History Characters / TokimekiMemorial2

** DifferentAsNightAndDay

** DifferentAsNightAndDay

* IncomingHam: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwYL_FsuASg#t=2m30s His Entrance Ceremony speech]]. Nothing like spelling your name on a flaming background all while shouting it ThisIsSparta style!

[[caption-width:341:The ([[FunSize SD-ified]]) cast of the main ''Tokimeki Memorial 2'' game. [[hottip:* :From left to right, and from rear row to front row. 1st row: [[GiantMook Kinniku-Banchou]], a Sou-Banchou gang {{Mook}}, [[DeliberatelyCuteChild Takumi Sakaki]], [[CircusBrat Sumire Nozaki]], and [[{{Megane}} Junichiro Hokari]]. 2nd row: [[TheDragon Kogarashi-Banchou]], [[KnightTemplarBigBrother Sou-Banchou]], [[{{Bokukko}} Akane Ichimonji]], [[GenkiGirl Miyuki Kotobuki]], [[{{Bishonen}} Mitsuru Iizuka]] (bothered by [[EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys Daisy, Sumire's pet monkey]]), and [[NiceHat Strelitzia Nozaki]]. 3rd row: [[HotBlooded Hi no Tama-Banchou]], [[KindheartedCatLover Kaori Yae]], [[CoolBigSis Kasumi Asou]], [[TheHeroine Hikari Hinomoto]], [[{{Tsundere}} Kotoko Minaduki]], [[WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs Maeka Kudanshita]], and [[GentleGiant Kazumi Bakuretsuzan]]. 4th row: Robo (Homura's dog), [[CuteSportsClubManager Kaedeko Sakura]], [[TheIngenue Miho Shirayuki]] (holding a [[SeriesMascot Kero-chan]] pulshie), [[TwinSwitch Maho Shirayuki]], [[ThisIsADrill Homura Akai]], [[LonelyRichKid Mei Ijuin]], and [[BattleButler Sakunoshin Mihara]].]]]]

* TheIngenue

* DifferentAsNightAndDay

* BrokenBird: ...an emotionally broken girl totally closed up to others due a traumatic past event.

* SupremeChef (not of Saki's level, but still a good cook).

* {{MIB}} / PrivateMilitaryContractors: The Ijuin Family Army.

* [[spoiler: IPromisedMyselfIWouldntCry: Played utterly straight in her Ending, as part of her AnguishedDeclarationOfLove. [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming The scene is emotionally powerful]] thanks to Junko Noda's superb performance, and that you can see Hikari's eyes progressively welling up with tears as she speaks.]]

* FingerTwiddling: Her standard pose when she's in Tokimeki Status.

* {{Expy}}: It's maybe stretching it, but she shares ''a lot'' of similarities with Raizze Haimer of ''Tokimemo 1'' 's SpiritualSuccessor ''MitsumeteKnight'' (released 2 years before ''Tokimemo 2''): both are silent, coldish and soft-spoken girls who avoid contact with others, and thus [[DefrostingIceQueen need to be defrosted]] in order for them to fall in love with you; both have very low Love Growth rates and thus are NintendoHard characters; and both can be [[spoiler: LostForever in a terribly TearJerker way if they're not enough in love with you]]. Add to that that both of them are the absolute EnsembleDarkhorse of their respective games...

* SakuraGirl: She's not named Sakura per se, but part of her name has its Kanji, and she's heavily cherry flowers-themed. See the trope page for more details.

* MeaningfulName: Shirayuki, as in Shirayuki-hime (the Japanese name for SnowWhite).

* WaterWorks: Hikari was quite the crybaby in childhood days, and even though she stopped being one in High School, it still resurfaces in a few events. In her Ending, she reveals to the protagonist [[spoiler: she pledged to herself to stop being a crybaby upon meeting him again, as she thought he would hate her if she kept on being like this. She then goes in IPromisedMyselfIWouldntCry and AnguishedDeclarationOfLove modes, only for the tears caused by this to become TearsOfJoy when her LoveConfession gets reciprocated by the protagonist]].

* {{Moe}}: A lot of the characters in the entire series can easily be labelled as such, but boy, she probably embodies this trope the most amongst them all.

* BlindingBangs: In the games. However, just like Naoto, his Kouchi Watase persona has rare arts with full eyes in the Drama [=CDs=].

