Stealth Insult: His initial confrontation with Tamama during the Garuru Platoon's invasion of Earth is basically Taruru insulting his former idol in words of adoration and respect. It comes to a head when he stops calling Tamama "Sir" after he knocks him out.
- Unlucky Childhood Friend: The anime has him appearing alongside Karara a few times before his Plot-Relevant Age-Up. So far, Karara has yet to turn her flings of affection towards him.
- Verbal Tic: "-ssu", a derivative of desu. Sound familiar, dood?
Lance Corporal Zoruru
Voiced by: Kazuki Yao (Japanese)A half-cybernectic assassin who appears to have joined the Garuru Platoon just to get a crack at Zeroro. Would probably love to be a Knight of Cerebus, if given the chance. Unfortunately, he tends to be even more forgotten than Dororo...
- Artificial Limbs: A full half of his body, bisceted down the middle, has been replaced with robotics.
- Berserk Button: Being ignored.
- Black Eyes of Crazy: Zoruru had this during his childhood, and it only got more menacing when he became an assassin.
- Cyber Cyclops
- Determinator
- Evil Counterpart: Towards Dororo, whom he insists on calling 'Zeroro'.
- Failed a Spot Check: Like Dororo, ends up on the other end of this several times. One chapter plays with this, as he sits in on a meeting with the Keroro Platoon, taking Dororo's usual spot so that the reader's eye may glide right over him without seeing anything amiss... despite having just seen Dororo leaving with Koyuki. That's before the others take it Up to Eleven.
- Freudian Excuse: Volume 17 of the manga revealed he apparently attended the same school as Keroro and Zeroro, and was completely ignored when those two first met... despite standing directly behind Zeroro at the time.
- Hollywood Cyborg
- Knight of Cerebus: During the Garuru Platoon's invasion, he defeats and seemingly kills several of the Keroro Platoon's allies in rather nightmarish fashion, only to have this Subverted by an Anticlimax. Attempted again in Volume 17.
- Not So Different
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: One eye, red pupil, black sclera. Judging from the Flashback in Volume 17, these are his natural eyes.
- Unknown Rival: He's perfectly capable of being an excellent rival to Dororo... if he wasn't so forgettable that literally everyone stops noticing him with in seconds. He has to go out of his way to get people's notice.
- Verbal Tic: Dramatic stammering, as in "Z... Zeroro..."
Recruit Tororo
Voiced by: Kappei Yamaguchi (Japanese)An incredibly irritating tadpole who hacked into Keron Forces' computer once, got caught and was promptly recruited. Considers himself Kururu's rival, and longs for the chance to put him through the ultimate Humiliation Conga.
- Big Eater
- Bratty Half-Pint
- For the Evulz/It Amused Me
- Insufferable Genius
- Mad Scientist
- Nerd Glasses
- Oh, Crap: When Kururu reveals that practically all of his programs are just inferior versions of Kururu's older projects, then immediately turns the tables on him.
- Playful Hacker
- Recruiting the Criminal: Didn't sign up voluntarily, but was drafted after Keron Force caught him poking around their systems.
- Smug Snake
- Unknown Rival: Considers himself Kururu's rival; Kururu doesn't even remember him... And when he does, it doesn't end well for Tororo.
Ko-KeroA Sixth Ranger of sorts for the Garuru Platoon's debut, with very different origins in the manga and anime. The manga version is a Creepy Child clone intended to "replace" Keroro, while the anime is a deaged, Brainwashed and Crazy Keroro.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: Anime only
- Bratty Half-Pint
- Creepy Child
- Dissonant Serenity
- Lack of Empathy
- Put on a Bus: Manga only; the clone's ultimate fate is never detailed.
Chief Medic Pururu
Voiced by: Satsuki Yukino (Japanese)A childhood friend of Keroro, Giroro and Zeroro. Originally a civilian medic, she got bored and joined the military, ending up assigned to the Garuru Platoon.
- Affirmative Action Girl: Both in the Garuru Platoon and in the younger Keroro's circle of friends; she wasn't mentioned or shown in any flashbacks until her debut episode.
- Afraid of Needles: Her Weapon of Choice invokes this.
- Combat Medic
- Corner of Woe: Triggered when someone calls her obasan (auntie/old lady) or makes any sort of reference to her age.
