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Main characters
Kazusa Onodera
Voiced by: Hiyori Kouno (Japanese), Brittney Karbowski (English)
The protagonist. She has a crush on her childhood friend, but ironically, she has a crippling fear of sex and sexuality.
- A-Cup Angst: While by no means flat, Kazusa finds herself coming off as inadequate in comparison to Sugawara's bust size.
- Always Someone Better: She constantly compares herself to Sugawara, as she sees that she's lacking in her bust size and less attractive than her and that Sugawara is mysterious and weird, and if Izumi were to choose someone to have sex with them it'd be Sugawara.
- Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: After coupling with Izumi, she tries to seduce him by wearing racier underwear and flirting. His reluctance to do so makes her frustrated and insecure, when the reality is that he wants to cherish her and can't deal with the idea of his longtime friend and crush also being someone he can have sexual thoughts about.
- Betty and Veronica: Plays Izumi's Betty opposite of Sugawara Veronica for Izumi's. She's Izumi's childhood friend, a nice, kind, and friendly girl who's insecure about her looks compared to Sugawara.
- Can't Spit It Out: She has a gigantic crush on Izumi but it takes her a lot of courage and self-motivation, [[plus fear of Sugawara stealing him from her make her attempt to confess. Though Izumi beats her by confessing first.]]
- Childhood Friend Romance: A rather late blooming one, but she develops romantic feelings for her neighbor and childhood friend Izumi during high school.
- Love Epiphany: Realizes that she was in love with Izumi rather early in the series, in chapter 2.
- Paralyzing Fear of Sexuality: She is afraid of acknowledging her sexuality and being honest about it. To the point that one of the first things she does upon interrupting Izumi's masturbating moment is to get out of dodge. However, that doesn't stop her from thinking everything is related to sex.
- Plain Jane: She doesn't see herself as pretty at least not on par with Sugawara's looks and she runs away when Sugawara was telling her she's cute and that looks shouldn't matter in romance.
- Official Couple: With Izumi as of episode 8 after Izumi realizes he's in love with her.
- Properly Paranoid: Turns out, Kazusa was right to fear Sugawara going after Izumi, since that's exactly what happens after she and Izumi start dating.
- Stock Shoujo Bullying Tactics: Because she was close to Izumi, one of the more popular boys in school, she was the subject of ire for quite a few schoolmates and they wasted no time reminding her of that.
- Stupid Sexy Flanders: Kazusa often finds herself befuddled by Niina's petite looks. Especially when it comes to the chest area.
Niina Sugawara
Voiced by: Chika Anzai (Japanese), Natalie Rial (English)
Kazusa's best friend often referred to as a "crane" for her fragile appearance. Gradually began to develop feelings for Izumi, thus getting swept into a love triangle between her and Izumi.
- Armor-Piercing Question: Sometimes unintentionally, sometimes very pointedly, she has a habit of poking at the hidden desires in others and forcing them to confront their feelings.
- Betty and Veronica: She's the Veronica to Kazusa's Betty for Izumi. She's a natural beauty and has always gotten the attention of the boys without trying, and is enigmatic and much more poised than Kazusa.
- Bifauxnen: Can pass off as a handsome boy when her boobs are covered by a binder and her bob haircut helps.
- Bros Before Hoes: She chooses to pursue Izumi even though she knows her Best Friend Kazusa has feelings for him and even after the two become an item. Momoko confronts her about it, asking her if her romantic interest is too important to her she's willing to lose her friends over it. She replies that you can't have sex with friends.
- Brutal Honesty: She says whatever is on her mind regardless of how hurtful or too straightforward it comes off.
- Cloudcuckoolander: She's extremely weird, to the extent that even her friends find themselves confused and unsettled by her half the time. Izumi even describes her as such.
- The Chikan: Subverted and exploited by her. At first, she messages Izumi that someone is touching her butt on the train, but it turns out she lied just as an excuse to make the oblivious Izumi touch her butt.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Was harassed when she was a kid, hence her attempts to ignore boys. Later episodes also reveal that she was groomed by her acting teacher until she eventually believed that she was in love with him. Even a few years later and she still goes to him for advice.
- The Dog Bites Back: Punches her acting teacher in the face when he tried to have sex with her after enduring his sexual harassment of her since she was a child.
- Emotionless Girl: She has her rare moments where she laughs or smiles, but she normally wears a stoic face and speaks in a monotonous voice.
- Even the Girls Want Her: Kazusa admits that she's views Sugawara as beautiful and is a little attracted to her (and therefore, can't really blame Izumi for the same).
- Hidden Buxom: Episode 6 reveals her having a pretty sizable chest, much to Kazusa's chagrin.
- Hopeless Suitor: She has little to no chance of getting with Izumi after he realizes his feelings for Kazusa and the two begin dating. She still makes advances on him even when he refuses.