* NiceGuy: He's the kind of guy who will always selflessly help the others, without taking care of his own feelings. This is what gets him all the girls to fall in love with him]] in the ''Substories'' and Drama CD storylines, and [[LoveHurts conversly hurt them a lot]], as this trait is combined with...

* BuxomIsBetter: Reaching 90 cm in 3rd year, she has the fifth (ex aequo with ''Tokimeki Memorial 3'''s Emi Tachibana) biggest cup size in the series , behind [[spoiler: fellow model]] Mira, as well as Akane, Patricia and Mari. Her breast size is one of the few ways to see who is Miho and who is Maho in their TwinSwitch game (Maho has the biggest cup size), and she makes good use of them in two special Events, wearing a bold bikini at the beach and a sexy FortuneTeller outfit at the School Festival to please the protagonist, and this works so well [[CrowningMomentOfFunny it also attracts all male attraction around her in the process]]. Plus, [[spoiler: she becomes a model after graduating]].

* BullyHunter: She will not hesitate fighting and [[CurbStompBattle curbstomping]] {{delinquents}}, even if they're twice her size, if she sees them bully people.

* [[HesBack She's Back]]: Pulls this after the mandatory Event to get her Ending, where, thanks to ThePowerOfLove, she finds the courage to overcome her wounds, and decides to enter the Volley-Ball Club again. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by one of the Official Guidebooks about this Event: "''The original Yae-san has come back''".

* [[spoiler: {{Delinquents}}: She's one of the thugs (in a disguise) the protagonist will have to fight against, the "[[MeaningfulName Baito Banchou]]"; fortunately she gives up during the fight, as she has to go for a part-time job.]]

* BonusBoss: Of the ThatOneBoss variety. He's considered one of the hardest battles ''in the whole franchise'', even harder than the local {{Delinquents}}' boss of this game, who's already no slouch. It's not uncommon to see players restart their playthrough when Jun tells the protagonist he loves a specific girl in the cast, at around mid-game: if this girl is the same you're targeting, you'll have to fight him near the end of the game to determine who will have the right to pursue the relationship with the girl.

* {{Delinquents}}

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* {{Delinquents}}

** Possibly a case of FridgeBrilliance: given Kotoko's personnality, she would have supported ''wholeheartedly'' the "Minaduki" romanization, as the Nihon-Shiki system was created by Japanese, for Japanese, as an answer to the western Hepburn system.

* GoNagaiSideburns

Rei Ijuin’s little sister. A computer nut with a haughty attitude, she’s a year younger than the rest of the cast and thus will join the game in 2nd year as the protagonist’s kohai, even though she ignores completely this convention and will order him and everyone else around, calling them with the rude pronoun “Kisama”. She actually has a cute side, but she doesn’t like to show it. She’s Homura’s [[{{Understatement}} sworn enemy]].

* ObliviousToLove: He is absolutely ''horrible'' in that aspect, even worse than Naoto of the first game. His obliviousness is mercilessly [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by every single character in the saga at one point or the other; you know it's ''that'' bad when even the owner of the restaurant Akane works part-time at, ''a minor character [[TheFaceless who's face is hidden]] just like the protagonist'', lampshades it as well.

* ImageSong: Seven of them, plus a duet one with Hikari. Her main song is "Suki to Ienakute" (= "Unable To Say 'I love You'").

* OddFriendship: With her cheerful and genuine personnality, she has a knack at creating those. She's best friends with the calm and gentle Miho, becomes friends with the [[BrokenBird emotionally closed-to-others]] Kaori, and even more surprisingly, forms a deep friendship with [[spoiler: Kotoko]] of all people in the Drama [=CDs=], to the point she lets Miyuki get away with calling her [[spoiler: Mina-pon]]!

* NiceGuy: He's the kind of guy who will always selflessly help the others, without taking care of his own feelings. This is what gets him all the girls to fall in love with him in the ''Substories'' and Drama CD storylines, and conversly hurt them a lot, as this trait is combined with...
* ObliviousToLove: He is absolutely ''horrible'' in that aspect, even worse than Naoto of the first game. His obliviousness is mercilessly [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by every single character in the saga at one point or the other; you know it's ''that'' bad when even the owner of the restaurant Akane works part-time at, ''a minor character who's face is hidden just like the protagonist'', lampshades it as well.