- Hospital Hottie: Triggers the usual "Hello, Nurse!!" reaction from Keroro.
- Girl with Psycho Weapon
- Improbable Weapon User: Syringes. Big ones.
- Older Than She Looks: About Christmas Cake level... in Keronian years.
- Small Girl Big Syringe
- Uh-Oh Eyes: Sometimes gets a creepy look in her eyes... usually while she's still smiling. Especially in the manga...
- Yandere — Pururu has... interesting ways of showing her affection. Particularly in the manga, where she openly encourages Natsumi to torture Keroro more, smiling brightly the entire time.
- Pururu is a nurse, the more abused Keroro gets, the more he needs her medical attention.
The Shurara Corps
Voiced by: Norio Wakamoto (Japanese)The leader of a group of anime-only villains who are out to steal the Keron Star from Keroro. Notably, all of the members were based on fan-submitted characters, meaning they all ascended to anime canon. The whole arc turned into a giant Monster of the Week-fest.
- Large Ham
- Nice Hat: Always shown wearing an elaborate silver-and-gold helmet.
- Spikes of Villainy
- Split Personality
- Third-Person Person: SHURARAAAAAA~!!
Master Painter Putata
Voiced by: Kentarou Tone (Japanese)A spotted yellow Keronian who can bring his paintings to life. Highly excitable.
- Art Initiates Life: With a snap of his fingers!
- Dub Name Change: Known as "Pumama" in Spain due to... language ordeals.
- Gratuitous English: His Verbal Tic: "Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yo! Yo! Yo!"
- Keet
- Mad Artist
- Couldnt Finda Pen: His brush is actually a nyororo that uses Keronian fluids as ink.
Super Marionette Mekeke
Voiced by: ChoPutata's partner in crime and a master puppeteer who conceals himself via invisibility while fighting with his puppet.
- Marionette Master
- People Puppets: Another of his talents.
- Perverse Puppet
- Shout-Out: Basically he's one big reference to Kankurou.
Voiced by: Kunihiko Yasui (Japanese)A mutant Keronian made of pure blue slime. Can transform others into mutants like him, but is weak to anything that can make him solidify.
- Blob Monster: The more intelligent sort.
- Body Horror: Can turn others into living puddles of flesh.
- Making a Splash: Giruru's attack style. You'd be amazed how good of a fighter a viscus blob of fluid is.
- Sibling Yin-Yang: With his younger brother, Dokuku.
- Weaksauce Weakness: Powder. Any kind of powder.
Voiced by: Takeshi Kusao (Japanese)A ghostly Keronian with a heavily scarred face, a scythe blade replacing his left hand, and a demonic symbol.
- Our Ghosts Are Different
- Red Right Hand: His scythe-arm.
- Talking to Himself: Shares his seiyuu with Dororo.
- The Unintelligible: He can only speak by saying his name, much like a Pokemon. However, his brother seems to understand him just fine.
Voiced by: Toshio Furukawa (Japanese)The assassin of the Shurara Corps, an older tadpole who can manipulate shadows.
- Living Shadow: Kagege has the power to bring people's shadows to life and make them attack their owners.
- Power Glows: And so does Kagege. Constantly.
- Scarf of Asskicking
Seamstress Nuii
Voiced by: Kurumi Mamiya (Japanese)Once an abandoned Keronian doll, Nuii was brought to life by Shurara and made into one of his agents. She had the ability to turn everyone into plush dolls like herself, and under Gyororo's supervision, inflitrated the Hinata household in the guise of Natsumi's old teddy bear.
- Ambiguous Gender: There is heated debate as to whether Nuii is male or female, funny as it sounds.
- Anti-Villain
- Heel-Face Turn: Almost results in Redemption Equals Death.
- Living Toys
- Puppet Permutation
Voiced by: Hiromi Hirata (Japanese)Nuii's superior, a Keronian covered in Extra Eyes who can blend into his surroundings, making him a perfect spy.
- Eye Beams
- Extra Eyes
- Faceless Eye: When he's in his invisible mode, he is sometimes only seen as one of his many eyes.
- Invisibility
- Kick the Dog
- Jerkass
- Red Eyes, Take Warning
- Slasher Smile
Voiced by: Keiichi Sonobe (Japanese)A robotic Keronian with scanner eyes, magnetic hands, built-in jets and the ability to fuse others with nearby mechanical objects.
