Characters / Nisekoi

A list of characters in Nisekoi.

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Main Characters

Raku Ichijou

Voiced by: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (vomic); Kōki Uchiyama (teenager), Akira Sekine (child) (anime)

The male protagonist. He is the heir of the Shuei Yakuza Group. He made a promise to to a girl 10 years ago but doesn't remember who she is.

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• Accidental Pervert: Has a tendency to get into embarrassing situations with the female characters.
• Babies Ever After: He and Chitoge have a son named Haku together, who is introduced in the bonus chapter included in the final volume.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: The more Raku argues with Chitoge, the more obvious it is that they like each other. Rui can't decide if they bicker because they're close or can't stand each other.
• Bishie Sparkle: Has this in Marika's fantasies.
• Boke and Tsukkomi Routine: The Tsukkomi to Shu's Boke.
• Butt-Monkey: He's never safe from Chitoge's abuse. In fact, his first meeting with Chitoge began with her knee slamming his face by accident.
• Chastity Couple: With Chitoge. They barely even hug, although it makes sense because they only pretend they're dating for most of the manga. Still, even after they become a real couple, it takes them years to share their First Kiss.
• Chick Magnet: He has been all his life. Actually more justified than most examples as all the girls show to be attracted to his generally altruist personally instead of just his appearance. More specifically he happens to help them with their own life problems: insecurity by lack of goal in life (Kosaki), loneliness from being a mafia princess (Chitoge), comfort from a lifelong illness (Marika), recognition of femininity and individuality after dedicating herself to a single purpose (Seishirou), emotional comfort after losing their whole family (Yui) and protecting her from older boys (Haru).
• Childhood Friend Romance: All the members of his Unwanted Harem are his childhood friends. Chitoge is the one he marries.
• Childhood Marriage Promise: He promised to marry his childhood friend if they ever meet again. Chapter 220 reveals that Chitoge, Marika, Kosaki and Tsugumi all met with each other and, before all of them were separated, Chitoge wanted to make Raku promise to marry her. However, Chitoge overheard Raku and Kosaki admitting to like each other and decided to let Kosaki make the marriage promise with Raku.
• Clueless Chick-Magnet: He was actually very popular with the girls in middle school, but too dense to figure it out. In the present, other than Marika he doesn't really notice anyone else's feelings.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: The pilot version of him KOs Claude with a Megaton Punch to the face. Current Raku doesn't fall behind either. For one, he calls out Tsugumi, a hitman, on her over-protectiveness of Chitoge saying she's nowhere as weak and needing protection as the Beehive group seems to think, gives a Dope Slap to Hana, The Dreaded imposing wife of a gangster boss that she has wrapped around her little finger and that no one in their right mind would piss off, followed by calling her an idiot over her treatment of Chitoge (and succeeds), and talks down the boss of a criminal organization that was Tsugumi's target without even flinching. Butt-Monkey he may be, but Raku has massive balls.
• The Don: He takes over the Shuei Yakuza Group this after his father's retirement.
• Failed a Spot Check: Chitoge keeps making minor image changes trying to get him to notice her but he keeps ignoring her. Eventually, he fails to even comment on her new ribbon and she blows up at him. He actually did notice her changing her shampoo and wearing chap stick but felt it wouldn't be appropriate as a man to comment. He really did fail to notice the ribbon, though, despite it being by far the most obvious change.
• Forgotten First Meeting: He knew Chitoge, Onodera, Tsugumi and Marika when they were children, but he can't remember. He does remember making a pledge with one of them regarding his pendant, but can't recall specifically who it was.
• Harem Seeker: Gets accused of this because of the number of girls he has attracted to him, making him the most hated guy in school.
• Has a Type: When they were younger, he tells Marika that he prefers girly girls who have long hair, so she does her best to become a Proper Lady in order to appeal to him. This is also why he consistently claims to himself he prefers Kosaki over Chitoge.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: Second guesses himself whenever he receives a compliment, especially from Kosaki.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: As if being the son of a gangster boss wasn't bad enough, he's also got to keep up the charade of being Chitoge's boyfriend. Then Haru also hears rumors of him being a maniacal playboy toying with women at the school, and initially refuses to believe he's actually a Nice Guy suffering from Accidental Pervert moments.
• Idiot Ball: This guy just can't keep his mouth shut about his fake relationship in order to protect his own life, but has coped better over time. Still, his crush on Kosaki can still cloud his judgement, making his life unnecessarily in danger.
• In Love with Love: He's attracted to Onodera and believes himself to be in love with her, but his feelings are rather questionable given that as early as chapter 25 he begins prioritizing Chitoge, the girl he supposedly hates, over a chance with the girl he supposedly loves. Around two hundred chapters later he rejects Onodera because while he says he did like her, his feelings for Chitoge are deeper.
• In-Series Nickname: Chitoge likes to call him "bean sprout."
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He can be brash and rude, yet his luck with women probably stems from the fact that no matter how annoying he may find them he still wants them to be happy, and will go through a lot to make sure they are.
• KidAnova: He started his harem when he was five years old.
• Like Father, Like Son: His son Haku doesn't seem to want to be the yakuza boss, either. Not only that, but he looks and acts like an almost carbon copy of him, but with the added bonus of Chitoge's blonde hair.
• Loose Lips: Initially, Raku just can't help denying his relationship with Chitoge, even though it is made very clear to him that his life will be in danger if that relationship is exposed as phony.
• Love Confession: Finally gives one to Chitoge in Chapter 227. To which she reciprocates with her own.
• Love Epiphany: In chapter 199, Raku finally realizes he's truly in love with Chitoge. After thinking about it a little more, he realizes she's the one he cares the most about, ultimately deciding to let go of Onodera to be with Chitoge.
• Love Makes You Dumb: His crush on Kosaki can severely affect his rationality, dangerously steer him towards Too Dumb to Live territory. One example is when being in a open-air bath full of women due to Claude's scheme, he manages to find a connecting drain which can get him out undetected. However, he hesitates when the girls gleefully tease Kosaki about who her first love is, making her run to where Raku is and block the exit before he can reach it. He only manages to escape thanks to Chitoge, who berates him for wasting his chance. Even worse, since he subconsciously believes that Kosaki is too good for him, he just assumes that the girl he pines for doesn't return his affections, despite many signs of the contrary.
• Memento MacGuffin: His pendant is the heart of the story's myth arc; only the true promise girl has the key that opens it.
• Mistaken for Cheating: This is why Haru hates him so much at first, believing him to be lusting for her sister while being in a relationship with Chitoge, unaware that said relationship is fake. However, Kosaki isn't actually the only girl he has feelings for...
• Nice Guy: Beneath his brashness, sheer idiocy, and no-filter ridiculousness, lies a man willing to sacrifice his pride to help someone reach their happiness. Usually willing to help out other characters with their problems without a second thought. Which is also a big reason why so many of the female characters are attracted to him.
• No Guy Wants an Amazon: He likes feminine women like Kosaki and Marika, and (supposedly) finds Chitoge unattractive for being such a violent "gorilla woman".
• No Guy Wants to Be Chased: The manga is built around Raku and Chitoge's relationship. In the present he believes himself to be in love with Onodera and considers Tsugumi highly attractive at the very least. Note these girls are very passive about their feelings for Raku and never put the moves on him. Raku is generally uncomfortable about Marika because of how pushy she is.
• Oblivious to Love: He has a hard time figuring out how the girls feel about him unless they say it to him directly. He also seems to have trouble seeing love in general, not realizing that Shuu had a crush on their teacher, and easily misunderstanding when Tsugumi was giving Shuu chocolate.
• Romantic Fake–Real Turn: His relationship with Chitoge starts off with them only pretending to be a couple to prevent their families from going into war. After coming to know each other better, Raku develops genuine feelings for Chitoge, but he's very slow to realize it. They finally become a real couple at the end of the series.
• Scars Are Forever: Has a scar from 10 years ago on the right side of his forehead.
• Supreme Chef: He is a great cook. He often makes food for his yakuza subordinates. He can even create new delicious recipes.
• Too Much Alike: With Chitoge. He can't stand her bad temper, rudeness and stubbornness, but him having the exact same flaws is why they can't start getting along until much later.
• True Love is Exceptional: For a long time, Raku's favorite type were demure and feminine ladies like Onodera. Despite his stubborn denials, Raku gradually falls hard for the violent, noisy and rash Chitoge. At the end of the manga, Raku admits Chitoge isn't the type of girl he thought he would fall in love with, yet he did and ends up marrying her.
• Tsundere: He can pass a lie detector test saying that he likes Chitoge and without his memory, he's very sweet and kind to her. Much to her surprise, he also thinks she's quite pretty, but he would never admit it normally. When Chitoge's mom calls him out on how much he tries to take care of Chitoge, he basically just refuses to think about it.
• Twice Shy: He and Kosaki like each other, but are too shy and awkward to admit it.
• Unknowingly in Love: Raku is convinced that Onodera is his only crush and absolutely refuses to acknowledge he's really falling in love with his fake girlfriend Chitoge. He does understand he feels something special for Chitoge, but he tries to brush it off by calling her his "best friend" and outright ignoring the romantic connotations of his feelings for her. Eventually, he can't deceive himself anymore and realizes what he feels for Chitoge is romantic love, which eventually leads him to turn down Onodera and ask Chitoge to be his real girlfriend.
• Unwanted Harem: He only admits to liking Kosaki, but is in denial about Chitoge. To make matters worse, he also has to deal with Tsugumi and Marika. Eventually, he also gets Kosaki's sister Haru and his childhood friend and new teacher Yui included in his harem.
• What Does She See in Him?: Suffers from this repeatedly, when new characters wonder why Raku is so popular with the ladies, such as Haru.
• What Is This Feeling?: When it seems like Chitoge is going to move away he gets pretty upset and can't figure out why. Shuu tries prodding him, asking why he would be so concerned about her moving away if she's just a friend, causing him to have an epiphany. Shuu should have kept prodding at him, though, since he has the wrong epiphany and is able to convince himself that he's just worried because she's his best friend. Uh huh, right. Even he realizes how stupid this was during his Love Epiphany in chapter 199...
• Will They or Won't They?: He and Chitoge have endless romantic tension that sees no resolution after over 200 chapters, but gets resolved at the end of the series.
• Yakuza Princess: Rare Male Example. He's the son of the leader of the Shuei Yakuza.

Chitoge Kirisaki

Voiced by: Haruka Tomatsu (vomic), Nao Tōyama (anime)

The female protagonist. She is the heir of the Beehive gang and Raku's fake girlfriend. Because life just works that way, she actually develops real feelings for him. Unfortunately, she's a massive Tsundere who has to keep up the charade and is unwilling to reveal these feelings.