- Hypocrite: Dislikes having attention drawn to her because of her appearance, and yet, one of the primary ways that she tries to rope Izumi in is to fake someone groping her and then taking Izumi's hand and placing it on her butt.
- Love Makes You Evil: It's subtle in that she isn't straight-up evil, but she's willing to do underhanded things just to get together with her crush even if this will hurt her friends.
- Lust Object: In the last few chapters, Izumi admits that he's primarily sexually attracted to Sugawara, but still romantically attached to Kazusa at the same time.
- Manipulative Bitch: Fortunately she uses it almost entirely for good, but she's very savvy about the behavior of others. Megumi's attempt to bully her is shut down very quickly, simply by playing Megumi's Bitch in Sheep's Clothing persona against her. Less positive later on, when she's determined to make Izumi fall for her and deliberately flaunts the relationship in Kazusa's face.
- Mentor Archetype: Subverted, and lampshaded. For most of the series, Sugawara seems very Wise Beyond Her Years about relationships, and with her savviness about emotions, mature appearance and stoic demeanor takes the role of Stealth Mentor to the other girls. Momoko confessing her feelings even causes Sugawara to note that this is the time when she would normally give sagely advice, but that she actually has no idea what to say. Most of her more mature and sagely moments are near identical copies of those her former teacher and abuser used on her, suggesting she's shallowly trying to emulate him. And in the final episode she outright admits she was bullshitting, and she's as much of an emotional mess as any one of them.
- Psychotic Smirk: Briefly sports one when she taunts Izumi about making him "hard."
- The Tease: Downplayed but she likes to tease Izumi by touching him or making him touch her butt, etc.
- Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Sugawara has taken to ward off unwanted attention from boys and men by pretending she's a sex worker with an STD she's happy to pass on. And her acting teacher has taught her to do this since before she entered middle school.
Rika Sonezaki
Without glasses
Voiced by: Sumire Uesaka (Japanese), Avery Smithhart (English)
The club president who resents her interest in the opposite sex primarily due to her upbringing.
- Alice Allusion: She imagines herself as Alice and Shun as the rabbit, when she likens her recent view of her world as wandering "into a completely different story."
- Blatant Lies: When she does a vaulting box jump, she hits her crotch and a girl worries if she broke her hymen. Rika freaks out and leaves quickly but she pretends to not care then she starts crying about it.
- Character Development: Through her becoming infatuated with Shun, Rika had gradually outgrown the ties with her upbringing and changes her mind about boys and romance.
- The Glasses Gotta Go: A rather classic take on the trope. After Shun tells her she looks good without her glasses, she finally decides to stop wearing them, change her hairdo, and switch to contacts. The class and Shun approve of the new look.
- Huge Schoolgirl: She's extremely tall, which unfortunately combines with her prickly personality to make her somewhat intimidating.
- Hypocritical Humor: Derides her female classmates for being harlots, but she has interests towards boys that she tries to suppress.
- Large Ham: Prone to doing dramatics regarding the circumstance and talking like an old-school teacher.
- Letting Her Hair Down: When she changed her looks everyone admitted that she's actually pretty after calling her ugly before.
- Odd Friendship: After slut-shaming her, she slowly becomes friends with Sonoe, who has the style and looks of a Gyaru Girl, is open about sex and romance, and wears lots of makeup; basically a total opposite of Rika. This is after Rika's character development.
- Not So Above It All: She acts mature and all high-and-mighty when it comes to love and sex, but she herself loosens up and gets involved in romance and even enters a mutual relationship with a boy.
- Official Couple: She becomes Shun's girlfriend mid-series.
- Principles Zealot: She sticks to the idea that Sex Is Evil and people obsessed with it are "sex-obsessed bufoons", reaching to the levels of trying to come up with a different word for sex because it's too filthy a word. She gets better though.
- Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Falls in love with Shun, who treats her with kindness and genuinely has feelings for her.
- Slut-Shaming: She's extremely guilty of it, which pretty much turns the whole class against her. She calls them pigs and apes for talking about sex on school. Though she stops doing this after her mindset changes.
- Sour Prudes: She doesn't understand why people talk about sex freely and how they engage in something this vulgar and goes through the trouble of finding a replacement for the English loanword "sex" because it's too raw and direct.
- Thought-Aversion Failure: Frequently berates the club for thinking about or discussing sex... which inevitably leads to her thinking about and discussing sex.
- Tsundere: Towards Shun to the point that she forces him to write a 50-page report on what he liked about her.
Momoko SudÅ
Voiced by: Momo Asakura (Japanese), Juliet Simmons (English)
One of Kazusa's friends. She slowly begins to develop a one-sided crush on Sugawara after quickly befriending her.
- All Love Is Unrequited: She gets depressed when realizing that Sugawara most likely liked Izumi (who in turn likes Kazusa) instead of her.