- Enemy Scan
- Interplay of Sex and Violence: When Dororo delivers the final blow on Robobo, he seems to have a random orgasm before exploding.
- Killer Robot
Voiced by: Eiji Maruyama (Japanese)A snowman Keronian who can summon massive gusts of arctic winds and freeze everything around him. However, he's weak against any sort of heat.
- An Ice Person
- Blow You Away
- Minion with an F in Evil: Forcing people to play fun New Years games is not exactly evil.
- Snowlems
Other Keronians
Voiced by: Kenichi Ogata (Japanese) and Greg Dulcie (English)Keroro's famous and terrifying father. The mere mention of his name sets off all kinds of Parental Issues for his terrified son. However, in person, he seems to be rather laidback...
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Well... quite possibly, anyway.
- Retired Badass
- Like Father, Like Son: This is more evident in the dub, where Keroro's dad is a proud war criminal.
- Unnamed Parent
- "Well Done, Son!" Guy: Just the mention of his name turns Keroro into this.
Voiced by: Sachiko Chijimitsu (Japanese)Keroro's mother who first appeared in the KeroZero short shown before the 4th Movie. She's very loving toward her son like a good mother, but she also seems to have a tricky side to her.
- Amazingly Embarrassing Parent: She just loves to go around and talk about how wonderful her son is while offering sweets. She does this to everyone, much to Keroro's chagrin.
- Body Snatcher: Although Natsumi was the one who had the idea of switching bodies with her, with the consent of both, afterwards she just disappeared with Natsumi's body, going to sight see Pekopon and even on a date with Giroro (Even though he knew it was Keroro's mother) while Natsumi in her body got dragged to another city by Keroro's father, who didn't believe any switch had happened.
- Doting Parent
- Generation Xerox: Her son definitely got her looks.
- Mrs. Robinson: She actually went into this on Giroro.
- Shout-Out: Her design is very reminiscent of the mother in Atashinchi, who was voiced by Kumiko Watanabe, Keroro's voice actor.
Giroro-papaGiroro and Garuru's father. Appears to have a reputation just as terrifying as Keroro's father, though he's not mentioned as often. Makes a habit of turning even the simplest tasks into 'tests' for his sons.
- Big Ol' Eyebrows
- Drill Sergeant Nasty: He fits this Trope rather nicely in the Chibi-Kero Short.
- Unnamed Parent
- Retired Badass
Dororo-mamaDororo's mother. Looks exactly like her son (in a dress), and apparently passed down a lot of her personality traits, too. Whenever she sees Keroro, Giroro or Pururu, she immediately thanks them for being friends with Zeroro. Repeatedly. Over and over and over...
- Apologises a Lot
- Beware the Nice Ones: Guess where Dororo got his ass-kicking genes from.
- Big Fancy House
- Doting Parent
- Generation Xerox
- Ill Girl: Wears a surgical mask like Zeroro.
- Shrinking Violet
- Shy Blue Skinned Girl
- Talking To Herself: She had Kumiko Watanabe's voice. And surprisingly not Ax-Crazy Yangire like in Victory Gundam
- Unnamed Parent
Voiced by: Junko Noda (Japanese) and Alison Viktorin (English)An extremely cute Keronian tadpole, Karara is an extremely naive daydreamer who dreams of finding her Knight in Shining Armor and falls in love at the drop of a hat with anyone who helps her out. Avoids Stalker with a Crush mainly because she runs off and does her "Bridal Training" offscreen, then shows up childishly expecting to have her affections returned...only to transfer her crush to someone else and start the whole process over again.
- Ascended Extra: Appeared briefly in the manga; became a recurring character in the anime.
- Cheerful Child
- Genki Girl
- Kansai Regional Accent
- Love Freak
- The Ojou: Her father's incredibly rich.
- Manic Pixie Dream Girl: She could be this, if she ever stayed focused on a single love interest for more than an episode or two.
- McNinja: The result of her crush on Dororo: she and her sister show up as hyperactive kunoichis. Hilarity Ensues.
- Playing Against Type: Junko Noda doesn't usually voice Genki Girls often.
- Running Gag: Almost always falls for somebody else every time she shows up.
- Wide-Eyed Idealist
Voiced by: Natsuko Kuwatani (Japanese)Karara's fraternal twin sister. Doesn't appear as much or get as much character focus as her sibling.