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• Adaptation Dye-Job: While she is blonde in both the manga and anime, the anime gives her pink highlights at the end of her hair.
• Ambiguously Bi: She has feelings for Raku (despite herself), but she has a Pseudo-Romantic Friendship with Kosaki and Tsugumi, hinting that she's interested in girls too. In Episode 7, when Tsugumi and Raku argue over who "deserves" her more, Chitoge (who had been eavesdropping) tries to stop them before they escalate into a fight, and she's very much enjoying the idea of being fought over by two people, fully knowing Tsugumi is a girl when Raku didn't at that point. Also, in the Drama CD, she's gushing over Kosaki and breathing heavily when she's a guest at her radio talk show.
• Animal Motifs: Raku associates her with a gorilla.
• Babies Ever After: She eventually has a son with Raku, named Haku.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Raku. They bicker about every single thing when they're together, yet they can't help to fall for each other as they keep hanging out. Rui can't decide if they bicker because they're close or can't stand each other.
• Betty and Veronica: Raku deals with constant romantic tension with both Chitoge and Kosaki throughout the entire series. Chitoge is the Veronica; the blonde half-American transfer student, daughter of a gangster boss and overly aggressive Tsundere who is forced to be Raku's fake girlfriend. Raku stays in denial about his feelings for Chitoge until near the end because he was convinced the sweet Kosaki (Betty) was his only love. At the end of the manga, Raku rejects Kosaki, confesses his love to Chitoge and they marry.
• Breaking the Cycle of Bad Parenting: Chitoge grew up feeling neglected by her mother, who was often too busy with work to spend quality time with Chitoge, even though she does love her daughter. As an adult, despite having a very busy job like her mother, Chitoge tries her best to spend time with her son and have fun with him, even taking him to work instead of leaving him at daycare, so he doesn't ever feel lonely.
• But Not Too Foreign: Her mom is Japanese while her dad is a white American.
• The Cameo: Appears as a Mystery Mushroom figure in Super Mario Maker.
• Cannot Spit It Out: It takes a while for her to even admit she has feelings for Raku to herself, then she practically has a panic attack trying to confess to a teddy bear as a Raku stand-in.
• Catchphrase Insult: She often calls Raku a "Bean Sprout" and Raku in return calls her a "Gorilla Woman."
• Character Development: Her character arc is widely regarded as one of the most compelling, as she undergoes some of the most drastic changes in personality throughout the series, starting with her violent tendencies all but disappearing by the series' end.
• Charles Atlas Superpower: As Raku would say, she has the strength of a gorillia. At one point she kicks down a wall. It is unknown where this strength comes from, unless Claude trained her like he did Tsugumi.
• Chastity Couple: With Raku. They may be pretending to be lovers, but things as innocent as hand holding and hugs are too much for them. Even after years of being a real couple, they don't kiss until they're about to get married.
• Childhood Friends: Tsugumi was her only friend for most of her life and they've been very close since they were children.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: She doesn't take it well when Raku gets too close to other girls, especially Marika, who throws her into this trope when she shows up.
  • However, it's averted with Tsugumi and Kosaki. She's very kind to Kosaki and Tsugumi, and respects them both greatly as women and as people, often to the point of gushing. She refuses to let her female friendships fall apart because of a guy, no matter the harem setting.
• Compliment Fishing: Decides to try appealing to Raku by using a new shampoo, coloring her nails and wearing chapstick, but he ignores her every time. He did notice, but feels guys shouldn't comment on that kind of thing.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: While it's only really addressed later on, Chitoge is a textbook example of what happens when a Tsundere - someone who's aggressive towards the person she likes because she's not honest with her feelings towards them - actually wouldn't be good partner material. Leading up to the infamous beach scene, Chitoge had steadily grown to enjoy the idea of dating Raku, as much as she doesn't like admitting it, and when Kosaki makes her realize she might actually have a crush on Raku (while ironically thinking they're talking about Tsugumi instead), Chitoge asks Raku point blank if they'd be a good couple. Raku says no, they wouldn't, because Chitoge is too violent and angry, and because of that, Raku correctly points out they'd be arguing even more if they were a couple, which isn't what a healthy relationship looks like at all. As much as it hurts her, and it does cause a rift between the two, Chitoge later admits she agrees. She hates how she can't be honest with herself about Raku, and she's as frustrated with her quick temper, her stubbornness, and her violent tendencies as Raku, among many other things she hates about herself. It takes a lot of de-programming for her to stop being so violent and for Raku to actually see her as potential girlfriend material before they can even consider dating for real.
• Deuteragonist: As the female protagonist and half of the series' main couple, Chitoge gets as much screentime and focus as Raku.
• Disproportionate Retribution: She doesn't take it kindly when Raku calls her a gorilla for the first time, and thus takes a swing at him.
• Everyone Loves Blondes: Chitoge is the only blonde in the series and she's described by other characters as gorgeous, even comparing her to a supermodel. Not that she's drawn significantly cuter from the other girls.
• Expressive Accessory: Her bow twitches and perks up depending on her mood.
• Eye Colour Change: Her eyes were brown when she was a child. They changed to light blue as she got older.
• Fear of Thunder: Hearing the sound of thunder makes her cower in fright.
• First Girl Wins: While she wasn't the first to know Raku (that's Kosaki), Chitoge is the first girl introduced in the series and the first the audience sees interacting with Raku during their Crash-Into Hello. She's the female protagonist and consistently gets treated as Raku's primary love interest by the narrative. In the end, she's the girl Raku confesses his love to and marries.
• Forgotten First Meeting: Turns out she met Raku, Kosaki, Marika and Yui when they were kids, but she can't remember any of it.
• Four-Girl Ensemble: She's the headstrong girl of Raku's main four potential love interests.
• Friendless Background: Before transferring to Raku's school, Tsugumi was pretty much her Only Friend because her peers avoided her due to her gangster family.
• Generation Xerox: In the epilogue, Raku points out Chitoge's career as a fashion designer has her living the same lifestyle as her mother since Chitoge is traveling all over the world and will likely have little time to spend with Raku even after they get married.
• Girls Love Stuffed Animals: She has lots of them stored in her cabinet, including a gorilla that looks just like her (a gift from Raku).
• Headbutting Heroes: She gets along poorly with Marika due to Marika's singled minded pursuit of Raku and general malice towards everyone else, which mixes badly with her own jealousy and aggression. Later on in the series, however, this evolves into a Vitriolic Best Buds type of dynamic.
• Hollywood Genetics: Chitoge somehow got the blonde hair and blue eyes from her white American father despite her mother being a black-haired, brown-eyed Japanese woman.
• Humanizing Tears: Chitoge is a hotheaded and aggressive Tsundere, but ends up bursting into tears and bawling like a child in very emotional moments. Some notable instances include when she reconciles with her mother, when she thinks her red ribbon is destroyed, and when she accepts Raku's confession.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: Due to her family, she had a lot of trouble making friends as a kid, and even now she becomes super excited about making friends and doing things with them.
• Informed Attractiveness: She's supposed to look like a supermodel, but since there are Only Six Faces she's not actually drawn significantly more attractive than the other girls.
• Insecure Love Interest: In Chapter 227, when Raku confesses to her, Chitoge tearfully admits and acknowledges all her faults and flaws, showing how insecure she feels as a girl when she compares herself to a much more feminine figure such as Onodera and was sure Raku wouldn't choose her because she's just a "fake" and Onodera has been revealed to be the girl of his promise. To her joy, Raku chooses her regardless of all that and they end up getting married.
• In-Series Nickname: Often called a "gorilla" by Raku, due to her tendency to hit him when she's upset. Marika also calls her this during their first meeting.
• It Meant Something to Me: Her feelings towards Raku gradually evolve into this. While he still mostly plays the fake boyfriend role partly out of obligation to his father, and partly because his feelings are mostly towards Kosaki, Chitoge's feelings for him are genuine.
• It Was a Gift: The reason she always wears the same red hair bow is because it was one of the few presents her mother ever gave her. She treasures it so much that she refuses to get a new one even from her mother. The later revelation that Raku inspired her to ask for the ribbon from her mother in the first place makes her treasure it even more.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Turns out Chitoge did this for Raku and Kosaki when she was five. After finding out they liked each other, Chitoge gave up on Raku and made them promise to marry each other when they grew up. In the present, finding herself under the same circumstances again, she tries to do the same thing again, but this time Raku rejects Kosaki in favor of Chitoge.
• Just Friends: Raku, both out of pride and also out of genuine obliviousness, refuses to acknowledge his feelings for her. The most he does is calling her his Best Friend. It seriously hurts Chitoge to her very core after a while, and it takes a lot for Raku to realize they aren't Just Friends after all.
• Lethal Chef: She is not a good cook due to her subordinates not saying how bad she really is under threat of Claude shooting them.
• Lonely Rich Kid: Her father is a gangster boss and her mother runs a multi-national business conglomerate. The result is Chitoge lives in a mansion with many servants, but her mother is too busy to spend any time with her and she couldn't make friends because her peers were afraid of her father's business.
• Love Epiphany: During the School Play, Chitoge realizes that she's genuinely in love with Raku.
• Loving Details: To show how deep her feelings for Raku go, Chitoge can easily catch on to minor things about him like that he occasionally has a soda phase, a detail not even Raku's Best Friend Shu ever noticed.
• Mafia Princess: Daughter of the leader of the Beehive Gangsters.
• Meaningful Name: "Chitoge" means "1000 thorns", and "Kirisaki" is a homonym of "cut apart" (so in eastern naming order that would be "cut apart by 1000 thorns"). Describes her irritable tendencies well.
• Megaton Punch: She easily sends Raku flying with a punch.
• Mirror Character: With Raku. In every scene they have together they manage to either mimic each other's actions or have exactly the same thoughts.
• New Transfer Student: Transfers to Raku's class in the first chapter/episode, which starts the main plot.
• Nice, Mean, and In-Between: Being a Tsundere, Chitoge is the mean one while Kosaki is the nice one and Marika is in-between.
• No Poker Face: She has it even worse than Kosaki. Chitoge's face becomes completely gloomy when she takes the joker card. Her faces are so bad, Raku feels the need to tell her about it.
• No Social Skills: Due to her anxiety over her Friendless Background, she doesn't know how to behave around people and clams up when they approach her. This makes her accidentally seem distant from her female classmates who all admire her, but see her as unapproachable. With a little help from Raku, who completely understands what she's going through, she gains the confidence to strike up conversations with the girls around her, and from there, she quickly becomes a dear friend to Kosaki.
• Oblivious to Love: She can actually be worse than Raku sometimes. When Tsugumi spelled out her feelings for Raku, Chitoge thought the symptoms resembled a cold.
• Ojou: Is from a rich family and lives in a Big Fancy House.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Briefly losing her ribbon causes her to go into a depressive funk. The lack of her usual anger causes concern for everyone, including Marika who is surprised when Chitoge bursts into tears instead of yelling at her when she tries to rile her up.
• Phenotype Stereotype: She has blonde hair and blue eyes from her white American father despite also being half-Japanese.
• Practically Different Generations: The omnibus bonus comics reveal that Chitoge eventually gets a little sister well after she's entered adulthood. We never see the sister, but according to Chitoge, they have a twenty eight year gap between them.
• Previously Overlooked Paramour: For most of the series, Raku sees Kosaki as his love interest while Chitoge is the girl he has to pretend to be dating for the sake of preventing a gang war between their families. Raku and Chitoge initially get along badly, but they grow closer over time. Chitoge's feelings are romantic, but Raku is still fixated on Kosaki and considers Chitoge to be his "best friend" to justify why he cares so much about her. Eventually, however, Raku realizes he does love Chitoge romantically and ultimately chooses to be with her over Kosaki, rejecting the latter's confession in the process.
• Primal Fear: She has a crippling fear of darkness and cramped places, though bickering with Raku can apparently snap her out of it.
• Pseudo-Romantic Friendship: Her relationship with Seishirou Tsugumi and to a lesser degree, Kosaki Onodera. If Raku wasn't in the picture, there are many times where Chitoge acts like she's got a girl-crush on them both, and for their part, both Kosaki and Seishirou feel the same about her.
• Romantic Fake–Real Turn: She's forced to pretend to be dating Raku to keep the peace between their families. At least until she actually falls in love with him. At the end of the series, they admit their feelings for each other and become a real couple.
• Second Love: Raku made his Childhood Marriage Promise with Kosaki. However, he ultimately realizes his newfound love for Chitoge is stronger and chooses to marry her, with Kosaki's blessing.
• Shorttank: Chitoge is the series' co-lead and she is hot-headed, feisty, and violent, which results in lots of Belligerent Sexual Tension with the male protagonist. By Western standards, she isn't that much of a tomboy, but Raku constantly mocks her unladylike behavior by calling her a "gorilla woman".
• Signature Headgear: Her red, rabbit ear-shaped bow, which she wears due to a storybook from her youth and wanting to be like a girl in it. Because of its distinct shape, it's often used as a funny visual shorthand to identify her speech-bubbles when she's not on screen.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Raku's moments of kindness in-between their arguments are the reason why she falls in love with him. Her diary from when she was younger goes into this in detail that is both childish but also insightful, "he always comes when I cry."
• Tame Her Anger: It takes a lot for her to finally overcome her violent temper, self-dishonesty, and stubborn pride in order to become a good potential girlfriend material for Raku.
• Tears of Joy: In Chapter 227, she cries her eyes out when Raku confesses he loves her too and wants to be with her, even though he knows she isn't the girl of his promise.
• The Three Faces of Eve: The Child. Contrasting the sweet Kosaki and sultry Marika, Chitoge is energetic, temperamental and emotionally immature.
• Too Much Alike: Chitoge and Raku initially get along very badly because they're both stubborn, ill-tempered and refuse to admit any positive feelings they have for each other.
• Took a Level in Kindness: As time goes by, her nice side has become more prominent and she doesn't hit Raku nearly as often.
• Trademark Favorite Food: She loves ramen.
• Tsundere: Sweet type. Chitoge is a genuine sweetheart to most people, especially the women in her life (like Kosaki and Tsugumi), but is quick to get angry and punch whenever she's together with Raku. At one point, Chitoge herself lampshades her inability to be honest about her feelings for Raku. Surprisingly, this is deconstructed as both Raku and Chitoge herself recognize her violent behavior and unwillingness to be honest about her feelings would be big problems if they ever were to try and be in a real relationship, prompting Chitoge to dial down her abrasiveness.
• "Well Done, Daughter!" Girl: Chitoge worries that her mother doesn't even care about her because she never seems to make time for her daughter and seemingly can't even remember her age or birthday. She's really desperate for her approval, but is on the verge of giving up. Raku forces her to keep trying and the two finally reconcile when it turns out her mom is just a bit of an idiot and even more socially awkward than her daughter sometimes.
• When She Smiles: Raku is so used to her being very violent towards him that the few times she does genuinely smile around him, it throws him off.
• Will They or Won't They?: Her relationship with Raku sees very little to no progress for over 200 chapters of the manga, but is resolved at the end of the series.

