Massugu ni Ikou / Characters

Mametarou

Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: He's orange furred. It's a stylized brown.
Insecure Love Interest: Towards Hanako. He's insecure in being a mongrel.
Jealous Pet: Mametarou is jealous of his owner's boyfriend and doesn't like them together.
Loyal Animal Companion: He's very dedicated to his owner.
Token Minority: A mongrel whose friends are all purebred. This only heightens his insecurities.

Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Possibly due to Kishu's having a high prey drive, Hanako gets distracted easily.
Cloudcuckoolander: She's ditzy and oblivious.
Dog Stereotype: Kishu are known for being headstrong, strong-willed hunting dogs. Hanako does display the loyalty and devotion associated with Kishu, but she's a playful cloudcuckoolander who couldn't hurt a fly.
Does Not Know His Own Strength: She has a Running Gag of accidentally knocking others over.
Trademark Favorite Food: She adores melons and especially loves melon pan most of all (which she thinks is actually made of melons).

Dog Stereotype: Subverted. She isn't the cuddly, awkward Dachshund of pop culture, but instead she acts more similar to how Dachshunds actually behave.
Faster Than They Look: She's quite agile for a dog with such short legs.
Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: She's tough, mean, and athletic while her crush Sebastian is a cute and sensitive Yorkie. For emphasis, she wears a blue collar while Sebastian wears a pink hair bow.

Dude Looks Like a Lady: He's small, cute, has a high-pitched feminine voice, and wears a bow on his head.
Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: He's the timid, girly foil to Sora's rough and masculine one.
Mistaken for Gay: When he starts talking about his adoration of his owner, the other dogs mistake him for talking about a male dog.
Mistaken for Romance: In one episode, Sora mistakes him for being in love with Mametarou.
Oblivious to Love: He doesn't recognize Sora's crush on him.
Uncatty Resemblance: Subverted as a plot point. His owner is masculine, aloof, and a bit of a jerk. The dogs thought that he was Sora's owner, not Sebastian's.

Anime Accent Absence: Averted. He has a strong accent in-universe.
- Unintentionally inverted in practice. Even though he's supposed to have English as his first language, in the anime it's quite clear that his voice actor can't quite pull it off, using "me" where an English-speaker would say "I" (possibly a translation hiccup, see Japanese Pronouns below), and pronounces "white lady" as "hwite rady."
Betty and Veronica: He's the Veronica to Mametarou's Betty. He's rich, haughty, and sophisticated.
Brits Love Tea: He's shown drinking tea as a gag in episode 7, fitting British stereotypes.
Gratuitous English: He's from England and sprinkles his speech with English.
Japanese Pronouns: He uses "me", showing his difficulties with Japanese.
Malicious Misnaming: He calls Mametarou everything but his name.
Trophy Child: Jack is a Rough Collie stud who is treated like an object by his owner.

The Big Guy: The largest dog in the cast, being a huge Siberian Husky.
Gentle Giant: He's a sweet Husky and the largest of the cast (even more so than Hanako).
The Stoic: Calm, gentle, and soft-spoken despite having a very deep voice.
Unsuccessful Pet Adoption: He’s on the receiving end of this trope. Ever since he was a puppy, his owner loved him and played a lot with him. But she was a little kid at the time she adopted Gen, and eventually admitted she knew huskies are energetic but got him without the knowing full knowledge on the breed. As Gen got older, bigger, and more energetic, he became too much to handle for his owner. Gen is eventually given away to a new home in Hokkaido because his owner believed what Gen wanted is to have a home with as much space and to run around without restrictions. But on Gen’s point of view, what he truly wanted was more of his owner’s love and attention.