- Cheerful Child
- Demoted to Extra: Taruru replaced her as Karara's constant companion in early episodes; she only got to debut after his Plot-Relevant Age-Up, and is still very much in her twin sister's shadow.
- Genki Girl
- The Ojou: Same as her sister, though this generally isn't invoked as much for her.
Voiced by: Junichi Sugawara (Japanese)An anime-exclusive character based on a fan submition, Joriri is an unshaven bum who appears in various flashbacks, giving the young Keroro, Giroro, Zeroro and Pururu questionable advice and generally being a poor role model. May have been introduced to add an "adult!Keroro" style character to the past, even though the younger Keroro already filled that role. Recently showed up in the present, much to the dismay of fandom.
- Ascended Fanon: Joriri was originally one of the fan designs submitted to the Keroro Land mangazine, before being incorporated into the tv show.
- Ice-Cream Koan: His big gimmick involves imparting an extremely odd form of sage wisdom that doesn't make a lot of sense.
- Perma Stubble: Not an action hero, though.
- Sixth Ranger: He joins the Keroro platoon in the 6th season... for one episode. Although that event is still referenced later.
Assassin Captain Jirara
Voiced by: Kouji Yada (Japanese)Leader of the X1 assassin troop on Keron, and Zeroro's trainer in the art of killing. Cold and merciless and wanted in several galaxies, it only makes sense that he popped up on Pekopon...
- Artificial Limbs: It almost seems like this is a requirement for spooky assassin-types.
- Drill Sergeant Nasty/Sadist Teacher: Jirara trains his underlings by making them constantly fight each other nearly to the death. If you die, you were a bad student anyways.
- However, a Flashback in Volume 17 of the manga reveals that he deliberately chose a Lighter and Softer alternative to making Zeroro a full-fledged assassin, despite acknowledging that Zeroro had excelled in his training. When his pupil begged for an explanation, Jirara tells him flat-out that the assassin's path is "darker than you can even imagine".
- Giant Spider: He takes on this form in Dororo's nightmare.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning
Warrant-Officer BaririAnother character solely from the anime. Despite his rank and the respect he apparently has, he's very... Crazy. Most of this is put in the direction of his unhealthy infatuation with Pururu. Really, really unhealthy.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer
- Large Ham
- Love Makes You Crazy: And oh how it does. It's even more than just a Trope name. He's literally shown going to a psychiatrist about his insane love for Pururu.
- Stalker with a Crush
Other Aliens
Voiced by: Juri Ihata (Japanese), Caitlin Glass (English) and Sonia Torrecilla (Spanish)A pink Keronian-like alien, known as an Axolotl. She's a highly popular and very spoiled Idol Singer who likes to pull Ratings Stunts.
- Ascended Extra: Starred in a one-shot side story in the manga; became a recurring character in the anime.
- Idol Singer
- It's All About Me: Doesn't really care if others are hurt by her antics.
- Ratings Stunt: Like, say... pretending to be Natsumi via Ridiculously Human Robot and wreaking her life for kicks, then getting confused when Natsumi gets pissed.
- Spoiled Brat
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: Can transform into a human-like form at will.
Voiced by: Nobuo Tobita (Japanese) and Chris Patton (English)An alien race of humanoid snakemen, the Vipers are natural enemies of Keronians and are dangerous, deadly predators. Most of the Vipers that show up in the anime have a personal vendetta against the Keroro Platoon, thanks to what happened to the first Viper that targeted them. In the manga, on the other hand...
- Arch-Enemy
- Enemy Mine
- Ignored Enemy
- Only ONE Face (and Voice)
- Shout-Out: To Space Adventure Cobra; notice that they don't look like real vipers because they have cobra hoods.
- Species Surname
- The Worf Effect: In the manga, one shows up during Alisa's introduction just so she can eat him.
Movie-Exclusive Characters
Voiced by: Mikel Gandía (Spanish)A sort of ancient Keronian super weapon that feeds off of negative emotions to gain strength and destroy planets. While not necessarily movie exclusive, they're a very big element of the first and third movies, and become a victim of the Worf Effect in the second. In the first movie, Keroro and Fuyuki accidentally unleash one on Tokyo.