Kosaki Onodera

Voiced by: Hisako Kanemoto (vomic), Kana Hanazawa (anime)

The girl Raku has a crush on, who, unknown to him, actually reciprocates his feelings.

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• Babies Ever After: The bonus final chapter reveals Kosaki's daughter, Sasa.
• Betty and Veronica: Raku deals with constant romantic tension with both Kosaki and Chitoge throughout the entire series. Kosaki is the Betty; the sweet-natured, ordinary Girl Next Door who Raku has been crushing on for quite a while and she feels the same way about him, but neither of them has the courage to tell the other how they feel. As a result, Raku grows much closer to the Tsundere Chitoge (Veronica) even though he never stops liking Kosaki. At the end of the manga, Kosaki does finally confess her feelings to Raku, but she did it too late because his heart has already chosen Chitoge even though the promise girl was Kosaki.
• Breakout Character: One of the most popular girls in Raku's harem and is the star of her own spin-off manga Magical Patissiere Kosaki-chan. It was even adapted into shorts in the second season's airing. There's also the fact that in both of ClariS's single albums for the first season's two opening themes (Click and Step), it's Kosaki who gets to appear on both covers instead of Chitoge, who is considered the main heroine of the series. ^note While Chitoge had also appeared with her on Click's album art, Marika replaces her on Step's while Kosaki stayed.
• Cannot Spit It Out: She gets opportunity after opportunity to tell Raku how she feels about him, but never takes the chance. Even if she does try to confess, something will prevent her message from getting through to him.
• Cute Clumsy Girl: Her defining trait. It was even how she first met Raku, at least in middle school, since neither remembered their time together during childhood.
• Did I Just Say That Out Loud?: Happens quite often with her, though people rarely hear it.
• Distinction Without a Difference: Her response to Raku asking if she was giving him love chocolate. It was obligatory chocolate, just a "special" kind of obligatory chocolate. Raku is predictably confused, but understandably in this case.
• Everyone Can See It: It's obvious to everyone besides Raku and Chitoge that she has a crush on the former.
• First Love: She's Raku's childhood crush and the girl of his promise.
• Forgotten First Meeting: She turns out to be Raku's, Chitoge's, Marika's and Yui's childhood friend and the girl of Raku's promise. She can't remember meeting any of them before, though.
• Four-Girl Ensemble: She's the sweet-naive girl of Raku's main four potential love interests.
• Friend to All Living Things: Animals love her.
• Girl Next Door: While the rest of the haremettes are gangsters and the daughter of the police chief, Kosaki is just an ordinary girl who works in her family's bakery. Also unlike the other girls, she has known Raku for some time and is on more friendly terms with him.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: Season 2 Episode 6, when she accidentally put salt instead of sugar on chocolate for Valentine's Day, she says "I've always been the type who only succeeds once every ten thousand times."
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Ruri, who has been a close friend since middle school. They're so close that they can understand each other's thoughts with a glance.
• High-Pressure Emotion: Steam comes out of her head when she gets extremely embarrassed.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: When Raku and Chitoge announce their "relationship", she's willing to give up on Raku as long as he's happy. She ultimately gives up on Raku for good in Chapter 226 once she realizes he has already chosen Chitoge, but it's clear that the act is eating up at her.
• Lethal Chef: Her food looks nice and she has the best taste buds of her family, but she can't make anything tasty unless she tries really hard or is really depressed. Funnily enough, the epilogue shows she eventually became a pastry chef.
• Love Confession: She finally spits it out to Raku in Chapter 225.
• Nice Girl: Sweet and demure to a fault. It's because of this trait that while she isn't totally safe from Marika's antagonism towards girls she perceives as competition over Raku, Marika sees her as a good friend to rely on and wanted to befriend her immediately in spite of knowing that Kosaki's one of her "love rivals".
• Nice, Mean, and In-Between: The gentle Kosaki is the nice one while Chitoge is the mean one and Marika is in-between.
• No Poker Face: She ends up proving to have very big expressions in card games for Raku to notice effortlessly. However, her faces are so adorable that Raku can't help but take the joker card anyway.
• Romantic Runner-Up: Raku has a crush on her at the start of the manga and whenever he talks to her he's always raving about how cute she is. She also likes him back, though the two are both quite dense and never realize how the other feels. Unfortunately for her, the title of the manga is about Raku and Chitoge's relationship and when she finally confesses, she's missed her chance, even though she was the promise girl.
• Shrinking Violet: She's easily embarrassed especially whenever it concerns her and Raku being together.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: She's the sweet, gentle, and indulgent older sister to the hot-tempered, loud, and violent Haru.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Not only does she look a lot like her mother and sister, when she has a daughter herself, she looks extraordinarily like her too.
• Sweet Baker: The epilogue shows she eventually becomes a baker like her mother. She's also sweet as ever, making the wedding cake for her friends Raku and Chitoge.
• Tareme Eyes: Huge, gentle eyes.
• The Three Faces of Eve: The Wife. Unlike the other promise girl candidates Chitoge and Marika, Kosaki is demure and gentle, and Raku is attracted to her wifely qualities.
• Twice Shy: She and Raku would have hooked up long ago if they just stopped wondering how the other feels and admitted their feelings.
• Unknown Rival: Chitoge has no idea that Kosaki also likes Raku. Kosaki usually worries that Raku's and Chitoge's feelings for each other aren't fake after all (and she's right).

Seishirou Tsugumi

Voiced by: Mikako Komatsu

Chitoge's childhood friend, Claude's protégée and a deadly hitman.

