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"Surname" doesn't really apply to Japanese names since they're typically in family name-given name order.


* MusicalThemeNaming: Each member's surname is taken from that of a member of Music/AsianKungFuGeneration, specifically the one whose choice of instrument matches her own. Hitori Gotoh is named after Masafumi Gotoh, Nijika Ijichi is named after Kiyoshi Ijichi, Ryo Yamada is named after Takahiro Yamada, and Ikuyo Kita is named after Kensuke Kita. In the case of Kita and Gotoh, the actual roles are reversed however, as Hitori Gotoh and Kensuke Kita are the lead guitarists for their respective bands, and Ikuyo Kita and Masafumi Gotoh are the rhythm guitarists and vocalists.

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* MusicalThemeNaming: Each member's surname family name is taken from that of a member of Music/AsianKungFuGeneration, specifically the one whose choice of instrument matches her own. Hitori Gotoh is named after Masafumi Gotoh, Nijika Ijichi is named after Kiyoshi Ijichi, Ryo Yamada is named after Takahiro Yamada, and Ikuyo Kita is named after Kensuke Kita. In the case of Kita and Gotoh, the actual roles are reversed however, as Hitori Gotoh and Kensuke Kita are the lead guitarists for their respective bands, and Ikuyo Kita and Masafumi Gotoh are the rhythm guitarists and vocalists.



* LastNameBasis: Almost everyone who refers to her by name calls her by her surname. The only named character that calls her Kikuri is Eliza.

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* LastNameBasis: Almost everyone who refers to her by name calls her by her surname.family name. The only named character that calls her Kikuri is Eliza.
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** The deer she feeds on her visit to Nara Park during her school field trip are more interested in the food than her, mobbing her and leaving her in a crater again.

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** The deer she feeds on her visit to Nara Park during her school field trip are more interested in the food than her, mobbing her and leaving her in a crater again.again (though this is TruthInTelevision, as Nara's deer are known for being pushy and even aggressive about being fed by visitors).

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** Her final exam results is 30 points, which is exactly the passing score in Japan. Her teacher compliments her for studying despite being in a band, implying that she usually does even worse.

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** Her final exam results score on her second year finals is 30 points, which is exactly the passing score in Japan. Her teacher compliments her for studying despite being in a band, implying that she usually does even worse.



* MsImagination: Her imagination tends to run wild when she gets especially anxious or self-deprecating, to the point where her friends have to snap her out of whatever ImagineSpot she's gotten herself into.

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* MsImagination: Her imagination tends to run wild when she gets especially anxious or self-deprecating, to the point where her friends have to snap her out of whatever ImagineSpot she's gotten herself into. She also has a tendency to hype herself up so much she gets lost in delusions of grandeur.


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* ToughLove: When she graduates, her mother doesn't think Ryo can learn to support herself by focusing on the band without studying or looking for a job, so she decides to make her live alone with no allowance to force the issue.
* ToxicFriendInfluence:
** Ryo mooches off of everyone she knows, her bandmates most of all, and doesn't pay them back unless forced to do so. Despite this, they never stop giving her money when she asks.
** She's almost completely taken over Nijika's room, leaving her with just the bed, but Nijika doesn't seem to mind.


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* UsedToBeASweetKid: Downplayed; she didn't get worse as she got older but changed temperament, going from outgoing, energetic kid to easygoing goth adult. Seika wants to know how that happened.
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** When discussing about the celebrity band Klimt's Night, she gets incredibly giddy and starts blushing, and says that the other member Ame is in love with her. Kita is not impressed and brushes her off.

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* {{Tsundere}}: Heavily {{downplayed}}, but she has shades of a Type B towards her sister and Ryo. She's possibly the nicest character in the series, but Seika's pride and {{tsundere}} mannerisms sometimes bring out her more annoyed and snappy side. Similarly, Ryo's [[TheGadfly antics]] are a surefire way to rile Nijika up, and the manga has her frequently call Ryo an idiot or wrestle her into submission.

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* {{Tsundere}}: Heavily {{downplayed}}, but she has shades of a Type B towards her sister and Ryo. She's despite being possibly the nicest character in the series, but she has shades of a Type B towards her sister, Ryo and Kikuri.
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Seika's pride prideful, stern attitude and {{tsundere}} mannerisms sometimes bring out her more annoyed and snappy side. side, to the point Nijika calls her out on her antics and tells her she's a jerk.
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Similarly, Ryo's [[TheGadfly antics]] are a surefire way to rile Nijika up, and the manga has her frequently call Ryo an idiot or wrestle her into submission.submission.
** She gives Kikuri the cold shoulder when annoyed by her drunken mooch attitude.
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** When discussing about the celebroty band Klimt's Night, she gets incredibly giddy and starts blushing, and says that the other member Ame is in love with her. Kita is not impressed and brushes her off.

