Lotte Jansson

Lotte Jansson is one of the main characters from the Little Witch Academia series.
== Charactah Account ==
A quiet, bookish girl from Finland, who is Akko's best friend and roommate. Lotte is shy, calm and timid, rarely ever getting angry. She is a kind-hearted girl who earnestly looks after Akko. Lotte is often concerned about Akko, given that her determination to become a witch like Shiny Chariot sometimes makes her go too far, and that she would forget the well-being of friends and people who wish to help her.
There are occasions when she does get angry. In The Enchanted Parade, her patience in aiding Akko was eventually tested when the latter accidentally rips up the sheet music to Lotte's ancestral song. Lotte became upset to the point of becoming sullen and even colder than she normally was, as Sucy pointed out. She stops talking with Akko for some time because of how she is upset at her. Nevertheless, she still considered Akko as her friend and supported her determination to become a witch like Shiny Chariot despite said witch's poor reputation, as seen when she forgave Akko by giving her a handmade replica of Shiny Chariot's hat. In anime series "Samhain Magic", she stands up for both herself and her roommates (Akko in particular) when Diana and her team belittle the three friends for Akko's sudden disappearance before the beginning of the festival. At such instance, Lotte fiercely defends her friend's absence and berates the group for continuously harassing them due to small situations like these, leaving those present shocked at the change of her once quiet persona.
Despite her usually timid and innocent demeanor, Lotte can take on extremely determined and focused attitude when the situation calls for it. In Teri Terio manga, when Akko was devoured by a Giant Fish at a lake near Luna Nova, she immediately takes action in saving her friend by calling forth faeries within a sunken pirate ship within and have them firing its cannon on the beast, saving Akko and killed the beast at the same time. Even Sucy was unable to help but surprised by this sudden bout of courage in her soft-spoken roommate.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Little Witch Academia
* Little Witch Academia (TV)
* Little Witch Academia: The Enchanted Parade
=== Manga ===
* Little Witch Academia (Shounen Ace)
* Little Witch Academia (Ultra Jump)
* Little Witch Academia: Crown of Midnight
=== Video Games ===
* Little Witch Academia: Chamber of Time
* Little Witch Academia: VR Broom Racing
== Trivia ==
* In "A New Beginning", when Akko and Lotte crash into each other, Lotte drops a case of salmiakki flying from her belongings, a common Finnish candy of salty licorice. She also loses a blue bar of chocolate the same shape and size as Fazer's milk chocolate, a very popular and well-known Finnish chocolate brand. She also has a bag on her broom that bears the print "Unikko" from well-known Finnish design brand Marimekko.
* Up until "Pohjola's Trial", Lotte's mother only appeared in the one-shot manga albeit in radically different design.
* The sheet music for her Song of the Spirits has the lyrics to Björk's song "Crying" written on it.
* In Studio Trigger's introduction video for their panel at Anime Expo 2017, Lotte appears dressed in the colors of the American flag and sings "America Daisuki".
* The fourth chapter of the Teri Terio version of the Little Witch Academia manga shows Lotte's fear of fish, until she conquered it at the end of the chapter. However, in "Orange Submariner" of the anime series, there wasn't any signs of Lotte's fear of fish, as she, Akko and Sucy encountered Pisces and a family of fish.
* Lotte and Jasminka are both voiced by the same voice actress, Stephanie Sheh, in the English dub.
** Stephanie Sheh also voices Nui Harime from Kill la Kill, another Studio Trigger production. Additionally, Akko's and Diana's respective voice actresses, Erica Mendez and Laura Post, also voice Ryūko Matoiand Ragyō Kiryūin in the same series.
** Both Fumiko Orikasa and Junko Takeuchi, voice actresses of Lotte and Croix respectively, worked together in voicing Hinata Hyuga and Naruto Uzumaki in Naruto series and its sequel Boruto: Naruto Next Generations
* According to the official panel of Little Witch Academia at AnimeNEXT 2017, Lotte was originally intended to possess following abilities in addition of her signature ability to call forth faeries:
** The ability to absorb and channel the power from spirits to bolster her strengths.
** Spirits that Lotte summoned to her side can control different weapons to aid her in combat.
** The ability to call forth soul of a fallen Celtic warrior with use of a magic sword (suggestively ceremonial one).
*** From the same panel, Yō Yoshinari showed concept images of a scrapped episode where Lotte receives the afromentioned sword which led to the said ghost possessing her, turning her into a powerful combatant. 
* The development of Lotte's background can be traced in 2013, specifically during the first short film's development. As stated by Yō Yoshinari, owing to her and her family's ability to call forth faeries in old objects, they make a good use in such skill by determining qualities of magical furniture that they sell. In fact, that is how they managed to run a successful merchant business before eventually forced to continue selling magical furniture in a convenience store with former method not as successful as it used to be nowadays.
** In addition of this, Lotte also intended to have extensive analytical skills. This, along with aforementioned proposed family background, later re-instated into anime continuity.
* According to Fumiko Orikasa during Studio TRIGGER's promotional livestream of Chamber of Time when inquired about Lotte's future after Luna Nova, she proposes that Lotte will inherit her parents' store as expected.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Lotte Jansson at Little Witch Academia Wiki
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