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Yamato Kougami
Fake wedding reason: He works at an all girls school that requires all male teachers to be married.
- Belligerent Sexual Tension: Yamato and the protagonist have a degree of this, although it's more on the level of playful bantering from both sides rather than anything more violently belligerent.
- Chick Magnet: Even selfproclaimed
- Companion Cube: Yamato treats his Roomba like a pet, including greeting it when he gets home.
- Disappeared Dad: The reason Yamato is at the school is because he suspects his birth father works there.
- Hot Teacher: Yamato is very popular among his female students. This becomes a source of conflict, when one of the girls take it too far.
- Lap Pillow: A favorite of Yamato's.
- Meet Cute: The protagonist first meets Yamato in the prologue while doing some grocery shopping by Kunihiko's request. She has trouble finding the things he's requested, leading to Yamato having to grudgingly help her.
- Supreme Chef: Yamato is an excellent cook thanks to years of experience helping his mother out in the kitchen.
- Teacher/Student Romance: This trope is why Yamato needs the protagonist to pose as his wife - he's a teacher and has specific personal reasons for working at a particular all-girls high school, but the school requires all of its male teachers to be married, no doubt to help discourage teacher-student romances. It doesn't prevent at least one of his students from being very, very hot for teacher. Towards the end of the route, the protagonist learns that Yamato's parents began their relationship while his father was a teacher and his mother one of his students.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Yamato's is warabi mochi. He says it's because he likes the texture, and compares the protagonist to it, a description which she does not find very flattering.
Takao Maruyama
Fake wedding reason: His grandmother is dying and one of her last requests is to see her favorite grandson's future wife.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Discussed by the other characters in reference to Takao, who they warn the protagonist is likely to turn out to be a Covert Pervert. He's not - but he is the one out of the group most likely to have moments of unexpected badassery, such as hauling off and punching one of his relatives for being a crappy parent, as well as talking down a would-be robber while being held at gunpoint.
- Clueless Chick-Magnet: According to Haruka, Takao never lacked admirers in high school - not that he ever noticed.
- Crusading Lawyer: In the "Working Couple" side story, Takao plays this role to the hilt, to put a Corrupt Corporate Executive in her place.
- Engaging Conversation: At the beginning of Takao's route, he gets nervous trying to describe the favor he needs from the protagonist and ends up blurting out, "Please become my wife!" Then he has to hastily backpedal and explain that he only needs a fiancee, and only in pretense rather than reality.
- I Didn't Tell You Because You'd Be Unhappy: The relationship between Takao and the protagonist becomes strained during his Wedding Bells sequel when she discovers that the reason he's been so stressed out lately is that his firm is under investigation for possible tax fraud and he'd avoided telling her about it. He kept it from her so as not to worry her, but the protagonist feels that this means he doesn't rely on her, and the fight that results is heated enough that the protagonist goes home to her parents in Kyushu. Once she's there, she quickly finds herself better understanding Takao's side of things when she instinctively avoids telling her parents the details of the fight to keep them from worrying.
- Nice Guy: Takao is unfailingly courteous and considerate towards everyone, especially the protagonist.
- Team Mom: Takao mothers anyone who'll let him. Ren is a particularly frequent target.
- Verbal Judo: In Takao's epilogue, a man with a gun breaks into the hotel room that Takao is sharing with the protagonist, intending to rob them at gunpoint. Takao calmly talks him down, and gives him legal advice on ways to get financial support to help care for his family and his sick wife, which was the reason he'd grown desperate enough to turn to robbery.
Takamasa Saeki
Fake wedding reason: To gain research for his latest script.
- Chivalrous Pervert: Saeki rarely misses a chance to flirt with the protagonist, admire an attractive woman, or otherwise somehow turn the conversation towards sex, but is entirely kind-hearted.
- Genius Slob: He's a very successful screenwriter and his personal hygiene is fine. His apartment on the other hand is a severe case of Trash of the Titans. The protagonist insists on cleaning up when she moves in with him, but when she can't keep up on cleaning for a little while, the mess soon reasserts itself.
- Last-Name Basis: Hardly anyone, not even the game's text, calls Saeki by his given name of Takamasa.
- Race for Your Love: Right before the protagonist leaves for her hometown
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: Saeki's father is a successful literary author who disapproves of Saeki's scriptwriting career, considering it disgraceful.
Ren Shibasaki
Fake wedding reason: He's a prince doing research for his country and wants to stay in Japan more to finish it.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Is said to be the least human out of the guys.
- Covert Pervert: Despite Takao's being accused of that, it's Ren who actually lets of comments like this: "I'm frustrated, because I haven't been getting any."
- Deadpan Snarker: Saeki is the usual target.