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** When discussing about the celebroty celebrity band Klimt's Night, she gets incredibly giddy and starts blushing, and says that the other member Ame is in love with her. Kita is not impressed and brushes her off.
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** When discussing about the celebroty band Klimt's Night, she gets incredibly giddy and starts blushing, and says that the other member Ame is in love with her. Kita is not impressed and brushes her off.
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** Her final exam results is 30 points, which is exactly the passing score in Japan. Her teacher compliments her for studying despite being in a band, implying that she usually does even worse.

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* FunctionalAddict: For a given definition of "functional", at least. Despite spending almost every waking moment utterly smashed, she doesn't lose any of her skill with her guitar (and might be better at it drunk), and remains in enough control of her faculties to make it to the end of each day. Other than her unwelcome antics both on-and-offstage and noisiness, her drunk state is most peoples' normal.

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* FunctionalAddict: For a given definition of "functional", at least. Despite spending almost every waking moment utterly smashed, she doesn't lose any of her skill with her guitar (and might be better at it drunk), and remains in enough control of her faculties to make it to the end of each day. Other than her noisiness and her unwelcome antics both on-and-offstage and noisiness, on-and-offstage, her drunk state is most peoples' people's normal.



* ShrinesAndTemples: Her parents' home is Houbun-ji, a small Buddhist temple much loved by the locals.



* {{Miko}}: She isn't an official miko, but she cosplays as one to help new years celebrations at a temple in Shima's hometown. Of course the temple is buddhist, not shinto, so it shouldn't even have mikos. Despite this she is a huge hit with the locals.

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* {{Miko}}: She isn't an official miko, but she cosplays as one to help new years year celebrations at a temple in Shima's hometown. Of course the temple is buddhist, Buddhist, not shinto, Shinto, so it shouldn't even have mikos. Despite this this, she is a huge hit with the locals.



!!Klimt's Night

[[folder:Ame]]
!!Ame
One half of the musical duo Klimt's Night, serving as their composer and songwriter. In person, she's an extremely shy and withdrawn girl.

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!!Klimt's Night

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!!Ame
One half of the musical duo Klimt's Night, serving as their composer
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[[folder:Aiko Sato / "Poison Yami"]]
!!Aiko Sato / "Poison Yami"
Music journalist
and songwriter. In person, she's an extremely shy and withdrawn girl.part-time worker at music label Stray Beat.



* BrokenPedestal: Downplayed. After seeing more of Bocchi, she prefers her stage persona over how she is off-stage.
* TheFakeCutie: In her early appearances, she tries adopting a cutesy persona, but it comes off as weird to others. Later on, she explains it as her trying out different characters to survive as a writer.
* GirlishPigtails: Part of her youthful appearance.
* LimitedWardrobe: Despite thinking her clothes are cringe, and having only adopted them to look younger, they seem to be the only clothes she wears. Possibly justified in that she has to work an additional part-time job to bring money in.
* NomDePlume: Poison [[SayItWithHearts ♡]] Yami.
* OlderThanTheyLook: She's in her early twenties, but she can pass as a high schooler or middle schooler.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Invoked, as she insists on being known as Yami over her real name, Aiko Sato.
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!!Klimt's Night

[[folder:Ame]]
!!Ame
One half of the musical duo Klimt's Night, serving as their composer and songwriter. In person, she's an extremely shy and withdrawn girl.
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* ChronicSelfDeprecation: She doesn't value herself or her songwriting skills at all, crediting the success of Klimt's Night to their singer Warabi.



* {{Foil}}: Lampshaded. Ame says she and Bocchi both have social anxiety, but Bocchi's the one onstage confronting her fears.



* ImplausibleHairColor: She's 19 years old, and going by her appearance in color pages she has grey hair.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: guitarhero became this for Ame, watching her keep going online giving Ame the support she needed whenever she considered quitting, and learning about real-life Bocchi, her social anxiety, and how she fights her fears has made Ame admire her even more.
* {{Nepotism}}: She sees herself as a nepo baby for some reason, and isn't happy about it. When she realizes she let it slip out, she clumsily changes the subject.



* ShrinkingViolet: On the most extreme end of the scale, to the point where she can barely communicate with others, whether through speaking or writing, and keeps her face hidden.