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever
- Emotion Eater
- Person of Mass Destruction
- Sealed Evil in a Can
- The Tokyo Fireball: Kiruru's doing.
Voiced by: Estívaliz Lizárraga (Spanish)An ancient Keronian weapons specialist that sealed away the first Kiruru, but got stuck in the proverbial can with him as well. She works off of positive emotions, and is able to turn into a key, the only thing that can reseal the Kiruru and save the world.
- Emergency Transformation: Granted, she couldn't do it until the characters actually got along again.
- Exposition Fairy: To Keroro and Fuyuki.
- Reset Button / Status Quo Is God: The plot couldn't allow the Keroro Platoon access to knowledge of ancient Keronian technology, as it might have allowed them to conquer Earth, especially as she was getting along with Kururu. So of course something happens to her by the end of the movie.
- Senseless Sacrifice: By the 2nd movie it's shown that the Maronians can easily take out a Kiruru, so vanishing to seal it up is more or less pointless as a long-term solution.
Voiced by: Estívaliz Lizárraga (Spanish)A Maronian living at the bottom of the ocean who was feeling lonely one day and as a result, abducted Natsumi to be his princess. In the end, all he wanted was a mother figure rather than a princess.
- Bratty Half-Pint
- Canon Immigrant: The storyline from the second movie was eventually adapted to the manga, including Meru in it.
- Jerk Ass: To Maru
- Parental Abandonment: His main issue.
Voiced by: Rosa Romay (Spanish)The only other friend Meru has, despite the fact he treats her like his servant and is generally unpleasant to her. Regardless, she remains chipper and incredibly loyal to him.
- Battle Butler
- Canon Immigrant: The storyline from the second movie was eventually adapted to the manga, including Maru in it.
- Extreme Doormat
- Morality Pet
Dark Keroro
Voiced by: Nuria Martín Picó (Spanish)The primary antagonist of the third movie. Cloned from a sample of Keroro's own DNA, taken off the Kero Ball when it was lost in an ancient Keronian facility hidden in the ancient city of Macchu Picchu in Peru.
- Evil Twin to Keroro
- Hijacked by Ganon: Turns out Dark Keroro was basically the third Kiruru after absorbing Keroro's DNA off the Kero Ball, complete with Miruru taking the same role as Mirara.
- Large Ham: "TWO MINUTES is all I need to conquer this mud ball!"
- What Is This Thing You Call Friendship
Voiced by: Estívaliz Lizárraga (Spanish)
- Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy
- Evil Counterpart to Tamama
- Homage: to Sun Wukong of the Journey To The West tale that Dragon Ball was based on. Note his 'symbol', which is really a band around him that resembles the flying cloud, while resembling Wukong's Restraining Bolt. He even uses the original 'Great Saint That Surpasses Heaven' title when he first appears.
- He's also a pretty direct reference to Goku from Dragon Ball. He uses a blue blast of energy at one point charged up similarly to the Kamehameha and, in the final battle, attempts to use the Genki Dama while fighting against Tamama and Momoka, even calling up for other people's power. One of the scenes featuring him in the credits sequence is a homage to Dragonball's original ending and another one shows him in a place very similar to the Tenkaichi Budokai tournament from Dragonball, fighting against someone with the body obscured, but wearing pants and shoes identical to Yamcha's in the 22nd and 23rd Budokais.
- Weapon of Choice: A Simple Staff WITH LASERS.
Voiced by: Txemi del Olmo (Spanish)
- Blood Knight
- Evil Counterpart to Giroro
- More Dakka: Doruru has Arm Cannons, rocket launchers on his back and four miniguns IN HIS HAT. And his own Dendrobium Orchis much like Giroro's.
Voiced by: Rosa Romay (Spanish)Appearing at the same time as Dark Keroro, she's the only one capable of operating their Ominous Floating Castle, but there's something about her that even he doesn't know...
- Expy of Mirara from the first movie.
- Power Gives You Wings: As her alterego Nazca.
ShionOne of Momoka's old friends, and shares a lot in common with her - except that her rich parents passed away early on. All she wanted was a real family, and from the depths of Mont-Saint-Michel, someone answered...
- The Kid with the Remote Control: the ancient book that only Shion can read summons the Earth Dragon in the first place.