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• Action Girl: Tsugumi is a hitman. As such, she's in top physical condition and skilled in a variety of weaponry.
• Ambiguously Bi: She has a very obvious crush on Raku, but there have several hints she's interested in girls too, not just Chitoge. When first introduced, her antagonism towards Raku for "being the one at Chitoge's side" can easily be seen as romantic jealously, and her closeness towards Chitoge deepens over the course of the series. When she becomes the Lust Object of several of the girls thanks to a Love Potion, Onodera starts hitting on her and she finds herself thinking its not so bad. Another instance has her getting drunk and after failing to capture Raku, she instead kisses Paula. In that instant, she says to Paula the same thing she said to Raku: "You have soft looking lips."
• A-Team Firing: She fails to land a single hit on Raku during their scuffle despite her training and being in the open.
• Attractive Bent-Gender: She can legitimately carry this trope in both directions. When first introduced, her female classmates swooned over how handesome they thought the new boy was. Then, when going undercover to spy on Raku's date with Marika, she attracted a lot of attention for dressing like a girl, which included a long-haired wig. Even Raku thought of her as some "gorgeous celebrity".
• Axes at School: Tsugumi keeps a handgun up her sleeve at the bare minimum, and once publicly dueled Raku at school with several guns, and even rocket launchers, none of which had any long-term consequences.
• Baritone of Strength: Tsugumi is the only girl in the Unwanted Harem who has been trained in combat and she also has the deepest voice out of the female characters.
• Battle Butler: Her father trained her to follow in his footsteps of bodyguarding Chitoge.
• Beautiful Tears: The first time Tsugumi cries, Raku blushes as his heart skips a beat and he starts seeing Tsugumi really is a cute girl despite her tomboyish behavior.
• Best Friend: Chitoge has no more loyal and protective friend than Tsugumi.
• Bifauxnen: Due to her Tomboyish Name and her tendency to wear clothing intended for men, practically everyone mistakes her for a pretty boy. Claude still hasn't figured out that she's a girl after knowing her for ten years. Tsugumi isn't really bothered by it so she usually doesn't correct people about her gender.
• Boob-Based Gag: The fact she's a Tomboy whose bust is the biggest among the main female cast is often used as a source of humor.
• Boyish Short Hair: She has very short hair, befitting her tomboyish personality.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: During her interview by Mimiko, she somehow manages to grab the (misplaced) censor bar and hide her eyes with it after an embarrassing question.
• Buxom Beauty Standard: Both boys and girls are often in awe at how big her chest is. When Raku gets locked up with her, he has a hard time not staring at her cleavage.
• Charles Atlas Superpower: A lifetime of training has crafted the perfect human weapon in Tsugumi. Despite having a deceptively slim figure, she is capable of amazing feats of strength.
• Chaste Heroine: Oblivious of anything related to romance. She doesn't even know what a love letter is and has no knowledge about Valentine's Day.
• Childhood Friends: She's been close friends with Chitoge since they were little girls.
• Clingy Jealous Girl:
  • One of the reasons why she didn't accept Raku as Chitoge's boyfriend is that Tsugumi thought she was the one who was supposed to protect Chitoge and love her the most.
  • She reacts badly to any girl other than Chitoge getting close to Raku.
• Conflicting Loyalty: She wants to protect Chitoge and ensure she's happy with Raku. Unfortunately Tsugumi is also in love with him, and is conflicted between her loyalty towards Chitoge and her love for Raku at times. She usually responds to this crisis by throwing things at, hitting, or shooting him. Paula forces this issue during their "kissing contest" in episode 2 of season 2, by seeing which of the two can kiss Raku first.
• Cool Big Sis: Paula looks up to Tsugumi as a cool older sister figure.
• Covert Pervert: Despite convincing herself that Raku belongs to Chitoge, she just can't help fantasizing herself being Raku's mistress.
• Cuteness Proximity: She has a soft spot for cute things, especially small animals.
• D-Cup Distress: She's very uncomfortable with her large breasts, as seen in episode 18, especially because Chitoge made her wear a skimpy swimsuit. Both Chitoge and Marika groping her shortly afterwards didn't help much.
• Declaration of Protection: She swore to Chitoge that she would protect her ever since they were kids and took baths together.
• Even the Girls Want Her: After Seishirou is discovered to be a girl by the students, one of the boys mentions that the girls should stop paying attention to her now. Unfortunately for them, the girls still fawn over her, and rush over shortly after he says that. One girl even offers her chocolates for Valentine's Day.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: She keeps her hair short for most of the series due to her masculine personality and job as a hitman. In the Distant Finale, she has long hair now that she has become more feminine and is working as Chitoge's fashion model.
• First Friend: Tsugumi and Chitoge didn't have any friends before they met each other. It's eventually shown they knew each other even before they met the rest of the main cast as children.
• Four-Girl Ensemble: She's the tomboyish girl of Raku's main four potential love interests.
• Friend to All Children: Ten years after the end of the series, Tsugumi opens an orphanage, where she's adored by the children she's raising.
• Gender-Concealing Voice: Tsugumi is a Bifauxnen everyone mistook for a guy during her introduction and the anime has her speak with a very low voice to conceal her true gender. After the Gender Reveal, her voice becomes higher-pitched.
• Girliness Upgrade: She becomes more feminine after her initial appearance. In the Distant Finale, Tsugumi has let her hair grow long and she's quit the life of a hitman to become Chitoge's fashion model.
• Hates Wearing Dresses: She avoids wearing skirts and dresses because they are hard to fight in and are embarrassing to wear for her personally. Ironic since she becomes a fashion model in the epilogue.
• Hidden Buxom: She wears clothes that hide how large her bust really is, then stops as the series goes on. Doesn't stop Claude from still thinking she's a he.
• Hidden Depths: She's a hard-hitting, no-nonsense assassin who struggles with her femininity and doesn't feel like she's fully accepted herself as a person because she hasn't reconciled that about herself.
• Hidden Weapons: Often carry hidden weapons on her when wearing boys clothes to the point of Hammerspace.
• High-Pressure Emotion: Like Kosaki, she can also turn extremely red in the face when embarrased.
• Humanizing Tears: Tsugumi is usually so serious and tough that seeing her cry is a tender sight, especially when she confesses her feelings for Raku before giving them up.
• Imagine Spot: Tends to get these involving herself as Raku's mistress as she is unaware that Raku's relationship with Chitoge is a sham.
• Important Hair Accessory: She wears a blue ribbon that was given to her by Chitoge so people don't mistake her for a guy. This foreshadows her eventual Girliness Upgrade.
• In Love with the Mark: Claude assigned her the mission of investigating Raku's relationship with Chitoge and to kill him if it was fake. Then she falls in love with Raku.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Towards the end of the manga, Tsugumi finally admits to herself that she has fallen in love with Raku, but she also confirms Chitoge loves him for real even though they're a fake couple. Since she prioritizes Chitoge's happiness over her own, Tsugumi lets Raku go.
• Last-Name Basis: Her first name, "Seishirou," is a masculine name which she was given by Claude because he is not, and was not, aware of her gender. Most of her friends (who encourage her to embrace her femininity) call her by her last name (which is also a feminine given name on its own) as a result.
• Love Confession: Played With in Chapter 206. Tsugumi tells Raku how she feels about him before she gives up on him for Chitoge's sake. However, she covers his ears while she does so to make sure he doesn't hear it.
• Love Epiphany: In Chapter 205, Tsugumi is now aware that Raku and Chitoge are only pretending to be dating. After she becomes even more flustered than usual around Raku, Tsugumi tells Raku about a friend of hers who has never been in love before, but there's a guy she's been thinking about a lot lately. When Raku affirms that girl must be in love with the guy, Tsugumi finally realizes she's in love with Raku.
• Love Hurts: In Season 2 Episode 10, she subtly reveals just how badly her unrequited love for Raku hurts her. She knows he's unattainable for her, she knows he has feelings for someone else, and yet she still has feelings for him. When asked if she would confess to her one-sided crush, she at first says no, she'd keep the fact that she has a crush secret and wouldn't tell him she likes him because she feels that would be too selfish of her to burden him with that knowledge as he's pursuing a relationship of his own with someone else. She doesn't want to live with that reality, but she has to live with it, even though it eats away at her every day.
• Never Given a Name: Tsugumi was a nameless foundling Claude took in. Since he never realized she was a girl, he gave her the masculine given name Seishirou.
• New Transfer Student: Transfers in at Chapter 15/Episode 7 on Claude's orders to investigate Chitoge's relationship with Raku.
• One-Woman Army: According to Chitoge, Seishirou singlehandedly destroyed a whole gang after some of its members harassed the former.
• Progressively Prettier: While she was never drawn unattractive, Tsugumi had sharper, more masculine facial features in her debut to convince everyone both in and out of the series that she's a guy. Her visage becomes more feminine after the Gender Reveal.
• Raised as the Opposite Gender: She was an abandoned child that Claude found. He took her in, but he thought she was a boy (still does), so he named her and raised her as such.
• Red Baron: She is known as "Black Tiger" in the underworld.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: A heavily armed, superhumanly strong assassin sporting red eyes.
• She Cleans Up Nicely: Looks boyish and prefers male clothing, but is guaranteed to make heads turn when dolled up.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: She develops a crush on Raku for being nice and helpful to her, and also because of something he said during their introduction. He said that a gorilla girl like Chitoge wouldn't want to sit pretty and let someone else protect her all the time, demonstrating that he was paying more attention to Chitoge and her desires than Tsugumi herself.
• Super-Strong Child: She can break a concrete pillar with a single kick.
• Supreme Chef: Raku compliments her cooking in episode 2 of season 2, to the point that he says she'd make a good wife someday. She immediately starts her Tsundere charade with him.
• Tomboyish Name: She has a boy's name due to Claude thinking that she's a boy. Note that even after ten years and throughout the series, he still hasn't figured out.
• Tomboyish Voice: She's the most tomboyish girl of the main cast. Fittingly, the anime gives her the deepest voice out of the girls.
• Tomboy with a Girly Streak: She prefers male clothing, is a trained hitman, and doesn't care that people mistake her for a boy. She also has a penchant for cute little things.
• Transfer Student Uniforms: She wears the male uniform of her previous school thoughout the series. She could wear the female uniform of her current school, but wearing a skirt is too embarrassing to her.
• Tsundere: Extreme Harsh type. Tsugumi has actually tried to shoot Raku during her outbursts. She says she absolutely hates Raku and doesn't want him to be anywhere near her. Don't pay attention to all the blushing whenever he does something nice for her.
• Tsurime Eyes: Focused and sharp, just like Tsugumi herself.
• Two First Names: Her surname Tsugumi is a valid Japanese feminine given name. Since Claude gave her the masculine given name Seishirou, people aware of her gender choose to call her by her last name.
• Undying Loyalty: Her whole life is devoted to Chitoge.
• Unknowingly in Love: Tsugumi talks to Chitoge about "symptoms" that she's experiencing around Raku like her heart beating and her face getting red. Chitoge thinks Tsugumi is just sick and she agrees. For most of the series, Tsugumi is the only one in the Unwanted Harem who doesn't realize her feelings for Raku until she finally does near the end, but she quickly gives up on Raku for the sake of Chitoge.
• Unsettling Gender-Reveal: Raku eventually finds out her gender on his own by taking her wet clothes off after they both fell in a pool and she passed out. Chitoge plainly tells everyone Seishirou is a girl. Near the end of the series, Claude is also hit with this very hard.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: None of the students question why Tsugumi was packing firearms during her fight with Raku.
• What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: She's dumbfounded by the concept of love. She unfortunately figures it out the same time she realizes she has feelings for Raku.
• Wholesome Crossdresser: She wears a male school uniform because she finds it easier to move around in men's clothing.

Marika Tachibana

Voiced by: Kana Asumi

Raku's self-proclaimed fiancée and the daughter of the police commissioner.