* BeautifulDreamer: [[spoiler: in the LockedInARoom Event told below, the protagonist, seeing Hikari tired, tells her to sleep, while he stays awake and waits for the train back to service announcement, promising her to wake her up at the announcement. As she sleeps on his shoulder, the protagonist will remember he forgot to give her his Christmas present, and if you chose to give her glass earrings (her favourite item), [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming in order to let her rest and to give her a surprise]], he'll put them on her all while she sleeps.]]

* [[spoiler: LockedInARoom: Or rather, trapped in a remote mountain train station - one of the last major events with her before her love confession occurs during a date at the ski slopes in the winter season, where a sudden blizzard occur, stopping the train service between the mountain and Hibikino City, and forcing her and the protagonist to take shelter in the station and wait until the lines work again for a whole night.]]

* WithThisRing

* BerserkButton: Anything foreign related, but especially curry.

* WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs?

* [[spoiler:KnightTemplarBigBrother (To Akane)]]
* [[spoiler:MegatonPunch (He is often on the receiving end of his younger sister Akane's punch for interfering in her private life)]]
* [[spoiler:MySisterIsOffLimits (He is very protective of his younger sister Akane)]]

* WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs?: As pointed by the MeaningfulName: "Baito" means "Part-time job" in Japanese.

* MemeticOutfit: Her [[spoiler: [[{{Meido}} maid]]]] outfit mentioned above reached this status. If you search for Kaori fanarts, she'll be drawn with it in at least a third of them; and there's a sizeable number of official artworks and figurines of her with that outfit as well.

* TheWoobie

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: [[JapaneseRomanization Kunrei-shiki "Minaduki" vs. Hepburn "Minazuki"]]; official guidebooks and merchandise systematically use "Minaduki", but the name's pronunciation is "Minazuki".

* CloudCuckooLander: And it runs in the family, as her mother (voiced by KikukoInoue, no less!) is an even ''bigger'' one, talking casually and friendly to the main protagonist all while failing to realize ''he has fallen a whole floor through the ceiling'', in ''Dancing Summer Vacation''.

* VictoriousChildhoodFriend: ''Very'' likely to become Hikari's, unlike Naoto with Shiori. He can also become this to other characters depending on if he met them in his childhood days, and scores them in the end. Among those characters are [[spoiler: Akane, Homura, Mei, Miho, and Miyuki]].

* OfficialCouple: In the [[{{Novelization}} novel]] ''Anata o Shinjiteru'', with [[spoiler: main protagonist Shunta Torigoe]].

* OfficialCouple: [[spoiler: With Kaori]].

A novel-only character appearing in ''Anata o Shinjiteru'', she's the captain of Hibikino's female Volley-Ball club team, the 2-F class representative, and Shunta's childhood friend. She always took care of him in his younger ill days. She's protective of him, and treats him a bit like a child, leading to much bickering between them. She's however secretly deeply in love with him, but doesn't know how to tell him; and seeing Kaori gradually getting closer from him is a great source of pain for her.

-->'''Sayo''': "Don't you get it?! If it went wrong, Yae-san could have [[spoiler: fallen]] too!!"

* BlindingBangs: Played totally straight, unlike Naoto Takami. He doesn't have a single art with full eyes.

* SheCleansUpNicely

* ThisIsADrill

* [[spoiler: TakingTheHeat]]: The trope which started Kaori's {{Backstory}}. [[spoiler: When she was in her former school, she was a cheerful member of the Volley-Ball club, and she was great friends with the other members; but one day, one of them committed a burglary in the Club, stealing the club's cash budget. Everyone knew who was the culprit, but if he was to be exposed, the Club would then suffer grave consequences. In order to save the Club, Kaori took the heat by posing as the culprit, thinking that even if she was to be temporary expelled, she wouldn't lose her position at the Club once she would come back. Unfortunately, her "friends" betrayed her by cowardly abandoning and ostracizing her afterwards, explaining how she became a BrokenBird, why she transferred to Hibikino High, and why she's repeating a class.]]

* AnimeHair: Which symbolizes his [[TheFourGods Four Gods]] alignment in the Four Heaven Kings, Suzaku.

* WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs?