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* NotSoDifferentRemark: Both Shiba and Kita comment on her similarity to Bocchi.
* PaintingTheMedium: In the original Japanese and the English scanlation, when her voice cracks her words are flipped (because "voice cracking" can be read as "voice flipping" in Japanese).
* ShrinkingViolet: On the most extreme end of the scale, to the point where she can barely communicate with others, whether through speaking or writing, and keeps her face hidden. It's so bad that while talking to Bocchi online, she uses AI to generate some of her messages.


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* TrashOfTheTitans: Her room is absolutely cluttered with online delivery packages.
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* CutenessProximity: Downplayed example when it comes to Bocchi. She was excited at the idea of seeing Bocchi in a maid outfit during the school festival and even brought a camera with her for the occasion, only to be disappointed and upset when she learns the maid cafe event was only for the first day of said festival.


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* BarefootLoon: Is perpetually drunk, tends to act very loud and disruptive in public spaces while having NoSenseOfPersonalSpace and always wears her geta sandals even in cold weather.
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* AmbiguouslyGay: His orientation is never discussed. However he acts rather effeminately, does makeup videos for the internet, and is a regular at a bar filled with male couples.
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* {{Miko}}: She isn't an official miko, but she cosplays as one to help new years celebrations at a temple in Shima's hometown. Of course the temple is buddhist, not shinto, so it shouldn't even have mikos. Despite this she is a huge hit with the locals.

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* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Loves to have fun and give it her all, both off and on stage, usually fueled by alcohol. Luckily her drinking habit doesn't seem to negatively effect her musical ability.

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* FunctionalAddict: For a given definition of "functional", at least. Despite spending almost every waking moment utterly smashed, she doesn't lose any of her skill with her guitar (and might be better at it drunk), and remains in enough control of her faculties to make it to the end of each day. Other than her unwelcome antics both on-and-offstage and noisiness, her drunk state is most peoples' normal.
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Loves to have fun and give it her all, both off and on stage, usually fueled by alcohol. Luckily her drinking habit doesn't seem to negatively effect affect her musical ability.


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** She also serves as a {{Deconstruction}} of this trope. Despite the fact that alcohol helps her overcome her social barrier, relying exclusively on getting drunk for every situation is ''not'' a healthy method of doing this. When she's sober (like in chapter 69) she's as bad as Hitori in socialization, showing that her solution hasn't solved her anxiety, it's just helping her ignore it and kept her from improving herself.
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* TeamNormal: As the only one in her group who, while reasonably outgoing, is not on one of the ''extreme'' ends of the Introvert-Extrovert scale, Nijika stands out as the most normal in that respect.

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* TeamNormal: TheTeamNormal: As the only one in her group who, while reasonably outgoing, is not on one of the ''extreme'' ends of the Introvert-Extrovert scale, Nijika stands out as the most normal in that respect.



* TeamNormal: In a different sense than Nijika, who is the most balanced and levelheaded. Kita is the most normal individual for her fashion-conscious nature and her being surprisingly passive. She's far more oriented towards social activities than individual interests.

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* TeamNormal: TheTeamNormal: In a different sense than Nijika, who is the most balanced and levelheaded. Kita is the most normal individual for her fashion-conscious nature and her being surprisingly passive. She's far more oriented towards social activities than individual interests.

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* DopeSlap: She gives them quite frequently to [[TheGadfly Ryo]] in the manga.



* {{Tsundere}}: Heavily {{downplayed}}, but she has shades of a Type B towards her sister. She's possibly the nicest character in the series, but Seika's pride and {{tsundere}} mannerisms sometimes bring out her more annoyed and snappy side.

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* {{Tsundere}}: Heavily {{downplayed}}, but she has shades of a Type B towards her sister.sister and Ryo. She's possibly the nicest character in the series, but Seika's pride and {{tsundere}} mannerisms sometimes bring out her more annoyed and snappy side. Similarly, Ryo's [[TheGadfly antics]] are a surefire way to rile Nijika up, and the manga has her frequently call Ryo an idiot or wrestle her into submission.
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* AnimalsHateHer:
** Zigzagged; a flock of black kites violently attack her during the group's outing to Enoshima, and Ryo theorizes it's because they instinctively look down on her for her weakness. Despite this, her dog Jimihen seems to have no problem with her.

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* AnimalsHateHer:
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AnimalsHateHer: Zigzagged; a while she has no problems interacting with her dog Jimihen, other animals haven't been so kind to her:
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flock of black kites violently attack her during the group's outing to Enoshima, and Ryo theorizes it's because they instinctively look down on her for her weakness. Despite this, her dog Jimihen seems to have no problem with her.

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