The cast of Nyan~ Neko Sugar Girls.
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Raku-chan
Raku
A neko girl with a high voice and large breasts. The story mostly follows her around.
- Catchphrase: "Nyaa desu~"
- Catgirl: Born that way, due to her Half-Human Hybrid heritage.
- Cute, but Cacophonic: Her design is clearly meant to invoke moe, but she's one of the most high pitched members of the cast. You can really hear it when she gets emotional.
- Died in Your Arms Tonight: Specifically Koneko's.
- Death by Despair: You really don't expect it from a show like this, but still. Raku's love for Hitoshi is so strong that it literally kills her when she's rejected.
- Forced Transformation: Kami-sama turns her into a cat to "teach her the value of life" in episode 7. It initially wears off in episode 8, but it comes back the episode after.
- Hair-Contrast Duo: With Koneko-chan. While Raku is innocent, somewhat dependent on others, and very high pitched, Koneko-chan is more mature, wise, and self sufficient.
- Half-Human Hybrid: It's said her mother is a human and her father is a cat.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Despite literally dying of heartbreak, Raku wishes Hitoshi and Bokutachi happiness in their future relationship as she lay dying.
- The Load: She generally is the person who gets in trouble the most over the course of the series, from her her contracting rabies to her getting possessed by a bakeneko. Played for as much drama as this series can allow in episode 6; she knows she's been bearing on Hitoshi and Koneko with her problems, and fears that they see her as a burden.
- Love at First Sight: When she first lays eyes on Hitoshi, she can't help but marvel at how "sugoi" he is, complete with Nosebleed.
- Love Hurts: Literally. She dies of a "broken kokoro" (heart) when Hitoshi-san and Bokutachi get together.
- Meaningful Name: Raku... rack. Rack as in, her well, rack.
- Older Than They Look: She's an adult, not a teenager. She even went to college.
- Unrequited Love: She maintains a one sided crush on Hitoshi starting from episode 1. His refusal to reciprocate is what causes her to die in the finale.
- Rasputinian Death: Does she die from contracting rabies and suffering its aftereffects? No. How about when she got possessed by a bakeneko and was made progressively weaker from that? Not that either, despite it being on and off until it's fully exorcised from her body. No, what actually ends up killing her is her "broken kokoro", which only happens when the pain of her unrequited love was too much to keep her from going on.
- Womanchild: She goes on and on about her crush on Hitoshi, is generally dependent on Koneko and others, and is prone to be extremely emotionally vulnerable for someone who went to college.
Koneko-chan
Koneko
Raku-chan's mellow best friend and Foil.
- Big Damn Heroes: When Hitoshi got kidnapped, it was Koneko-chan who was able to tie up Kidnapper-kun and disable him. Too bad we never got to see it.
- Catgirl: Same as Raku. We don't know if she's a Half-Human Hybrid too, though.
- Died in Your Arms Tonight: Raku dies in hers in the finale.
- Foil: Koneko is quiet, calm, small-breasted and prone to Gratuitous Spanish, while Raku is loud, childish, has huge boobs and is prone to Gratuitous Japanese.
- Former Teen Rebel: Used to dress like this in college, apparently.
- Gratuitous Spanish: Inexplicably peppers Spanish words in her speech sometimes, notably when she refers to her backpack as a "mochila." This is very out of place considering that the rest of the series is instead peppered with awful Gratuitous Japanese.
- Hair-Contrast Duo: With Koneko-chan. While Raku is innocent, somewhat dependent on others, and very high pitched, Koneko-chan is more mature, wise, and self sufficient.
- Let Them Die Happy: Knowing that Raku still has rabies, Koneko-chan tells Hitoshi to spend as much time with the girl as possible so that she'll be happy in the chance that she dies.
- Meaningful Name: Koneko is Japanese for "kitten". 'Cuz she's a Catgirl, get it?
- Only Sane Man: Downplayed. While she tends to not be phased by a lot of the weirder stuff in the series (like Hitoshi falling for his kidnapper or Raku-Chan getting rabies), and has the same Gratuitous Japanese lifestyle that Raku-Chan does, she’s comparatively more mellow and reasonable than most other characters.
- The Stoic: Generally very calm and doesn't wildly emote most of the time.
- Not So Stoic: After the Downer Ending with Raku-chan's death Koneko-chan sings the Ending Theme (Last Christmas (I Gave You My Heart)) instead. By the end she's broken down in tears.
Hitoshi-san
Hitoshi
Raku and Koneko's friend, and Raku-chan's crush. He is quite flirtatious.
- Abduction Is Love: His kidnapping by Kidnapper-kun leaves him with some emotional baggage left over...though not the tragic kind. He winds up having erotic daydreams (to *NSYNC no less) of the guy, and even dates him come the finale.
- Affectionate Nickname: Calls the Catgirls "Nekos" regularly.