- The Ojou
TeraraWhen Shion attempts to breed the Earth Dragon egg hidden under Mont-Saint-Michel, the plan reaches frution and the massive Earth Dragon is hatched - but the destruction it causes to the world forces Shion to intervene, and eventually the Earth Dragon relinquishes its power, turning into a harmless little creature that resembles a salamander-based Keronian.
- Superpowered Evil Side: The Earth Dragon form, though it's officially sealed away by the end.
- Meaningful Name: Terara comes from 'terra', meaning Earth. Can also be read as referring to terror...
- Nice Hat: Shion's beret is passed to Terara at the end.
PierreShion's legal guardian, very similar to Paul in more ways than one can imagine.
- Battle Butler
- Captain Ersatz: Like Paul channeling Ken Masters, Pierre turns into E Honda.
- Homage: In line with the Turn A Gundam references in the 4th movie, Pierre has a White Doll moustache.

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Oct 27, 2005 1:47PM PST
Okay. so i bought the new Franz Ferdinand album...and i must say that its pretty good. I don't think it was better than their first album, but it wasn't a disappointment either. Anywho, i've been in a party mood lately. I think i'll party tomorrow night. I'll let u guys know how it went. ;)
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This Fire Is Outta Control...Posted: Oct 27, 2005 12:00AM PST by jvfreak1989
Yeah, I like Franz Ferdinand. I really liked the first album. I haven't really heard anything from You Could Have It So Much Better but I'll check it out one of these days. What! Your havin' a "Par-Tay"


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Clarisonic Mia2
224 reviews
82% would repurchase
Package Quality: 4.4
Price: $$$$
Package Quality: 4.4
Price: $$$$
on 12/10/2014 1:19:00 PM
Age: 30-35
Skin: Oily, Tan, Not Sure
Hair: Black, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
Honestly I never saw any change on my skin other than breaking me out. I was expecting something really good for my skin but unfortunately wasn't the case. Expensive and keep buying the replacement brushes it's ridiculous. Returned it.
on 12/5/2014 7:33:00 AM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Acne-prone, Fair, Neutral
Hair: Blond, Curly, Medium
Eyes: Green
I have a strict skincare regimen that I follow and I've only been somewhat impressed by it. After adding the mia2 to my skincare regimen I'm absolutely thrilled. I don't use the clarisonic skincare, just the brush. I've noticed that my skincare products are WAY more effective. My serums are providing the effects they promised. My moisturizer is actually absorbing. My acne is healing. Love this tool!!!!
on 11/23/2014 5:32:00 PM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Dry, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brown, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
I've read so many reviews about this product before I went out and splurged, so I will wait at least a month or two before I upload another review.
But for now, it's been about a week, and so far so good. Then again, it's just a week. The skin takes about 28~30 days to rejuvenate itself I've heard, so we'll see.
I'm using this once a day because I'm worried my skin would be shocked if I use it night and day. First day of use, I used this twice (because I was overly excited. I probably shouldn't have), day and night, and while my skin felt beautiful and soft (like a baby's bottom), I noticed my skin felt a bit dryer and I had a few little bumps.
I have somewhat sensitive skin and I occasionally get hormonal pimples here and there, tiny bumps sometimes during winter, so I'm not too alarmed right now. My makeup go on smoother and my skin definitely feels softer. Meanwhile, I'm still waiting it out to see if my skin will react bad and flip on me, like it did for a few people who used Clarisonic.
For now I'm pretty happy with the device. I have mine in hot pink, and I got it from Sephora.
I also ordered a lux brush, because my friends tell me the sensitive (default) brush might be a bit too much for night/day use. It hasn't arrived but when it does, I'll update this review.
(Dec.18.2014) EDIT - I STILL LOVE IT!! I changed my rating from a 4 to a 5.
My skin is good enough to go without bb cream or foundation now, and I don't get those pimples or bumps anymore (maybe that was my mini-purging period?)
It's been over a month using this, and I would love to see what it does in the long run, but for now I'm absolutely happy.