[[WMG:'''Rumi Kanbe''']]
!!!Voiced by: ReikoTakagi

A track runner from Kirameki Highschool in ''Memories Ringing On'', and self proclamed rival to Hikari Hinomoto. [[spoiler: She is frustrated that Hikari doesn't take her challenges to a sprint race seriously because of her history of injuries in turn complicated by Hikari's belief in handicapping, as well as Hikari not going to a college recommended for track runners.]]

She also happens to be Takumi Sakaki's childhood friend, to the surprise of Jun Hokari and the protagonist, who then speculate whether or not she is also Takumi's LoveInterest.

Tropes associated with Rumi Kanbe:
* [[spoiler: DontYouDarePityMe]]
* SchoolgirlRival: to Hikari Hinomoto



[[WMG:'''Shunta Torigoe''']]
!!!Voiced by: None

A novel-only character, he's the main male protagonist of ''Anata o Shinjiteru'', and Kaori's love interest in that novel. He's not a novel-representation of the game's Main Protagonist though, Takeru Iwase of the same continuity taking that role, and also having a completely different circle of friends (he doesn't know Junichiro and Takumi, isn't Hikari's childhood friend, and is not in the same class as them -he's a student of the 2-F class, like Kaori and Sayo- for example).

A cheerful and hard-working member of Hibikino's Volley-Ball Club, extremely open and friendly to others, he actually was an IllBoy forced to stay at his home most of the time until the start of his High School time. He's now healthy enough to have a normal school life and practice sports, but he still is a bit fragile, and is also prone to volley-ball accidents: it's how he progressively gets closer to Kaori, who's sometimes on call at the infirmary. He's childhood friends with Sayo Tsukimura, but they bicker often and he considers her more as a big sister.

Tropes associated with Shunta Torigoe:
* BadLiar: He tries to ask Kaori for a date under the excuse of asking her to teach him a volley-ball receive, but immediately takes it back and confesses to Kaori he invites her [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming simply because he wants to be with her]].
* IllBoy
* {{Keet}}
* OfficialCouple: [[spoiler: With Kaori]].
* ThePowerOfTrust: Invokes this in the infamous moment where, to prove Kaori his sincerity towards her after a messy misunderstanding between them, [[spoiler: he climbs on one of the rooftop's outdoors units and tells Kaori he will let himself fall off the building after a count of three, and that he places all his trust that she would take his hand and take him back to the rooftop before. And he was dead serious, as he had begun to let himself fall after the count, only to be [[JustInTime barely caught]] by Kaori]]. As [[{{Narm}} over-the-top, forced]], [[DudeNotFunny and poor in taste]] this is (both Sayo and [[StudentCouncilPresident Homura]] make sure [[WhatTheHellHero to chew him a new one after that]]), it tremendously works on Kaori.



[[WMG:'''Sayo Tsukimura''']]
!!!Voiced by: None

A novel-only character appearing in ''Anata o Shinjiteru'', she's the captain of Hibikino's female Volley-Ball club team, the 2-F class representative, and Shunta's childhood friend. She always took care of him in his younger ill days. She's protective of him, and treats him a bit like a child, leading to much bickering between them. She's however secretly deeply in love with him, but doesn't know how to tell him; and seeing Kaori gradually getting closer from him is a great source of pain for her.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: She comes to sincerly regret her borderline-MoralEventHorizon moment where, after informing Shunta of the bad rumors about Kaori's past (who dismiss them and tells Sayo he trusts Kaori), she then meets Kaori and lies to her, by saying that Shunta told her she was disappointed of Kaori; to the point she feels dirty.]]

An OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent who lived in his childhood days in Hibikino Town until he was 8. His family then suddenly moved away. Seven years later, he comes back to Hibikino for his High School time. He then meets again his childhood friend and crush Hikari Hinomoto, and soon becomes best friends with Takumi Sakaki and Junichiro Hokari.

* HeroicMime: Just like Naoto: it's a varaition of this trope, as he does speaks a lot with others characters, but he’s the only one of the characters who’s not voiced, as part of the Player Avatar thing.

* VictoriousChildhoodFriend: ''Very'' likely to become one in the main game, and [[spoiler: [[OfficialCouple becomes one]]]] in [[{{Novelization}} the novel]] ''Kimi no Ushiro Sugata''.

