**Guardian Chara:** Daichi  

The upbeat and energetic former Jack's Chair, he is one year senior to Amu. As the captain of the Soccer Club, he is athletic and has good reflexes. He has graduated, which is the reason he has been replaced.  

Once, in the school magazine, he and Amu are mistaken to be a couple, as a student got a picture of him holding Amu after she came out of her Character Change, and lost her strength. Saaya appears to have a crush on him, as when she saw the picture of him with Amu, she was furious.   

Through the power of the Humpty Lock, he and Daichi managed a Character Transformation once, forming "Sky Jack." Daichi says the words "Kick, Stack, Trap and Shoot!" during a Character Change with Kukai. At the end of the school year, Kukai graduates and goes on to middle school. However, Kukai returns to visit the Guardians from time to time.   

He and Utau become good friends in both the anime and manga leading to a suspicious Yaya.   

~! In the first chapter of Shugo Chara! Encore! it is revealed that Kuukai has feelings for Utau, eventually his feelings are returned, and the two end up being a couple.!~                          

Amu Hinamori is a 5th grade transfer student who is fashionably cool, tough and independent. Despite this, she is also a girl who seems unapproachable, both at home and at school. In reality, the "Cool and Spicy" role she plays is just a facade that she unconsciously plays. With her guardian characters, she fights the Easter Company who is extracting people's eggs to create X Eggs & X Characters in search of a special egg called the Embryo.
 
(Source: Crunchyroll)

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Affiliated with Ken Production.

Non-anime roles:

Cheren - Pokémon Masters EX (VG)
Wise - Zenless Zone Zero (VG)

Amu meets a super-peppy transfer student at Seiyo Academy Elementary School named Hiiragi Rikka at school one day. Not only can she see Guardian Characters, but it seems she has some other, mysterious powers as well. When she sees the work that Amu and the other Guardians do at school, she's awestruck. 
Each 24-25 minute episode consists of a series of variety show style shorts (including Shugo Chara! Pucchi Puchi) totaling approx. 9-10 minutes, followed by the main 11-12 minute animation titled Shugo Chara!!! Dokki Doki which is the actual continuation of season 2 and comes with it's own opening animation. The remaining time is occupied by live action padding between each section and capped off with the opening/ending themes at the beginning and end of the episode. 
(Source: AniDB)

With things having quieted down a bit for the Guardians, they can now focus on things besides fending off the peril of the evil Easter Corporation. Amu is having some troubles deciding which guy she likes the most, and hiding Ikuto in her room. Not only does the Embryo still elude the Guardians, and worries of Easter being suspiciously inactive, the threat of a new X Egg appears...

Everybody at Seiyo Elementary thinks that stylish and super cool Amu has it all: But nobody knows the real Amu, a shy girl who wishes she had the courage to truly be herself. Changing Amu&rsquo;s life is going to take more than wishes and dreams&ndash;it&rsquo;s going to take a little magic! One morning, Amu finds a surprise in her bed: three strange little eggs. Each egg contains a Guardian Character, an angel-like being who can give her the power to be someone new. With the help of her Guardian Characters, Amu is about to discover that her true self is even more amazing than she ever dreamed. 
(Source: Del Rey) 
Note: Includes 3 side stories.

Sugar and spice, and everything nice—that may be what girls are made of, but Amu Hinamori is so much cooler, especially now that she's left behind her days at Seiyo Elementary and became a middle schooler! After transferring to Arcana Academy on a special assignment, her role as the Joker Guardian is to intervene in a crisis that is causing students to lose hope and confidence in themselves. But she has another, more important secret mission: to retrieve the all-powerful, mysterious Arcana Jewels.
 
(Source: Kodansha USA)

Kukai Souma