Pointers: I use this with the luxe brush, night & day (with the sensitive, I couldn't use it night/day or even daily). I use the Philosophy cleanser (a tiny smudge) along with coconut oil, and my skin feels fantastic now.
on 11/17/2014 12:42:00 AM
Age: 36-43
Skin: Normal, Dark, Warm
Hair: Brown, Kinky, Coarse
Eyes: Green
I got this for myself as a bday present in March, although my birthday is in Feb. I've always taken really good care of my skin and do not have any trouble with it. So I just wanted something to further the up keep. I decided to go with a special Sephora had that cane with a couple Kate Somerville products. I alternated the Mia 2 with my Olay daily facials, and on days when I wore actual make up(mostly for the times I went out, work). It works well, I did find like most stated it breaks them out or they get small bumps? I didn't so much as break out, but I got the tiny bumps, I guess my skin had to get use to it and being as I have sensitive skin, the sensitive head with a bit much for me at first. Overall I didn't see too much of a difference it made versus the daily facials, guess because I already had good skin? I replaced the heads and picked up a non-clarisonic brand, so I've noticed some dirt left behind. So I don't know if that makes a difference or not. But I do think it does a good job of deep cleaning for make up days.
on 11/15/2014 2:17:00 AM
Age: 30-35
Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Green
Amazing!! My skin looks so amazing now, after using Clarisonic. I use it every other day together with my gel cleanser from Ole Henriksen, which I put on my face first, and then do the clarisonic routine. I just want to find a way to store the device when I'm not using it, would like to have a stand for it, like the one Aria model comes with.
on 11/13/2014 10:54:00 PM
Age: 36-43
Skin: Dry, Fair-Medium, Cool
Hair: Brunette, Wavy, Medium
Eyes: Hazel
I have had this since May (6 months) and I was skeptical at first but now I am sold. This was worth the investment. My face is much clearer and pores appear smaller. My overall texture is improved and I do know it's partly because of this and the rosehip seed oil I use every night.
I also own the Olay Pore Cleanser that is similar to this but it is different in how it spins. I get about the same results but this cleans a lot deeper and its better made.
on 11/13/2014 10:15:00 PM
Age: 30-35
Skin: Combination, Olive, Warm
Hair: Brown, Straight, Other
Eyes: Brown
I am on the fence about this product I've had it for about four months, intially I used it every day with a delicate brush head and clarins shea butter cleanser I broke out like crazy and since I had always used the cleanser I attributed it the break out, the break outs contitued and I stopped using the brush, ocassionaly I use with with a gentle cleanser and the deep pore brush head and I dont break out, I have done micro and chemical peels, but this device seems to break me out terriably
on 11/13/2014 10:00:00 PM
Age: 25-29
Skin: Combination, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Brown, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
I have been using clarisonic Mia 2 for 4 months now. This device is my ultimate cleansing device that I put in my cleansing routine. After 2 weeks I have notice that my pores really getting smaller and I have less break outs. Besides the price overall I love this device and I think it does what it claims to be.
on 11/9/2014 1:48:00 AM
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Normal, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Black, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
An electronic device that I can't live without.
Have been using it for almost a year,no break outs,no harsh effects,nothing negative.
The way they construct it is amazing,the magnetic charger,the replaceable heads that comes in varieties...
To be honest,I was quite disappointed at first as It didn't cause a drastic improvement to my skin.
I have normal skin,no major flaws to begin with,and alI I can say is,my complexions did made an improvement, my skin is smoother and experience lesser blackheads now. No other cleansing method can cleanse better than clarisonic. Hence,a person like me who believe that cleansing is the most important step for skin care routine,this is a must. It's worth the price in the long run.
on 10/21/2014 4:07:00 PM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Oily, Fair, Cool
Hair: Black, Straight, Medium
Eyes: Brown
It's been a month now that I've used it, I've noticed drastic improvement of softness on my skin and my pores appear smaller.
In regards of purging, recently I took a shower and my skin looked like it had bad pimples, but it was completely soft. It must have been from the temperature from bathing because my skin was fine as if it never happened the next morning. ( i bathed around dinner time) I'm a bit scared of purging at this stage because I have bathed before, but I have never gotten red dots like that on my face. I will update this review if I do start breaking out
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Distinctive bones hidden among the many fossils at Wits University come from a newly discovered dinosaur. Found on the border of Lesotho and South Africa, the new dinosaur has been named Sefapanosaurus from a Sesotho word.
South African girls get head start in technology
When it comes to the ICT sector in South Africa, women are under-represented. But there are a range of initiatives on the go to bring a better gender balance to the industry � initiatives such as Techno Girls, which offers job shadowing and on-going mentorship.
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