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• Accent Adaptation: In the manga, she speaks in a rough and tumble variant of Tosa-ben. However, in the anime, she speaks Fukuoka-ben instead, likely because her voice actress, Kana Asumi, is a Fukuoka native. Either case works, as both Fukuoka or Tosa (located in Kyushu and Shikoku, respectively) would be considered backwater by someone born in metropolitan Tokyo.
• Accent Slip-Up: Her native backwater-sounding dialect (Tosa dialect in the manga, Fukuoka dialect in the anime) is completely at odds with the cultured persona she cultivates, so she takes great care to speak very formally. She tends to slip back into her native dialect when she's completely flustered, becomes angry, or being visited by a childhood friend from her home.
• Action Dress Rip: She rips off her wedding dress when she runs away from her wedding.
• Arranged Marriage: Her mother basically has her kidnapped and tries to marry her off to an old man.
• Back for the Finale: Marika leaves to get treated in America after her Arranged Marriage arc ends. She returns during the closing chapters of the manga.
• Bad Liar: Normally when asked about her past she feigns ignorance and avoids the question, but if forced to lie, it's often extremely obvious.
• Beneath the Mask: Presents herself as refined, feminine and elegant, but beneath that she's pretty goofy, has an accent that embarrasses her if she forgets to cover it up and is fond of sniping at her love rivals.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Acts sweet and feminine, but is rather crafty.
• Book Dumb: Definitely not stupid, but her ability to study is pretty poor due to her focus on becoming the perfect woman for Raku, and she will even sabotage her own chance to pass if it means getting more time to spend with him.
• Changing Yourself for Love: Because Raku said he likes feminine girls with long hair, Marika let her hair grow long, started speaking very formally to hide her backwater native dialect, and spent the next decade training herself to behave like a Proper Lady in hopes of winning Raku's love.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: She gets antagonistic towards anyone who shows interest in Raku (or whom she thinks Raku shows interest in.)
• Daddy's Girl: She and her dad adore each other. This is why Raku must be careful to not get Marika upset because her dad is the police chief.
• Damsel in Distress: During her forced marriage arc, Raku and the others set out to save Marika from her Arranged Marriage and proceed to trash the wedding ceremony.
  Marika: A princess' role is to wait for the prince to save her.
• Delicate and Sickly: She has a weak constitution and spent a good chunk of her childhood in a hospital. Near the end of the series, she leaves Japan to be treated in a foreign hospital for a couple of years, leading to her exit from the plot.
• Feminine Women Can Cook: Has been taking intensive training in cooking to cultivate her "ideal woman" image.
• Flowers of Femininity: She wears a yellow daisy flower at the right side of her hair. It highlights her Proper Lady persona that she works so hard to maintain in front of Raku.
• Foil: Marika serves as a foil to Kosaki. Both are girly girls head over heels for Raku, but, unlike Kosaki, Marika has no problem being completely open about her feelings, aggressively pursuing him, whereas Kosaki usually needs Ruri's help to summon any courage.
• Forgotten First Meeting: Another forgotten childhood friend of Raku. Marika doesn't take it well when she finds out Raku forgot about her after she devoted her whole life to him. However, it's her own fault; she acts completely differently from when they were children, so when she actually displays her real personality he instantly remembers her. She was also friends-ish with Chitoge, Onodera and Tsugumi back then, but seemingly spent more time with Raku thanks to her illness.
• Formal Characters Use Keigo: Invoked, since she usually speaks very formally as part of her refined image. However, she'll slip back into her less formal native dialect when she's angry or flustered.
• Four-Girl Ensemble: She's the pretty girl of Raku's main four potential love interests.
• Genre Savvy: She seems to know about Chitoge's antics, and believes Raku is being forced into that relationship.
• The Glomp: Enjoys giving hear hugs to Raku.
• Hates Their Parent: Marika feels nothing but hatred and contempt towards her Jerkass of a mother. Her mother makes clear the feeling is mutual.
• Headbutting Heroes: While she's not very nice in general anyway, she and Chitoge have a particularly poor relationship and will taunt her when she's down, even to the point of tears. She may not dislike Chitoge as much as it appears, however, as she seemed surprised when Chitoge started crying and immediately promises to help her in order to calm her down, and was actually relieved when she didn't have to move away.
• Hidden Depths: A small moment in the second OVA. She actually enjoys being a waitress at a family restauarant, despite not being very good at her job at all.
• Hopeless Suitor: Despite her efforts, Marika is the only girl in the Unwanted Harem who Raku never wants to consider more than a friend.
• I Lied: She promises her mother that she'll marry whoever her mom picks if she can't win over Raku. When she obviously ends up failing, there's actually no drama at all about convincing her to break the promise: She immediately shows the promise was insincere and the arc develops merely into physically securing her.
• Important Haircut: The epilogue shows Marika cut her hair short now that she has given up on Raku and is moving on with her life.
• Irony: As she lampshades, she fervently learned prim and proper Japanese to make herself more appealing to Raku, yet he didn't even recognize her until she slipped back into her original dialect.
• It Was a Gift: The flower she always wears in her hair was a gift from Raku back when they were kids.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's obnoxious to her rivals for Raku's attention, including taunting Chitoge several times when she was already extremely upset. However, she offered to be Chitoge and Kosaki's friend even after learning that they had keys like she did. She didn't start calling Chitoge "gorilla" until Chitoge called her "thieving cat".
• Just Friends: Ultimately, Raku's answer to her love confession is that he considers her a precious friend, nothing more.
• Kick the Dog: When Chitoge is horrified and depressed about apparently having to move away, Marika takes the time to mock her about it. This is turned around into Pet the Dog when Chitoge starts crying over the spoiler, because Marika immediately promises to help her in order to calm her down.
• Kick Them While They Are Down: On two separate occasions she taunts Chitoge when she's already obviously very upset. The first time Chitoge outright cries, although to Marika's credit she immediately takes her taunting back when that happens since she's disturbed at how uncharacteristic a response it is for Chitoge.
• Large Ham: She is very expressive in her love for Raku, especially when she meets up with Raku again in high school.
• Like You Were Dying: A big reason for her obsession with making sure people remember her is her frail constitution.
• Long Hair Is Feminine: Grew her hair out specifically because Raku likes girly girls with long hair.
• Love Confession: She's not afraid to let Raku know she's interested in him.
• Mad Love: Even after Raku clearly rejects her, Marika declares a single rejection won't make her give up on him and she will keep trying once she returns from America.
• New Transfer Student: Transfers in at the Chapter 33/Episode 14 so she can be with her dear Raku.
• Nice, Mean, and In-Between: Marika is in-between because she's more open about her affection for Raku than Chitoge yet she's pushy and mean-spirited unlike Kosaki.
• No Sense of Personal Space: She grabs Raku whenever she gets a chance. It's only natural, being an engaged couple and all (or so she thinks).
• Obfuscating Stupidity: Her typical act is a ditzy Clingy Jealous Girl who is mostly oblivious to anything that doesn't involve trying to hook up with Raku. Although its not revealed until much later on, much like Shuu, she's far more observant and perceptive than she is letting on.
• Ojou: Her family is even more traditional and powerful than the Miyamotos.
• One-Woman Army: Played for Laughs during the second OVA. She takes up a part-time job as a waitress at a family restaurant, the same one Raku and Chitoge decide to eat at. She's not very good at actually being a waitress, but the customers love her anyway so the restaurant does turn a profit with her being there. But there's one problem, or maybe three: the Yakuza, the Mafia, and the Police all decide to show up at once. Even Raku and Chitoge struggle to keep their guys from getting violent and aggressive, and there's a real risk of a gunfight breaking out. When she realizes that a gunfight would lead to the restaurant closing down, and her losing a job she actually enjoys, she angrily throws everyone out the door to stop them from fighting. The fact that she's the daughter of the police commissioner is literally the only reason she gets away with it.
• Pet the Dog: After making Chitoge cry when mocking her about her lost ribbon, Marika immediately walks it back and promises to help look for the ribbon as a way to console her. It's definitive proof that Marika does have a heart and does know when too much really is too much.
• Plucky Girl: Totally dedicated to cultivating her "refined" image and being a woman worthy of Raku. Hence, she undertakes every kind of training and work she feels necessary for achieving those goals. She also manages to resist a love potion's effect through sheer willpower.
• Proper Lady: She did her best to become feminine and ladylike to be Raku's ideal woman.
• Put on a Bus: After her forced marriage arc, Marika gets sent to America to get treatment for her illness for two years. However, The Bus Came Back by the end of the series.
• Runaway Bride: The end of her forced marriage arc is when Marika lets Raku and the others take her away from her wedding.
• Secret-Keeper: While it's clear she doubts the legitimacy of Raku's and Chitoge's relationship, she doesn't make any outright moves to reveal the truth to everyone else (though she will still shamelessly flirt with him). However it appears she is the one with the most to hide in regards to what happened 10 years prior, being the one who has the clearest recollection of the promise everybody is trying to figure out.
• Self-Proclaimed Love Interest: Claims to be Raku's fiancée when she's first introduced. This has greater merit than other examples because Raku was first informed of this by his own father.
• Single-Target Sexuality: She has been in love with Raku all her life, never showing the slightest interest in anyone else. Of the girls that took the Love Potion that caused them to fall for Seishirou, she is the only one able to resist. After Raku chooses Chitoge, Marika still refuses to even consider giving a chance to any of her suitors because she's still pining after Raku.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Her devotion to Raku is based in how he became her friend when they were children. She couldn't go outside to play with the other kids, so he visited her every day and brought her little souvenirs from outside.
• Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: She seems to actually enjoy tweaking the other girls, especially Chitoge and Tsugumi.
• Smitten Teenage Girl: Marika's dedication to Raku is excessive to say the least.
• Stalker with a Crush: She's rather obsessed with Raku and grabs him whenever she gets a chance, and implies she put a tracker on him at some point.
• Strong Family Resemblance: The only visual difference between her and her mother is the hair color.
• Supreme Chef: Capable of making extravagant meals that both look and taste good. She says she has been honing her cooking skills for Raku's sake. She even has a license for puffer fish preparation, something heavily regulated and quite difficult to obtain since the slightest misstep in preparing said fish can be literally lethal.
• The Tease: She loves being playfully affectionate towards Raku. She takes it up a notch anytime Chitoge is watching just to get a reaction out of her.
• Third-Option Love Interest: She's the third potential love interest to appear who is also Raku's forgotten childhood friend and a promise girl candidate. Marika's introduction further complicates the Chitoge/Raku/Kosaki love triangle into a love square.
• The Three Faces of Eve: The Seductress. Out of Raku's three potential promise girls, Marika pursues him the most aggressively, is passionate about her love for him and likes pushing people's buttons.
• Took a Level in Kindness: In later parts of the manga, her attitude is a lot less mean-spirited and more of lighthearted teasing thanks to having grown to think of the main cast as her friends.
• Transfer Student Uniforms: To spot her as the New Transfer Student, she wears the Sailor Fuku from her old school instead of the female uniform of the main cast's school.
• Troll: She enjoys forcing Raku into embarrassing situations and annoying her love rivals.
• Unrequited Love Lasts Forever: Ten years after Raku rejects her, Marika still hasn't gotten over him, even though he's already a happily married man and a father. She compares every man who propositions her to him, and despite having a suitor so devoted that he proposes 100 times, she still thinks he's nothing compared to Raku.
• Verbal Tic: "Maa!", a light and rather posh interjection. The French version translated it as "Mazette!", which gives a similar effect and keeps the original syllable.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: She and Chitoge ultimately develop a friendship by the later part of the series, although by the end of the manga the vitriol is all but gone.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Marika loses her usual demeanor as Raku delivers a stream of Armor Piercing Questions about not remembering who she was and only having vague memories of the meeting ten years ago. She lambastes him, stating everything she's done for him in the last ten years, such as thinking about him every day and growing her hair longer because he said he liked girls with long hair.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: She's scared of animals due to a traumatic experience in her childhood involving her hamster that ate its own babies.

Shuu Maiko

Voiced by: Koji Fujiyoshi (vomic), Yūki Kaji (anime)

Raku's bespectacled best friend.

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• Babies Ever After: Ten years after the end of the series, Shuu is married to Ruri, who is pregnant with their first child.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Ruri. She finds his teasing extremely annoying, usually resulting in her smacking around. They're still frequently hinted to like each other.
• Best Friend: He has been best friends with Raku since their childhood.
• Beta Couple: While Raku is busy dealing with his Unwanted Harem and trying to figure out who of them is the girl of his Childhood Marriage Promise, his good friend Shuu just has occasional Ship Tease and something of Belligerent Sexual Tension with Ruri.
• Boke and Tsukkomi Routine: Shuu is The Boke to Raku's and Ruri's Tsukkomi. His main role in the comedy is saying dumb stuff to annoy Raku and/or Ruri.
• Bromantic Foil: To Raku, being the extroverted, perverted goofball to highlight his calmer, introspective friend.
• Butt-Monkey: Shuu winds up on the wrong end of a lot of abuse, especially from Ruri.
• Camera Fiend: He likes to take all sorts of (occasionally embarrassing) photos of his classmates. It proves useful when he reveals to Ruri that he took a picture of her smiling with her great grandfather just before the latter died and she regretted not smiling on her last photo with him.
• Childhood Friends: He has been friends and classmates with Raku since kindergarten.
• Chivalrous Pervert: As shameless and obnoxious as he is about being a pervert, he does gently reject a girl for confessing to him since he doesn't return her feelings and it wouldn't be fair to her. He even thanks her for having the courage to confess.
• Distinction Without a Difference: He claims that he would never take pictures of girls that would embarass them for being perverted in nature. He only takes pictures that are really embarrasing for some other reason, like sleeping with her mouth open and drooling coming out.
• First Friend: When Raku was isolated in his school because of his Yakuza family, Shuu was the only boy who wasn't afraid to approach him and become his Best Friend.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Downplayed. He certainly gets off better than most best-friend characters in modern-day Harem Genre, but is still the most frequently mocked and abused by the rest of the main group with the exceptions of Kosaki and, surprisingly, Chitoge. Besides that, he has more of a social standing outside of the main cast, being surprisingly popular among the female populace in his school in spite of his perversion. He'll even be actively receiving love chocolates on Valentine's day as well as his share of girls confessing to him.
• The Gadfly: Shuu readily admits that he purposely annoys people for his own amusement.
• Hidden Depths: While he's a smartass who intentionally puts his friends in embarrassing situations for his own amusement, he has his own serious and sensitive side and often his antics turn out to have a legitimate purpose. Most of the characters quickly catch on to his true nature (even if they still find it annoying), but Ruri in particular typically can't see past his outwardly Jerkass behavior.
• Hooked Up Afterwards: With Ruri. Near the end of the story, Ruri confesses to him, but Shuu isn't ready to give her an answer. Any development they had afterwards is left to the imagination, but the epilogue does let the reader know they eventually got together and are planning to get married.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite his constant trolling and teasing, Shuu is quick to notice if any of his "friends" are hiding something or feeling down, and in his own way will try to help. When he gets serious, he's as much of a Nice Guy as Raku is.
• Love Revelation Epiphany: At the end of the manga, it's heavily implied Shuu starts to fall in love with Ruri after she confesses to him. It's not specified how long it took him to answer her confession, but the epilogue shows them as a couple a few years later.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: Although he acts like a goof most of the time, on the rare times he's shown acting seriously, its shown he has very good insight into the true relationships between the characters. He seems to know that all of the girls are in love with Raku, and while Raku only explicitly tells him that he's in love with Onodera, Shuu can tell he is also in love with Chitoge and tries to prod Raku into recognizing it.
• Oblivious to Love: Ironically, despite how easily he notices the feelings between Raku and the girls who like him, Shuu completely misses the growing attraction Ruri has for him and is caught by surprise when she confesses in Chapter 223.
• One Head Taller: He's a full head taller than Ruri, who is a big Tsundere for him. She's still much shorter than him even after they have been married for years.
• Opposites Attract: With Ruri. Shuu is cheerful, funny and a tease, while Ruri is blunt, cold and grumpy.
• Playful Cat Smile: He often has a cat smile if something perverted is going on. When it gets especially prominent, it's a sign even Raku can pick up on that he's hiding something.
• Shipper on Deck: He tends to support the Raku x Chitoge ship, though he doesn't seem to mind watching the other girls go after Raku as well. He mostly just seems to want Raku to be happy and to amuse himself watching the rest of the cast's romantic miscues.
• Stepford Smiler:
  • Part of his tendency to not let his actual feelings show that much, he went around smiling and acting cheerful when he learned Kyouko-sensei was getting married and retiring. Raku saw through it and mentioned that he'd had said tendency since he was a little boy, and literally kicked Shuu's butt into gear to do something about it.
  • After Ruri gives him "The Reason You Suck" Speech in chapter 209 after he had earlier expressed his doubts about himself as a person to her, he almost immediately shifts to his usual Playful Cat Smile, politely excuses himself for bothering her, and keeps a friendly tone as he walks away — even as it's obvious to them both that what she said deeply hurt him.
• Teacher/Student Romance: He has a crush on his homeroom teacher, Kyouko. After she rejects him, he says he needs some time to move on.
• Took a Level in Cheerfulness: He's always full of energy. However, this wasn't always the case: prior to the series' start, he was outwardly friendly but inwardly reserved until Ms. Kyoko and Raku gave him the motivation to try his hardest at whatever he's doing, whether it's being a Nice Guy or trolling. But mostly trolling.
• Two First Names: His surname Maiko is more commonly used as a given name for girls.
• When He Smiles: A variant in that while Ruri can't stand his usually mischievous and/or perverted smiles, Chapter 207 shows her just staring in stunned silence every time she sees him do a rare sincere smile.