- Ambiguously Bi: His behavior towards Raku and Koneko has flirtatious undertones, calling them "lovely ladies". However, he unambiguously hooks up with Bokutachi in the final episode.
- Bishie Sparkle: Every time he's shown in Raku-chan's vision, he has these. He also had a lot of this in the early episodes, but it reduced over time.
- Catchphrase: "Nya, rawr~"
- Five Stages of Grief: By the end of the series, he's on Stage 1 and jumping to Stage 4, going by his resigned sigh in the last scene. He seems like he's deluding himself at the vet, saying that the Raku he knows wouldn't just up and die and that she'll be back before he knows it.
- Innocently Insensitive: Generally serves as the joke man (at least when they're trying to tell jokes), but he ends up making them at inopportune times.
- Mellow Fellow: He takes most things in stride and is way more laid back than the other protagonists.
- Mr. Fanservice: Well, if you want to call this fanservice, sure. He gets constant servicey shots in the series, from his bathing suit appearance in episode 6 to losing his swim trunks in episode 8.
- Please, Don't Leave Me: Makes a surprisingly emotional goodbye with Raku as she dies in the finale."Nooo, hang in there, baby!"
- Pretty Boy: He's a bishonen parody, so calling him “pretty” is a stretch. Other characters seem to find him irresistible, but he’s drawn with an absurdly pointy chin, and any time he’s underdressed, it’s hard to appreciate how toned he is when it’s so poorly drawn.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Averted. He's relatively harmless, and a pretty decent friend.
Kidnapper-kun
Kidnapper/Bokutachi
Hitoshi-san's Camp Gay kidnapper.
- Arc Villain: He kidnaps Hitoshi and is the first (and only) villainous character the show really has.
- Back for the Finale: While he gets various cameos throughout the series after his introduction, he himself doesn't appear in person until the finale.
- Camp Gay: Has a slight lisp, is constantly flirting with Hitoshi, and generally acts very camp.
- Depraved Homosexual: Kidnaps Hitoshi with the intent to possibly rape him.
- Evil Wears Black: He's the antagonist of the series and wears all black clothing (turtleneck, gloves, pants, and shoes). Along with that, in the COVID-19 PSA Informational Video, he's the only character wearing a black mask.
- Given Name Reveal: For most of the series, he goes unnamed. In the finale, it's revealed his name is Bokutachi.
- In his cover of "Mask" by Dream, his full name is revealed on a report card as Yume Bokutachi. This is likely in reference to the original singer of the song, who is called "Yume-san" in the description (Yume is "dream" in Japanese). He's the only character so far to have a first and last name.
- The Mentally Disturbed: In the "Mask" cover music video, he was diagnosed with "Normal じゃない" (normal janai = not normal) in his childhood. He dumps his prescribed medication and puts on a "mask" (the shadow over his eyes) to cope with distressing emotions. It's heavily implied his rejection of his mental illness led to his behavior in the main series.
- No Sympathy: He doesn't give one crap that Raku dies. Mostly his screentime after the event is playfully teasing Hitoshi about being the cause of her Death by Despair.
- Punny Name: His real name is Bokutachi. Boku means I or me, and tachi is used as a slang term for a man that tops in a homosexual relationship.
- As a side effect though, his name translates to "us" or "we". Which makes you wonder who names their child after a plural first person tense.
- Since his surname Yume means "Dream" in Japanese, his full name could be interpreted as "The man I dream of bottoming for."
- Stalker with a Crush: He apparently kidnaps Hitoshi because he feels romantically towards him.
Vet-sama
Vet-sama
A nurse who sometimes helps out the nekos out. She also moonlights as a shrine maiden, apparently.
- Electronic Speech Impediment: An out-of-universe example in that her voice is consistently spoken too close and unfiltered into a low-quality mic, resulting in loud white noise and clipped audio every time she speaks. This quality is faithfully preserved for their COVID PSA.
- Everyone Calls Her "Barkeep": She's only referred to by her title.
- Hospital Hottie: Hitoshi certainly takes a liking to her.
- Magical Girl: Yes, seriously.
- Miko: What her Magical Girl form takes the appearance of. It's actually more covering than her usual outfit.
- Fan Disservice: She wears a very revealing outfit and has a lot of cleavage, but it leans into Fan Disservice considering how she’s constantly drawn off-model.
- Naughty Nurse Outfit: Her outfit exposes her massive cleavage and she wears a skirt.
Raku-chan's College Friends
Raku-chan's College Friends
- Gratuitous Foreign Language: One of them says "college is so kimchi".
- Last Episode, New Character: They only show up in the finale to check up on Raku, then never get seen again.
- One Head Taller: Bonita and who seems to be her boyfriend.
Dolce-chan
Dolce
- Catgirl: Subverted: She's a cocker-spaniel.
- Cute Mute: Possibly justified as the episode she was in
never actually aired. - Ms. Fanservice: She only wore a bikini.