- Expy: Ren is basically Wilfred from Be My Princess. Both are quiet blond princes with overbearing butlers, both have a strong dislike for a certain vegetable (broccoli for Ren, carrots for Wilfred), and for both of them flowers hold a special significance. Ren's sequel makes the resemblance even stronger by revealing that, like Wilfred, he also has an older brother who renounced his claim to their kingdom's throne in order to pursue a career in science.
- Picky Eater: Ren hates broccoli.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something: Ren is the prince of a (fictional) small European country. He's in Japan to study medicine and work on the development of a new drug which could significantly improve his country's quality of life.
- There Is Only One Bed: Ren's apartment does not have a guest room. He initially offers his bed to the protagonist and tries to sleep on the floor, but finds it too uncomfortable and ends up climbing into bed with the protagonist, after which they end up sharing.
Yuta Kajima
Fake wedding reason: To help support his comedy show.
- Cannot Tell a Joke: No one from the LI Gang, except for Saeki, finds Yuta's jokes funny. Ironically, his profession is being one half of the Comedy Duo Fukumiki.
- Did Not Get The Guy: Unusual for a Voltage game, the Happy Ending for his route ends with him deciding that he and the protagonist are best off as friends.
- Long-Distance Relationship: In his sequel, when Fukumiki's popularity takes off, and they get engagements abroad.
Kunihiko Aikawa
Fake wedding reason: So he won't have to marry Yoko.
- Abhorrent Admirer: The daughter of one of his business partners, Yoko, wants to marry him, but he's not interested, which is why he needs the player to pose as his fiancee.
- Brilliant, but Lazy: Kunihiko comes across this way, given that he's the founder and owner of a successful IT company but rarely seems to do any actual work, instead preferring to hang around his bar, which he started on the side purely as a hobby. His route proves that he can exert serious effort towards running his main business when it's actually necessary, but he seems to have arranged things so that it's not necessary all that often.
- Honorary Uncle: Kunihiko to the protagonist. She calls him "Uncle", as he is a relative, of sorts, who spent a lot of time babysitting her when she was a child and he was in his teens. Their actual familial ties are a little complicated, but suffice to say that they are related — just not by bloodnote . Dealing with the fallout forms the crux of Kunihiko's second sequel.
- She Is All Grown Up: Kunihiko initially still sees the protagonist as a child. He becomes aware of her as a woman midway through his route, and the realization has a visible effect on the way he reacts to her.
- Uncle Pennybags: Kunihiko's company is profitable enough that he was not only able to open a bar, Long Island, as a hobby, he's able to keep it open even though his friends are more often than not its only customers. It serves more as their personal hangout than anything else, and Kunihiko occasionally comments that he doesn't want it to attract any more business than it does - that would be too much work.
- Wife Husbandry: How Kunihiko's relationship with the protagonist is sometimes interpreted in-game. Hikaru Genji is directly referenced at one point.
Haruka Utsunomiya
An ikebana specialist.
Fake wedding reason: To avoid an Arranged Marriage.
- Big Fancy House: The Utsunomiya estate in Haruka's route is an enormous traditional Japanese-style manor, complete with a shishi-odoshi. It's so huge that Haruka admits even he doesn't know all of the rooms.
- Heir to the Dojo: In a sense, as Haruka is the heir of his family business, and the art of ikebana is regarded very highly in Japan.
Kyoichi Kunishiro
Fake wedding reason: To inherit his family estate.
- Childhood Memory Demolition Team: Kyoichi's true motive for vying to inherit the family estate is so that he can gain ownership of the house he grew up in, in order to ensure that his mother will be able to return there if she survives her surgery. His aunt plans to demolish the house out of resentment against her sister.
- Defrosting Ice King: Out of all of the guys, Kyoichi is arguably the coldest in the beginning and even pens up a written contract for the terms of their fake marriage.
- Grand Romantic Gesture: In his sequel epilogue, Kyoichi pulls out all the stops to re-do his marriage proposal to the protagonist (the initial proposal having been rather rushed). He rents a limo, custom-orders a dress for her, reserves an entire three-star restaurant, and presents the gemstone for her engagement ring to her in the petals of a rose along with a new contract.
- Improbable Age: At 27 already a full-fledged diplomat.
- Sweet Tooth: He's fond of hot chocolate and puts marshmallows in his coffee.
Akito Kakiuchi
A esthetician and the player’s childhood friend from Kyushu.
Fake wedding reason: To avoid taking over his family's business.
Fake wedding reason: To avoid taking over his family's business.
- Childhood Friend Romance: If the player chooses him.
- Fantasy-Forbidding Father: His parents don’t approve of his career choices and would rather have him take over the family’s sake brewery, even though he wants to open up his own spa one day. This is why he needs a fake wife: if they think he's getting married, he won't have to move back home.
Tamaki Kikushima
A company heir and Yamato's old friend.
Fake wedding reason: To ensure he would inherit his company.