Ruri Miyamoto

Voiced by: Yumi Uchiyama

Kosaki's bespectacled best friend.

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• Academic Athlete: She gets pretty good grades and is also the best swimmer of the school swim club. It's revealed in Chapter 102 that she has broken several swimming records during middle school and is known as "The Mermaid."
• Agitated Item Stomping: Except the "item" tends to be a guy who annoyed her; usually does this to Shuu, though Raku was also subjected to stomping after an Accidental Pervert moment.
• Babies Ever After: In the bonus epilogue that takes place ten years after the finale, Ruri announces to Shuu that she's pregnant with their first child.
• Beautiful All Along: She is definitely attractive normally, but can become even more so when she lets her hair down and removes her glasses.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Shuu. It's difficult for her to reconcile her absolute loathing of the mischievous and perverted personality he usually displays with her budding attraction toward his kinder Hidden Depths.
• Best Friend: She has been Kosaki's closest friend since middle school and they're almost always seen together.
• Beta Couple: Ruri is the one girl in the main cast who never joins Raku's Unwanted Harem. Instead, she has Ship Tease and something of Belligerent Sexual Tension with Raku's Best Friend and Bromantic Foil Shuu.
• Blind Without 'Em: Without her glasses, she has a hard time seeing and distinguishing things.
• Boke and Tsukkomi Routine: Ruri is the Tsukkomi to Shuu's Boke. She smacks him whenever he says something dumb.
• Brutal Honesty: Ruri has zero brain-to-mouth filter, and will criticize Kosaki's lack of progress with Raku every chance she gets.
• The Confidant: Ruri essentially functions as Kosaki's conscience and someone to bounce her thoughts off of.
• Distaff Counterpart: To Shuu, to some extent. Both are the Best Friend of one of the main characters who stand by the side of the Unwanted Harem antics. Also, both wear glasses, the one trait Shuu loves to remind Ruri that they share.
• Don't Call Me "Sir": She doesn't like to be called "ojou-sama" by her great-grandfather's servants.
• Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: She usually encourages Kosaki to force herself on Raku. The best interpertation of this advice is that it is not literal but generally a pursue-him-more-aggressively sort of encouragement
• First-Person Smartass: Ruri has plenty to say, but only the audience ever gets to hear it.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Kosaki, who has been a close friend to Ruri since middle school. The two are so close that they can communicate without saying a word.
• Hooked Up Afterwards: With Shuu. Near the end of the story, Ruri confesses to him, but Shuu isn't ready to give her an answer. Any development they had afterwards is left to the imagination, but the epilogue does let the reader know they eventually got together and are planning to get married.
• Jerkass Realization: She tearfully regrets her Brutal Honesty in Chapter 209. Her increasingly horrified inner monologue is shown with every line as she realizes how wilfully hurtful she's being, but just can't make herself stop lashing out.
• Love Confession: To Maiko. Just like her, straight in the face. Maiko is astounded.
• Love Epiphany: Admits to herself that she's fallen for the better side of Shuu in Chapter 209.
• Ojou: Actually comes from a very wealthy family, whose family compound in the country is even bigger than Raku's or Chitoge's house.
• Opposites Attract: With Shuu. Ruri is blunt, cold and grumpy, while Shuu is cheerful, funny and a tease.
• Perpetual Frowner: Ruri does not smile often.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: In Chapter 209, she starts harshly accusing Shuu of never having been serious about liking Kyoko, that she can't trust his apparent serious side because of said behavior, and that said behavior makes him disgusting to be around after a joking comment by Shuu about finding pretty girls to flirt with sets her off. This was after Shuu just poured his heart out to her about wanting and striving to be a better person and she just acknowledged to herself that his outward behavior was just a facade.
• Satellite Character: For the most part, Ruri is in the series to hang out with Kosaki and frequently prod her shy friend to be more aggressive about her crush on Raku. Although, Ruri does get a bit more focus to herself, mainly her Ship Tease with Shuu, in later parts of the manga.
• Second Love: Shuu liked his teacher Kyouko first and he admits he needs some time to move on after she rejects him. When Ruri confesses to him, she tells him she's willing to wait all the time needed for Shuu to fall in love again. The epilogue shows they eventually did get together and are planning to get married.
• She Cleans Up Nicely: Raku is quite stunned to see her in a kimono.
• Shipper on Deck: She aggressively ships Kosaki x Raku. While she aggressively pushes Kosaki to do something about it, she typically stops short of being The Matchmaker. While she (and Shuu) know that their best friends' attraction is mutual, Shuu convinces Ruri that its best if they don't tell them about it and let it play out.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: She finds herself attracted to Shuu's kinder Hidden Depths, as much as she hates to admit it.
• Stoic Spectacles: She always carries a subdued demeanor, rarely ever projecting strong emotions. Her glasses help giving her a cool-headed aura.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: She mostly comes off as cold, blunt and harsh, but she has a very apparent soft spot for those she cares about.
• Tsundere: She calls Shuu a "complete voyeur-camera perverted scum" and gets furious when someone jokes about the possibility that there might be something going on between her and him. It's still pretty obvious she has a thing for him, not that she's going to admit it.
• Tsurime Eyes: Her eyes are sharp and slanted to show her no-nonsense attitude.
• What Does She See in Him?: As the only female member of the cast not explicitly attracted to Raku, she occasionally seems puzzled as to her best friend's attraction to someone as obviously dense as he is.
• When She Smiles:
  • Played with. Shuu gives her a picture he secretly snapped of a rare candid moment of her smiling right after she regretted not smiling in the last photo of her with her grandfather just before he died. It's quietly hinted that Shuu liked seeing that side of her.
  • In chapter 223, she smiles warmly at Shuu when her confession catches him by complete surprise despite how savvy he usually is about people's feelings, causing him to blush wildly.

Yui Kanakura

Voiced by: Yui Horie

Raku's childhood friend who is a couple of years older than him, the don of a Chinese organization and the main cast's new homeroom teacher. She is also the holder of the fourth and last key.

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• All-Loving Heroine: She tells Chitoge that while she loves Raku her feelings are just the same for Chitoge, Marika, Kosaki, and Tsugumi. Marika seems to be aware of this and while Chitoge feels Yui's feelings make her more mature, Marika has the opposite feeling.
• Babies Ever After: She's shown pregnant with her first child in the Distant Finale.
• Bedmate Reveal: Has a "habit" to sneak into Raku's bed.
• Cool Big Sis: She plays more of the role of a cheerful and teasing older sister to the main cast than a harem member (even though she does have a crush on Raku).
• The Don: She's the head of the Chinese mafia group, Char Siu.
• Dreadful Musician: She's revealed to have a singing voice so horrible it can cause people to faint. It even turned Marika into a pillar of salt.
• First Kiss: She says she was Raku's first kiss. A flashback reveals it was actually accidental: Yui had fallen on Raku and her mouth landed on his. While Raku quickly shrugged it off, it's obvious this was when Yui began crushing on him.
• Flowers of Femininity: She's a young Hot Teacher and loving Cool Big Sis who always wears a headband decorated with roses.
• Friendless Background: Because she kept skipping grades, she never had a chance to make friends other than Raku.
• The Gadfly: She enjoys messing with people, especially Raku and Marika.
• Grade Skipper: She was able to complete college by the age of fifteen.
• Hates Being Alone: Yui's parents were too busy to spend time with her in her childhood and when she was a teenager, they passed away. With no close relatives nor friends, Yui worked hard to unite the Chinese mafia so she could go back to Japan and see her childhood crush Raku again. Even though she must overwork herself, she keeps doing her job as a teacher to stay close to her students and not go back to being alone.
• Heroic RRoD: According to her bodyguard Ie, Yui is prone to overworking herself because of carrying the responsability of being a Chinese mafia boss and high school teacher at the young age of nineteen. About every three months, Yui collapses from exhaustion and needs to be bedridden for her fever.
• Hot Teacher: She's nineteen years old, gorgeous, and assigned as the homeroom teacher for a group of second year high school students, one of which is practically her brother.
• Improbable Age: She's a fully licensed teacher at nineteen, only two years older than the students in her class.
• Like Brother and Sister: This is how her relationship with Raku is like, since he has always seen her as a Cool Big Sis who likes teasing him before anything. She does have a secret crush on him, but is mostly happy with being a big sister figure.
• Ms. Fanservice: Notably in Chapter 148. She is the only one wears cropped pajamas.
• Peer as Teacher: Yui was Raku's childhood friend and is around three to four years older than him^note When she first appeared, Raku was 16 while Yui was 19, and became the homeroom teacher starting from the second year.
• Prim and Proper Bun: When working as a teacher, she ties back her long hair into a bun with a pair of braids to give herself a more professional look.
• Sensei-chan: More because of her young age, she's only two years older than her students. She also acts as a playful Cool Big Sis to her Childhood Friends who are all part of her class.
• Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Yui enjoys teasing and messing with Marika, but actually adores her. Marika, on the other hand, despises Yui.
• Teacher/Student Romance: She's one of Raku's many childhood friends who has a crush on him and gets a job as his homeroom teacher.

Shuei Yakuza Group and Associates

A gang of Yakuza, lead by Raku's father.

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In General

• Undying Loyalty: To each other, but especially to Raku and his father. They're as much a part of the family as they are subordinates.
  • The feeling is mutual, as Raku is willing to work hard for the sake of his father's men.
• Yakuza: They're gang of Japanese mafia.

Issei Ichijou

Voiced by: Kenichi Ogata

Raku's father and leader of the Shuei Yakuza Group.

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• Big Ol' Eyebrows: He has very thick, bushy eyebrows.
• Odd Friendship: Drinking buddies with Commissioner Tachibana.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: He doesn't try to hinder Raku too much, and usually seems agreeable to anything his son is doing.
• Unnamed Parent: Downplayed. His given name isn't mentioned in the series, but it still gets revealed in the fanbook.

Ryuunosuke "Ryuu" Sasaki

Voiced by: Nobuyuki Hiyama

One of the group's subordinates.

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• Large Ham: The number of times he speaks in a calm voice can be counted on one hand.
• Rugged Scar: Has a scar over his face.
• Tattooed Crook: Has a tattoo on his right shoulder.
• Undying Loyalty: To Raku and his father.

Beehive Gang and Associates

A gang of mafia from America, lead by Chitoge's father.

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In General

• Undying Loyalty: To the heads, and Chitoge. Most especially seen in chapter 162 where after hearing Chitoge cry at the thought of being separated from Raku and her friends, they immediately petition for the move to be cancelled and swear to never fight Shuuei ever again.

Adelt Kirisaki Wogner

Voiced by: Masashi Ebara

The leader of the Bee Hive Gang and Chitoge's father.

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• Be Careful What You Say: At the end of Chapter 158, Adelt jokes to Chitoge that she really has fallen in love with Raku. Chitoge, being what she is, embarrassedly denies it on the spot and runs away. Adelt immediately figures out that his joke was actually spot on. Which makes him feel horribly guilty because they're preparing to leave for America, and that Raku and Chitoge don't need to act like fake lovers anymore. Thankfully, he takes steps to fix this.
• Dogged Nice Guy: He fell in love with Hana at first sight, but she wasn't interested in him and rejected his marriage proposal in their first meeting. He kept pursuing her until he won her over and she agreed to marry him.
• Henpecked Husband: Being a powerful gangster boss does not mean he can escape his wife's wrath.
• Love at First Sight: He fell in love with Hana when he first saw her walking nonchalantly in the middle of a shootout to deliver pizza and he proposed to her right on the spot.
• Tranquil Fury: When he gets serious, Adelt can be so intimidating without raising his voice that even Claude has to yield under pressure.