- Best Friend: Is Kazusa's female best friend from the start of the series.
- Does Not Like Men: Pretty much asks why girls are supposed to go after men when comparing their physiques to those of girls. Best exemplified where she gets gradually disturbed by Satoshi's advances until she eventually blew up on him.
- Incompatible Orientation: She learns the hard way from Kazusa and Sugawara that some girls just don't see other girls as romantic interests.
- Lipstick Lesbian: Very feminine, and hinted throughout the story to be more into girls than boys. She turns out to have a crush on Sugawara, who doesn't feel the same.
- Nice Girl: She notes to herself that among all of the literature club, her and Sugawara are the only normal, easy-to-get-along-with ones.
- Rose-Haired Sweetie: She have pink hair and is a kind girl who often put the needs of her friends before herself.
Hitoha HongÅ
Voiced by: Tomoyo Kurosawa (Japanese), Elissa Cuellar (English)
A short girl who writes novels and erotica. When one of her publishers derided her novel, she decides to "get experience" through an online adult chatroom, and even stages an encounter which ends with her realizing she was seeing one of the school faculty members.
- Cry into Chest: Into Yamagishi's in Episode 10, upon realizing he won't ever feel sexually attracted to her.
- Death Glare: Gave several teachers this unintentionally when she and the other girls were trying to find an advisor for the literature club to prevent it from being disbanded.
- Hot for Teacher: Develops an aggressive crush on Yamagishi, but it ultimately ends up as Unrequited Love; he's not attracted to Hongo at all as a woman (being a high school girl), instead preferring a fellow teacher.
- Manipulative Bitch: She blackmails her teacher into being the new advisor for the literature club.
- Stylistic Suck: It's not awful, but from what we see of her writing her publishers are right to cast doubt on her ability to write convincing erotica.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Her relationship with Yamagishi is rooted in blackmail, sexual abuse (by her) and she frequently pours insults onto him, but ultimately they both seek out each other's company and are frequently shown chatting quite amicably about their shared interests.
Izumi Norimoto
Voiced by: Shimba Tsuchiya (Japanese), Blake Jackson (English)
Kazusa's childhood friend.
- Chick Magnet: Since middle school he has got the attention of girls due to his looks and easygoing personality.
- He Is All Grown Up: The main complication in his relationship with Kazusa—not only because she feels weird about being sexually attracted to someone she once thought of as a "short, clumsy, absent-minded little brother, but because many other girls took an interest in him as well and started treating Kazusa as an obstacle to be removed.
- Innocently Insensitive: Tries to explain his addiction to trains to Kazusa only to then make it abundantly clear that he didn't feel that way for anyone else, not even for her.
- Love Epiphany: Ironically, Sugawara's attempt at expressing how she feels towards Izumi during the play in Episode 8 is what makes him realize that he's in love with Kazusa.
- Oblivious to Love: He's oblivious to the fact that Kazusa is head over heels for him before Sugawara tells him causing him to choke up on the drink he's drinking.
- Official Couple: He becomes an item with Kazusa in the Cultural Festival.
- Oh, Crap!: Has this reaction when Kazusa catches him in his private moment, which happens more than once.
- Rail Enthusiast: He reads Train Tables for entertainment; he has posters of trains in his room. He even listens to a song called "Train Train" while masturbating to a movie about a woman getting molested on a public train.
Other students
Megumi Asada
Voiced by: Haruka Tomatsu (Japanese), Chaney Moore (English)
A snobbish high school girl that often antagonizes Kazusa.
- Alpha Bitch: Is apart of the popular clique of girls.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She acts entirely sweet and innocently in front of Izumi, in stark comparison to how she is around everyone else.
- Break the Haughty: Doesn't take Izumi rejecting her all that well which potentially implicates that she was lying about her previous sexual encounters.
- The Bully: Often bullies Kazusa by poking fun at her looks or inability of getting laid.
- Hate Sink: An abrasive, conceited girl who tries to make Kazusa feel inadequate compared to her.
Sonoe Juujou
Voiced by: Haruka Tomatsu (Japanese), Alicia Beard (English)
One of the more popular girls in the school. Primarily because of her looseness. She later befriends Sonezaki, giving her advice on dating.
- Gyaru Girl: Tanned, blonde, and unashamedly sexually active.
- Slut-Shaming: Done by Sonoe and Rika's homeroom teacher in announcing to the class her (arguably private) reason for dropping out of school.
- Small Role, Big Impact: She inadvertently encouraged Rika into confessing to Shun.
- Teen Pregnancy: Drops out of school due to this.
Shun Amagiri
Voiced by: Yūya Hirose (Japanese), Gabriel Regojo (English)
One of the male classmates of the girls. Most likely has feelings for Rika.- Nice Guy: Treats Rika with decency and respect, and even comments that she looked like Erika without her glasses.