** She even go as far as slapping [[spoiler: her own teacher, Kasumi, in ''Memories Ringing On''!!]]

* [[spoiler:ExpositoryHairstyleChange: At the end of the third year, if Maho likes you enough, she will start to dress in her own fashion style and change her hairstyle to reflect it, making the secret between the twins all the more obvious to everyone but the in-game player himself]].
* [[spoiler: GirlWithPsychoWeapon: Should anyone, including the protagonist, stumble upon the twins' game of [[TwinSwitch switcheroo]], she'll mercilessly beat the hell out of the poor slob with a golf club.]]

* [[TalkingToHimself Talking To Herself]]: Hikari Tachibana voices both Shirayuki twins, and as such this occurs in a few scenes where both are present (most notably [[spoiler: the GirlWithPsychoWeapon scene described above]], as well as the scene where they finally reveal their [[TwinSwitch switcheroo game]] to the protagonist.

* EverythingIsBetterWithPenguins

* InformedAbility: She's touted as what can be considered as Kaori's closest friend, yet they have about zero interaction in the games. Averted however in the [[{{Novelization}} novel]] ''Anata o Shinjiteru'', where they have a ''real'' close friendship that plays a ''vital'' role in getting Kaori better. [[spoiler: Kaedeko even goes as far as taking a 3-hours train trip immediately after getting a call from an horribly depressed Kaori (caused by a misunderstanding between Kaori and her love interest Shunta), so she can confort and help her.]]

A silent girl with no friends. She's often alone at the school roof. Deeply wounded in her heart by a painful event in her past, this once-[[GenkiGirl Genki Girl]] now avoids contact with other people, fearing to be betrayed and hurt again. It's now up to the protagonist, should he meet her and want to score her, to patiently heal her through ThePowerOfLove. Her scenario and personnality lead her to become ''Tokimeki Memorial 2'''s [[EnsembleDarkhorse favourite character in the fandom]].

* FanserviceWithASmile: If the Event where Kaori overcomes her wounds has occured, if she's in Tokimeki Status with the protagonist, and [[spoiler: if you choose to do a Café Shop for the 3rd Year School Festival, she'll wear [[{{Meido}} a maid outfit]] while serving as the Café's waitress]]. This Event is another proof that [[HesBack She's Back]], [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming as she's smiling happily and is visibly having a fun time doing this.]]

* SchoolgirlRival: to Hikari Hinomoto

This sub-division of the ''TokimekiMemorial'' Character Sheet is dedicated to characters having appeared in the Hibikino Saga of the franchise, i.e. ''Tokimeki Memorial 2'' and its spin-off games and drama [=CDs=].

[[WMG:'''Hikari Hinomoto''']]
!!!Voiced by: JunkoNoda
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The heroine of the Hibikino Saga. A sweet GenkiGirl who was quite the crybaby in her childhood, she loves sports and is a member of the Track & Field Club. She is childhood friends with the protagonist, but they were separated in their younger days. 8 years after this event, on School Enterance Day, they meet again. She’s the main love goal of the protagonist at the start of the game. Her best friend is Kotoko Minaduki, and they know each other since Junior High.

Miho’s younger twin sister. She studies at Kirameki High, [[spoiler: and is friends with Yuko Asahina]]. Unlike her sister, she’s a down-to-earth, wild and playful character.

* EnsembleDarkhorse

A silent girl with no friends. She's often alone at the school roof. Deeply wounded in her heart by a painful event in her past, this once-[[GenkiGirl Genki Girl]] now avoids contact with other people, fearing to be betrayed and hurt again. It's now up to the protagonist, should he meet her and want to score her, to patiently heal her through ThePowerOfLove.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: She's ''Tokimeki Memorial 2'''s favourite character in the Japanese fandom.

* TheFourGods: Among the Four Heaven Kings, he's Seiryû. The back of his coat is decorated with a dragon.



[[WMG:'''Rumi Kanbe''']]
!!!Voiced by: ReikoTakagi

A track runner from Kirameki Highschool in ''Memories Ringing On'', and self proclamed rival to Hikari Hinomoto. [[spoiler: She is frustrated that Hikari doesn't take her challenges to a sprint race seriously because of her history of injuries in turn complicated by Hikari's belief in handicapping, as well as Hikari not going to a college recommended for track runners.]]

She also happens to be Takumi Sakaki's childhood friend, to the surprise of Jun Hokari and the protagonist, who then speculate whether or not she is also Takumi's LoveInterest.