Hana Kirisaki

Voiced by: Megumi Toyoguchi

Chitoge's mom, a CEO. However, her control over companies worldwide is on another level.

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• Almighty Mom: Raku quickly learns why Hana is The Dreaded around him and Chitoge, in addition to the regular gang members.
• Armor-Piercing Question: To Raku. "Are your feelings for my daughter truly fake?"
• Broken Ace: She may be a powerful, unmatched genius in any field she puts herself to, managing companies and having the Beehive under her thumb due to sheer force of presence and even being inhumanly powerful... but just like her daughter, she has trouble telling her true feelings to others, and is suffering due to not being able to spend time with her family.
• The Dreaded: Everyone who knows her is afraid of her. Raku quickly finds out why on his first meeting with her, and being volunteered to be her secretary for a couple of days.
• Humanizing Tears: Her aloof front completely falls apart when she breaks down in tears as she and Chitoge finally become honest about their love for each other.
• In-Series Nickname: The Beehive Gang call her Madam Flower.
• Innocently Insensitive: Contrary to what Chitoge and Raku initially assumed, Hana doesn't mean to be dismissive of her daughter. Because of her lack of social skills, she asks thoughtless questions like how old Chitoge is, which makes the latter think her mother must not care about her at all. When she sees Chitoge still wears the ribbon she gave her years ago, she tells Chitoge she should get a better one when Chitoge would have been happier if Hana showed that she remembers giving her the ribbon. It takes Raku telling her how she's making Chitoge feel for Hana to understand all her daughter wanted was for her mother to show her some love.
• Mum Looks Like a Sister: Even though he knew the fact, Raku still thought she looks more like Chitoge's sister than her mother.
• No Social Skills: Turns out Hana is as socially inept as her daughter. Hana gets awkward around Chitoge because she doesn't know what to talk about with her and this leads to Innocently Insensitive behavior that created an estrangement between her and Chitoge until Raku gives them the chance to have a heart-to-heart conversation.
• Omniglot: She can hold a conversation in 5 languages.
• Oral Fixation: Often has a chocolate cigarette in her mouth. This is because she stopped smoking when she had Chitoge.
• Parents as People: Contrary to the initial impressions, Hana does love Chitoge very much. However, running one of the biggest conglomerates in the world leaves her with next to no time for her family and she doesn't even make good use of the little time she does have for Chitoge because of her Innocently Insensitive tendencies. The miscommunication between them has estranged their relationship, but with Raku's help, Hana and Chitoge can finally understand they do love each other.
• Red Baron: Known as "Madam Flower" to the Beehive Gang.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: She's too cool and distant to show affection until Raku makes her see that Chitoge needs to know her mother does care about her. Once she confirms Chitoge does love her despite the way she is, Hana allows herself to act as a loving mother.
• When You Coming Home, Dad?: She is often traveling around the world and only comes home during Christmas.

Claude

Voiced by: Takehito Koyasu

Chitoge's primary bodyguard.

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• Bodyguard Crush: He is definitely emotionally invested in Chitoge's well-being, to say the least.
• Crazy Jealous Guy: The driving force behind his desire to expose Raku and Chitoge's fake relationship is his ire at someone else spending so much time with Chitoge.
• Failed a Spot Check: Is completely unaware of the fact that Tsugumi is actually female despite raising her from early childhood. When Tsugumi reveals this to him by tearing open her shirt, he asks when she underwent such an operation.
• Four Eyes, Zero Soul: He wears glasses and frequently tries to ruin Chitoge's relationship with Raku for petty reasons.
• Hate Sink: Him raising Tsugumi aside, there's nothing remotely close to a good trait about this guy.
• In-Series Nickname: Raku strictly refers to him as "Megane/Glasses".
• Jerkass: He's petty, selfish, and very nasty when it comes to Chitoge dating a guy.
• Pet the Dog: He is the closest thing to a villain this series has, but even so, he did take in and raise an orphan Tsugumi. That's about the one redeemable thing he ever did in the series.
• Relationship Sabotage: He's extremely dedicated to ruining Chitoge's relationship with Raku because he does not consider the guy will ever be good enough for his mistress.
• Scary Shiny Glasses: Often have these when trying bring down Raku.
• Selective Obliviousness: For such a professional like him, it never crosses his mind that Seishirou may actually be a girl, even after she decides to wear a ribbon.
• Shipper on Deck: He secretly wants Seishirou to marry Chitoge, knowing from the start that Seishirou's feelings for Chitoge are above and beyond her line of duty but not that Seishirou is also a woman who only loves Chitoge as a friend. When that intention of his is revealed, Seishirou is not amused and decides to just outright show her true gender to him, the hard way.
• Stalker with a Crush: If putting Chitoge's portrait right next to him when eating or having a nosebleed when looking at her in a bikini through his binoculars is any indication.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Well... he wants Chitoge's well-being... but he is far too possessive and obsessed with her for his intentions to be even considered remotely good, and it's very clear he's nothing but a negative influence on Chitoge's life because of that.
• White Hair, Black Heart: He's one of the few characters with white hair. His schemes to bring Raku down come from sheer possessiveness and pettiness rather than desire to protect Chitoge.

Police Force

The local police force, lead by Marika's father.

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Gen Tachibana

Voiced by: Fumihiko Tachiki

The commissioner of the town's police department and Marika's father.

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• Accent Slip-Up: Like his daughter, he'll slip into a Hakata dialect when he gets riled up.
• Achey Scars: His scar pulsates when he sees Raku's face because it reminds him of his father.
• Doting Parent: He cares a lot about his daughter, so he is willing to indulge her.
• Henpecked Husband: Despite being the chief of police, his wife is the head of the family and he can't oppose her decisions.
• Knight Templar Parent: He has police officers equipped for a riot follow his daughter around and trained to form a shieldwall around her at a moment's notice.
• Love Martyr: His wife is an awful, selfish person who only cares about family traditions and treats their daughter like a tool. She actually throws him into a dungeon when he tries to stop Marika's Arranged Marriage, but he still loves her.
• Odd Friendship: He's drinking buddies with Raku's yakuza father.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: In the anime, his eyes glow red when he thinks something bad has happened to Marika, which scares Raku to no end.
• Rugged Scar: He has a scar stitched over his left eye, given to him by Raku's father.
• Shipper on Deck: He supports the idea of Marika marrying Raku because it would make his daughter happy.
• Worthy Opponent: He and Raku's father have proved their power to each other in the fight that earned him that eye scar, hence their Odd Friendship came to be.

Shinobu Honda

Voiced by: Yo Taichi

A police officer who acts as Marika's overseer.

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• Chain Pain: Her signature weapon is a weighted chain.
• First-Name Basis: After Shinobu helps Marika escape from her wedding, Marika asks Shinobu to let her call her by her real name Youko to create more familiarity between them.
• Hiding Behind Your Bangs: Her hair covers her left eye. She's The Stoic and has a ninja-like skill set.
• Hired Help as Family: She was given the job to watch over Marika since the latter's birth. Eventually, Marika realizes Shinobu cares about her more than her birth mother does and accepts her as her mother figure.
• Legacy Character: Her first name, Shinobu, is actually a title, given to the head of the Hidden Guards. Her real name before inheriting the title is Youko.
• Legacy of Service: Her family has worked as the Hidden Guards of the Tachibana family for generations.
• My Master, Right or Wrong: She will do anything her mistress Chika wishes. That includes kidnapping Marika to force her into an Arranged Marriage. However, Honda ends up betraying her in favor of Marika.
• Ninja: She technically serves as one to the Tachibana family. Raku and his friends lampshade this.
• Parental Substitute: She has been watching over Marika ever since infancy and given the way Marika's real mother is, Honda is certainly the closest thing to a mother Marika really has.
• Steven Ulysses Perhero: The kanji of her given name (忍) is part of the word "shinobi" (忍び), i.e. a ninja.
• The Stoic: She remains calm and stone-faced at all times.
• Undying Loyalty: To her mistress, Chika. However, Honda later proves her loyalty to Marika comes first.
• Wrestler in All of Us: She does a "Shining Wizard"^note a famous move of Japanese wrestler Keiji Mutoh to Migisuke when he proposed to her in chapter 112.

Migisuke Aiba

Voiced by: Takahiro Sakurai

The captain of the first riot police squad.

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• Hopeless Suitor: He has a crush on Honda, who has no interest in him whatsoever.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: He isn't the type to cause trouble when off-duty, and understands that it couldn't be helped that Raku was born into a yakuza family.
• Rejected Marriage Proposal: He abruptly asks Honda to marry him and as a answer, he gets a brutal kick to the face.

Onodera Family

A normal Japanese family who runs a sweet shop.

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Nanako Onodera

Voiced by: Sayaka Ohara

Kosaki's and Haru's mom.

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• Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Kosaki and Haru are not amused by her attempts to get Raku to be her son-in-law or her underhanded plans for getting more business for their store.
• Mum Looks Like a Sister: Raku himself lampshaded that she looked more like Kosaki's older sister.
• Serious Business: Japanese sweets. Considers Japanese-Western fusion heresy, and is willing to embarass her daughters to get more customers.
• Shipper on Deck: For her daughters to Raku so he can inherit her sweets business.

Haru Onodera

Voiced by: Ayane Sakura

Kosaki's little sister, not quite as shy and much more gifted for cooking.

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• Big Sister Worship: Towards Kosaki. It's for this reason that she was initially hostile to Raku when she found out that he was the guy Kosaki likes.
• Birds of a Feather: She and Raku have a similar taste in things, to the point where the only reason they don't get along is because of her initial misunderstandings.
• Bratty Half-Pint: She's only a year younger than the protagonists, but her immaturity and irrationality still earn her the title of brat. She eventually gets better thanks to Character Development.
• Cousin Oliver: She's Kosaki's little sister by a year who becomes a recurring character after the main cast start their second year at high school.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: At first, she treats Raku with nothing but irrational and petty contempt. Once she gets over her misunderstandings, she opens up to him and instead becomes more of a Tsundere only to him.
• Even the Girls Want Her: Both her best friend Fuu-chan and her kouhai Ricchan have shown attraction to her.
• Hate at First Sight: Haru instantly hates Raku based on her own assumptions. The fact that he accidentally sees her panties twice the first day they meet does not help either.
• Idiot Hair: It stays even after her Important Haircut.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: She eventually realizes she has a crush on Raku, but decides to support her sister instead and let them be happy together. Zig-zagged in that while she's made several attempts to officially "give up" on him, she gets interrupted and falls in love with him every time. She finally gives up on him later in the story.
• Loves My Alter Ego: She's in love with the "prince" who saved her from a gang, but she doesn't know and refuses to believe he is actually Raku. She eventually realizes those two people are one, and has trouble abandoning her love with Raku for the sake of her sister since then.
• Matchmaker Crush: She decides to support her sister's relationship with Raku despite her own crush on him. She tries her best to set them up together, but she still feels a little sad when they seem to be hitting it off.
• My Sister Is Off-Limits: Doesn't want Raku to be with her sister at first due to a misunderstanding. After realizing Raku is a really nice guy and that her sister likes him, she decides to support their relationship.
• No Sense of Direction: Sometimes she can't even tell what floor she is on in a mall even though there is a sign.
• Rescue Romance: She loves the "prince" (Raku) who saved her from a gang.
• Secret Secret-Keeper: She eventually figures out that Raku and her prince are the same person, but she still pretends she doesn't know around Raku.
• Shipper on Deck: After learning she misjudged Raku she tries to get him and her sister together; though that gets complicated because of the Sibling Triangle.
• Sibling Triangle: She has fallen in love with Raku, just like her sister.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: Haru is the hot-tempered, loud, and violent little sister to the sweet, gentle, and indulgent Kosaki.
• Took a Level in Kindness: In her first appearances, she comes off as an irrational and bitchy little brat, but thanks to some Character Development she eventually becomes nicer. She's still short-tempered, but more in a typical Tsundere way.
• Tsundere: She is extremely harsh towards Raku due to hearing bad rumors about him being a playboy that likes to victimize girls. Once she finds out the truth she becomes much nicer.