- Official Couple: Becomes a couple with Rika after he writes a 15-page report on why he likes her and she accepts his feelings.
Satoshi Sugimoto
Voiced by: Natsuki Hanae (Japanese), Leraldo Anzaldua (English)
A boy that Momoko "dated" prior to her realization of her sexuality.
- Hate Sink: He was a narcissistic boy who decides to date Momoko Sudo, ignorant of him making her feel uncomfortable. When she explodes at him at the culture festival at the school, he tries to force her to apologize for embarrassing him in front of his friends and calls her a crazy slut upon realizing that she was never in love with him.
- He-Man Woman Hater: Has some shades of this. He always comments on how women were more weak than men in some areas. He later asks Momoko if she was a slut when she dated him without being romantically interested in him.
- It's All About Me: Never cared for Momoko and was insulted when she embarrassed him in front of his friends.
- Jerkass: While he initially was overbearing, at most he seemed ignorant of Momoko's feelings. However, his true nature is exposed when he tries to force Momoko to apologize to him for her behavior at the culture festival under the threat of her leaving the cram school.
- Karma Houdini: After making Momoko feel worse about herself, Satoshi gets off unscathed and even found himself another girlfriend.
- Kick the Dog: Calls Momoko a crazy slut at Momoko's visceral reaction towards grabbing her hand.
School faculty
Tomoaki Yamagishi
Voiced by: Jun Fukuyama (Japanese), Gareth West (English)
One of the teachers of the school. He is blackmailed into becoming the advisor of the literature club after Hitoha discovers his account on an online adult chatroom.
- Above the Influence: Denies any attraction to underaged girls and to his credit repeatedly rejects Hitoha's sexual advances.
- Butt-Monkey: Gets the short end of the stick continuously from getting blackmailed into becoming the club adviser to getting kidnapped and held hostage by the main girls as part of their protesting of the school's ban on romantic relationships.
- Extreme Doormat: Despite being an adult and a teacher, his students push him around with ease.
- Hidden Depths: It shouldn't be that surprising since he is a teacher, but when attending the literature club meeting he proves to be quite insightful about the material.
- Oh, Crap!: Realizes that the girl he was talking to online was Hitoha and subsequently tries to run.
- Older Than They Look: He actually looks rather young, more like a member of the literature club, than their faculty advisor.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Bails upon seeing that Hitoha was the girl he was talking to online.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Hitoha blackmails, sexually assaults and insults him constantly, and he is often smugly disdainful of her talent and personality. Despite this they both seek out each other's company and are frequently shown chatting quite amicably about their shared interests.
Tomita
Voiced by: Yoshino Aoyama (Japanese), Shelby Blocker (English)
A fellow teacher of the school that Yamagishi fancies.
- Nice Girl: Is presented as very pleasant.
- Unknown Rival: To Hitoha.
Other characters
Kazusa's parents
Voiced by: Kyle Jones and Joanne Bonasso (English)
- Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: They have a night with Kazusa where they all slept together in a cot when they were fondly thinking back on the day she was born.
Hitoha's older sister
Izumi's mother
Voiced by: Allison Sumrall (English)
Hisashi Saegusa
Voiced by: Wesley Witson (English)
Sugawara's former acting teacher whom she fell in love with when she was younger. He was also implicitly (and outright confirmed by Sugawara herself) to have been a pedophile.
- Big Bad: Sets the conflict of the story into motion.
- The Corrupter: Stages Sugawara's fighting with Kazusa over Izumi's affections.
- Dirty Old Man: Caressed Sugawara's leg when she was a young girl. While it was per Sugawara's request, he nevertheless kissed a high school girl on the lips. Though apparently despite Sugawara knowing of his true nature, she makes it clear that he never resorted to doing anything physical with her even when she flung herself on him. However, episode 11 throws that into considerable questioning as when Sugawara allows him to consummate their relationship, she realizes that all of his previous actions on her were acts of molestation, implicating that she hadn't realized she was being assaulted until that moment.
- Hate Sink: He was Niina Sugawara's acting teacher who was responsible for warping her mind. A pedophile, he molested Sugawara when she first enrolled at his school and psychologically manipulated her for years into believing she was in love with him. When she left, Hisashi continues to conduct mind games on his young female students taking perverse satisfaction in warping their minds to get off on their innocence.
- Karma Houdini: Despite getting rightfully punched out by Sugawara, that nevertheless leaves him free to psychologically break and groom more potential students.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Gets punched in the face by Sugawara when he tried to consummate their relationship.
- Muse Abuse: Literally in the case of Sugawara, but he also encourages her to set up the whole conflict of the show due in part to it's relevance to his artistic sensibilities. He reacts to her betraying her best friend in the same way one would to a stirring theater production.