Char Siu Group

A Chinese mafia gang with international influence, ruled by Yui.

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Ie

Yui's personal bodyguard.

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• Anime Chinese Girl: She's a member of a triad, wears a very traditional Chinese robe, and has odango hair.
• Berserk Button: She threatens to cut Raku's throat when he tries calling her "Ie-chan".
• If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...: She warns Raku that if he ever makes Yui cry, she will kill him.
• Older Than She Looks: She looks like a little kid, but she's actually old enough to hate being mistaken for a child.
• Satellite Character: There isn't much of a purpose to her character aside from playing Shipper on Deck for Yui and Raku as well as telling Raku information that lets him know more about Yui.
• Shipper on Deck: She aggressively ships Yui x Raku.
• The Stoic: Her deadpan facial expression rarely changes.

Other Characters

Kyouko Hihara

Voiced by: Hitomi Nabatame

The teacher of Raku's class. She later left when she marries.

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• Babies Ever After: She appears in the Distant Finale as a mother of two.
• Back for the Finale: She makes a short appearance in the final chapter with her children.
• Put on a Bus: She gets married and leaves the story.
• Quitting to Get Married: She quits her job as a teacher when she gets married.
• Sensei-chan: Between her young appearance and teasing demeanour, at times you could think she's a classmate rather than a teacher. The fact she's only known by her first name is an indication.

Mikage Shinohara

Marika's junior-high school friend.

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• Ambiguously Bi: Practically salivates over the girls in the series, and is implied to be in love with Marika. On the other hand, she has a Celeb Crush on Johnny Depp, but she might just be joking.
• Bully Turned Buddy: She used to lead a pack of bullies against Marika when they first met, but they are now best friends.
• Celeb Crush: She says her only love is Johnny Depp.
• Genki Girl: This girl must inhale sugar every morning.
• Hyper-Competent Sidekick: Despite Raku getting most of the credit, pretty much all of Marika's rescue was planned and orchestrated by Mikage, to the point that the others did very little except go where and do what she told them to.
• Satellite Character: She doesn't contribute anything for the plot other than adding to Marika's character and organize Marika's rescue from her wedding.
• Secret-Keeper: She knows some important things about Marika's past but agrees to keep them secret.

Suzu "Fuu-chan" Ayakaji

Voiced by: Kotori Koiwai

Haru's best friend and classmate.

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• Best Friends-in-Law: While she'll never get to be with Haru romantically, the epilogue shows that she and Haru are at the very least family; Suzu turned out to have an unseen brother, and the brother married Haru.
• Incompatible Orientation: She seems to have a thing for Haru, but it's not going to work with Haru crushing on Raku.
• Matchmaker Crush: She seems to be a lesbian with a thing for Haru, but apart from taking fanservicey pictures of her doesn't do much about it. Instead, she prefers to help push her towards Raku while outwardly claiming that she's helping Kosaki and Raku like Haru asks her to.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Everyone calls her "Fuu-chan" within the series. According to the official fanbook, her real name is Suzu Ayakaji.
• Punny Name: Ayakaji (彩風) stands for Colorful Wind. The last kanji (風) can also be read as Fuu.
• Satellite Character: She doesn't have any notable role or characterization and her character revolves completely around being Haru's friend.
• Shipper on Deck: Despite her own attraction she is more than willing to support Haru/Raku whether Haru likes it or not.

Paula McCoy

Voiced by: Manami Numakura

Tsugumi's fellow hitman. She wants Tsugumi's approval and tries to help her make progress with Raku. Unfortunately, she's alarmingly incompetent at everything apart from being a hitman and is easily frightened.

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• Action Girl: Is a hitman.
• A-Cup Angst: She is jealous that Tsugumi has bigger breasts than her.
• Afraid of Needles: Hates getting shots the most.
• Animal Motifs: Raku compares her to a frightened cat when she climbs high places in order to not get a shot.
• Badass Cape: Has one to hold her weapons.
• Book Dumb: She's so bad at school subjects that she gets zeroes in her tests.
• Bullying a Dragon: Her attempt to "reawaken" the "Black Tiger" in Tsugumi with her kissing contest in episode 2 of season 2. Tsugumi essentially delivers a Curb-Stomp Battle to Paula, and "wins" by an Indirect Kiss with him. She later gives Paula a Death Glare so scary the latter decides to drop her protest on the win.
• Dramatic High Perching: Whenever she wants to be alone, she always go to high places. Her first appearance has her standing atop a smokestack.
• Establishing Character Moment: In the anime, her first meeting with Tsugumi in episode 2 of season 2 starts with both girls shooting at each other. Raku attempts to stop the gun fight, but gets kicked by Tsugumi instead.
• Hidden Weapons: Hides her weapons in her cape.
• I Have Many Names: She has multiple nicknames in the underworld.
• Never Gets Drunk: While all the other girls get easily drunk from a sip of sweet wine in Chapter 173, Paula doesn't and states that it isn't even good.
• Overshadowed by Awesome: She was a pretty competent hitman. But compared to Tsugumi, she was completely outclassed, and ends up viewing her more like The Rival.
• Picky Eater: Vegetables, tomatoes and shitake mushrooms are things she hates to eat.
• Red Baron: She is known as "White Fang" to the Beehive Gang.
• Scarf of Asskicking: Often wears a scarf.
• Shipper on Deck: For Tsugumi x Raku.
• Super Drowning Skills: She is unable to swim.

Yoshizou Miyamoto

Ruri's doting great-grandfather.

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• Amazingly Embarrassing Parent: Great-grandfather, but he still does a good job embarrassing Ruri in front of her friends, such as showing them embarrassing old photos from when she was a child.
• Big Fancy House: He lives at a large Japanese-style house.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: He only appears in a short mini-arc focused on Ruri. After bluffing Ruri into doing things for him for years with fake illnesses, Yoshizou finally succumbs to old age and dies.

Chika Tachibana

Marika's mother and the Tachibana family's matriarch.

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• Abusive Mom: She's emotionally abusive towards Marika, so their relationship is very cold to say the least.
• Arc Villain: She's the main antagonist in the Marika's marriage arc that spans a good many chapters.
• Arranged Marriage: Her marriage was decided by her family, thinking of what was best for the family instead of her. She also tries to do this with her daughter too.
• Break the Haughty: She starts to lose her cool when Raku and the others arrive to wreck Marika's wedding ceremony and Honda betrays her in favor of Marika.
• Emotionless Girl: She's extremely expressionless and emotionally distant, not understanding or caring about others' feelings.
• Empty Eyes: She perpetually has those, which complements her Emotionless Girl image.
• Evil Matriarch: The current leader of the Tachibana household, who will do anything to keep up the family's tradition, and her Establishing Character Moment is her being totally apathetic to her daughter's feelings and capturing her to force her into an Arranged Marriage.
• Family Theme Naming: Doubling as Floral Theme Naming. Both of Chika's and her daughter's names end with the Japanese character for "flower".
• Freudian Excuse: She says she lived as her family's traditions dictated. Her mother was very strict and distant, her marriage was decided for her and her body was even frailer than her daughter's. It doesn't justify it, but at least her husband can understand she must be taking out her frustrations on Marika.
• Generational Trauma: Her mother, herself, and her daughter are all born physically weak with Chika and her mother being cold and strict towards their child.

Marika was likely to be one if she went through with her marriage.

• Like Parent, Like Child: How she treats Marika is the same way her mother treated her. Also, when it really comes to it such as giving up Marika's marriage Chika does have a dirty mouth, just like her daughter.
• Jerkass: She's rather callous and insensitive to others' feelings. She treats her own husband and daughter as slaves. When Raku asks her of how she really thinks of Marika, this line aptly describes her she feels for her only daughter:
  Chika: Do you want me to say I love her or something...? How disgusting.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: She eventually gives up on trying to marry off her daughter, rationalizing that her family's old traditions can go eat shit.
• Lack of Empathy: Due to her upbringing, she is completely out of touch with her own emotions and the feelings of others.
• May–December Romance: Considering her husband is growing some gray hair while she remains looking young as she was in high school, this trope could be applied to them. Luckily, Gen does love her despite the circumstances behind their marriage and how she treats their daughter. It was also him that managed to convince her to give up Marika's marriage after seeing how much her friends were willing to rescue her from her wedding.
• Mum Looks Like a Sister: She doesn't look any older than Marika. Raku mistakes her for Marika's sister when they first meet and is shocked when she tells him she's her mother.
• Parental Neglect: She only treats her daughter like a tool for their family traditions and she doesn't care at all about Marika's feelings and wishes.
• Troubled Abuser: She says she mistreats Marika in the same way her own mother mistreated her.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Implied in her flashback with character's mothers who she went to the same high school with. It's likely being forced in her family's traditions and being forced to marry someone she didn't love by her mother caused her to become the person she is today.
• Villainous Breakdown: And Villainous BSoD as a result of her Break the Haughty.

Daiki Gorizawa

A school student and friend of Ichijou.

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• Adaptational Expansion: He gets a major part in the live-action film.
• Animal Motifs: Is associated with a gorilla.

Storybook Author

"The Author"

The author who wrote the storybook from the main characters's youth.

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• Early-Installment Weirdness: In-Universe, the picture book the main characters had had a Bittersweet Ending before Raku changed it. It was also the author's first work and the changes inspired her to give her following works happy endings instead.
• The Faceless: Her face is not revealed but described by Chitoge, she is a really beautiful person accompanied with a mysterious presence.
• Missing Mom: She's revealed to be Raku's mother, but she hasn't really been present in his life because she's touring around the world. She also believes that Raku is old enough to do fine without her, which seems largely true considering that she's barely mentioned by him or her husband.
• Mum Looks Like a Sister: Similar to her friends Hana, Nanako and Chika, she looks more like Raku's sister than his mother.
• Old Shame:invoked She doesn't look back on Zawsze in Love fondly. Besides thinking that Raku's alternate ending was better, she was so embarrassed by the translation error in the title that she scratched it off the cover of the copy the kids had in a panic.
• Unnamed Parent: She's the only parent in the series who is never called by her given name. She can only be referred to as "Author" because of her profession as a writer or "Raku's mom".
• Walking Spoiler: You can't go into much detail when describing her, or you'll give away that she's Raku's mother and the writer of the story that inspired the childhood promise that's the main mystery in the series.
• Walking the Earth: She's now traveling around the world while drawing picture books.

Bonus Chapter's Characters *Spoilers*

Characters from bonus chapter included in the last volume.

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In General

• Walking Spoiler: Haku and Sasa are the children of the trio in the main Love Triangle. Knowing in detail about them makes it easy to figure out Raku ends up with Chitoge and not Kosaki.

Haku Ichijou

Raku and Chitoge's son.

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• Animals Hate Him: Like his father, animals don't like him.
• But Not Too Foreign: He is a quarter white American, inherited from his mother.
• Family Theme Naming: Haku, son of Raku.
• Hollywood Genetics: He got his half-American mother's blond hair and blue eyes despite having even more Japanese blood than her and his father being black-haired.
• Phenotype Stereotype: He has blond hair and blue eyes from his half-American mother.
• Strong Family Resemblance: He resembles his mother.
• Yakuza Princess: Rare Male Example. He's the son of the leader of the Shuei Yakuza.

Sasa Miyanagi

Kosaki's daughter and Haru's niece.

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• Friend to All Living Things: Animals love her like her mother.
• Strong Family Resemblance: She highly resembles her mother. The omnibus bonus comics also reveal she's taken after Kosaki in another sense—making a promise with a boy her age at the plateau.

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